Estádio Municipal Sérgio Conceição (Sérgio Conceição Municipal Stadium) is a football stadium in Taveiro , in the city of Coimbra , Portugal . Built in 2002, it has 2500 seats and was named after Sérgio Conceição , a football player born in Coimbra.
24-675: The stadium belongs to the municipality of Coimbra and is the home ground for the football teams of two local sports clubs: Clube de Futebol União de Coimbra and União Desportiva Taveirense . Académica de Coimbra 's home ground, the Estádio Cidade de Coimbra , was rebuilt, expanded, and modernized to host some UEFA Euro 2004 matches, and because of it, during most of the 2002/2003 season Académica de Coimbra played their home games at this stadium. 40°11′12.59″N 8°30′34.86″W / 40.1868306°N 8.5096833°W / 40.1868306; -8.5096833 This article about
48-600: A Portuguese sports venue is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Clube de Futebol Uni%C3%A3o de Coimbra Clube União 1919 , usually known as União de Coimbra ( Portuguese pronunciation: [uniˈɐ̃w dɨ kuˈĩbɾɐ] ), is a sports club in the city of Coimbra , Portugal . The club was founded on 2 June 1919 and has a large array of currently active or temporarily disbanded sports departments which includes football , futsal , basketball , aikido , volleyball , swimming , esports and billiards . The main men's football team currently plays in
72-467: A historic rivalry between the two clubs since the beginning of the city's football history. The club has a single presence at the top level of Portuguese football. Bruno Aleixo , a fictional character, popular in Portugal and Brazil, created by the comedy group GANA is a supporter of União de Coimbra. Santo Ant%C3%B3nio dos Olivais Santo António dos Olivais , commonly shortened to Olivais ,
96-464: Is an urban civil parish in the municipality of Coimbra in Portugal, making up the eastern part of the historic city of Coimbra , east of University Hill. The population in 2011 was 38,936, in an area of 19.27 km². It is the most populated parish in the Municipality of Coimbra, and among the most densely inhabited in the country outside of Lisbon and Porto metropolitan areas. Created in 1836,
120-709: The Augustinian Monastery of Santa Cruz ( Coimbra ) joined the humble Franciscans friars, adopting the name of the small chapel's patron. After his death (1231 in the Italian town of Padua ), he was canonized almost immediately, and the Franciscan friary that flourished in Olivais quickly changed its patron from Saint Anthony the Great to Anthony of Padua, becoming known as Santo António de Olivais and attracting new settlers into
144-622: The Campeonato de Portugal . The club uses a stadium in Coimbra, the Campo da Arregaça, which has 1,500 seats and belongs to the municipality. The club was founded on 2 June 2, 1919 in Coimbra, Portugal, under the name União Foot-Ball Coimbra Club. Its founders were a group of young people linked to commerce and industry, including shop and workshop owners and employees, bricklayers, locksmiths, tinsmiths, shoemakers, etc., who set up their own "foot-ball" club in
168-703: The Coimbra City Stadium and the Pavilhão Multiusos de Coimbra , a multi-sports indoor arena, whose the owner is the Coimbra City Council, are in Santo António dos Olivais. The Associação Académica de Coimbra - O.A.F. , an autonomous professional football team of the University of Coimbra's students union Associação Académica de Coimbra, has a multi-sports indoor pavilion (Pavilhão Jorge Anjinho) in
192-639: The Coimbra's Oncology Hospital (IPO), the polytechnical Coimbra Engineering Institute (ISEC), the Coimbra Nursing School (ESEnfC), the Coimbra Hotel and Tourism School, the municipal city stadium and swimming pools , the Coimbra Multisports Arena , hotels, hostels and the city's camping park. The Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) branch at Coimbra is located in the civil parish. Both
216-526: The Campo da Arregaça is considered the club's traditional stadium and it is operated by the club as its main training ground. The official organized supporters group ( claque in Portuguese) is called "Rambos da Arregaça" (Arregaça's Rambos) and is named after fictional character Rambo . One of its mottos is " Vai Tudo " (everybody/everything/it all goes). Historically, the Académica de Coimbra football team
240-714: The Campo da Arregaça, was inaugurated in 1928 and built by the Coimbra City Hall, but in the 21st century the club has also played for some periods of time in the Estádio Municipal Sérgio Conceição , another City Hall-owned 2,500-seat stadium in Taveiro , a civil parish of Coimbra Municipality located in the outskirts of the city proper, which is a municipal stadium built in 2002 and was named after Coimbra-born football player Sérgio Conceição . The main football team of União de Coimbra played one single season in
264-593: The Portuguese First Division, in the 1972-1973 season , among big clubs like FC Porto , Benfica and Sporting Clube de Portugal . However this season coincided with hometown big club Académica de Coimbra being in Segunda Divisão as a result of being relegated the previous season, so a top division Coimbra derby never took place. In 2016, for legal reasons related ro the club's financial distress and subsequent reorganization after its bankruptcy ,
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#1732858381644288-661: The University of Coimbra (FCTUC) - engineering; the Pólo III Campus of the University of Coimbra (FMUC and FFUC) - medicine and pharmacy; the University of Coimbra Faculty of Economics (FEUC) - economics, business and sociology; the Coimbra University Hospitals (HUC); the Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology of Coimbra (CNC) research centre; and the Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN) business incubator), as well as
312-589: The club was forced to change its name to Clube União 1919 . The sports club owns an indoor arena, the Pavilhão do Clube de Futebol União de Coimbra (Clube de Futebol União de Coimbra's Pavilion). The club is headquartered in this building in Santo António dos Olivais , located nearby the Coimbra City Stadium . It uses City Hall-owned Campo da Arregaça, with 1,500 seats, and Estádio Municipal Sérgio Conceição , with 2,500 seats, for football matches. Historically,
336-449: The core of the historical quarters of the city proper. The region is a semi-circular bowl, that extends from the riverbanks of the Mondego (in the south) to the foothills of Rocha Nova (in the north), skirting the populated city of Coimbra in the west and the eastern Mondego River valley near Misarela. The central part of the parish, intrinsic to the main city of Coimbra, is concentrated between
360-479: The expulsion of the religious orders and municipal reforms, the need to reorganize the municipality of Coimbra , resulted in the 25 November 1854 decree establishing the civil parish of Santo António dos Olivais (that included 749 buildings and 3000 inhabitants), in addition to six other parishes. Olviais included the largest of these early settlements, established from the remnants of São Pedro and clergy of Torres. The largest civil parish of Coimbra city proper and
384-516: The heart of the city's downtown. The first talks took place in the shop of shoemaker Afonso Chato, in Largo do Romal, in October 1918. Subsequent meetings were held in Largo de Sansão, now Praça 8 de Maio, in the heart of downtown Coimbra. Later, the board of directors decided to change the name to Clube de Futebol União de Coimbra (CF União de Coimbra). The club's traditional stadium in Coimbra city proper,
408-740: The main road accessways: Avenida Mendes Silva (along the south) and Avenida Fernando Namora - Avenida Augusto Seabra that circles the outside perimeter of Coimbra (to the east). It includes several individual places that formed during the historical settlement of the region, including: Olivais, Celas, Solum, Calhabé, Norton de Matos, Arregaça, Vale das Flores, Quinta da Nora, Quinta da Boavista, Casa Branca, Chão do Bispo, Picoto, Vale de Canas, Casal do Lobo, Cova do Ouro, Alto de S. João, Pinhal de Marrocos, Portela and Tovim. Santo António dos Olivais houses several major facilities of Coimbra, including many University of Coimbra 's sites (the Pólo II Campus of
432-543: The most populated in the Municipality of Coimbra , the parish of Santo António dos Olivais is surrounded on all sides by neighbours from this political division: north by São Paulo dos Frades ; east by Torres do Mondego ; south, along the Mondego River , by the parishes of Ceira , Castelo Viegas and south/southwest by Santa Clara ; and west by central civil parishes of Santa Cruz , Sé Nova and Almedina , which make up
456-583: The parish was named for Anthony of Padua (1195 – 1231), who joined the local branch of the Order of Friars Minor ; Anthony took his name from Saint Anthony the Great , to whom the local Franciscan hermitage was dedicated. Even by 1064, before the creation of the Kingdom of Portugal (1143), the region of Olivais was pasturelands interspersed by parcels where the local settlers cultivated vineyards and olive orchards, in addition to vegetable gardens and fruit trees, while
480-475: The region. By 1247, the Convent of São Francisco da Ponte attracted many friars, resulting in the late 15th century delimitation of the churchyard and convent in the 16th century. Slowly the built-up area developed within the territory, with new agglomerations forming around the principal centres of Celas and Olivais; by 1740 the town of Celas had 48 buildings with about 200 inhabitants, while Olivais had just about
504-575: The remaining lands were still forested (such Malheiros, Tovins, Picoto, Dianteiro and Rocha Nova). The beginnings of the parish occurred in the 13th century (around 1210), when D. Sancha (daughter of King Sancho I ) founded the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Celas, in the locality of Vimarães, under administration of friars of the Order of Saint Bernard . The establishment of the monastery in Vimarães
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#1732858381644528-469: The same. On the night of 10–11 November 1851, a fire gutted the cloister, dormitory and other dependencies of the convent (now the churchyard and cemetery of the current structure). Renovations and remodelling of the Church of Nossa Senhora da Piedade (which was the church of Saint Germain) continued after May, becoming the parochial church of the newly defined parish of Santo António dos Olivais. By 1854, with
552-409: Was basis for the founding of the parish of Celas. A few years later (between 1217 and 1218), Queen Urraca (wife of Afonso II ) donated a small chapel on a hill of olive groves to the first Franciscan friars arriving into Portugal, which they transformed into a humble hermitage dedicated to Saint Anthony the Great . Around 1220, friar Fernando de Bulhões after taking religious orders at
576-459: Was considered an elitist club because it was made up of and supported by students from the University of Coimbra during a time when only the wealthiest people used to gain admission into the university, while those who had never attended the local university or any other, colloquially known as futricas , a derogatory term, played for and supported União de Coimbra. This has led to the emergence of
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