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.

Squad 2023/24

According to Portuguese Rugby Federation[2]

The Académica squad for the 2023–24 TOP 10 season
Props
  • South Africa Mzo Buthelezi
  • Brazil Alexandre Alves
  • Portugal André Gonçalves
  • Portugal Afonso Machado
  • Portugal João Claúdio Dos Santos

Hookers

  • Portugal João Mateus
  • Argentina Santiago Bonavento
  • Portugal João Aguiar
  • Portugal Guilherme Coelho

Locks

  • Brazil Matheus Wolf
  • Portugal Sérgio Duarte Franco
  • Portugal Gonçalo Costa
  • Portugal Daniel Almeida
  • Brazil Diogo Paixão Santos
  • Brazil Artur Lima
 Backrow
  • South Africa Ntokozo Vidima
  • Portugal João Tavares
  • Portugal Edmundo Ferreira
  • Portugal Francisco Curica
  • Portugal Antonio Salgueiro
  • Portugal Gonçalo Breda
  • Argentina Genaro Fissore

Scrum-halves

  • Argentina Tomás Cornejo
  • Portugal Silvio Costa

Fly-halves

  • Argentina Geronimo Boccazzi
  • Australia Blake Rixon
 Centres
  • Brazil Moisés Duque
  • Australia Marcus Arrindell
  • Portugal Francisco Migueis

Wingers

  • Portugal João Diogo Silva
  • Portugal João Dinis
  • Portugal Rodrigo Barradas
  • Portugal Afonso Monteiro
  • Portugal João Cunha

Fullbacks

  • Portugal Nuno Cardoso
  • Portugal Joaquim Couto
  • Portugal 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".
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