How did one of Portugal's biggest clubs fall off the map? The rise and fall of Boavista Futebol Clube
Photo Credit: Boavista FC X account It was early August 2025, and Sporting CP were set to kick off the new Portuguese Primeira Liga season against Casa Pia AC. Like any good football supporter (and a fanatic of Portuguese football), I saw this as the perfect opportunity to scroll through the league pyramid and see how some of the nation's biggest clubs were placed for the upcoming season. Boavista FC, for some reason, were nowhere to be found. After a 10-year spell in Portugal's top division, the Panthers were relegated to the second tier on the final day of the 2024-25 campaign. As I scanned through the second division teams, they were somehow absent from the list of 18 clubs. I proceeded to scroll through the "Liga 3" clubs, and still no sign of the Porto-based outfit. Surely, Boavista would be registered to compete in the fourth tier of Portuguese football. Unfortunately, that would not turn out to be the case. This is the story of a football club that, over the la...