Atletico Clube de Portugal

Atletico Clube de Portugal is a Portuguese club, located in the city of Lisbon, more precisely in the parish of Alcantara. It was founded on 18 September 1942 due to the merger of two clubs of Alcantara (Carcavelinhos Football Club) and Santo Amaro (Uniao Foot-Ball Lisboa). Besides Football, the club also has sections of Futsal and Basketball. In the past the club had sections of Field Hockey, Swimming, Sport Fishing, Cycle-Touring, Table Tennis, Rugby, Volleyball, Gymnastics, Triathlon and Handball.

History

Atletico Clube de Portugal is born after two clubs from the western zone of Lisbon, Carcavelinhos and Uniao, decide to join, to create a bigger and stronger club. In order to make the merger official, the members of Carcavelinhos and the Uniao de Lisboa met in a magna session in the cinematographic hall of the Sociedade Promotora de Educacao Popular in Alcantara on the night of 18 September 1942.

A decade of great glow

The first years of the new collective proved to be, also, the years of greater brilliance of the club. With their teams to be made up of athletes from the founding clubs, Atletico had in its early years the most outstanding results in football, also achieving successes in other sports such as basketball and field hockey.

The first official title ends up being the Regional Championship of Lisbon of basketball, conquered soon in its season of debut, in 1942/43, and repeated in the following season. In fact, it would be five Lisbon Championships won by Atletico in its first decade of existence. In addition to these, there would also be the achievements of the Cup of Honor (predecessor of the Portuguese Cup) in 1943/44, a 2nd Division (1943/44) and a Portuguese Cup (1953/54). Rugby, a section made up of former students of the Instituto Superior de Agronomia, would win two Regional Championship of Lisbon.

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