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C.F. Estrela da Amadora
Full name	Clube de Futebol Estrela da Amadora
Nickname(s)	Os Tricolor (The Tricolours) Estrela (Star)
Founded	1932
Ground	Estádio José Gomes, Amadora (Capacity 20,630)
Chairman	António Oliveira
Manager	Daúto Faquirá
League	BWINLIGA
2006-07	Liga, 10th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Clube de Futebol Estrela da Amadora (pron. IPA: [(ɨ)ʃ'tɾelɐ dɐ ɐmɐ'doɾɐ]), sometimes refer to as just Estrela, is a Portuguese sports club (prominently football) based on Amadora, northwest of Lisbon. While never a contender to the place of third most important club in the Lisbon Football Association, Estrela da Amadora (which is translated to "Amadora Star") won a Cup of Portugal in 1990 and one Portuguese Second Division of Honour title in 1992-93. Within their 12 completed seasons at top flight football, their best season was in the 1997-98, when they finished seventh. Estrela has participated in the Cup Winners' Cup in 1990 reaching the 2nd stage.

No. Position Player 1 GK Nélson 2 DF Rui Duarte 4 DF Carlos Cardoso 5 FW Aliou N'Diaye 7 DF Pedro Pereira 8 MF Daniel 9 FW Anselmo 10 MF Mateus 12 GK Filipe Mendes 13 FW Nuno Viveiros 14 MF Marco Paulo 15 DF Mauricio 16 MF Fernando 20 DF Hugo Carreira

No. Position Player 21 MF Luis Aguiar 23 FW Marcelo 24 FW Yoni 25 GK Pedro Alves 27 DF Edu Silva 28 MF Marcelo Goiandira 30 MF Tiago Gomes 32 MF Vítor Moreno 33 MF Elson 34 DF Wagnão 55 DF Hélder Cabral 79 FW Moses Sakyi 99 FW Mossoró

The club is currently in its 14th presence at the top level of Portuguese football.

Season		Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Notes
1988-1989	1D	8	38	13	13	12	33	41	39
1989-1990	1D	13	34	10	8	16	35	34	28	winner
1990-1991	1D	18	38	9	14	15	37	46	32
1991-1992	2H	11	34	10	13	11	30	35	33
1992-1993	2H	1	34	17	14	3	59	28	48		promoted; 2nd level champion
1993-1994	1D	9	34	9	15	10	39	36	33
1994-1995	1D	15	34	6	14	14	27	40	26
1995-1996	1D	11	34	7	4	3	35	50	35
1996-1997	1D	9	34	12	11	11	39	38	47
1997-1998	1D	7	34	14	8	12	42	41	50		best classification ever
1998-1999	1D	8	34	11	12	11	33	40	45
1999-2000	1D	8	34	10	15	9	40	35	45
2000-2001	1D	18	34	4	7	23	30	57	19		relegated
2001-2002	2H	4	34	16	9	9	44	38	57
2002-2003	2H	3	34	15	12	7	42	32	57		promoted
2003-2004	1D	18	34	4	5	25	22	74	17		relegated
2004-2005	2H	3	34	17	9	8	47	30	60	semi-final	promoted
2005-2006	1D	9	34	12	9	13	31	33	45	last 16
2006-2007	1D	10	30	9	8	13	23	36	35	4th round

• Miguel
• Jorge Andrade
• Nelson
• Tiago Gomes
• Vitor Moreno
• Moses Sakyi
• Tomislav Ivkovic
• Luis Aguiar

The Estrela kit is white with the tshirt split with three colours like the nickname of Estrela 'Os Tricolors' which means The three colours.The left side is red,the middle is white and on the right side it is green with the shorts and socks white.Estrela is sponsored by portuguese brand Tepa and also sponsored by Cofidis.

• C.F. Estrela da Amadora is one of portugal's oldest clubs founded in 1932.
• Estrela has 6500 registered paying supporters which is a lot for a club with a small stadium.
• In 2005 they decided to change the club's kit to traditional white copying the badge and taking away the old red,green and white striped kit.
• Estrela have won the Liga de Honra once in 1993.
• There best ever finish was 7th in the 1997/98 season.

• Liga de Honra 1993
• Portuguese Cup 1990

• (Portuguese) Official site
• (Portuguese) Fans site
• Estrela da Amadora formations at football-lineups.com

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