Our
History

Sport Clube Borbense came into being on 13 April 1945, taking over all the assets and members of what until then had been Sociedade União Borbense. That society's board stayed in office until the end of the year — until 15 December 1945, to be precise, when a General Assembly elected the first board of Sport Clube Borbense.

“To provide the conditions for hundreds of athletes to play sport every day with dignity and in a family atmosphere, building affection among everyone who wears, or has worn, the Sport Clube Borbense shirt.”

Since then the club has lived through brighter and darker spells, on the pitch and in the personal commitment institutions like this one need every day. Many people and businesses from the town and the region helped raise and steady the club: from the poet Humberto Silveira Fernandes to the benefactor doctor Dr. Armando Pessoa Verão and the athlete and friend Manuel Inácio da Silva Leitão, one of the great driving forces of the early years; and, more recently, presidents José Figueiredo Banza and João Bagorro Lopes and honorary member Plácido José Simões.

In the 1980s the club went through one of the worst crises in living memory, held off by a group of members who set up a Fundraising Committee — by mid 1983 it had handed the club a vehicle and money towards buying a second one. It was also in that decade that, with help from members and friends, substantial improvement work was carried out on the clubhouse, a building that has been club property since 2001.

On the sporting side, Borbense is a club built around playing sport, with football at its centre — 11-a-side, 9-a-side, 7-a-side and futsal. Now and then, depending on how involved members are, it has also fielded cycling, mountain biking, athletics, caravanning and angling, which are supported as far as the club's means allow.

The 2008/2009 season saw the launch of the SC Borbense football academy, coordinated by Prof. Luís Jorge Paixão, opening the game to children of five and six. From then on the Under-11 sides were fed by academy players, and since 2010 the club has become known for its investment in youth football: regularly challenging for the top places in every age group and earning the right to play in national competitions run by the Portuguese Football Federation. Over the same period several players have been called up by district and national teams, and scouting visits from Portugal's biggest clubs became routine.

In 2018/2019, thanks to the effort of the players' parents alongside the board, the club gathered the resources to compete in every age group, from the academy up to the senior side, while still fielding a futsal team: more than two hundred registered players, a first in the club's history. It was also then that Borbense went through the Portuguese Football Federation's certification process, and has since held the designation of 3-star Certified Football Training Entity, which brought better training and matchday conditions for players and coaching staff alike.

Futsal also became part of the club: as an independent section from 2008 to 2010 and, since the 2017/2018 season, as a full part of Borbense, with achievements that stand tall in the honours list.