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Vitória S.C.

Vitória Sport Clube, popularly known as Vitória de Guimarães or just Vitória, is a Portuguese professional football club based in Guimarães that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football, at the Estádio D. Afonso Henriques. The club also stands out on the national and international scene in sports such as athletics, volleyball, basketball, handball, water polo, swimming, jiu-jitsu, taekwondo and kickboxing, among others.

It is currently the club with the fourth highest number of seasons at the top level of Portuguese football, totalling 81, and also the club with the fourth highest number of members, around 39,000. It also has the fourth best average stadium attendance in Portugal, well ahead of its direct rivals.

Vitória de Guimarães have finished third in the Primeira Liga on four occasions, most recently in 2007–08. They have won one Taça de Portugal in 2012–13 and one Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira in 1988, while also being runners-up of the former on six occasions.

The club have competed regularly in European competitions, where their best finish was the quarter-finals of the 1986–87 UEFA Cup.

Vitória SC have a long-standing rivalry with nearby club SC Braga, with whom they contest the Derby do Minho. In addition to this age-old rivalry, Vitória has another major dispute with Boavista FC from the city of Porto.

Vitória Sport Clube owes its origins to a group of young students who set up a football team, made up of two teams, the 1st team being Sport Club Vimaranense and the 2nd team being Foot-ball Grupo Vimaranense, in 1913, a date that some researchers point to as the true founding date of the club, which in 1918 was given its current name.

The club was founded on 22 September 1922, the official date of its foundation, the club set up its first board of directors after one of the Victorian gatherings that took place at the Chapelaria Macedo and was affiliated to the Braga Football Association in its first year of operation.

Vitória's first emblem was created by Capitão Mário Cardoso in the late 1920s and depicts Afonso Henriques, the first King of Portugal, a symbol that inspires a club of conquerors, of fearless men who courageously fight for their goals.

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