Vitória Sport Clube Women, commonly known as Vitória de Guimarães, is a women's football club from Guimarães, Portugal. The team, a section of Vitória S.C., was founded in 2018[1] and fails to be promoted to the top tier Campeonato Nacional Feminino in 2024. Therefore, it will continue to play another season in the Portuguese second division.[2]

The women's team plays home games at the club's 2,500-capacity Academia do Vitória S.C. training facility.

History

The first steps of women's football at Vitória began in the last century, in 1989 to be precise, with the team participating for just two seasons in the top flight, which was called the National Women's Football Cup. However, the section didn't succeed and was extinguished at the end of that period.[3]

Later, on 12 October 2018, the former president of Vitória, Júlio Mendes, publicly confirmed the creation of a women's football team, a long-desired reactivation, as well as training levels to start competitively the following season.[4]

Vitória SC entered the Portuguese second division with a team made up mostly of local players who identified with the club. However, following the COVID-19 pandemic, the competition was declared over by the Portuguese Football Federation, without a winner or the application of an up and down system.[5]

Since then, the club has been steadily improving its performances and has always been in the final promotion places, although without any practical effects until the 2023/24 season when they lost 2–8 to Famalicão in the play-off of access to the Women's National Championship.[2]

Players

Current squad

As of 15 February 2025

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Portugal POR Inês Marques
21 GK Portugal POR Andrea Neves
11 DF United States Virgin Islands VIR Naya Vialva
19 DF Portugal POR Letícia Costa
24 DF Portugal POR Iara Cavalheiro
2 DF Brazil BRA Débora Maciel
3 DF Portugal POR Belinha
6 DF Portugal POR Naná
31 DF Portugal POR Kika Silva
15 DF Philippines PHI Jaime Turrentine
4 DF Portugal POR Joana Monteiro
20 MF Portugal POR Beatriz Pinheiro
72 MF Portugal POR Patrícia Teixeira
8 MF Slovenia SVN Nika Babnik
— MF Portugal POR Soraia Gomes
No. Pos. Nation Player
16 MF Portugal POR Isaura Machado
5 MF Portugal POR Joana Ribeiro
19 MF Portugal POR Ana Monteiro
7 MF Portugal POR Bárbara Martins
13 FW Portugal POR Cristiana Duarte
17 FW Portugal POR Ana Veloso
80 FW Portugal POR Maria Salgado
42 FW Portugal POR Maria Ribeiro
74 FW Portugal POR Diana Novais
5 FW Brazil BRA Laura Pires
9 FW Portugal POR Inês Lopes
10 FW Portugal POR Betinha
25 FW Cape Verde CPV Irlanda Lopes
— FW Portugal POR Maria Neto

References

  1. ^ Vitória SC (2018-10-12). Vitória lança Futebol Feminino e eSports. Retrieved 2025-02-06 – via YouTube.
  2. ^ a b Renascença (2024-06-02). "Famalicão garante permanência na I Liga feminina com novo triunfo sobre o Vitória - Renascença". Rádio Renascença (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-02-06.
  3. ^ "Vitória SC (Feminino) :: Histórico por Época :: zerozero.pt". www.zerozero.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  4. ^ Guimarães, Mais (2018-10-12). "FUTEBOL FEMININO E ESPORTS SÃO AS NOVAS MODALIDADES OFICIAIS DO VITÓRIA". Mais Guimarães (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-02-06.
  5. ^ "Comunicado da Direção da FPF". FPF (in European Portuguese). 2025-06-02. Retrieved 2025-02-06.
Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vit%C3%B3ria_S.C._(women)
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