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Mortágua F.C.

football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ17520938 ↗
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Mortágua Futebol Clube is a Portuguese sports club from Mortágua, Viseu District.

The men's football team played on the third-tier Campeonato de Portugal until being relegated in 2020–21. They returned to Campeonato de Portugal (now the fourth tier after the Portuguese league system reorganization) for the 2022–23 season.

In the Taça de Portugal, Mortágua notably reached the third round in both 2014–15 and 2016–17.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mortágua F.C.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.