G.D. Chaves

Grupo Desportivo de Chaves (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʃavɨʃ] ^ⓘ), commonly known as Chaves, is a Portuguese professional football club from Chaves currently playing in the Liga Portugal 2, following their relegation from the Primeira Liga in 2023–24. They were founded in 1949 and currently play at Estádio Municipal Eng. Manuel Branco Teixeira. Their home kit is red-and-blue striped shirt with blue shorts and socks, and the away kit is all white. Their current president is Bruno Carvalho and their manager is Moreno. Chaves have competed in the Portuguese First Division 18 times and had their best finish of fifth-place in the 1989–90 season. They went to Europe in the 1987–88 season, where they played in the UEFA Cup, beating Romanian side Universitatea Craiova in the first round and losing to Hungarian team Budapest Honvéd in the next round.

Chaves

Full name	Grupo Desportivo de Chaves
Nickname(s)	Flavienses Valentes Trasmontanos
Founded	27 September 1949; 75 years ago (27 September 1949)
Ground	Estádio Municipal Eng. Manuel Branco Teixeira
Capacity	8,400
Chairman	Bruno Carvalho
Manager	Marco Alves
League	Liga Portugal 2
2023–24	Primeira Liga, 18th of 18 (relegated)
Website	gdchaves.pt
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

History

Grupo Desportivo de Chaves was founded on 27 September 1949 and is one of the most experienced teams in the Portuguese Second Division, not just because of its old culture, but also many years in the top-flight Primeira Liga, doing quite well and playing in European tournaments, such as the UEFA Cup. Their best ever finish was in the Primeira Liga when they finished fifth in both 1986–87 and 1989–90. In the 1986–87 season, meanwhile, they had fantastic results, beating Sporting Clube de Portugal 2–1 at home in a memorable night at the Estádio Municipal de Chaves. After those fantastic seasons, they finished sixth, seventh and ninth before getting relegated in the 1992–93 season to the Liga de Honra. They returned for another few seasons but then again suffered relegation to the Liga de Honra until 2007, where they eventually got relegated to the Portuguese Second Division: Série A. In the previous season of 2007–08, they finished in fourth place, just missing out on promotion.

After a series of great results in 2008–09 that granted the team the lead of Série A, Chaves finally achieved promotion to the second-flight Liga de Honra with an aggregate 1–0 win over Penafiel, the winner of the Portuguese Second Division: Série B in a semi-final playoff. In the playoff final, it was between Chaves and Fátima, in which both were guaranteed promotion to the Liga de Honra, with the final set to determine the champions. Fátima won the match 2–1.^[1] Chaves spent the following three years in the third division before being crowned Segunda Divisão champions in 2012–13, thus gaining promotion back to the Segunda Liga. After missing out on promotion to the first division during a thrilling final day of the 2014–15 season, Chaves were promoted the following season back to the top-flight Primeira Liga for the first time in 17 years.^[2]

Stadium

Estádio Municipal Eng. Manuel Branco Teixeira is a multi-use stadium in Chaves. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of G.D. Chaves. The stadium is able to hold 8,400 people.^[3] The stadium normally holds the Portugal national team youth games and also some under-21 games, and also very rarely the senior team. This stadium is famous because it is where Cristiano Ronaldo made his senior international debut with Portugal.^[4]

Honours

• Portuguese Second Division
  • Champions (2): 2008–09, 2012–13
• Taça de Portugal
  • Runners-up (1): 2009–10

Players

Current squad

As of 13 August, 2025^[5]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  CPV Vozinha 3 DF  ESP Aarón Romero 4 DF  POR Bruno Rodrigues 5 DF  POR Kiko 7 FW  BRA Paulo Victor 8 MF  POR Pedro Pinho 9 FW  SRB Uroš Milovanović 10 FW  CPV Rúben Pina 11 MF  POR Pedro Pelágio 14 MF  CRC Roan Wilson 15 DF  POR Carraça 17 FW  POR Roberto 19 DF  POR Tiago Almeida 20 MF  BRA Ktatau

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 FW  BRA Wellington 22 DF  MLT Zach Muscat 23 GK  SRB Marko Gudžulić 25 DF  POR Francisco Borges 27 FW  NED Robyn Esajas 29 DF  MLI Mamadou Tounkara 30 MF  ANG David Kusso 33 DF  POR Tiago Simões 34 DF  POR Ricardo Alves 70 MF  POR Hélder Morim 71 FW  BRA João Pedro 77 FW  BRA Reinaldo (on loan from Santa Clara) 87 FW  POR Rodrigo Melro 94 GK  POR Thiago Pereira

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  BRA Rodrigo Moura (at Persijap Jepara)

No. Pos. Nation Player

Managerial history

Name Nationality Years Raul Águas  Portugal 1984–1988 João Fonseca  Portugal 1988–1989 José Romão  Portugal 1989–1990 Manuel Barbosa  Portugal 1990–1991 José Romão  Portugal 1991–1992 Henrique Calisto  Portugal 1992–1993 Carlos Garcia  Portugal 1993 António Jesus  Portugal 1993–1994 Vítor Urbano  Portugal 1994–1995 José Romão  Portugal 1995–1996 Joaquim Teixeira  Portugal 1996 José Romão  Portugal 1996–1997 Manuel Correia  Portugal 1997–1998 Porfírio Amorim  Portugal 1998 Álvaro Magalhães  Portugal 1998 Horácio Gonçalves  Portugal 1998–1999 Augusto Inácio  Portugal 1999 Diamantino Bráz  Portugal 1999 Francisco Vital  Portugal 1999–2000 Dito  Portugal 2000 António Jesus  Portugal 2000–2001 António Borges  Portugal 2001–2002 Rogério Gonçalves  Portugal 2002–2003 José Alberto Costa  Portugal 2003 Manuel Correia  Portugal 2003–2004 Daniel Ramos  Portugal 2004 António Amaral  Portugal 2004–2005

Name Nationality Years Vítor Maçãs  Portugal 2005 António Caldas  Portugal 2005–2006 Ricardo Formosinho  Portugal 2006 António Borges  Portugal 2006–2008 Leonardo Jardim  Portugal 2009 Emerson Carvalho  Brazil 2009 Ricardo Formosinho  Portugal 2009 Nuno Pinto  Portugal 2009–2010 Tulipa  Portugal 2010 Jorge Regadas  Portugal 2010 Luís Miguel  Portugal 2010–2011 João Eusébio  Portugal 2011 Filipe Casanova  Portugal 2011 Jorge Regadas  Portugal 2011–2012 Eduardo Oliveira  Portugal 2012 Hélder Fontes  Portugal 2012 Pedro Monteiro  Portugal 2012–2013 João Pinto  Portugal 2013 João Eusébio  Portugal 2013 Quim Machado  Portugal 2013–2014 Norton de Matos  Portugal 2014 Carlos Pinto  Portugal 2014–2015 Vítor Oliveira  Portugal 2015–2016 Jorge Simão  Portugal 2016 Ricardo Soares  Portugal 2016–2017 Luís Castro  Portugal 2017–2018 Daniel Ramos  Portugal 2018

Name Nationality Years Tiago Fernandes  Portugal 2018–2019 José Mota  Portugal 2019 César Peixoto  Portugal 2019–2020 Carlos Pinto  Portugal 2020–2021 Vítor Campelos  Portugal 2021–2023 José Gomes  Portugal 2023 Moreno  Portugal 2023–present

Europe

Season	Cup	Round	Opponent	Result	(1st leg)	Result	(2nd leg)	Aggregate	Notes
1987–88	UEFA Cup	1st round	Universitatea Craiova	2 – 3	Away (16/09)	2 – 1	Home (30/09)	4 – 4 (a)
		2nd round	Budapest Honvéd	1 – 2	Home (24/10)	1 – 3	Away (04/11)	2 – 5

League and cup history

The football section has 13 presences at the top level of Portuguese football. Its best position was two fifth-place finished, in the 1986–87 and 1989–90 seasons, the first earning Chaves its only presence in the European cups.

Domestic results

6	5	7	13	5	8	9	18 ↓	3 ↑	14	15	10	16	17 ↓	12	12	5	7	10	17	8	16 ↓	4	1 ↑	15 ↓	3	3	1 ↑	8	3	2 ↑	11	6	16 ↓	12	6	3 ↑	7	18 ↓
86	87	88	89	90	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Primeira Liga* Liga Portugal 2 Liga 3/Campeonato de Portugal ↓ relegation ↑ promotion

Season	Div	Pos	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Portuguese Cup	Portuguese League Cup	Europe	Notes
1985–86	I	6	30	11	7	12	28	38	29	Quarter-Finals	—
1986–87	I	5	30	13	7	10	39	38	33	Quarter-Finals	—
1987–88	I	7	38	13	14	11	51	31	40	Third Round	—	Round 2
1988–89	I	13	38	12	10	16	37	41	34	Quarter-Finals	—
1989–90	I	5	34	12	14	8	38	38	38	Fifth Round	—
1990–91	I	8	38	10	14	14	49	52	34	Third Round	—
1991–92	I	9	34	10	10	14	36	45	30	Sixth Round	—
1992–93	I	18	34	4	8	22	34	61	16	Fifth Round	—		Relegated
1993–94	II	3	34	19	7	8	44	25	45	Sixth Round	—		Promoted
1994–95	I	14	34	10	7	17	33	49	27	Fourth Round	—
1995–96	I	15	34	9	7	8	38	56	34	Fourth Round	—
1996–97	I	10	34	12	10	12	39	45	46	Fifth Round	—
1997–98	I	16	34	10	5	19	31	55	35	Fifth Round	—
1998–99	I	17	34	5	10	19	39	70	25	Fourth Round	—		Relegated
1999–00	II	12	34	11	11	12	46	45	44	Third Round	—
2000–01	II	12	34	9	14	11	48	44	41	Third Round	—
2001–02	II	5	34	16	4	14	52	44	52	Third Round	—
2002–03	II	7	34	12	11	11	44	41	47	Sixth Round	—
2003–04	II	10	34	11	11	12	37	45	44	Third Round	—
2004–05	II	17	34	9	10	15	24	38	37	Fourth Round	—
2005–06	II	8	34	13	11	10	40	36	50	Third Round	—
2006–07	II	16	30	3	7	20	16	43	16	Third Round	—		Relegated
2007–08	III	4	26	12	8	6	44	17	44	Fourth Round	—
2008–09	III	1	32	19	8	5	53	22	87	Third Round	—		Promoted
2009–10	II	15	30	6	10	14	28	37	28	Runners-up	First Round		Relegated
2010–11	III	3	30	13	12	5	34	21	51	First Round	—
2011–12	III	3	30	15	9	6	41	26	54	Third Round	—
2012–13	III	1	32	17	11	4	46	23	62	Second Round	—		Promoted
2013–14	II	8	42	19	10	13	58	56	67	Fourth Round	First Round
2014–15	II	3	46	20	20	6	68	45	80	Fifth Round	Second Round
2015–16	II	2	46	21	18	7	60	39	81	Fourth Round	First Round		Promoted
2016–17	I	11	34	8	14	12	35	42	38	Semi-finals	Second Round
2017–18	I	6	34	13	8	13	47	55	47	Fourth Round	Second Round