Oliveira de Azeméis ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a city and municipality in the Porto Metropolitan Area of Portugal. Administratively, the municipality belongs to the District of Aveiro. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 68,611,<ref name=ine>Instituto Nacional de Estatística</ref> in an area of 161.10 km2.<ref name=dgt>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Oliveira de Azeméis is an important industrial center, producing a variety of goods such as injection moulds, dairy produce, shoes, car components, steel tubes and other steel materials (Ferpinta), cookware (Silampos and CELAR), springs and mattresses. Among its best-known companies are Simoldes and Lactogal.
Its most prominent sports club is the União Desportiva Oliveirense (U.D.O.), which fields teams in football, basketball and ring hockey as well as an affiliated cycling team that holds a UCI Continental team licence, the Kelly–Simoldes–UDO (UCI team code: KSU). Other names (that focus in football) include Futebol Clube Pinheirense (FCP), Sporting Clube de Bustelo (SCB), Futebol Clube Cesarense (FCC), Juventude Desportiva Carregosense (JDC), Grupo Desportivo de São Roque (GDSR), Atlético Clube de Cucujães (ACC), Real Clube Nogueirense (RCN) and Nome Futebol Clube Macieirense (FCM), with other sports such as futsal including Futsal Clube Azeméis (FCA), Pindelo Associação Recreativa e Cultural (PARC) and Grupo Cultural e Recreativo de Ossela (GCRO).
They have a children's school in partnership with Benfica from Lisbon.
In the centre there is a Marian sanctuary, La-Salette. It was built to honor the apparitions of the Virgin Mary in the small village of La Salette, Isère, in France. The sanctuary contains the finger of a burglar who tried to steal precious artifacts one night (a guard shot the burglar with his shotgun and only hit his finger). The finger is preserved in a jar of alcohol in front of the chapel.
João Domingues (born 1993), Portuguese professional tennis player having achieved n. 150 in the ATP ranking. He represented Portugal in the Davis Cup team from 2015 to 2019.
