FC Penafiel
Tier 2Liga Portugal 2Penafiel, Porto, PortugalOn the globe
- Founded
- 1951
- Ground
- Estádio Municipal 25 de Abril5,230 seats · opened 1934
- Full name
- Futebol Clube de Penafiel
- Website
- fcpenafiel.pt
Who owns FC Penafiel
FC Penafiel is controlled by Juan Carlos Escotet, through Iberian Football Venture, SGPS, S.A (90%).
Owned by a multi-club groupOwner based abroad: Spain
From the pitch to the top
The company that fields the team, then each holder above it.
- 90%controlsIberian Football Venture, SGPS, S.A.Since July 2025, figure as of 16 October 2025Bought from Gradual Score (previous 90% holder); operation disclosed on 1 July 2025.High confidenceSources: RTP (Lusa), Soccerway (Lusa), Liga Portugal
- 100%controlsJuan Carlos EscotetFigure as of 16 October 2025Through Escotet Family Office, S.L.FPF: IFV is 100% held by Escotet Family Office, S.L., itself 100% held by one natural person; Lusa: IFV is 'participada pelo dono do Deportivo da Corunha, Juan Carlos Escotet'.Medium confidenceSources: Liga Portugal, RTP (Lusa)
- 10%minority
The club’s members’ association is Futebol Clube Penafiel.
Changes of control
- August 2025
Iberian Football Venture, SGPS, S.A. took control (90%) from Gradual Score, S.A..
Gradual Score's 90% passed to Iberian Football Venture (Escotet Family Office) between Liga Portugal's editions of 15 Jul and 19 Aug 2025.
- Paid for the shares (90%)€12.0mreported
High confidenceSources: RTP (Lusa), Liga Portugal, Liga Portugal
- 14 June 2013
Converted the club into a company.
Futebol Clube de Penafiel, SAD (NIPC 510681778), the company that fields FC Penafiel's first team in 2026-27, was incorporated on this date according to the registry data republished by racius; its founding club is Futebol Clube Penafiel. Its legal form may have changed since (several clubs' companies were created as SDUQs in 2013 and later became SADs).
Medium confidenceSource: Racius
Penafiel’s finances
From its published accounts and league records. Figures compare only with clubs at the tier it played that season.
Against its tier
Penafiel's revenue of €572k is the 14th highest of the 14 Liga Portugal 2 clubs with published accounts
In 2024-25 it spent €3.45 on staff for every €1 of revenue; the typical Liga Portugal 2 club spent €3.45.
- Penafiel
- Other Liga Portugal 2 clubs
- Equity
- €441k
- accounts, 2024-25
- Public money
- €165k
- paid, 2025, 3 records
The accounts
Futebol Clube de Penafiel, SAD, the entity that fields the team · 2021-22 to 2024-25
| Line | 2024-25Tier 2 · audited | 2023-24Tier 2 | 2022-23Tier 2 · audited | 2021-22Tier 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profit and loss | ||||
| Revenue | €572k | €621k | €600k | €694k |
| UEFA money | — | €219k1 | €216k2 | — |
| Subsidies | €652k3 | €222k | €216k | €170k |
| Other revenue | €401k | €389k4 | €373k5 | €508k |
| Staff costs | €1.97m | €1.80m | €2.17m | €2.11m |
| Other operating costs | €764k | €747k | €755k | €800k |
| Other depreciation | €22.1k6 | €18.9k6 | €15k7 | €19.7k |
| Operating result | −€1.17m8 | −€1.35m | −€1.76m | −€1.57m |
| Financial result | €0 | €0 | −€2119 | −€5299 |
| Result before tax | −€1.17m | −€1.35m | −€1.76m | −€1.57m |
| Income tax | €6,46810 | €6,905 | €8,431 | €14.6k |
| Net result | −€1.18m | −€1.36m | −€1.77m | −€1.59m |
| Balance sheet | ||||
| Total assets | €616k | €579k | €576k | €528k |
| Non-current assets | €337k | €339k11 | €349k12 | €331k |
| Property and equipment | €77.9k | €73.3k | €87.6k | €65.5k |
| Current assets | €278k | €239k | €227k | €196k |
| Cash | €89.5k | €15.7k | €49.4k | €70.2k |
| Equity | €441k | €455k | €420k | €338k |
| Share capital | €1.00m | €1.00m | €1.00m | €1.00m |
| Liabilities | €174k13 | €124k14 | €155k14 | €189k |
| Current liabilities | €174k | €124k | €155k | €189k |
| Financial debt | €80815 | €49115 | €1,03915 | €20.8k |
| Tax and social security debt | €135k | €110k | €127k | €137k |
| Cash flow | ||||
| Cash from operations | — | −€1.41m16 | −€1.82m16 | — |
| Cash from investing | — | −€14.7k | −€37.5k | — |
| Cash from financing | — | €1.39m17 | €1.83m18 | — |
| Net change in cash | — | −€33.7k19 | −€20.9k20 | — |
| Money from owners | ||||
| Capital increase | €1.11m21 | €1.40m22 | €1.85m22 | €1.75m22 |
| Owner contributions | €7.00m23 | €5.84m23 | €4.45m23 | €2.60m |
Notes on 23 figures, in the accounts’ own words
- UEFA money: UEFA solidarity payment, booked in subsídios à exploração (note 23)
- UEFA money: UEFA solidarity payment, booked in subsídios à exploração (the 2023/24 report's note 23)
- Subsidies: Subsídios à exploração: 'na sua globalidade' UEFA support (an exceptional UEFA subsidy, management report), with a small Liga Portugal investment grant (note 23)
- Other revenue: Mostly betting-revenue shares (Placard and online) and Taça de Portugal and Taça da Liga participation prizes (note 24)
- Other revenue: Mostly betting-revenue shares and cup participation prizes
- Other depreciation: Gastos de depreciação e de amortização (notes 8.1 and 8.8)
- Other depreciation: Gastos de depreciação e de amortização (note 8.1)
- Operating result: The result before depreciation (−€1,151,151.43) less depreciation; the OCR misreads the last digit
- Financial result: Juros e gastos similares suportados
- Income tax: Pre-tax result less net result; the face figure is illegible in the scan
- Non-current assets: Incl. créditos a receber of €253,729.10
- Non-current assets: Incl. créditos a receber of €258,889.10
- Liabilities: All current; total assets less equity (the box is barely legible: '…364,59')
- Liabilities: All current
- Financial debt: Financiamentos obtidos, current
- Cash from operations: Subtotal illegible in the scan; the legible lines add to it, and the three flows reconcile with the change in cash
- Cash from financing: Capital received €1,395,000 less loans repaid
- Cash from financing: Capital received €1,850,000 less loans repaid and interest
- Net change in cash: Cash €49,377.76 at the start, €15,658.30 at the end
- Net change in cash: Cash €70,249.60 at the start, €49,377.76 at the end
- Capital increase: Realizações de capital e outros instrumentos de capital próprio (cash-flow statement); other equity instruments rose by €1,155,000
- Capital increase: Realizações de capital e outros instrumentos de capital próprio (cash-flow statement)
- Owner contributions: Outros instrumentos de capital próprio
2024-25: Source: Futebol Clube de Penafiel, SAD (fcpenafiel.pt, SAD – Relatórios e Contas)2023-24: Source: Futebol Clube de Penafiel, SAD (fcpenafiel.pt, SAD – Relatórios e Contas)2022-23: Source: Futebol Clube de Penafiel, SAD (fcpenafiel.pt, SAD – Relatórios e Contas)2021-22: Source: Futebol Clube de Penafiel, SAD (fcpenafiel.pt, SAD – Relatórios e Contas)
League figures, wage bills, budgets and public money 8 records
| Public money, season or year | Total | Records |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €165kpaid | 3 |
| 2024 | €146kpaid | 2 |
| 2023 | €153kpaid | 1 |
| 2021 | €159kpaid | 2 |
- 2025€102kpaid from MUNICÍPIO DE PENAFIEL: ENCARGOS COM CONTRATO PROGRAMA DE DESENVOLVIMENTO DESPORTIVO 2024/2025 ENTRE O MUNICIPIO DE PENAFIEL E O CBP 2012 - CLUBE DE BASQUETEBOL DE PENAFIEL (ENCARGOS DE 2024). Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2025€61.4kpaid from MUNICÍPIO DE PENAFIEL: Contrato Programa de Desenvolvimento Desportivo a celebrar entre o Município de Penafiel e o Futebol Clube de Penafiel, para a época desportiva 2025/2026. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2025€1,500paid from MUNICÍPIO DE PENAFIEL: Atribuição de um apoio financeiro ao Futebol Clube de Penafiel - Secção de Atletismo, no montante de € 1.500,00, destinado à comparticipação das despesas com a participação de dois atletas no Campeonato do Mundo de Corrida de Montanha a realizar de 25 a 28 de setembro, em Canfrac (Espanha) e de um atleta no Campeonato da Europa, a realizar de 10 a 20 de outubro, no Funchal.. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2024€95.5kpaid from MUNICÍPIO DE PENAFIEL: ENCARGOS COM CONTRATO PROGRAMA DE DESENVOLVIMENTO DESPORTIVO COM O FUTEBOL CLUBE DE PENAFIEL - ANO 2023/2024 - REUNIÃO DE 16 DE OUTUBRO DE 2023 - JANEIRO 2024. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2024€50.9kpaid from MUNICÍPIO DE PENAFIEL: Minuta de Contrato Programa de Desenvolvimento Desportivo a celebrar entre o Município de Penafiel e o Futebol Clube de Penafiel, para o ano desportivo 2024/2025, no montante de € 152.500,00.. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2023€153kpaid from MUNICÍPIO DE PENAFIEL: Minuta de Contrato Programa de Desenvolvimento Desportivo a celebrar entre o Município de Penafiel e o Futebol Clube de Penafiel, para a época desportiva 2023/2024, no montante de € 152.500,00.. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2021€140kpaid from MUNICÍPIO DE PENAFIEL: Contrato Programa de Desenvolvimento Desportivo a celebrar entre o Município de Penafiel e o Futebol Club de Penafiel, para a época desportiva 2021/2022, no montante de € 140.000,00.. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2021€18.6kpaid from Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, I.P.: Atribuição de um apoio ao empregador na fase de regresso dos seus trabalhadores à prestação normal de trabalho e de normalização da atividade empresarial, a conceder pelo IEFP, IP, através de duas modalidades de apoio: 1) Apoio no valor de uma retribuição mínima mensal garantida (RMMG) por trabalhador abrangido pelo apoio extraordinário à manutenção de contrato de trabalho ou pelo plano extraordin. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
Where Penafiel has played
Season by season
- 2026-272Liga Portugal 2
- 2025-262Liga Portugal 2
- 2024-252Liga Portugal 2
- 2023-242Liga Portugal 2
- 2022-232Liga Portugal 2
- 2021-222Liga Portugal 2
- 2020-212Liga Portugal 2
- 2019-202Liga Portugal 2
- 2018-192Liga Portugal 2
- 2017-182Liga Portugal 2
- 2016-172Liga Portugal 2
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 accountsFutebol Clube de Penafiel, SAD (FC Penafiel's company) posted no annual report that could be found for 2025-26 (tier 2). 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.
Sources16
- Futebol Clube de Penafiel, SAD – Racius Racius, Database. Checked 4 October 2026.
- Centro de Resultados – Liga Portugal Meu Super 2026-2027 Federação Portuguesa de Futebol, Federation. Checked 3 October 2026.
- Centro de Resultados – Liga Portugal Meu Super: jornada 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: Futebol Clube de Penafiel, SAD Liga Portugal, League. Checked 4 October 2026.
- Transparência – Informação comunicada 2025-26, data 19/08/2025 Liga Portugal, League, 19 August 2025. Checked 4 October 2026.
- FPF confirma mudanças nas SAD de Moreirense, Tondela e Alverca para 2025/26 RTP (Lusa), News, 4 November 2025. Checked 3 October 2026.
- Investimento estrangeiro contempla 19 equipas das ligas profissionais de futebol Soccerway (Lusa), News. Checked 3 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.
- Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña Wikipedia, Wikipedia / Wikidata. Checked 3 October 2026.
- 2026–27 Liga Portugal 2 Wikipedia (en), Wikipedia / Wikidata. Checked 3 October 2026.
- F.C. Penafiel 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 (Q1387471).
