From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad18 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match16 Jan 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3-0 against Boavista , and it could have been more.
Market18 Jan 2027
Ajax come back empty-handedThe bid was some way short and Famalicao did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
At 21, Tamás Szűcs is already the best thing here
An average of 7.00 in a first team he is several years too young for. Famalicao have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Squad21 Dec 2026
7 goals and a season average of 7.53. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match19 Dec 2026
A 3-1 win over Chaves , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Tamás Szűcs At 21, Tamás Szűcs is already the best thing here
Squad21 Dec 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Antoine Joujou knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Famalicao , and both men came out saying it was fine.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
The spotlight tightens on Rochinha
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad26 Oct 2026
At 21, Gustavo Sá is already the best thing here
An average of 7.32 in a first team he is several years too young for. Famalicao have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Ibrahima Ba
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match10 Oct 2026
A 5-4 win over Braga , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Thomas Boyata
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
At 21, Gustavo Sá is already the best thing here
An average of 7.10 in a first team he is several years too young for. Famalicao have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Match26 Sep 2026
Pacos de Ferreira made Famalicao work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Antoine Joujou
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Gustavo Sá At 21, Gustavo Sá is already the best thing here