Casa Pia A.C.

The Athletic Club “Casa Pia” is a centenary club. It was founded on the third July 1920 by several Portuguese personalities of the time, namely Ricardo Ornelas, David Ferreira, Mário da Silva Marques and António Pinho. Most important of all was Cândido de Oliveira, national instructor and Benfica player, as well as co-founder of the Abola newspaper along with Vicente de Melo e Ribeiro dos Reis.

The club is intrinsically linked to its mother house , Lisbon Casa Pia, a public institution which is responsible for the promotion of the rights and protection of children and youngsters, being one of the bastions of the sport, culture and solidarity in Portugal. The “Geese” as they are known, are in the genesis of the football's outline in Portugal, after a victory upon the British masters of Carcavelos club in 1898. Throughout the history, the Athletic Club “Casa Pia” has already had 25 different modalities, thus being one of the most eclectic Portuguese clubs. Football has always been the main modality of the “Casa Pia” club. However, it ended up to be Mário da Silva Marques, one of the club founders, and outstanding swimmer, to be the first sportsman to represent officially the club in a festival in Alcântara docks.

Regarding football, “Casa Pia” conquered its first trophy against the “red ones” by 2-1, accomplishing the “Herculano Santos”  bronze. This game had Cosma Damião as referee, a member of “Casa Pia”, eleventh president of Athletic Club “Casa Pia” (CPAC) and founder of “Sport Lisboa and Benfica” . The captain of the team was Cândido de Oliveira, on the third October 1920. On the debut era , “Casa Pia” won (with no defeats) the Lisbon Regional Championship and the Lisbon Cup. Moreover, it still gathered the success on the dispute with the North Champion Oporto Football Club in the 27th July Cup. This was the final rehearsal for the Portugal's championship which began the following year. At that time, on the team stood out one of the club founders, Cândido de Oliveira, who grew up on the Lisbon Royal Casa Pia, founded by the steward Pina Manique in the end of the eighteenth century, who gave his name to the stadium where the football team plays nowadays  (Pina Manique Stadium). In the first four years they have competed, the Geese won the Lisbon Championship three times. Their reputation grew and, in 1925, the club was invited for the inauguration of the Amoreiras Stadium , formerly property of Benfica and considered to be by then the best stadium in Portugal and Spain. Previously it has already been inaugurated Sevilha and Vitória de Setúbal  Campus in 1921.

Around 1938/39, and for the first time in Portugal, it was disputed the National Championship of the first division and the Portugal Cup, one of the most important football competitions in Portugal. “Casa Pia” football team attended the debut of these two national historical competitions. Nevertheless, its participation on the National Championship of the first division of the season of 1938/39 was, until then, the sole presence of the Lisbon club on the main Portuguese football performance. The geese occupied the last place of the first National Championship of the first division, where also participated  the Oporto football club, Sporting CP, SL Benfica, Académica de Coimbra, FC Barreirense and Académico do Porto. The team won only one game; apart from it, it lost the rest of the thirteen games of the National Championship of 1938/39.

In 2018/2019, and after conquering the title on the Portugal Championship, the CPAC rose, for the first time to the second league, founding  a SDUQ ( Sportive unipersonal society by quotas) for the due effect. It was on that competition that began the 2020/2021 season, interrupted by COVID-19 pandemic. The descend of Vitória de Setúbal and Aves, made possible the maintenance of the geese on the Portugal Football professional championships. In 2020/2021 “Casa Pia” marked its seventy first participation in National Championships, beginning in 1938/39, the only time that the club was in the first division, playing in Restelo Campus, expropriated by the New State to the realization of the Portuguese World Exhibition.

• Football
• Futsal
• Handball
• Karate
• Gymnastics
• Weightlifting
• Hockey
• Table tennis
• Wrestling
• Sport fishing

As of 1 February, 2022

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 João Victor 5 DF  POR Leonardo Lelo 6 DF  BRA Derick Poloni 7 FW  BRA Lucas Rodrigues (on loan from Moreirense) 8 MF  BRA Ângelo Neto 10 MF  GNB Zidane Banjaqui 11 FW  POR Jota Silva 12 DF  BRA Rodrigo Galo 13 DF  POR Vasco Fernandes 14 FW  HAI Carnejy Antoine 16 MF  CPV Cuca 17 DF  NGA Kelechi John 18 MF  POR Víto

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 MF  BIH Nermin Zolotić 22 DF  MLT Zach Muscat 27 MF  POR Afonso Taira 29 FW  POR João Vieira 33 GK  ANG Ricardo Batista 39 FW  ALB Kleis Bozhanaj (on loan from Spezia) 42 FW  BRA Lucas Soares (on loan from Vitória B) 55 MF  CPV Nuno Borges 68 GK  BRA Lucas Paes 74 MF  KOR Kang-min Choi 77 MF  POR Leandro Sanca (on loan from Spezia) 91 DF  BRA Hebert 97 FW  NGA Saviour Godwin

The club has a single presence at the top level of Portuguese football.

2019-2020 season cut short due to COVID-19 global pandemic

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