FC Porto (handball)

Template:Short description Template:Template other Template:FC Porto sections Futebol Clube do Porto (), commonly referred to as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional handball team based in Porto. Created in 1932, it is the senior representative side of the handball section of sports club FC Porto.

The team competes domestically in the top-tier league Andebol 1 and internationally in European Handball Federation club competitions. Home matches are played at the Dragão Arena, alongside the men's basketball and roller hockey, and women's volleyball teams. The current head coach is former Swedish international Magnus Andersson, who returned to the club after a one-season break, having held the job from 2018 to 2023.

History

The section started in 1932 with a field handball (eleven-a-side) team, which played competitive matches until 1974–75, when it was discontinued in favour of seven-a-side handball. During this period, the club won 37 regional and 29 national league titles in the field handball discipline.

In 1951, the club established the handball section whose team won the Portuguese league title for the first time in 1953–54, and increased that tally with eight further titles by 1968. Porto then endured a 31-year drought before winning the national league title again in 1998–99. In the 2014–15 season, the team secured their seventh consecutive league title, establishing a national record. In the previous season, the team also debuted in the EHF Champions League group stage, after overcoming the qualification tournament for the first time in five consecutive attempts.

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2024–25 season

Goalkeepers

• 12 Template:Flagicon Sebastian Abrahamsson
• 33 Template:Flagicon Diogo Rêma
• 40 Template:Flagicon Dairon Girón

Left wingers

• 21 Template:Flagicon Leonel Fernandes
• 71 Template:Flagicon Pedro Oliveira

Right wingers

• 19 Template:Flagicon Mamadou Diocou
• 24 Template:Flagicon Antonio Martínez

Line players

• 04 Template:Flagicon Victor Iturriza
• 15 Template:Flagicon Daymaro Salina
• 86 Template:Flagicon Ricardo Brandão

Left backs

• 02 Template:Flagicon Pedro Valdés
• 05 Template:Flagicon Þorsteinn Leó Gunnarsson
• 09 Template:Flagicon Miguel Oliveira
• 88 Template:Flagicon Fábio Magalhães

Central backs

• 03 Template:Flagicon André Sousa
• 10 Template:Flagicon Diogo Oliveira
• 14 Template:Flagicon Rui Silva

Right backs

• 07 Template:Flagicon Jakob Mikkelsen
• 08 Template:Flagicon David Fernández Alonso

Transfers

Transfers for the 2025–26 season

File:Eo circle green arrow-up.svg Joining

• Template:Flagicon Pol Valera (CB) (from Template:Flagicon FC Barcelona)
• Template:Flagicon Linus Persson (RB) (from Template:Flagicon GOG Håndbold)

File:Eo circle red arrow-down.svg Leaving

Staff

Position	Name
Sports director	Template:Flagicon José Magalhães
Assistant director	Template:Flagicon Manuel Arezes
Head coach	Template:Flagicon Magnus Andersson
Assistant coach	Template:Flagicon Carlos Martingo
Goalkeeping coach	Template:Flagicon Telmo Ferreira
Fitness coach	Template:Flagicon Tiago Cadete

Retired numbers

No.	Nat.	Player	Position	Tenure	Ref.
1	Template:Flagicon	Alfredo Quintana	Goalkeeper	2010–2021

Honours

Porto is the second most decorated Portuguese club in domestic competitions, with a total of 44 titles.

• Portuguese League

Winners (24) – record: 1953–54, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1967–68, 1998–99, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23

• Portuguese Cup

Winners (9): 1975–76, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1993–94, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2018–19, 2020–21

• Portuguese League Cup

Winners (3) – record: 2003–04, 2004–05, 2007–08

• Portuguese Super Cup

Winners (8) – record: 1994, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2021

European record

Note: Porto's score is always listed first.

Season	Competition	Round	Club	1st leg	2nd leg	Aggregate
2016–17	EHF Cup	R1	Template:Flagicon B.S.B. Batumi	49–16	44–16	93–32
		R2	Template:Flagicon RD Koper 2013	31–24	26–22	57–46
		R3	Template:Flagicon Bregenz Handball	28–27	31–29	59–56
		Group stage	Template:Flagicon Frisch Auf Göppingen	27–31	28–30	3rd place
			Template:Flagicon Fraikin Granollers	23–22	22–33
			Template:Flagicon HC Midtjylland	33–25	26–29
2017–18	EHF Cup	R2	Template:Flagicon RK Ohrid 2013	37–20	44–26	81–46
		R3	Template:Flagicon Füchse Berlin	27–30	25–33	52–63
2018–19	EHF Cup	R1	Template:Flagicon AHC Potaissa Turda	41–21	27–24	68–45
		R2	Template:Flagicon SKA Minsk	34–29	24–25	58–54
		R3	Template:Flagicon SC Magdeburg	23–26	34–27	57–53
		Group stage	Template:Flagicon Liberbank Cuenca	37–26	29–26	1st place
			Template:Flagicon Dobrogea Sud Constanța	35–19	30–27
			Template:Flagicon TTH Holstebro	33–31	32–29
		QF	Template:Flagicon Saint-Raphaël Var Handball	30–30	34–30	64–60
		SF	Template:Flagicon Füchse Berlin	20–24
		3rd place	Template:Flagicon TTH Holstebro	28–26
2019–20	EHF Champions League	Group stage	Template:Flagicon Meshkov Brest	27–25	35–32	5th place
			Template:Flagicon RK Vardar	27–32	30–22
			Template:Flagicon PGE Vive Kielce	33–30	25–30
			Template:Flagicon Telekom Veszprém	28–38	24–31
			Template:Flagicon Motor Zaporozhye	35–35	29–33
			Template:Flagicon Montpellier Handball	23–23	27–22
			Template:Flagicon THW Kiel	28–27	29–30
		R16	Template:Flagicon Aalborg Håndbold	Cancelled Template:Efn
2020–21	EHF Champions League	Group stage	Template:Flagicon Elverum Håndball	28–30	38–31	5th place
			Template:Flagicon Meshkov Brest	27–25	0–10
			Template:Flagicon Flensburg-Handewitt	29–36	10–0
			Template:Flagicon MOL-Pick Szeged	25–19	31–35
			Template:Flagicon Vardar 1961	25–25	27–24
			Template:Flagicon Vive Kielce	32–32	30–32
			Template:Flagicon Paris Saint-Germain	31–34	28–29
		Playoffs	Template:Flagicon Aalborg Håndbold	32–29	24–27	56–56 (a)
2021–22	EHF Champions League	Group stage	Template:Flagdeco Motor	27–30	10–0	5th place
			Template:Flagdeco Flensburg-Handewitt	28–27	26–26
			Template:Flagdeco Dinamo București	27–26	31–32
			Template:Flagdeco Telekom Veszprém	23–30	28–28
			Template:Flagicon Łomża Vive Kielce	33–39	29–27
			Template:Flagdeco FC Barcelona	33–33	31–38
			Template:Flagdeco Paris Saint-Germain	19–33	30–39
		Playoffs	Template:Flagicon Montpellier Handball	29–29	27–35	56–64