CD Trofense
Tier 3Liga 3, Série ATrofa, Porto, PortugalOn the globe
- Founded
- 1930
- Ground
- Estádio do Clube Desportivo Trofense5,017 seats · opened 1950
- Full name
- Clube Desportivo Trofense
- Website
- cdtrofense.pt
Who owns CD Trofense
CD Trofense is controlled by TSC – Trof Sports Center, which holds 80%.
Investor in control, the club keeps a stakeOwner based at home: Portugal
From the pitch to the top
The company that fields the team, then each holder above it.
- 80%controlsTSC – Trof Sports CenterFigure as of 30 September 2026Members approved the sale of 80% to TSC on 27 Oct 2025; the club president's letter of September 2026 confirms the club keeps 20% after selling 80% to an investor, and names Anderson Fellipe Gonçalves (behind Brights Height, part of TSC) as the SAD's president and main investor.Medium confidenceSources: O Notícias da Trofa, O Notícias da Trofa
- 20%minorityClube Desportivo TrofenseFigure as of 30 September 2026100% in the FPF's 2024/25 disclosure, before the sale of 80%.Medium confidenceSources: Federação Portuguesa de Futebol, O Notícias da Trofa
The club’s members’ association is Clube Desportivo Trofense.
Changes of control
- 27 October 2025
TSC – Trof Sports Center took control (80%) from Clube Desportivo Trofense.
Price reported as €3.1m (Proposal approved by the members: €1.8m for the shares and €1.325m for land used by the club, mostly applied to the SAD's revitalisation-plan (PER) debts; the buyer also funds €120,000 a month of operations.).
Approved by the members on 27 Oct 2025 (60 for, 19 against, 13 abstentions). Completion date not reported; by September 2026 the club held 20% and a new SAD board had taken office on 3 September.
- Paid for the shares (80%)€3.13mreported
- Investment promised€120kreported
Medium confidenceSources: O Notícias da Trofa, O Notícias da Trofa
- August 2025
S&A Sports Group took control (80%) from Clube Desportivo Trofense, collapsed.
Members approved the sale of 80% of the SAD to S&A Sports Group in August 2025; the deal fell through and the club announced the termination of the contract.
Medium confidenceSource: O Notícias da Trofa
- 24 May 2013
Converted the club into a company.
Clube Desportivo Trofense, Futebol, SAD (NIPC 510687628), the company that fields CD Trofense'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 Trofense. Its legal form may have changed since (several clubs' companies were created as SDUQs in 2013 and later became SADs).
Medium confidenceSource: Racius
Trofense’s finances
From its published accounts and league records. Figures compare only with clubs at the tier it played that season.
- Public money
- €43.3k
- paid, 2025, 1 records
FPF disciplinary council deducted 3 points for wage infringements in 2022-23 (decision of 26 July 2023, final in August when no appeal was lodged); Trofense started Liga 3 on 0 points after an opening win.
Source: RecordLeague figures, wage bills, budgets and public money 4 records
| Public money, season or year | Total | Records |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €43.3kpaid | 1 |
| 2022 | €223kpaid | 2 |
| 2021 | €17kpaid | 1 |
- 2025€43.3kpaid from MUNICÍPIO DA TROFA: ATA N.º 04/2025: CONTRATO PROGRAMA DE DESENVOLVIMENTO DESPORTIVO PARA ANO 2025. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2022€117kpaid from MUNICÍPIO DA TROFA: ATA N.º 02/2022 de 27/01/2022-Contrato Programa de desenvolvimento desportivo para substituição do relvado sintético. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2022€106kpaid from MUNICÍPIO DA TROFA: Ata n.º 29/2022 de 17/11/2022-Contrato Programa de Desenvolvimento Desportivo para o ano de 2022destinado à execução de um programa de atividade regulares e outras iniciativas que permitem o desenvolvimento e prática desportiva; ATA N.º 19/2018 de 19/07/2018-Contrato Programa de Desenvolvimento Desportivo para o ano de 2018destinado à execução de um programa de atividade regulares e outras iniciat. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
- 2021€17kpaid from Município da Trofa: Execução de um programa de atividade regulares e outras iniciativas que permitem o desenvolvimento e prática desportiva. Source: Inspeção-Geral de Finanças
Where Trofense has played
Season by season
- 2026-273Liga 3, Série A
- 2025-263Liga 3, Série A
- 2024-253Liga 3, Série A
- 2023-243Liga 3, Série A
- 2022-232Liga Portugal 2, relegated
- 2021-222Liga Portugal 2
- 2020-213Campeonato de Portugal, Série C, promoted
- 2019-203Campeonato de Portugal, Série B
- 2018-193Campeonato de Portugal, Série A
- 2017-183Campeonato de Portugal, Série B
- 2016-173Campeonato de Portugal, Série B
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 accountsClube Desportivo Trofense, Futebol, SAD (CD Trofense's company) posted no annual report that could be found for 2021-22 (tier 2), 2022-23 (tier 2), 2023-24 (tier 3), 2024-25 (tier 3), 2025-26 (tier 3). 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.
- Who controls the clubTSC's 80% is confirmed by the club president's letter of September 2026, but the completion date of the sale approved on 27 October 2025 and TSC's own shareholders' stakes were not found.
Sources11
- Clube Desportivo Trofense, Futebol, SAD – Racius Racius, Database. Checked 4 October 2026.
- Transparência – Informação comunicada 2024/2025 (art. 8.º, n.º 1 do Decreto-Lei n.º 248-B/2008) Federação Portuguesa de Futebol, Federation, November 2025. Checked 4 October 2026.
- Centro de Resultados – Liga 3 Placard 2026-2027 Federação Portuguesa de Futebol, Federation. Checked 3 October 2026.
- Presidente do Trofense esclarece responsabilidades entre Clube e SAD e anuncia assembleia-geral O Notícias da Trofa, Local news, 30 September 2026. Checked 4 October 2026.
- Assembleia extraordinária do Trofense aprova venda da SAD a novo investidor O Notícias da Trofa, Local news, 28 October 2025. 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 Liga 3 (Portugal) Wikipedia (en), Wikipedia / Wikidata. Checked 3 October 2026.
- C.D. Trofense 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 (Q1023233).