Vitória Sport Clube, commonly known as Vitória Guimarães, is a professional football club based in Guimarães, a city in the Braga district of northwestern Portugal. The club was founded in 1922 and plays its home matches at the Estádio D. Afonso Henriques, a stadium built in 1999 within the city that gave the club its identity.
Guimarães itself carries enormous historical weight in Portugal — it is widely regarded as the birthplace of the Portuguese nation, the city where Afonso Henriques, the first King of Portugal, was born in 1109. That deep-rooted sense of origin and pride runs through the identity of the club that bears the city's name. Vitória SC occupies a place in the Portuguese football landscape as one of the country's provincial clubs that has consistently competed in the Primeira Liga, Portugal's top division, representing a city with a strong industrial and cultural tradition.
The club is one of two professional football sides associated with the Guimarães area, alongside Moreirense FC, whose home town of Moreira de Cónegos sits on the outskirts of the city. Within Portugal's football culture, Vitória Guimarães is recognised as a club with genuine regional identity and a loyal local support base, standing apart from the dominance of the Lisbon and Porto clubs that have historically controlled the top trophies in Portuguese football.