# Vitória S.C. (basketball)

Vitória Sport Clube is a Portuguese sports club in the city of Guimarães, where different sports are practiced. This article is about its professional basketball section, whose senior men's and women's teams compete respectively in the Portuguese Basketball League, the top level of the sport in Portugal, and in the Second Basketball Division, the third competition in Portugal.
The teams, from youth to senior level, train and play their games in the Vimaranense Unit Sports Pavilion, which is located in the Vitória SC Academy.

## History

Vitória's men's basketball team, founded in 2004, came about as a continuation of the project of another club, called "Basquetebol Clube de Guimarães", founded in 1993, with its managers moving to Vitória de Guimarães, namely Pedro Guerreiro and António Lourenço, leading the club to consolidate its position in the LPB, the top level, since 2008/09 and consequently to win several national titles in the seasons that followed.
Women's basketball team was founded a year later for the 2005/06 season, and after 11 years it won its first First Division National Championship title. In the following seasons, already in the elite of women's basketball, Vitória managed to constantly fight for the top spots and play in some cup finals, feats led by teams made up of players from Vitória's training centre.
However, in 2022 Vitória SC announced that it would not register the women's basketball team in the LPB (basketball's elite) as a first step towards the reformulation of the sport's tiers based on the development of young athletes from the academy, leading to the women's team having to start again in the third tier.

## Men's Achievements

Proliga: 1
* 2006/07
Portuguese Basketball Cup: 2
* 2007/08, 2012/13
António Pratas Trophy: 1
* 2010
Total Trophies: 4 Nationals

## Players
### Current Roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

### Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
* Criteria
* To appear in this section a player must have either:
* Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club
* Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time
* Played at least one official NBA match at any time.
* José Vilhena
* Miguel Cardoso
* Ivan Almeida
* Joel Almeida

### Other notable players

| Sergio Correia Nebojsa Pavlovic Luis Lima Antonio Neto Ismael Torres Maris Gulbis Temi Adebayo Nikola Tadić Carlos Areias João Balseiro André Bessa Paulo Cunha Paulo Diamantino Carlos Fechas Luis Ferreira Cláudio Fonseca João Guerreiro | Filipe Lima Fernando Neves Francisco Oliveira Miguel Cardoso Nuno Pedroso Rui Pereira Pedro Pinto Jaime Silva José Silva Augusto Sobrinho Pedro Tavares João Torrie Julian Banks Mario Boggan Brandon Brown Cory Coe Nate Daniels | Tommie Eddie Michael Gomez Louis Graham Will Holland Travis Leech Zeke Marshall Kevin Martin Tony Meier Karlton Mims Donte Minter Brian Morris Roderick Nealy Derek Paben Quilninious Randall Nolan Richardson Cornelius Roberts | Cornelius Roberts James Saint-Robert John Sullivan Dain Swetalla Charlie Swiggett Willie Taylor Harvey Thomas John Waller Doug Wiggins Jake Van Tubbergen John Winchester Paulo Ferreira Bruno Marques Joaquim Soares Francisco Machado Ije Nwankwo |

## Season by season

| Season | Tier | League | ProLiga | Portuguese Cup | Portuguese Supercup | League Cup | António Pratas Trophy |
| 2004/05 | 2 | | | 4th round | | | |
| 2005/06 | 2 | | | 1/8 Final | | | |
| 2006/07 | 2 | | Winner | 1/8 Final | | | |
| 2007/08 | 2 | | Finalist | Winner | | | |
| 2008/09 | 1 | 6th | | 1/8 Final | Finalist | | |
| 2009/10 | 1 | 4th | | 1/2 Final | | 1/4 Final | Winner |
| 2010/11 | 1 | 4th | | 1/2 Final | | 4th round | |
| 2011/12 | 1 | 8th | | 1/8 Final | | | |
| 2012/13 | 1 | 5th | | Winner | | | |
| 2013/14 | 1 | 2nd | | 1/2 Final | Finalist | 1/2 Final | |
| 2014/15 | 1 | 2nd | | 1/2 Final | | Finalist | |
| 2015/16 | 1 | 8th | | 1/2 Final | | | |
| 2016/17 | 1 | 3rd | | 1/2 Final | | 1/4 Final | |
| 2017/18 | 1 | 5th | | 1/8 Final | | 1/2 Final | |
| 2018/19 | 1 | 9th | | 1/8 Final | | | |
| 2019/20 | 1 | 5th | | 1/2 Final | | | |
| 2020/21 | 1 | 8th | | 1/4 Final | | | |
| 2021/22 | 1 | 10th | | 1/2 Final | | | |
| 2022/23 | 1 | 9th | | 1/8 Final | | | |
| 2023/24 | 1 | 7th | | 1/4 Final | | Group stage | |

## Women's Achievements

National Champions of the 1st Division: 1
* 2016/17
Vice Champions of the Portuguese Cup
* 2018/19, 2020/21
Total Trophies: 1 Nationals