The club president, Rui Garrido Pereira, confirmed the closure of Boavista's SAD, lamenting the loss of more than 9 million euros in irrecoverable debt and considering the result confirmation of a "total bankruptcy of professional football." The liquidation had already been decreed in May, after the insolvency administrator decided not to submit a previous plan for voting because he considered its rejection likely, and a new proposal presented by the SAD also failed.
The SAD's liquidation process dates back to September 2025, when it was approved with debt exceeding 150 million euros. Three months later, an agreement with creditors allowed activity to continue, with the SAD committing to cover the current deficit, a commitment that was broken in June, leading the judicial administrator to decree the closure and affecting approximately 1,500 athletes across 31 sports. The relegation to Liga 2 in May 2025 had ended 11 consecutive seasons in the top tier, where Boavista were national champions in 2000/01.
In parallel, a separate process is underway concerning Boavista as a club, not the SAD: the court approved about a month ago the request to resume activity, with support from the "Save Boavista" movement in fundraising, reversing a closure decision communicated in July by judicial administrator Maria Clarisse Barros. The club, founded in 1903 and with nine national titles in senior men's football, was authorized to restart provided it regularly covers current expenses until the end of 2026/27, having submitted a recovery plan to court and registered with AF Porto for the new season.
Boavista had already given up its spot in the second tier of AF Porto, which passes to Varziela, third-placed in the third tier of the district league. In the previous season, the SAD had finished that tier in 17th place, with 14 points, 28 from the safety zone, playing home matches at Parque Desportivo de Ramalde, approximately 2.5 kilometres from Bessa, a stadium that has been unusable for over a year, and faced four player registration bans imposed by FIFA, restrictions that returned in 2025 and forced the club to field under-19 players.
