União da Bola F.C.
association football club in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
União da Bola Futebol Clube, commonly known as União or União da Bola, is a Portuguese football club based in Funchal, Madeira. The club competes in the 6th tier Madeira 1st Division and plays its home games at the Campo do Adelino Rodrigues.
The club was founded in 2022 as a phoenix club of the former C.F. União, which folded in 2021 and were notable for their six appearances in the Portuguese top-flight Primeira Liga, most recently in the 2015–16 season. The new club was formed with the aim of "honouring the legacy" of the demised club.
History
The club was formed in August 2022, as a phoenix club following the demise of the former C.F. União, which was forcibly dissolved and officially closed on 23 November 2021. Uniao da Bola was founded by a committee in the form of Rómulo Soares Coelho, Hugo Valdemar Fernandes, Ruben Andrade, Tânia Abreu, Nuno Barros Sousa, André Gonçalves and Nuno Açafrão with the intention of fielding a senior team in the 1st Division of the Madeira Regional Championship, the sixth-tier level within the Portuguese football league system. On 8 September 2022, the club was officially registered with the Madeira Football Association, as club number 6103, and registered to the Regional Championship.
The club played its first competitive game on 12 November 2022, a 0–1 defeat away to Choupana FC, whilst one week later, on 19 November, União da Bola secured a historic first victory with a 1–0 win against C.F. Carvalheiro at Campo do Adelino Rodrigues; Rodrigo Gama scored the only goal of the game and the first goal in the history of the new club. In the 2022/2023 sports season, the club ended up in the seventh position among the 8 teams that were competing in the same one. That same result lead to the sacking of the technical staff chiefed by main coach Nuno Gomes.
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