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União Desportiva Vilafranquense is a Portuguese football club from Vila Franca de Xira, Lisbon District. It currently plays in the LigaPro, the second tier of the Portuguese football league system, following its promotion in 2019. The club's history was spent mostly in the third tier. It spent one season in the second, in 1987–88, when that level was still regionalised. In the 2018–19 Campeonato de Portugal, Vilafranquense came second in Serie C behind U.D. Leiria. In the play-offs, they dispatched Lusitânia F.C. and then Leiria on penalties to win promotion. This was the club's first time in a national second division.