CF Estrela da Amadora
Tier 1Primeira LigaAmadora, Lisboa, PortugalOn the globe
- Founded
- 1932
- Ground
- Estádio José Gomes9,288 seats · opened 1957
- Full name
- Club Football Estrela da Amadora
- Website
- cdestrela.pt
Who owns CF Estrela da Amadora
CF Estrela da Amadora is controlled by ADvantage, LEAD and KI Group consortium, which holds 90%.
Investor in control, the club keeps a stakeOwner based abroad: Germany
From the pitch to the top
The company that fields the team, then each holder above it.
- 90%controlsADvantage, LEAD and KI Group consortiumSince 25 August 2026, figure as of 25 August 2026Strategic investors in the consortium include Thomas Müller, Mats Hummels, Yann Sommer and Lucas Hernández (club statement); individual stakes are not disclosed.High confidenceSources: PortuGOAL, CF Estrela da Amadora
- 10%minority
The club’s members’ association is CFEA – Club Football Estrela.
Changes of control
- 25 August 2026
ADvantage, LEAD and KI Group consortium took control (90%).
Price reported as €40m (Reported price for the 90%; not disclosed by the parties.).
The club announced the completion; the sellers are not named (Adventure Domain held 78% and Fundo Kick-Off 12% in October 2025). Johannes Mösmang succeeded Paulo Lopo as president of the SAD.
- Paid for the shares (90%)€40.0mreported
High confidenceSources: Liga Portugal, PortuGOAL, CF Estrela da Amadora
- 2025
Fundo Kick-Off bought a minority stake (12%) from Adventure Domain, Lda.
Adventure Domain held 90% in Liga Portugal's edition of 5 May 2025 and 78% from the edition of 15 Jul 2025, when Fundo Kick-Off (74% Adventure Domain) appears with 12%.
High confidenceSources: Liga Portugal, Liga Portugal
- 22 June 2020
Converted the club into a company.
CFEA - Club Football Estrela, SAD (NIPC 516039610), the company that fields CF Estrela da Amadora's first team in 2026-27, was incorporated on this date according to the registry data republished by racius; its founding club is CFEA – Club Football Estrela. Its legal form may have changed since (several clubs' companies were created as SDUQs in 2013 and later became SADs).
Medium confidenceSource: Racius
Estrela da Amadora’s finances
From its published accounts and league records. Figures compare only with clubs at the tier it played that season.
Against its tier
Estrela da Amadora's revenue of €14.9m is the 7th highest of the 17 Primeira Liga clubs with published accounts
In 2024-25 it spent €0.48 on staff for every €1 of revenue; the typical Primeira Liga club spent €0.94.
- Estrela da Amadora
- Other Primeira Liga clubs
- Equity
- −€2.61m
- accounts, 2024-25
- Public money
- €16.4k
- paid, 2025, 1 records
The accounts
CFEA - Club Football Estrela, SAD, the entity that fields the team · 2020-21 to 2024-25
| Line | 2024-25Tier 1 · audited | 2023-24Tier 1 | 2022-23Tier 2 · abridged accounts | 2021-22Tier 2 · abridged accounts | 2020-21Tier 3 · abridged accounts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profit and loss | |||||
| Revenue | €14.9m1 | €8.87m | €1.08m | €976k | €292k |
| Subsidies | €1,590 | €210 | — | €138k | — |
| Other revenue | €85.5k | €40.6k | €810k | €476k | — |
| Staff costs | €7.14m2 | €4.82m | €2.85m | €1.17m | €222k |
| Other operating costs | €7.46m | €3.88m | €1.91m | €730k | €399k |
| Other depreciation | €20.4k3 | €19.9k4 | €22.9k | €23.1k | — |
| Operating result | €23.8k | €9,026 | — | — | — |
| Financial result | −€5,0155 | −€5,3625 | — | — | — |
| Result before tax | €18.8k | €3,664 | — | — | — |
| Income tax | €12k | €11.3k | €6,943 | — | — |
| Net result | €6,794 | −€7,626 | −€2.91m | −€450k | — |
| Balance sheet | |||||
| Total assets | €18.8m | €8.23m | €3.78m6 | €561k | €232k |
| Non-current assets | €5.03m | €96.5k | €119k7 | — | — |
| Player registrations (book value) | €2.37m8 | — | — | — | — |
| Property and equipment | €2.66m | €81.5k | €102k | €122k | €107k |
| Current assets | €13.8m | €8.14m9 | €3.66m10 | — | — |
| Cash | €526k | €9,201 | €7,356 | €5,976 | €25.8k |
| Equity | −€2.61m | −€2.62m | −€2.68m | −€528k11 | — |
| Share capital | €1.00m | €1.00m | €1.00m | €250k | €250k |
| Liabilities | €21.4m | €10.9m | €6.46m12 | €1.09m13 | €310k |
| Non-current liabilities | €55k | €55k | €014 | — | — |
| Current liabilities | €21.3m | €10.8m | €6.46m15 | — | — |
| Provisions | €43.7k | €43.7k | — | — | — |
| Financial debt | €8.86m16 | €7.33m17 | — | — | — |
| Tax and social security debt | €1.27m18 | €1.65m | €754k | €186k | — |
| Shareholder loans | €8.86m19 | — | — | — | — |
| Money from owners | |||||
| Capital increase | — | — | €750k20 | — | — |
| Transfers and people | |||||
| Employees | — | — | 2421 | — | — |
Notes on 21 figures, in the accounts’ own words
- Revenue: Vendas e serviços prestados (labelled 'vendas de mercadorias' in the notes; no breakdown)
- Staff costs: Face statement and management report; the notes' components add to €7,196,424.36
- Other depreciation: Gastos de depreciação e de amortização, total: not split between the plantel and other assets
- Other depreciation: Gastos de depreciação e de amortização, total
- Financial result: Juros e gastos similares suportados
- Total assets: Total do Ativo, read from the page image
- Non-current assets: Ativo não corrente subtotal, read from the page image
- Player registrations (book value): Ativos intangíveis, where the plantel is recognised (audit certificate)
- Current assets: The management report gives this figure as 2024's total assets
- Current assets: Ativo corrente subtotal, read from the page image
- Equity: Capital €250,000, retained earnings −€337,519.75, other changes €10,000 and the year's result (box illegible)
- Liabilities: Total do passivo, read from the page image
- Liabilities: Sum of the legible liability lines (box illegible)
- Non-current liabilities: Passivo não corrente: nil
- Current liabilities: Passivo corrente subtotal, read from the page image: every liability is current
- Financial debt: Financiamentos obtidos, all current: 'outros empréstimos' (note 15)
- Financial debt: Financiamentos obtidos, all current: 'outros empréstimos'
- Tax and social security debt: Estado e outros entes públicos; the audit certificate gives €1,065,132 owed to the tax authority and €209,340 to social security, under instalment agreements
- Shareholder loans: The same balance: four shareholder-loan (suprimentos) contracts signed in the year with shareholders and related parties (note 15)
- Capital increase: Share capital raised from €250,000 to €1,000,000 in June 2023 (management report and balance sheet)
- Employees: staff at 30 June 2023
2024-25: Source: CFEA - Club Football Estrela, SAD2023-24: Source: CFEA - Club Football Estrela, SAD2022-23: Source: CFEA - Club Football Estrela, SAD2021-22: Source: CFEA - Club Football Estrela, SAD2020-21: Source: CFEA - Club Football Estrela, SAD
League figures, wage bills, budgets and public money 11 records
| Public money, season or year | Total | Records |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €16.4kpaid | 1 |
| 2024 | €13.8kpaid | 2 |
| 2023 | €12kpaid | 2 |
| 2022 | €43.6kpaid | 4 |
| 2021 | €113kpaid | 2 |
- 2025€16.4kpaid from MUNICÍPIO DA AMADORA: Valor total: 16.406,23€ - PAMA 2025.. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2024€12.3kpaid from MUNICÍPIO DA AMADORA: PAMA 2024. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2024€1,500paid from FREGUESIA DE ENCOSTA DO SOL: Apoio a diveras atividades Desportivas. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2023€9,317paid from INSTITUTO DO EMPREGO E FORMAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL, I.P.: Estágios com a duração de 9 meses, não prorrogáveis, tendo em vista promover a inserção de jovens no mercado de trabalho ou a reconversão profissional de desempregados. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2023€2,659paid from INSTITUTO DO EMPREGO E FORMAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL, I.P.: Apoio financeiro aos empregadores que celebrem contratos de trabalho sem termo ou a termo certo, por prazo igual ou superior a 12 meses, com desempregados inscritos no IEFP, com a obrigação de proporcionarem formação profissional aos trabalhadores contratados.. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2022€20.3kpaid from INSTITUTO DO EMPREGO E FORMAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL, I.P.: Estágios com a duração de 9 meses, não prorrogáveis, tendo em vista promover a inserção de jovens no mercado de trabalho ou a reconversão profissional de desempregados. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2022€10.6kpaid from MUNICÍPIO DA AMADORA: Valor total: 10.590,48 € - PAMA 2022.. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2022€7,978paid from INSTITUTO DO EMPREGO E FORMAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL, I.P.: Apoio financeiro aos empregadores que celebrem contratos de trabalho sem termo ou a termo certo, por prazo igual ou superior a 12 meses, com desempregados inscritos no IEFP, com a obrigação de proporcionarem formação profissional aos trabalhadores contratados.. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
Where Estrela da Amadora has played
Season by season
- 2026-271Primeira Liga
- 2025-261Primeira Liga
- 2024-251Primeira Liga
- 2023-241Primeira Liga
- 2022-232Liga Portugal 2, promoted
- 2021-222Liga Portugal 2
- 2020-213Campeonato de Portugal, Série G, promoted
Not yet established
What we looked for and could not find in public sources. If you know, send a correction with a source.
- The club's accountsCFEA - Club Football Estrela, SAD (CF Estrela da Amadora's company) posted no annual report that could be found for 2025-26 (tier 1). Lei 39/2023 requires the last three years on the company's site; the filed accounts can be bought from the registry (BDCA certificate), which this batch does not do.
- The terms of a dealNo free source gives a price, capital commitment or other money term for pt-estrela-da-amadora-2025-fundo-kick-off (minority, 12%, 2025).
Sources14
- Comunicado oficial (aquisição de 90% do capital social da SAD) CF Estrela da Amadora, Club, 25 August 2026. Checked 4 October 2026.
- Cfea - Club Football Estrela, SAD – Racius Racius, Database. Checked 4 October 2026.
- Centro de Resultados – Liga Portugal Betclic 2026-2027 Federação Portuguesa de Futebol, Federation. Checked 3 October 2026.
- Transparência – Informação comunicada 2025-26 (participações qualificadas no capital social das sociedades desportivas), data 16/10/2025 Liga Portugal, League, 16 October 2025. Checked 3 October 2026.
- Transparência – Informação comunicada 2025-26, data 15/07/2025 Liga Portugal, League, 15 July 2025. Checked 4 October 2026.
- Liga Portugal team record: CFEA - Club Football Estrela, SAD Liga Portugal, League. Checked 4 October 2026.
- Transparência – Informação comunicada, data 05/05/2025 (2024-25 Liga Portugal sports companies) Liga Portugal, League, 5 May 2025. Checked 4 October 2026.
- Thomas Müller and Mats Hummels invest in German-led takeover of Estrela da Amadora PortuGOAL, News, 25 August 2026. Checked 4 October 2026.
- Wikidata Wikidata, Wikipedia / Wikidata. Checked 3 October 2026.
- Wikidata Wikidata, Wikipedia / Wikidata. Checked 3 October 2026.
- Wikidata Wikidata, Wikipedia / Wikidata. Checked 3 October 2026.
- 2026–27 Primeira Liga Wikipedia (en), Wikipedia / Wikidata. Checked 3 October 2026.
- C.F. Estrela da Amadora Wikipedia (en), Wikipedia / Wikidata. Checked 3 October 2026.
- Lista de clubes de futebol de Portugal Wikipedia (pt), Wikipedia / Wikidata. Checked 3 October 2026.
Also on Wikidata (Q838134).