Sporting Clube Campomaiorense is a Portuguese football club, founded in 1926, and based in Campo Maior. This Manual of Style has the simple purpose of making things easy to read by following a consistent format — it is a style guide. ... Campo Maior is a town and municipality in the Alentejo region, Portalegre district, Portugal. ...

The club had a professional football section that played five seasons at the top level of Portuguese football, and reached the cup final in 1999. However, the section was closed in 2002, and the club currently fields only youth teams.

Campomaiorense was first promoted to the Portuguese major league in 1995 under the guidance of former Sporting Club de Portugal star striker Manuel Fernandes. The club was only the third club in the Alentejo region to reach the top division (others were Lusitano de Évora in the sixties and CAD O Elvas in the eighties). Manuel Fernandes is a common Portuguese name, usually related to two football players: Manuel José Tavares Fernandes, (b. ...

Their spell in the 1995/96 was a deception, starting the league with an away defeat against Sporting Clube de Portugal by 7-0. Further poor results eventually lead João Manuel Nabeiro, the club chairman, to sack Fernandes. New players arrived in the mid season, among them Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink who had just quit AZ Alkmar. Jerrel Floyd Hasselbaink (born March 27, 1972 in Paramaribo, Suriname), usually known as Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink,[1] is a Dutch football striker who currently plays for Charlton Athletic in the Premiership. ...

Diamantino Miranda was given the job with the aim of soon getting the club back into the first league. They finished 17th in the league. 1996/97 Season in the League of Honor earned them a first ever champions title, with former Chaves and Paços de Ferreira striker Rudi being the top goal scorer. It is proposed that this article be deleted, because of the following concern: No sources, almost no content; a precis from which one cannot even gleam what sport the subject plays without linking--Fuhghettaboutit 00:19, 29 March 2006 (UTC) If you can address this concern by improving, copyediting, sourcing...

Diamantino´s start of first division football however, was no better that the first and we was also sacked by Nabeiro. Christmas brought coach João Alves (Cup winner with Estrela Amadora in 1990) along with Brazilian players like Isaías (previously with Benfica and Coventry City) and Demetrios. Alves great finish earned Campomaiorense a superb 11th place and the durability among the great clubs. The club started an ambitious change of image and marketing campaign changing its symbol to a greyhound and form green colors to Bordeaux.

Managers seem to only be fortunate in Campo Maior at the end of the season, and João Alves faith was no different its predecessors. José Pereira has the honor to conduce the team to Portuguese cup final in 1999. Campomaiorense benefited from FC Porto's shock elimination by 3rd league side Torreense, Sporting by Gil Vicente and Benfica agains Vitória Setúbal.

In the final, people from all around the region of Alentejo went to the Jamor National Stadium where a free banquet was offered by millionaire Rui Manuel Nabeiro, father of Campomaiorense chairman João Manuel Nabeiro, whose company Delta coffees was the club’s main sponsor. A late dramatic goal by FC Porto on-loan Ricardo Sousa finished the dream for Campomaiorense.

The club managed to hold for two extra seasons in the first league, but following relegation in 2001 and inability to return the following year lead to the decision of extinguishing professional football. The situation of having more available seats in the stadium, than habitants in the village, was one the reasons for considering the club to be unworthy of the effort by its sponsors. The club now dedicates to find new talents and competes in the youth championships. Great Players from the past

Jimmy Hasselbaink Roberto Severo “Beto” Litos Laelson Demetrios Isaías Paulo Sérgio Nuno Luís Paulo Torres Abílio Carlos Martins Instvan Vincze Stanimir Stoilov Rogério Matias Carlos Fernandes Poejo

Coaches

Manuel Fernandes Diamantino Miranda João Alves José Pereira Carlos Manuel

League and cup history