The successor of Américo de Sá since April 17, 1982, the 33rd top leader in the club's history, aged 86, had 12 victories as a single candidate, defeated the doctor José Martins Soares twice in a row, in 1988 and 1991, and outdid the lawyer José Fernando Rio and the businessman and teacher Nuno Lobo in 2020, in a suffrage spread over two days. Pinto da Costa imposed himself four years ago with 5,247 votes (68.65%), against 2,071 for Rio (26.44%) and 384 for Lobo (4.91%), corresponding to the lowest percentage of the 15 successes obtained in his 'reign' in the most participated FC Porto elections in the 21st century. Despite the health restrictions in force, due to the covid-19 pandemic, 8,480 members were at the Dragão Arena pavilion, a lower mark than the record set in 1988, when 10,731 signed the first triumph of the 'blue and white' president over Martins Soares. The only opponent of Pinto da Costa in the polls for 38 years, the doctor did not get more than 535 votes (5%) and was far from the 10,196 of the leader with the most titles and longevity in world football (95%), losing with a slightly smaller margin three years later. The turnout 'fell' to just over half of the current record in 1991 and Martins Soares gathered the preference of 1,164 members (18%), compared to the 4,614 votes (82%) totaled by Pinto da Costa, who, without opponents, was having several victories close to 100%. If the official results of most of the electoral acts that occurred in the 1980s and some in the 1990s are unknown, the news archive of the Lusa agency attests to this image of unanimity in 1994 (99.19%, with 1,470 of the 1,482 votes added), 1998 (99.81%, with 2,072 of 2,076), 2001 (98.83%, with 1,016 of 1,028), 2004 (99.25%, with 1,060 of 1,068), 2007 (98.43%, with 3,769 of 3,829), 2010 (98%, in a scrutiny in which the 'dragons' did not indicate the number of voters) and 2013 (99.13%, with 1,258 of 1,269). The trend had been going on since 1982, when 4,573 members (91.02%) elected Pinto da Costa as Américo de Sá's successor, in a total of 5,024 votes, a few days after the banker Afonso Pinto de Magalhães, FC Porto's leader from 1967 to 1972, withdrew his candidacy, keeping only a list to the Superior Council, which would be defeated. The 'dragons' have been revitalized in the following four decades, as a result of winning 2,586 trophies in 21 sports - 68 of which in senior men's football -, but recent years have reinforced the criticism of the current sports, economic and infrastructural management. A sign of this was the 2016 elections, the last ones disputed in isolation, in which Pinto da Costa obtained 79%, for a total of 2,403 voters, with 21% of blank ballots. This result would drop more than 10 percentage points four years later, under the effect of a tripartite context, which is repeated between 9:00 am and 8:00 pm on Saturday, at the Estádio do Dragão, in Porto, keeping two protagonists and joining the main face of the opposition. Winner of four trophies for the 'blue and white' football team in 2010/11, including the championship and the Europa League, the former coach André Villas-Boas (list B) will run for the club's leadership for the first time and leads an unprecedented contestation to Pinto da Costa (A), who is supported by two of the three electoral opponents faced until 2024. José Fernando Rio publicly declared this position in early April and José Martins Soares is the seventh name indicated by the president of FC Porto for the Superior Council, an advisory body that he already contested in 2020 as the first choice of Nuno Lobo (list C).