Vizela

Full name	Futebol Clube de Vizela
Nickname(s)	Vizelenses
Founded	1 January 1939 (1 January 1939)
Ground	Estádio do Futebol Clube de Vizela, Vizela, Portugal
Capacity	6,100
Chairman	Eduardo Guimarães
Manager	Rubén de la Barrera
League	Primeira Liga
2022–23	Primeira Liga, 11th of 18
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Futebol Clube de Vizela is a Portuguese professional football club based in Vizela, Braga District. Founded in 1939, it currently plays in the Primeira Liga and plays its home games at the Estádio do Futebol Clube de Vizela, with a capacity of 6,100.

Brief history

Vizela joined the Braga Football Association on 1 August 1940. Twenty-six years later, the first trophy came, with the conquest of the Taça de Campeão Nacional after defeating Tramagal Sport União (5–3). The club spent the vast majority of its early years in the Campeonato de Portugal.

In 1984, Vizela promoted for the first time in its history to the Primeira Liga, but this spell only lasted one season, with the club ranking last. Shortly after, the team was again in the third level, only returning in the 2000s.

Again in the "silver category" of Portuguese football, Vizela finished third in the 2007–08 season, falling just one point short of a promotion. In the following year, it finished in 10th position, but was relegated due to the Apito Dourado scandal; for several years, the club acted as S.C. Braga's farm team.

In May 2021, the club placed 2nd in the 2020–21 Liga Portugal 2 to get promoted into the Primeira Liga for the second time in the club's history since 1985 after a 36-year absence.^[1]

Players

Current squad

As of 2 January 2024^[2]

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  ITA Francesco Ruberto 2 DF  POR Hugo Oliveira 3 DF  POR Bruno Wilson 4 DF  POR Jota Gonçalves 5 DF  BRA Anderson 6 DF  BRA Matheus Pereira 7 FW  GNB Jardel 8 MF  USA Alex Mendez 9 FW  ESP Iker Unzueta 12 MF  COL Rafael Bustamante (on loan from Deportivo Cali) 14 FW  CGO Dylan Saint-Louis 17 FW  VEN Matías Lacava (on loan from Academia Puerto Cabello) 19 DF  UKR Orest Lebedenko

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 MF  POR Samu (captain) 22 MF  SRB Aleksandar Busnić (on loan from Vojvodina) 23 MF  IRQ Osama Rashid 25 DF  POR Rodrigo Escoval 29 FW  ESP Alberto Soro (on loan from Granada) 32 DF  ARG Joaquín Novillo (on loan from Belgrano) 34 MF  ESP Pedro Ortiz (on loan from Sevilla) 73 GK  SRB Nikola Bursać 79 FW  POR Nuno Moreira 82 DF  POR Tomás Silva 90 MF  POR Diogo Nascimento 97 GK  CRO Fabijan Buntić 99 FW  FRA Samuel Essende (on loan from Caen)

Other players under contract

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 MF  ALG Houssem Mrezigue (on loan from Belouizdad)

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 70 MF  USA Alex Alvarado (at Vianense until 30 June 2024)

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Manager	Rubén de la Barrera
Assistant Manager	José Teixeira
First-Team Coach	Rui Sá Lemos
First-Team Coach	Gabi
Goalkeeper Coach	Bruno Pinto
Goalkeeping Coach	Rui Costa
Conditioning Coach	João Luís Azevedo
Physiotherapist	Pedro Nogueira

Appearances

• Primeira Liga: 3
• Second Level: 4
• Segunda Divisão: 28
• Terceira Divisão: 14
• Taça de Portugal: 38
• Taça da Liga (League Cup): 1

League and Cup history

References

External links

• Official website (in Portuguese)
• F.C. Vizela at WorldFootball
• F.C. Vizela at ZeroZero