Ikker Julian

Alverca

Full name	Futebol Clube de Alverca
Founded	1 September 1939; 87 years ago (1939-09-01)
Ground	Complexo Desportivo FC Alverca, Alverca do Ribatejo
Capacity	6,932
Owner	Vinícius Júnior (70-80%)
President	Fernando Orge
Head coach	Sérgio Ferreira
League	Primeira Liga
2025–26	Primeira Liga, 11th of 18
Website	alvercasad.pt
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Futebol Clube de Alverca is a professional football club based in Alverca do Ribatejo, Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal. The team play in the Liga Portugal, the top tier of Portuguese football, after promotion from the Liga Portugal 2 in the 2024–25 season.

F.C. Alverca was founded on 1 September 1939.^{[citation needed]}

After many decades in the lower levels of Portuguese football, Alverca was promoted to the top level in 1998, and played there in four of the next five editions, also coming back for 2003–04, which also ended in relegation; during most of this time, the club acted as feeder club to S.L. Benfica.^{[citation needed]} Alverca played one more year in level two, before folding for financial reasons, in 2005.^{[citation needed]}

In 2006, Alverca re-formed, beginning at regional level in the Lisbon Football Association's District Leagues, and being promoted in 2007–08 to the first division of that category.^{[citation needed]}

In 2017–18, Alverca won promotion back to the national level, as district champions. On 17 October 2019, Alverca won 2–0 in the third round of the Taça de Portugal against Big Three club Sporting CP, becoming only the second third-tier club in history to knock them out the cup; the other was F.C. Tirsense in 1948. Fellow Primeira Liga club Rio Ave F.C. beat Alverca by a single goal in the next round. Alex Apolinário, scorer of the first goal in the win over Sporting, died in January 2021, days after collapsing in a match for Alverca.

In February 2025, Vinícius Júnior and his partners became co-owners of the club, acquiring between 70% and 80% of its shares for roughly €8 million to €10 million.

In May 2025, Alverca got their back-to-back promotion to Liga Portugal.^{[citation needed]}

The club's home venue is the 6,932 capacity Complexo Desportivo do FC Alverca.

As of 11 September 2026

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  FRA Noah Raveyre 2 DF  MAR Nabil Touaizi 3 DF  HON Julián Martínez 4 DF  GAM Yaya Bojang 5 MF  GHA Sabit Abdulai 6 MF  CIV Davy Gui 7 MF  ANG André Vidigal 8 MF  POR Vasco Moreira 9 FW  POR Vivaldo Semedo (on loan from Watford) 10 FW  POR Chiquinho 11 MF  BEL Cédric Nuozzi 12 DF  NGR Isaac James 14 DF  FRA Steven Baseya 15 DF  BEL Ikker Julian 17 FW  LBN Samy Merheg 18 MF  MAR Zakaria Kassary (on loan from UTS Rabat) 19 FW  MTN Dawda Camara

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 DF  POR Diogo Spencer 21 DF  ESP Sergi Gómez (captain) 22 FW  BRA Figueiredo (vice-captain) 23 GK  POR André Paulo 24 DF  ENG Mofe Jemide 25 MF  BRA Ian Luccas 26 MF  BRA Matheus França (on loan from Crystal Palace) 27 DF  ESP Toni Tamarit 31 GK  BRA Matheus Mendes 33 DF  FRA Bastien Meupiyou 35 MF  BRA Rayan Lucas 55 DF  POR Francisco Chissumba (on loan from Braga) 77 DF  ESP Óscar Torrellas 90 MF  POR Tiago Octávio 91 GK  BRA Jhonatan 93 MF  BRA Zé Rafael

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  COL Gian Cabezas (at Athletic until 31 December 2026) — MF  MTN Abderrahmane Soumaré (at União de Santarém until 30 June 2027) — FW  BRA Léo Chú (at Avaí until 30 June 2027)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  CIV Stéphane Diarra (at União de Santarém until 30 June 2027) — FW  BRA Felipe Lima (at Benfica B until 30 June 2027)

• Liga Portugal 2
  • Runners-up (1): 2024–25
• Liga 3
  • Champions (1): 2023–24

• Official website (in Portuguese)