Belenenses SAD

Os Belenenses – Sociedade Desportiva de Futebol, SAD, also known as B–SAD,[lower-alpha 1] is a Portuguese football club from Lisbon founded on 30 June 2018 as an independent entity.[2] A rebel offshoot of Clube de Futebol Os Belenenses, they play in the Primeira Liga.

Belenenses SAD
Full nameOs Belenenses – Sociedade Desportiva de Futebol, SAD
Founded30 June 2018 (30 June 2018)
GroundEstádio Nacional
Capacity37,593
PresidentRui Pedro Soares
Head coachFranclim Carvalho
LeaguePrimeira Liga
2020–21Primeira Liga, 10th of 18
WebsiteClub website

History

Historic football club C.F. Os Belenenses created its SAD (Sociedade Anónima Desportiva - Public limited sports company) on 1 July 1999, to run its professional football section. In 2012, with both club and SAD facing enormous financial troubles, club members voted to sell 51% of its SAD to an investor, Codecity, led by Rui Pedro Soares. Added to the stock purchase, a parasocial deal was struck where the founding club could keep special rights, such as veto power over certain SAD decisions and the power to buy its stock back. Also a protocol was agreed upon that would regulate relations between Club and SAD. The club would keep 10% of SAD stocks.[3][4]

Meanwhile, Codecity terminated the parasocial deal, alleging contractual violations by the Club. In 2017, the Court of Arbitration for Sport deemed the termination of the deal valid, ending the possibility of the Club being able to reacquire the 51% of SAD stocks, in order to regain control of its professional football section.[5]

With tensions mounting between Club and SAD, the protocol that regulated relations between both entities expired on 30 June 2018, ceasing any relationship between both parties. This included the use of Estádio do Restelo (property of the Club) by the SAD's professional football team. Thus was born B-SAD as an autonomous football club, founded on 1 July 2018, after the secession of the SAD from the club.[6] They joined the Lisbon Football Association as member number 1198 (the original Belenenses is member number 64).

Belenenses' historic achievements, such as the victories in the 1945–46 Campeonato Nacional, its 3 Taças de Portugal and 3 Campeonatos de Portugal, solely belong to the Club, since they were won before the creation of the SAD in 1999. The Club created its own football team that started playing in the Lisbon FA regional leagues from 2018–19 season.

B-SAD meanwhile claimed the place of the Club in the Primeira Liga. Given that Estádio do Restelo was property of the Club, B-SAD was left without its own stadium. As a consequence, B-SAD started playing home games at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, paying rent to the state to use it. In February 2019, due to a temporary unavailability of the Estádio Nacional, B-SAD rented Estádio do Bonfim, around sixty kilometres away in Setúbal, for two home games. The game against Moreirense F.C. at this ground on 4 February was attended by 298 spectators, the lowest in the history of the league.[7]

In October 2018, B-SAD was prohibited from using the name, cross and symbols of the original Belenenses by an intellectual property court decision.[8] As such, after a judicial confirmation of this decision in March 2019, B-SAD presented a new club badge to differentiate itself from the original club.[9]

In November 2021, Belenenses fielded just 9 available players including two goalkeepers in a league match against Benfica, due to an outbreak of Omicron variant in the team.[10] This resulted to a 7-0 loss at halftime and the match was eventually abandoned in the early minutes of the second half.[11]

League and cup history

Season Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Cup League Cup Europe Notes
2018–19 1D 9 3410311 425143 Fourth round Third round
2019–20 1D 15 349817 275435 Fourth round Second round
2020–21 1D 10 3491312 252540 Quarter-finals Didn't participate

Players

Current squad

As of 8 September 2021

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  BRA Luiz Felipe
2 DF  POR Diogo Calila
5 DF  POR Nilton Varela
7 MF  POR Pedro Nuno
8 MF  RSA Sphephelo Sithole
10 MF  POR Afonso Sousa
11 MF  SRB Andrija Luković
13 DF  POR Jójó
14 DF  NED Danny Henriques
15 FW  POR Luís Mota
16 MF  ANG César Sousa
17 DF  POR Carraça (on loan from Porto)
18 FW  SEN Alioune Ndour
19 MF  POR Chico Teixeira
20 MF  POR Rafael Santos
21 DF  RSA Thibang Phete
22 DF  POR Henrique Pires
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 MF  NED Jordan van der Gaag
25 FW  BRA Safira (on loan from Londrina)
27 DF  NGA Chima Akas
29 FW  GNB Abel Camará
30 MF  BRA Sandro
31 GK  POR João Monteiro
32 DF  POR Yohan Tavares
33 DF  BFA Trova Boni
34 DF  POR André Lopes
38 FW  POR Gonçalo Agrelos
42 MF  POR António Montez
44 DF  BRA Eduardo Kau
45 MF  POR Braima Sambú
64 MF  POR Rafael Camacho (on loan from Sporting)
88 FW  POR Licá
99 GK  POR Álvaro Ramalho

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
FW  POR Kikas (at Mafra until 30 June 2022)

See also

Notes

  1. The club initially formed as Belenenses SAD, but C.F. Os Belenenses obtained an injunction to prevent them from using Belenenses as part of their name. The club then switched names to B–SAD while fighting the injunction. They won a preliminary victory in 2021 to use the name, but the appeal process is not finalized and, until it is, the injuction stands.[1]

References

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