CF Esperança de Lagos

Full name	Clube de Futebol Esperança de Lagos
Founded	1912
Ground	Municipal de Lagos Lagos Portugal
Capacity	4,600
League	Campeonato de Portugal, Serie D
2021–22	2nd, Serie L relegation group
Home colours

Clube de Futebol Esperança de Lagos (abbreviated as CF Esperança de Lagos or CF Esperança Lagos), usually referred to as Esperança de Lagos, is a Portuguese football club based in Lagos in the Algarve. ^[1] CF Esperança de Lagos currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal, which is the fourth tier of Portuguese football and they play their home matches at the Municipal de Lagos in Lagos. ^[1] The club is affiliated to Associação de Futebol do Algarve and has competed in the AF Algarve Taça. It has also entered the national cup competition known as Taça de Portugal on many occasions. ^{[1] [2]}

History

The club was founded in 1912 as Esperança F.C. and became the delegation number 2 of Sporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting CP). This formal link with the Lisbon-based sports club was eventually terminated by the board of Esperança de Lagos in the post-war era. ^{[3] [4]}

As a child, Eric Dier spent a year living in Lagos where he briefly played in the youth football team of Esperança de Lagos ^[5] before moving to Lisbon and joining the Sporting CP Youth Academy. ^{[6] [7]}

Current squad

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   POR Luís Pedrosa 4 DF   POR Ivo Nicolau — DF   BRA Leo Carioca 6 DF   POR Tiago Coelho 21 DF   POR João Duarte 6 MF   POR Bruno González 9 CF   SEN Kuiaté Lamine

No. Pos. Nation Player 3 CF   BRA Yaggo Gomes — RB   POR Rodrigo Macedo — LM   CAN Cole Van Reenen — RM   POR Gerson Cassamá — DM   POR Harruna Iddriss 27 CAM   POR Wilson Marques — RW   GHA Henry Medarious — MF   POR Pedro Simões

Season to season

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Honours

• Terceira Divisão: 1982–83
• AF Algarve 1ª Divisão: 2008–09

Notable former managers

• Fernando Cabrita

Footnotes

External links

• Official website (in Portuguese)