A. Académica de Coimbra

Full name	Associação Académica de Coimbra
Nickname	A Briosa (The Proud)
Founded	1876
Ground	Estádio Cidade de Coimbra (City of Coimbra Stadium)
Capacity	30,000
Chairman	Eduardo Simões
Manager	Nelo Vingada
League	SuperLiga
2003-04	SuperLiga, 13th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Académica, formally known as the Associação Académica de Coimbra - Organismo Autónomo de Futebol (AAC-OAF), is an autonomous football organisation inside of the Associação Académica de Coimbra. It is the oldest sports club in Portugal, the fourth in number of supporters (after Benfica, Sporting and Porto) and it is the most important club of Coimbra. It was founded by students of the University of Coimbra in 1876, when Clube Atlético de Coimbra (founded in 1861) and Academia Dramática (founded in 1837) merged together. 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... This is a Stadium in Portugal. ... This is a list of major football (soccer) stadiums, grouped by country and ordered by capacity. ... SuperLiga (written in CamelCase), also referred to as SuperLiga Galp Energia for sponsorship reasons, is the major Portuguese professional football competition. ... 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The equipment used is black shirt, shorts and socks, due to the relation to and origin in the local and famous University of Coimbra where students wear a typical black suit. The main football team uses the Estádio Cidade de Coimbra (specially rebuilt and modernized for the Euro 2004) with 30.000 seats. Académica has been in the Portuguese main division most of the time. The striker (wearing red jersey) has run past the defender (in white jersey) and is about to take a shot at the goal, while the goalkeeper positions himself to stop the ball. ... This is a Stadium in Portugal. ... Euro 2004 Logo The 2004 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly called EURO 2004, was held in Portugal between 12 June and 4 July 2004. ...

In the beginning, Académica's football players were almost all university students. This was the rule during many decades until the 1970s. After the "25 de Abril" revolution (1974) in Portugal, many changes took place in Portuguese society, and since then, the Académica's football team and staff, were gradually professionalized. The Carnation Revolution (Portuguese, Revolução dos Cravos) was an almost bloodless left-leaning revolution started on April 25, 1974, in Lisbon, Portugal, that effectively changed the Portuguese regime from an authoritarian dictatorship to a liberal democracy at the end of a two year process of a communist dominated military administration. ...

Académica's football team was the first winner in the history of the Portuguese Football Cup, in 1939. The Portuguese Cup or, more correctly, Cup of Portugal (Port. ...

The team has the nickname of "Briosa", which means Proud.

See also

• Associação Académica de Coimbra
• University of Coimbra
• Coimbra

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External links

• Associação Académica de Coimbra - O.A.F. (http://www.academica-oaf.pt/)
• Associação Académica de Coimbra (AAC) (http://www.aac.uc.pt/)
• Universidade de Coimbra (http://www.uc.pt/)

Official supporters

• Mancha Negra (http://www.manchanegra85.com/)