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FC Porto is a Portuguese sports club, best known for its football section. It was founded in 1893 by António Nicolau de Almeida in Porto.
The football home ground is now the Estádio do Dragão (finished in 2004 as a venue for Euro 2004) after 51 years playing in the Estádio das Antas. Porto is currently the second club in the Portuguese overall championship, just second to SL Benfica. Porto won the Champions League twice (one still as the ECC) and the UEFA Cup once. It was the first team since the Liverpool FC 75-77 squad to win the Champions League after winning the UEFA Cup.
FC Porto is also a leading force in other sports: the handball and basketballBasketball is a ball sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing the ball through a basket. Basketball is highly suited to viewing by spectators, as it is primarily an indoor sport, played in a relatively small playing ar team are regular contenders to the Portuguese national titles, and the rink hockeyRink hockey (sometimes called roller hockey is one of the three most popular hockey variants. Highly popular in latin countries, with Portugal(15 World titles), Spain (11 World titles), Italy (4 World titles) and Argentina (4 World titles), dominating the section is amongst the best in the sport. The new arena near the stadium will be completed soon; in past years the non-professional home grounds were scattered in northwestern cities of Portugal (such as GondomarGondomar is a parish and a city located east in Portugal's Oporto metropolitan area with a population of 25,717, the municipality has 12 parishes and a population of 163,574. Another important cities in the Gondomar municipality are Rio Tinto and Valbom. and EspinhoEspinho is a parish and a city located south of Porto Metropolitan Area with the population of 10225 the urban area of the city is all the municicipality area with 5 parishes and 33273, it belongs to Aveiro district. Its essencially a beach resort with to). Commercially, FC Porto has several stores called Loja Azul (Blue Store) scattered around Porto including two used with official supplier Nike and edits one of the older club related publications in Europe, a monthly 60-page full colour magazine called Dragões (Dragons) since the early 80's.
Porto supporters and players are often called the dragões (the dragons), though the term the Andrades is also popular after a family with that named sponsored the club for several years. However, since the eighties, it is seen as somewhat derogatory.
