Estrela da Amadora - The Refounding

Estrela da Amadora. A club, that without any surprise, is unknown to most.
But that is about to change.


Short piece of the club's history

Founded in 22nd January 1932, Estrela da Amadora were a club in Amadora, a city in the Lisbon region, in Portugal. The club played their home matches at Estádio José Gomes in Amadora, Portugal.

The club featured in 16 editions of the Primeira Liga (currently Liga NOS for sponsorship reasons), the top tier of Portuguese football. They do not have many honours attached to their name, despite having a Portuguese Cup and 2nd tier title.

Sadly, due to financial struggle, the club went extinct in 1st March, 2011.

Now, in 2017, the club is refounded as fully amateur, and placed into 2º Divisão da AF Lisboa, the 4th division of the Lisbon district league system, and the 7th of the Portuguese system overall.

The Squad




As we can see, it clearly isn't the most balanced of squads, but we'll work with it.

Paulo Miranda is by far our best player, hopefully he can tap some in. I'll have a lot of changes to do, so I'll post screenshots of other players later.

Good Luck Mate! Good to see someone in Portugal.

Haha mate, thanks!

Hopefully this will go on as planned.

Ended up making way too many signings. So many, that Miranda went from 5* to 0,5*

PRESEASON



Some decent results there, hopefully we'll have decent form on the actual season as well.

SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 2017




LEAGUE TABLE




Very good. 4 promotion spots will make sure we get out of this division fairly quickly.


Also, we've gone further in the district cup than I expected. Into the actual tournament, I don't have my money on winning it, but these are fully amateur teams, so who knows.

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017



Ups and downs all across. 2 defeats to lose the invencibility and the district cup elimination on pens did screw up a period that had started well with 7 points in 9 games. But I expected a bumpy road.



LEAGUE TABLE



Very tight up top. Hopefully our form increases so we don't risk losing our promotion spot come January.

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018

Happy New Year! And it was happy indeed, as we got a perfect spell, as we won all of our 5 matches.



LEAGUE TABLE



Fighting actively to keep that top spot, as Olivais are on our tail.

Have you got a database for the lower leagues in Portugal?

Good luck with this mate, good to see something a little different about.