António Nicolau de Almeida (19 October 1873 – 21 February 1948) was a Portuguese football executive, who founded FC Porto on 28 September 1893 and then served as its first president until 1896, when he gave up from the club at the request of his wife.

The oldest account of Almeida's sporting activity can be found in 1891, when together with Fernando Nicolau d´Almeida, Vieira da Cruz, Lacy Rumsey, Artur Rumsey, and George Dagge, he was part of a group of pedal lovers who were working hard in favor of velocipedia under the name Clube Excursionista, and then, in 1892, under the new name of Clube de Velocipedistas do Porto.

[2][3] During the second half of 1893, many people entered, including His Highness Infante D. Afonso and, at the end of the same year, His Majesty the king grants the farm of his palace on Rua do Triunfo (now the Soares dos Reis National Museum) for the construction of the velodrome, thus showing the great interest that the royalty had on sports.

[6][7][8] The patronage and sponsorship of the King was pivotal to attract a significant number of spectators, as football was practically an unknown sport in Portugal at the time.

[3] Ten years later, however, on 2 August 1906, the club was revived by Almeida's close friend José Monteiro da Costa.