CD Tondela
Tier 2Liga Portugal 2Tondela, Viseu, PortugalOn the globe
- Founded
- 1933
- Ground
- Estádio João Cardoso5,000 seats · opened 2008
- Full name
- Clube Desportivo de Tondela
- Website
- cdtondela.pt
Who owns CD Tondela
CD Tondela is controlled by Élite Gestión y Administración, which holds 70%.
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.
- 70%controlsÉlite Gestión y AdministraciónSince 17 February 2025, figure as of 16 October 2025Members approved the sale on 17 February 2025. LVL holds 20%. Élite is 47.5% held by Benbirra S.L. (one natural person) and the rest by several Spanish companies and individuals.High confidenceSources: Liga Portugal, Notícias ao Minuto (Lusa)
- 20%minorityLVL Consultores, LdaFigure as of 16 October 2025Chain as disclosed: 100% detida por pessoas singulares.High confidenceSource: Liga Portugal
- 10%minority
The club’s members’ association is Clube Desportivo de Tondela.
Changes of control
- 17 February 2025
Élite Gestión y Administración took control (70%).
Members approved the sale on 17 February 2025.
Medium confidenceSources: Liga Portugal, Notícias ao Minuto (Lusa)
- 27 May 2013
Converted the club into a company.
CD Tondela - Futebol, SAD (NIPC 510698620), the company that fields CD Tondela's first team in 2026-27, was incorporated on this date according to the registry data republished by racius; its founding club is Clube Desportivo de Tondela. Its legal form may have changed since (several clubs' companies were created as SDUQs in 2013 and later became SADs).
Medium confidenceSource: Racius
Tondela’s finances
From its published accounts and league records. Figures compare only with clubs at the tier it played that season.
- Equity
- −€4.08m
- accounts, 2024-25
- Public money
- €141k
- paid, 2025, 13 records
The accounts
CD Tondela – Futebol SAD, the entity that fields the team · 2020-21 to 2024-25
| Line | 2024-25Tier 2 | 2023-24Tier 2 · audited | 2022-23Tier 2 · audited | 2021-22Tier 1 · audited | 2020-21Tier 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profit and loss | |||||
| Revenue | — | €1.63m | €1.31m | €5.42m | €4.93m |
| Subsidies | €304k1 | €225k | €7,274 | €251k | — |
| Other revenue | — | €261k | €584k | €76.2k | €139k |
| Staff costs | — | €2.56m | €2.47m | €4.13m | €4.38m |
| Other operating costs | — | €808k | €760k | €1.87m | €1.42m |
| Other depreciation | — | €13.2k2 | €66.7k2 | €191k3 | €312k |
| Operating result | — | −€1.58m | −€1.92m | −€847k | −€1.25m |
| Financial result | — | −€35.1k4 | −€10.5k4 | −€43.9k | — |
| Result before tax | — | −€1.62m | −€1.93m | −€891k | −€1.27m |
| Income tax | — | €3,047 | €864 | €2,221 | — |
| Net result | −€2.06m | −€1.62m | −€1.93m | −€893k | −€1.27m |
| Balance sheet | |||||
| Total assets | €1.26m5 | €666k | €1.54m | €1.84m | €2.88m |
| Non-current assets | €139k | €86k | €93.3k | €158k | €470k |
| Property and equipment | €80k | €37.5k | €44.9k | €57.9k | €71.8k |
| Current assets | €1.13m | €580k | €1.44m | €1.69m | €2.41m |
| Cash | €5,882 | €6,056 | €179k | €213k | €1.26m |
| Equity | −€4.08m | −€3.53m | −€1.93m | −€2.47m | −€1.58m6 |
| Share capital | €1.00m | €1.00m | €1.00m | €1.00m | €1.00m |
| Liabilities | €5.35m | €4.20m | €3.47m | €4.32m | €4.46m7 |
| Non-current liabilities | €413k | €511k | €473k | €17.2k | €400k |
| Current liabilities | €4.94m | €3.68m | €3.00m | €4.30m | €4.06m |
| Provisions | €413k | €511k | €319k | €17.2k | — |
| Financial debt | €2.18m8 | €1.37m8 | €346k9 | €372k8 | €880k10 |
| Tax and social security debt | €237k | €231k | €279k | €837k | €758k |
| Cash flow | |||||
| Cash from operations | — | −€1.30m11 | −€2.73m11 | −€2.00m11 | — |
| Cash from investing | — | €225k12 | €43.9k | €214k | — |
| Cash from financing | — | €901k | €2.63m | €752k13 | — |
| Net change in cash | — | −€173k | −€52.4k | −€1.03m14 | — |
| Money from owners | |||||
| Capital increase | €1.50m15 | — | €1.00m16 | €205k17 | — |
| Owner contributions | €1.50m18 | — | — | — | — |
Notes on 18 figures, in the accounts’ own words
- Subsidies: Subsídios à exploração (the cash-flow statement shows the same amount received)
- Other depreciation: Gastos de depreciação e de amortização (notes 4 and 5)
- Other depreciation: Gastos de depreciação e de amortização, total (players' registrations held: intangible assets €93,168.88)
- Financial result: Juros e gastos similares suportados
- Total assets: Non-current plus current assets (the total's box is misread)
- Equity: Box illegible; capital, legal reserve, retained earnings and the year's result
- Liabilities: Sum of the legible liability lines
- Financial debt: Financiamentos obtidos, current
- Financial debt: Financiamentos obtidos: €154,807.40 non-current and €191,317.60 current
- Financial debt: Financiamentos obtidos: €400,000 non-current and €480,361.43 current
- Cash from operations: Subtotal illegible; its legible components, which with the other flows reconcile with the change in cash
- Cash from investing: Investment subsidies and interest received
- Cash from financing: Subtotal illegible; its legible components
- Net change in cash: Cash €1,262,583.64 at the start, €231,202.01 at the end
- Capital increase: Realizações de capital e de outros instrumentos de capital próprio (cash-flow statement)
- Capital increase: Realizações de capital (cash-flow statement); shareholders also covered losses with €1,517,084.74 (cobertura de prejuízos)
- Capital increase: Realizações de capital (cash-flow statement)
- Owner contributions: Outros instrumentos de capital próprio
2024-25: Source: CD Tondela – Futebol SAD2023-24: Source: CD Tondela – Futebol SAD2022-23: Source: CD Tondela – Futebol SAD2021-22: Source: CD Tondela – Futebol SAD2020-21: Source: CD Tondela – Futebol SAD
League figures, wage bills, budgets and public money 37 records
| Public money, season or year | Total | Records |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €141kpaid | 13 |
| 2024 | €343kpaid | 12 |
| 2023 | €214kpaid | 10 |
| 2022 | €204kpaid | 1 |
| 2021 | €121kpaid | 1 |
- 2025€67kpaid from MUNICÍPIO DE TONDELA: PROTOCOLO DE APOIO “ATIVIDADE DESPORTIVA FEDERADA PARA A ÉPOCA 2025/2026 - FUTEBOL. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2025€33.3kpaid from MUNICÍPIO DE TONDELA: PROTOCOLO DE APOIO “DESPORTO FEDERADO - FUTEBOL. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2025€11.5kpaid from MUNICÍPIO DE TONDELA: PROTOCOLO DE APOIO “DESPORTO FEDERADO - BASQUETEBOL”. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2025€9,000paid from MUNICÍPIO DE TONDELA: PROTOCOLO DE APOIO “DESP. FEDERADO - MODALIDADE HIPISMO”. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2025€8,000paid from MUNICÍPIO DE TONDELA: PROTOCOLO DE APOIO “DESP. FEDERADO – BASQUETEBOL”. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2025€5,500paid from MUNICÍPIO DE TONDELA: PROTOCOLO DE APOIO “DESP. FEDERADO – ANDEBOL”. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2025€2,450paid from MUNICÍPIO DE TONDELA: PROTOCOLO DE APOIO MARCHAS SANTO ANTÓNIO 2025”. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2025€1,375paid from MUNICÍPIO DE TONDELA: PROTOCOLO DE APOIO “DESPORTO FEDERADO - TÉNIS”. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
Where Tondela has played
Season by season
- 2026-272Liga Portugal 2
- 2025-261Primeira Liga, relegated
- 2024-252Liga Portugal 2, champions
- 2023-242Liga Portugal 2
- 2022-232Liga Portugal 2
- 2021-221Primeira Liga, relegated
- 2020-211Primeira Liga
- 2019-201Primeira Liga
- 2018-191Primeira Liga
- 2017-181Primeira Liga
- 2016-171Primeira Liga
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 accountsCD Tondela – Futebol SAD (CD Tondela'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-tondela-2025-elite (control, 70%, 2025-02-17).
Sources12
- Cd Tondela - Futebol, 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.
- Liga Portugal team record: CD Tondela – Futebol SAD Liga Portugal, League. Checked 4 October 2026.
- FPF confirma mudanças nas SAD de Moreirense, Tondela e Alverca para 25/26 Notícias ao Minuto (Lusa), Local news, 4 November 2025. 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.
- 2026–27 Liga Portugal 2 Wikipedia (en), Wikipedia / Wikidata. Checked 3 October 2026.
- C.D. Tondela 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 (Q1023227).
