FC Porto is a Portuguese football club based in Porto, founded by the wine merchant António Nicolau de Almeida, who had seen football played in England. It plays at the Estádio do Dragão and is nicknamed the Dragons. Together with Benfica and Sporting, it is one of Portugal's big three clubs, and its clashes with Benfica are known as O Clássico. In 1987 it won the European Cup, beating Bayern Munich in Vienna thanks to a heel goal by Rabah Madjer, and then won the Intercontinental Cup. Under José Mourinho it won the UEFA Cup in 2003 and the Champions League in 2004, and under André Villas-Boas it won the Europa League in 2011.
Before and after
- 6 July 1893Death of Guy de Maupassant
- 10 August 1893Founding of Bank of Italy
- 7 September 1893Founding of Genoa CFC
- 19 September 1893New Zealand becomes the first country where women vote
- 28 September 1893Founding of FC Porto
- 20 October 1893Birth of Jomo Kenyatta
- 25 October 1893Death of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 26 December 1893Birth of Mao Zedong
- from 1894 to 1906Dreyfus affair
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