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The book about the history of Roller Hockey World Championships will be soon available, at the editor Despertar Memórias.

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Historical "news": Club Ranking 1952

With the scores of the games included in the database for 1952 (comprising portuguese games played already in 1953, but accounting for the season of 1952), in a total of 647 games, a Ranking has been calculated for club teams at the end of the year.

Ranking 1952:

Rank Club Country Points
1 SL Benfica Portugal 2587
2 CD Paco de Arcos Portugal 2498
3 RCD Espanol Spain 2497
4 FC Barcelona Spain 2458
5 DLF Trieste Italy 2433
6 HC Monza Italy 2431
7 HC Sintra Portugal 2430
8 Reus Deportiu Spain 2421
9 RH Knokke Belgium 2416
10 CA Campo de Ourique Portugal 2391
11 Montreux HC Switzerland 2354
12 CH Turo Spain 2350
13 CF Benfica Portugal 2345
14 C Infante de Sagres Portugal 2345
15 Academico FC Portugal 2339
16 SSRC Stuttgart Germany 2283
17 CH Catalunya Spain 2274
18 Tourcoing Fresnoy France 2273
19 Girona CH Spain 2273
20 Herne Bay United RHSC England 2256
21 Marathon Netherlands 2242
22 Cerdanyola CH Spain 2237
23 CH Vidalet Spain 2207
24 AD Sanjoanense Portugal 2187
25 CN Reus Spain 2176
26 Apolo PC Spain 2173
27 GD Cuf Portugal 2165
28 HC Hospitalet Spain 2154
29 AA Amadora Portugal 2148
30 Geieg Spain 2097
31 ASPTT Bordeaux France 2096
32 Parede FC Portugal 2091
33 GD Lisgas Portugal 2069
34 Sporting de Oeiras Portugal 2059
35 Ateneu C Lisboa Portugal 2055
36 CH Carvalhos Portugal 2034
37 Juventus Montreux Switzerland 2029
38 AA Espinho Portugal 1999
39 GD Mundet Portugal 1990
40 Escola Livre Portugal 1981
41 Educacao Fisica do Norte Portugal 1944
42 SC Braga Portugal 1935
43 Estrela e Vigorosa Sport Portugal 1907
44 GDS Cascais Portugal 1905
45 HC Paco de Rei Portugal 1899
46 ED Vilafranca Spain 1899
47 US Paredes Portugal 1845
48 Colegio Militar Portugal 1838
49 CD Povoa Portugal 1805
50 ABC Braga Portugal 1681
51 Turismo HC Taipas Portugal 1624
52 CDUP Portugal 1618
53 OC Barcelos Portugal 1583
54 SC Vianense Portugal 1498
55 Vilafranca Portugal 1450
56 VSC Guimaraes Portugal 1402

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Historical "news": Portugal 1952 updated

The file with the compilation of the Portuguese competitions in 1952 has been updated in Rink-Hockey.net

SL Benfica won the National Championship. Final table was:

1 SL Benfica 27 13 1 0 77 25 52
2 CD Paco de Arcos 22 11 0 3 74 37 37
3 HC Sintra 19 8 3 3 59 35 24
4 Clube Infante de Sagres 15 7 1 6 41 45 -4
5 CA Campo de Ourique 15 7 1 6 43 26 17
6 Academico FC 8 3 2 9 26 46 -20
7 CH Carvalhos 3 1 1 12 14 53 -39
8 AD Sanjoanense 3 1 1 12 19 86 -67

Photo: Team of SL Benfica (from O Comércio do Porto)
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Historical "news" - 5

In 1952 the Honour Cup of North of Portugal (Taça de Honra do Norte) has been won by Académico FC, a team of Porto. Final classification was:

1 Academico FC 15 5 0 0 29 4 25
2 Clube Infante de Sagres 13 4 0 1 18 6 12
3 AD Sanjoanense 11 3 0 2 22 14 8
4 AA Espinho 8 1 1 3 10 17 -7
5 US Paredes 7 1 0 4 4 26 -22
6 Estrela e Vigorosa Sport 6 0 1 4 7 23 -16

This was the first competition in the year 1952 in North of Portugal. After this competiton, the Regional and National have followed the World Championship held in Porto, in that year.

Team of Academico FC (photo from O Comercio do Porto, 10th March 1952)
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Historical "news" - 4

In November 1950, 6 teams decided the Portuguese title: 3 from the South, HC Sintra, CD Paco de Arcos and SL Benfica, and 3 from the North, Infante de Sagres, Académico do Porto and AA Espinho. HC Sintra won for the second consecutive year, with the following table:

1 HC Sintra 26 8 0 2 47 19 28
2 CD Paco de Arcos 23 5 3 2 33 23 10
3 SL Benfica 22 6 0 4 38 30 8
4 C Infante de Sagres 21 4 3 3 31 29 2
5 Academico FC 18 3 2 5 28 40 -12
6 AA Espinho 10 0 0 10 11 47 -36

Team of HC Sintra was composed of Cipriano, Raio, Edgar, Velez, Pires and Pereira.

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Historical "news" - 3

After the spanish civil war, the competitions resumed with new teams. The most important team was Real Club Deportivo Espanyol, from Barcelona, winning the Spanish Championship in 1944, 1947,1948, 1949, 1951, from 1954 to 1957 and 1961 and 1962. During this period, RCD Espanyol won several Regional Championships in Catalunya, the most important competitions in Spain, at that time. Other relevant teams were Reus Deportiu, FC Barcelona, CH Girona, GeieG and Club Natacion Reus.

In 1952, RCD Espanyol got another title in Catalunya. Here the Final Classification:

RCD Espanol 41 20 1 1 85 32 53
Reus Deportiu 32 14 4 4 63 30 33
FC Barcelona 31 15 1 6 81 47 34
CH Turo 21 8 5 9 47 52 -5
CN Reus 20 6 8 8 33 49 -16
CH Catalunya 20 8 4 10 40 53 -13
Hospitalet 19 8 3 10 42 52 -10
Geieg 19 6 7 9 46 57 -11
Vidalet 18 6 6 10 29 46 -17
Cerdanyola CH 17 6 5 11 35 51 -16
CH Girona 16 4 8 9 57 56 1
CP Vilafranca 8 4 0 18 29 70 -41


Table from La Vanguardia

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Historical "news" - 2

The official competitions in Catalunya started with the creation of the Federacion Catalana de Hockey sobre Patines, in 1930.

In that year the Regional Champion was Skating Club de Catalunya, followed by Skating Hockey Club.

In 1931 the 1st category competition had 4 teams, and the final table was:

1 Skating Club de Catalunya 11 5 1 0 25 13 12
2 Maricel SC 6 3 0 3 22 26 -4
3 Union Universitaria 4 2 0 4 29 26 3
4 Skating SC 3 1 1 4 16 31 -15

The team of SC Catalunya was the strongest team in Spain till the spanish civil war. After that, the teams normaly competing disapeared, and other clubes entered the competition, mainly from Barcelona, Girona and Reus.

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Historical "news"

Historical "news"

1956:

In 1956, just after the World Championship held in Porto, at the end of May, beggining of June, an International Tournament has been held in Lisbon: the International "Taça de Lisboa", with the national teams of Portugal, Italy, Germany and Switzerland. The results of the games were:

Portugal pt Switzerland ch 9 1
Germany de Italy it 2 2
Italy it Switzerland ch 4 0
Germany de Portugal pt 4 4
Germany de Switzerland ch 5 1
Italy it Portugal pt 3 5

Final Classification:

1 Portugal 5 2 1 0 18 8 10
2 Germany 4 1 2 0 11 7 4
3 Italy 3 1 1 1 9 7 2
4 Switzerland 0 0 0 3 2 18 -16

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