2007 Cape Verdean Football Championships

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Cape Verdean Football Championship
Season2007
Champions Sporting Clube da Praia
Matches played36
Goals scored93 (2.58 per match)
Top goalscorerKadú (9)
Biggest home winAcadémico do Aeroporto
Highest scoringAcadémica do Mindelo
2006
2008

The 2007 Cape Verdean Football Championship season was the 28th of the competition of the first-tier football in Cape Verde. Its started on 12 May and finished on 21 July, earlier than the last season. The tournament was organized by the Cape Verdean Football Federation. [1] Sporting would win their 6th title and second straight after defeating Académica do Mindelo under the away goals rule, the only time it happened, the scorer was Dário who scored their only goal at the finals during stoppage time. They would have entry to the 2008 CAF Champions League. No second place team would also participate in the 2008 CAF Confederation Cup

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Overview

Sporting Clube da Praia was the defending team of the title. A total of 12 clubs participated in the competition, one from each island league and one who won the last season's title. As Sporting Praia won the 2006 national title, Académica da Praia, runner-up of the island division would compete in the championships.

The season at the time would have the second club to win two back-to-back titles after CS Mindelense in 1976 and 1977.

Scorpion Vermelho was the first participant of the north of Santiago that came from the municipality of Santa Cruz.

The biggest win was Académico do Aeroporto who won 8-0 against Sporting from Porto Novo, the most goals was Académica do Mindelo. In the knockout stage, three of the four clubs would be with the name Académic-, The Battle of Académica would feature two homonymous clubs from Praia and Mindelo and the latter would win two goals (one per match).

Participating clubs

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Participating football (soccer) clubs of the 2007 Cape Verdean Football Championships (Cape Verde)

Information about the clubs

ClubLocation
Académica da Calheta Calheta
Académica (Mindelo) Mindelo
Académica da Praia Praia
Académico do Aeroporto Espargos
SC Morabeza Vila Nova Sintra
Rosariense Clube Ribeira Grande
SC Sal Rei Sal Rei
Scorpion Vermelho Santa Cruz
Sporting Clube da Praia Praia
Sporting Clube do Porto Novo Porto Novo
FC Ultramarina Tarrafal de São Nicolau
Vulcânicos FC São Filipe

League standings

Group A

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
1 Académica do Mindelo 5410160+1613
2 Sporting Clube da Praia 5311111+1010
3 SC Sal Rei 522169-38
4 FC Ultramarina 522169-38
5 SC Morabeza 5023310-72
6 Académica da Calheta 5023313-102

Group B

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
1 Académico do Aeroporto 5320103+711
2 Académica da Praia 531163+310
3 Vulcânicos FC 530285+39
4 Rosariense Clube 521253+37
5 Scorpion Vermelho 52035506
6 Sporting Clube do Porto Novo 5005520-150

Results

Week 1
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Ultramarina0 - 3Académico Mindelo12 May
Sporting Praia5 - 0Académica Calheta13 May
Morabeza1 - 3Sal Rei31 May
Académico Aeroporto8 - 3Sporting Porto Novo12 May
Scorpion Vermelho1 - 0Rosariense13 May
Académica Praia1 - 0Vulcânicos30 May
Week 2
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Académica Calheta0 - 1Ultramarina19 May
Sal Rei1 - 0Sporting Praia19 May
Académico Mindelo3 - 0Morabeza20 May
Sporting Porto Novo0 - 2Scorpion Vermelho19 May
Rosariense2 - 1Académica Praia19 May
Vulcânicos0 - 1Académico Aeroporto19 May
Week 3
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Ultramarina 0 - 0Sal Rei26 May
Académico Mindelo4 - 0Académica Calheta26 May
Morabeza0 - 2Sporting Praia26 May
Académica Praia0 - 0Académico Aeroporto26 May
Rosariense3 - 0Sporting Porto Novo26 May
Scorpion Vermelho2 - 3Vulcânicos27 May
Week 4
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Sporting Praia4 - 0Ultramarina9 June
Académico Mindelo6 - 0Sal Rei9 June
Académica Calheta1 - 1Morabeza9 June
Sporting Porto Novo1 - 3Académica Praia9 June
Académico Aeroporto1 - 0Scorpion Vermelho9 June
Rosariense0 - 1Vulcânicos9 June
Week 5
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Ultramarina1 - 1Morabeza17 June
Sporting Praia0 - 0Académico Mindelo23 June
Sal Rei2 - 2Académica Calheta23 June
Académico Aeroporto0 - 0Rosariense24 June
Vulcânicos4 - 1Sporting Porto Novo24 June
Scorpion Vermelho0 - 1Académica Praia24 June

Final Stages

Semi-Finals Finals
Sporting Clube da Praia 3 3 6
Académico do Aeroporto 2 1 3 Sporting Clube da Praia 0 1 1
Académica da Praia 0 0 0 Académica do Mindelo 0 1 1
Académica do Mindelo 1 1 2

Semi-finals

Sporting Clube da Praia 3:2 Académico do Aeroporto
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  • Alex Soccerball shade.svg93'
Académica da Praia 0:1 Académica do Mindelo
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Académico do Aeroporto 1:3 Sporting Clube da Praia
Estádio Marcelo Leitão
Espargos
Referee: Victor Lima
Académica do Mindelo 1:0 Académica da Praia
Estádio Municipal Adérito Sena
Mindelo
Referee: Isaias Livramento

Finals

Sporting Clube da Praia 0:0 Académica do Mindelo
Estádio da Várzea
Praia
Referee: Nelson Barbosa
Académica do Mindelo 1:1 Sporting Clube da Praia
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Estádio Municipal Adérito Sena
Mindelo
Referee: Joaquim Xavier

Sporting Praia won all two legs under away goals rule and claimed the national title.

Statistics

See also

Footnotes

  1. "2007 Cape Verdean Football Championships". RSSSF. Retrieved July 18, 2015.[ dead link ]

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