S.C. Braga B

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Braga B
Full name Sporting Clube de Braga B
Nickname(s) Os Arcebispos (The Archbishops)
Os Arsenalistas (The Arsenalists)
Minhotos (Those from Minho)
Os Guerreiros do Minho (The Minho Warriors)
Short name Braga B
Founded 1999–2006, 2012–
Ground Estádio Primeiro de Maio
Ground Capacity 28,800 (limited to 5,000 in Segunda Liga)[1]
President António Salvador
Manager Abel Ferreira
League LigaPro
2014–15 21st
Website Club home page

Sporting Clube de Braga B, commonly known as Sporting de Braga B or just Braga B, is a Portuguese football team. It is the reserve team of S.C. Braga. Reserve teams in Portugal play in the same league system as the senior team, rather than in a reserve team league. However, they cannot play in the same division as their senior team, therefore Braga B is ineligible for promotion to the Primeira Liga and also cannot play in the Taça de Portugal and Taça da Liga.

SC Braga had a B team until the 2005–06 season where it played in the Portuguese Second Division.[2] Prior to the end of the 2005–06 season, it was announced that Braga B would fold from the Portuguese league system along with the B teams of Benfica, Porto and Sporting.[3][4] The club refounded itself in the 2012–13 season, when a new set of rules regarding B teams was introduced in Portuguese football system. For 2012–13 season, another five B Teams, alongside Braga B, where refounded and established themselves in Segunda Liga.

Braga B plays its home games at the Estádio Primeiro de Maio, which holds a capacity of 30,000.[5] It inherited the stadium from the senior team who left there in 2003 following the construction of the Estádio Municipal de Braga.

History

Revival

Prior to the end of the 2011–12 football season in Portugal, seven clubs in the Primeira Liga announced there interest in constructing a B team to fill the six vacant places available to compete in the Segunda Liga for the 2012–13 season.[6] Of those seven, the six clubs which were selected to take part in the competition were the B teams of Benfica, FC Porto, Sporting CP, SC Braga, Marítimo and Vitória de Guimarães.[7]

The LPFP who organizes the professional football tiers in Portugal announced that for the clubs to compete in the 2012–13 Segunda Liga they would have to pay 50,000 €.[8] In addition the LPFP would also require the clubs to follow new rules regarding player selection in which each 'B' team must have a squad of a minimum of ten players who were formed at the club's academy. The LPFP also went on to say that the clubs are unable to compete in cup competitions as well as gaining promotion due to the possibility of playing the senior team. Each 'B' team may have 3 players above 23 years old.

In late May 2012, it was officially announced that the six Primeira Liga clubs' B teams would compete in the 2012–13 Segunda Liga which would increase the number of teams in the league from 16 to 22 as well as increasing the number of games needed to play in one season from thirty games to forty two games.[9]

Current squad

As of 22 July 2015 [10][11] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
42 Portugal DF Vasco Coelho
43 Portugal DF Bruno Wilson
44 Portugal DF Artur Jorge
45 Nigeria FW Ogana Louis
46 Senegal MF Mamadou Ndiaye
50 Portugal MF Joca
55 Portugal DF Núrio Fortuna
56 Colombia FW Fabián Cuero
57 Ghana MF Emmanuel Oti
60 Portugal DF José Gomes
62 Portugal FW Francisco Trincão
66 Portugal DF Pedro Monteiro
70 Portugal FW Simãozinho
71 Portugal GK José Costa
72 Brazil DF Thales
No. Position Player
73 Portugal DF Pedro Eira
74 Portugal DF Gonçalo Silva
75 Portugal MF Xadas
76 Portugal GK Tiago Sá
79 Portugal MF Didi
80 Portugal MF Nené
81 Cape Verde FW Ailton
84 Portugal MF João Gamboa
85 Nigeria MF Chidi Osuchukwu
88 Brazil FW William Pottker
94 Portugal GK Tiago Pereira
96 Portugal MF Pedro Alves
97 Brazil FW Lucas Ferrugem
98 Nigeria FW Onyeka Osemene
99 Portugal FW Carlos Fortes

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player
Portugal DF Monteiro (at Apollon Limassol)
Russia FW Maksim Zhestkov (at Syzran)
Portugal FW Gil (at AS Monaco FC)

Results History

Notable former players

Managerial history

  • Portugal Toni (1999–2001)
  • Portugal António Caldas (2001–October 2005)
  • Portugal Micael Sequeira (October 2005–June 2006)
  • Portugal Artur Jorge (May 2012–October 2012)
  • Portugal Toni (October 2012–May 2013)
  • Portugal José Alberto Costa (June 2013–February 2014)
  • Portugal Bruno Pereira (February 2014–June 2014)
  • Portugal Fernando Pereira (June 2014–February 2015)
  • Portugal Abel Ferreira (February 2015– )

References

  1. Liga Portugal
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