Alverca

Reasons To Adopt

Here is the argument for Alverca: Portugal, Portugal Liga NOS, and a ground called Complexo Desportivo FC Alverca, Alverca do Ribatejo. A second team should give you something your first one cannot, and this is a different country's whole weather system.

• You get a nickname

  Known as | founded =. That is your new shorthand, your search term and your excuse for buying a scarf.

• Easy weekend

  Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS) is about 15km from the ground, and Alverca train station is 0km closer still. A home fixture is a genuinely doable two-night trip.

• The calendar you inherit

  Following Portugal Liga NOS means odd kick-off hours, a new commentary language and a table you will check before your own club's. Portugal becomes part of your week.

• Old enough to matter

  1939 is the founding date, old enough that the club has survived a war, a rebuild and at least one financial scare, young enough that the good years are still in living memory.