Rugby team

Portuguesa FC

Club · Venezuela · Primera División

«The Red and Black»

218 Matches

70 wins

68 draws

80 losses

233–249 Goals

−16 Difference

1.1 Scored per game

Form W W D D D D

The club was founded in 1972.

The season that travelled furthest was 1977. Portuguesa reached the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores, the first Venezuelan club to get that far, in the middle of a stretch of six consecutive appearances in the competition from 1974. Venezuelan clubs had until then gone to the Libertadores and come back early; Portuguesa did not travel to make up the numbers. Eight entries in the tournament stand in the club's record, and the great majority of them fall inside that one decade.

Home is the Estadio General José Antonio Páez, known locally as El Mítico, a ground rebuilt in 2007 and again in 2011 and holding around 18,000. The name attached itself during the years when the ground was hosting Libertadores nights.

After 1978 the club finished second in 1980 and again in 1983, and the titles stopped. The five stars from the 1970s remain the whole of the league record, and the task in Acarigua is the same one it has been for decades now: getting back to the level the ground was named for.

Latest results

All matches

5 Sep	Primera División	Zamora H	1:1	D
3 Sep	Primera División	Caracas FC A	1:1	D
2 Sep	Primera División	Zamora H
30 Aug	Primera División	Metropolitanos FC H	2:2	D
30 Aug	Primera División	Caracas FC A
23 Aug	Primera División	Monagas SC A	0:0	D

Standing

Primera División

Group stage · Primera Division: Apertura

#	Team	M	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
3	Deportivo Táchira	13	7	3	3	17:12	24
4	UCV	13	7	2	4	24:20	23
5	Portuguesa FC	13	5	5	3	20:12	20
6	Estudiantes de Merida FC	13	6	2	5	21:18	20
7	Carabobo FC	13	4	7	2	23:14	19

Full table

Team statistics

matches counted: 218

218 Matches

70 wins

68 draws

80 losses

233–249 Goals

−16 Difference

1.1 Scored per game

Season results matches counted: 218

70 68 80

wins draws losses

Scored and conceded last matches

scored — above the line conceded — below the line

Metric	Total	Home	Away
Matches	218	109	109
Scored	233	126	107
Conceded	249	110	139
Scored per game	1.1	1.2	1.0
Conceded per game	1.1	1.0	1.3
Difference	−16	+16	−32

Key players

by appearances over the last year

A. Epey Midfielder 2 Matches

Víctor Hugo Navas Barrera Forward 2 Matches

L. Lovassano Midfielder 2 Matches

A. Trujillo Defender 2 Matches

Heber Daniel García Torrealba Forward 2 Matches

A. Polo Forward 2 Matches

K. Zuniga Defender 2 Matches

Moisés Manuel Acuña Morales Defender 2 Matches

Squad of Portuguesa FC

by appearances over the last year

Number	Player	Position	Age	Matches
26	A. Epey	Midfielder	21	2
13	Víctor Hugo Navas Barrera	Forward	25	2
24	L. Lovassano	Midfielder		2
6	A. Trujillo	Defender	27	2
14	Heber Daniel García Torrealba	Forward		2
23	A. Polo	Forward		2
17	K. Zuniga	Defender		2
33	Moisés Manuel Acuña Morales	Defender		2
18	Christopher Alexander Montaña Rivas	Midfielder		2
4	N. Trejo	Defender		2
29	W. Peña	Forward		2
27	L. Moreno Kero	Defender		2
99	H. Martinez	Forward		2
8	R. Toussaint	Midfielder		2
7	R. Rojas	Forward		2
3	G. Aguirre	Defender		2
20	Jose Perez	Forward		2
22	J. Reyes	Goalkeeper		2
19	O. López	Midfielder		2
21	R. Mendoza	Forward		2
1	Samuel Rodriguez	Goalkeeper		2
66	C. Urpín	Defender		2
2	G. Benítez	Defender		2