The club’s origins date back to November 18, 2000, when four of the future founders (Orlando Ferreira, Carlos Vaz, João Feijó, and Carlos Revez) met for the first time in Lisbon to get to know each other in person, following several weeks of email exchanges centered on a very special passion: Alfa Romeo. Following this small but symbolic meeting, a much larger movement began to take shape with the goal of organizing a first road trip. Those were exhilarating days… emails, phone calls, and contacts were coming in nonstop; it seemed that suddenly the Alfista “serpent” was beginning to awaken, embodied by the vast legion of fans of the House of the Biscione.

The first meetup was thus organized on April 1 in the Bucelas area, with 30 Alfas already in attendance. From then on, things really took off like a snowball—every day brought more Alfa enthusiasts, more ideas, and more projects. That year, this group—still without a defined name but already taking shape as the “Alfista Club”—organized a wide range of trips: Arrábida, Vila de Rei, Jarama (at the invitation of the Alfa Romeo Club of Spain), Caldas da Rainha, Caramulo, and Ribatejo.

This intense activity served to lay the groundwork and solidify the foundation for what would officially be established on November 27, 2001 (the date of the deed of incorporation) as the “Clube Alfista de Portugal,” with the following officers serving as its founders: Carlos Vaz (President), Miguel Menezes (Vice President), Orlando Ferreira, Pedro Vicente, João Feijó, João Paulo Martinho, Fernando Taborda, Carlos Revez, José Guardado, Jorge Carita, Nuno Ferreira, Rui Martins, Adalberto Melim, and Rui Bettencourt.