Andre Villas-Boas celebrates wildly after becoming Porto president

Former Chelsea and Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas has been confirmed as president of Porto after a landslide election victory.

The 46-year-old has not managed a club since leaving his last role with Marseille in February 2021.

Villas-Boas, who took charge of 81 top flight matches in England between 2011 and 2013, secured a return to his former club Porto with a stunning election victory.

The former Porto manager secured 80.3 per cent of the vote to unseat Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, the 86-year-old incumbent, who had been in charge for 42 years.

Villas-Boas appeared outside his campaign headquarters wearing a Porto shirt and scarf, leading his supporters by chanting 'Porto'.

The 46-year-old claimed after his election victory that 'Porto is free again'.

'I am very happy, proud and honored by this opportunity that you give me,' Villas-Boas said, as reported by Portuguese newspaper Record.

'I hope to meet the demands of all Porto fans, which is to win, win titles and sustain our club for the future, which is the most important thing.

'This is the FC Porto that we all want and need: strong, reinvigorated, with race and where the members dictated its change today and face the challenges that lie ahead.

'We will need to maintain our courage to fight on and off the pitch to regain the place that is ours by destiny.

'We have a long mission ahead of us. I work hard in a house that has to be structured, tidy and organised.

'Let there be no doubt that today FC Porto is free again.'

Villas-Boas succeeds Pinto da Costa, who had the backing of the club's Ultras ahead of the election.

Pinto da Costa had overseen Porto's rise from mediocrity to a European powerhouse.

They had won four titles in 42 years before Pinto da Costa became president. Yet,