Associação Académica de Coimbra (rugby union)

Associação Académica de Coimbra

Union	FPR
Nickname(s)	Académica
Founded	1936; 88 years ago (1936)
Location	Coimbra, Portugal
Region	Coimbra
Ground(s)	Estádio Municipal Sérgio Conceição (Capacity: 2,500)
Chairman	Joaquim Neto Murta
Coach(es)	Rui Rodrigues
League(s)	Campeonato Português de Rugby
Official website
rugbyaac.com

Associação Académica de Coimbra, Rugby is one of the leading teams of rugby union in Portugal.^[1] It is currently one of Portugal's top 8 clubs and plays in the Super Bock above the 1st Division. The club is one of the most successful of the sports sections of the Associação Académica de Coimbra, and is based at the same Estadio Municipal as the fully independent football team.

The club was founded in 1936 and won the Campeonato Português de Rugby in 1977, 1979, 1997 and 2004, and the Portuguese Rugby Cup in 1974, 1980, 1990, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 2018.

Honors

• Campeonato Nacional Honra/Super Bock:
  • Winner (4): 1976/77, 1978/79, 1996/97, 2003/04
• Taça de Portugal de Rugby:
  • Winner (7): 1973/74, 1979/80, 1989/90, 1994/95, 1995/96, 1996/97, 2017/18
• Supertaça de Portugal de Rugby:
  • Winner (2): 1988, 1996
• Taça Ibérica:
  • Winner (1): 1997/98

Squad 2023/24

According to Portuguese Rugby Federation^[2]

The Académica squad for the 2023–24 TOP 10 season
Props Alexandre Alves Mzo Buthelezi André Gonçalves Afonso Machado João Claúdio Dos Santos Hookers João Mateus Santiago Bonavento João Aguiar Guilherme Coelho Locks Matheus Wolf Diogo Paixão Santos Sérgio Duarte Franco Artur Lima Gonçalo Costa Daniel Almeida Rafael Espirito Santo	Backrow Ntokozo Vidima Genaro Fissore João Tavares Edmundo Ferreira Francisco Curica Antonio Salgueiro Gonçalo Breda Miguel André Scrum-halves Tomás Cornejo Silvio Costa Fly-halves Geronimo Boccazzi Blake Rixon	Centres Moisés Duque Marcus Arrindell Francisco Migueis Gonçalo Ramos Wingers João Diogo Silva João Dinis Rodrigo Barradas Afonso Monteiro João Cunha António Costa Fullbacks Nuno Cardoso Joaquim Couto Tiago Pintão
(c) denotes the team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped players.

References

1. Julia Wilkinson, John King Lonely Planet Portugal 2003 -- Page 324 "Académica is the name of Coimbra's second-division football team and its first-division rugby team, both of which play at the Estadio Municipal"
2. "Registered players on FPR".

External links

• AAC Secção de Rugby (official website)