Goalkeepers
1 Marco Tábuas
25 Milosevic
77 Eduardo

Defenders
2 Luís Portela
3 Hugo
4 Robson
13 Adalto
14 Janício
15 Auri
17 Jorginho
18 Paulinho

Midfielders
6 Sandro
8 Elias
10 Filipe
11 Bruno Ribeiro
16 Ricardo Chaves
40 Besugo

Forwards
7 Bruno Gama
9 Edinho
19 Leandro
20 Léo Macaé
29 Bruno Severino
30 Kim Byung
87 Cláudio Pitbull

President
Carlos Manuel Almeida Costa

Coach
Carlos Carvalhal

Address
Estádio do Bonfim, Apartado 132
2902 - 882 Setúbal

Telephone
+351 265 544 270

Fax
+351 265 536 513

In those years Vitória disputed and won several tournaments around the world, making history with its quality of game, a wonder to football fans. Nowadays, the club is fighting to reach that kind of performance, inspired in the recent Portuguese cup conquest, as well the Iberian cup against Real Betis, and the three presences in the UEFA cup in the past six years.

UEFA raiders
Despite never winning the UEFA Cup, Vitória are always considered dangerous opposition. They are four times quarter-finalists, having defeating such powerful teams as Liverpool, Fiorentina, Anderlecht, Internazionale and Leeds United.

The 8th Army
The club supporters are known as Vitorianos or Sadinos. In 1943 on the occasion of Vitória's first Cup of Portugal final against Benfica, thousands of people from Setúbal invaded Lisbon and, notwithstanding the defeat by the score of 1-5, celebrated in a demonstration of fair play. In the next day's press, the people from Setúbal were nicknamed 8ºExército (the 8th Army) because of their massive following of the team, ending in a final journey to Lisbon -- all this in comparison with the British Eighth Army and its World War II massive campaign in Africa. Referring to this in the late 1990s, the first official supporters' association was baptized VIII Exército. They show great dedication to the club and are recognized as one of the most orderly organized supporters in Portugal. There used to be another supporters' association, the "Furacões Sadinos" which ceased to exist in 2007. They co-existed in peace with the "VIII Exército".

Derby: Vitória F.C. vs Vitória S.C.
There is a traditional quarrel between Vitória de Guimarães and Vitória de Setúbal, with both teams claiming to be the one and only "Vitória", the other being solely named the "Guimarães" or the "Setúbal" with a curl of the lip. The matches are somewhat tense with both clubs contesting who has the higher number of supporters. Nevertheless the quarrelsomeness is bigger on the Vitória de Guimarães side, since the club is 12 years younger and, as they wrote in their history books, the people from Guimarães adopted the name "Vitoria" as a tribute to Vitória de Setúbal, who at the time was capturing the attention of the country due the quality of the football team. So they changed the name to «Vitória Sport Clube» because «Vitória Futebol Clube» was already chosen by the Setúbal side.

Stadium
The Estádio do Bonfim stadium was inaugurated during the club's 50th anniversary commemorations on September 16, 1962, with a capacity of >35,000, reduced to 21,530 when plastic seatings were placed. With rare exceptions the additional room for 2,800 standing spectators (1,400 behind each goal) has been closed since some years ago because attendances do not justify it anymore. Furthermore UEFA officially recognizes only the 18,728 seating places; eitherway, since 2006, the stadium is not allowed to be used for official international games, due to its decaying condition. There are plans underway for a new stadium. The new stadium is expected to be completed by the centennial commemoration in November 20th 2010.

The financial situation is very shaky, as seen on the first half of the 2005/06 season, when the whole team had several months of wages delayed, a situation which led to the resigning of the then manager, Luis Norton de Matos. The club has been experiencing many financial difficulties since the April 25th's Coup d'État which brought an economic disaster to the Setúbal region with its mass layoffs and industrial collapse. Thus the stadium never saw significant repairs for lack of funds. Each year the stadium feels more uncomfortable and attendances keep on dimishing while others rise. Gone are the times when more than 40,000 jostled in the stadium every weekend.

There is festering resentment in the hearts of the Vitorianos, as they experienced rejection in their quest for a place among the Portuguese cities awarded with new stadia for the Euro 2004 in favour of the wealthier tourist regions with smaller clubs but more influence on the political scene (the Leiria Stadium, the Aveiro Stadium and the Algarve Stadium). These three stadiums are nowadays known in Portugal as the White Elephants on account of being luxury stadia for meagre attendances. Furthermore, there never was a Superliga team playing at Algarve Stadium as its seeded home.