29 April 1956: the day FC Porto went top again, Antas erupted | OneFootball

On April 29, 1956, FC Porto once again celebrated winning the national championship, ending a 16-year drought without the top title in Portuguese football.

The 1955/56 season ended with the blue and whites as winners of the 22nd edition of the First Division, in what was the club’s fourth national title. The achievement had special significance as it came in the year FC Porto marked half a century of existence.

At the Estádio das Antas, inaugurated only four years earlier, there was a full festive atmosphere. The stands were sold out to welcome the Porto team and closely follow a celebration that had been awaited for a long time. The stadium was filled with enthusiasm to honor the players who returned the club to the top of Portuguese football.

The match, which ended 3-0, was full of nerves, and FC Porto only managed to go ahead through a penalty by Hernâni, already in the second half, even though another blatant one had gone unawarded just minutes earlier.

The 1955/56 title marked a historic moment in FC Porto’s rise on the national stage. After the championships won in 1934/35, 1938/39 and 1939/40, Porto once again finished the competition in first place, reopening a winning cycle in its history.

The triumph of April 29, 1956 therefore remains one of the most symbolic dates in the club’s history: the day the Antas dressed in celebration to mark FC Porto’s return to national champion status.

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