Sporting Clube de Macau

Beginnings

The Sporting Clube de Macau (English: Macau Sporting Club) was founded on 22 September 1926 as the 25th branch of Sporting Clube de Portugal. It began under the direction of President Henrique Nolasco da Silva, Secretary Francisco Borralho, Treasurer Angelo Rosary, and alternates Dr. Horacio Carvalho, Pedro Pereira Leite, and Mário Ribeiro. Among its past Presidents were athletes such as António Conceição, the first Macanese athlete to become Portuguese National Champion of 5x80 meters velocity relay races in 1928 and 1930. He would return to Macau in the late 1930s and would be Macau team coach and in 1951 become President of the club. In this position, he would send Augusto Rocha and Joaquim Pacheco to Sporting, where they would be selected for the Portugal national football team.

Golden Era

The Macau Sporting Club was reactivated a second time by António Conceição, Adelino Serra, Major Acacio Cabrera Henriques, and Mario Abreu, among others in 1951 after a certain period of erasure. In the 1960s Eduardo Atraca played for Sporting Clube de Macau and in the 1980s he would become the President of the club. Sporting became champions of Macau during this time. In the 1990s it was the turn of Fernando Lopes to be President, leading the team to become champions of Macau once again. The Macau Sporting Club had, in the 80s, when the club was chaired by Eduardo Atraca, a great football team. It was this club that reached the Sporting players like Rock…

Liga de Elite Champions (4): 1950, 1962, 1963, 1991 Runners-up (1): 2014 2nd Division Champions (1): 2013 Taça de Macau em Futebol Champions (1): 1951