| Event | 2012 Cape Verdean Football Championships | ||||||
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| First leg | |||||||
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| Sporting Praia won under the away goals rule | |||||||
| Date | 23 June 2012 | ||||||
| Venue | Estádio João de Deus Lopes da Silva, Ribeira Brava | ||||||
| Second Leg | |||||||
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| Date | 7 July 2012 | ||||||
| Venue | Estádio da Várzea, Praia | ||||||
| Referee | Antonio Rodrigues | ||||||
The 2012 Cape Verdean Football Championship final was the final of the 2012 Cape Verdean Football Championships, which was the 32nd edition of the Cape Verdean Football Championships and 25th with the knockout stage. [1]
The 2012 Cape Verdean Football Championship season was the 33rd of the competition of the first-tier football in Cape Verde. Its started on 5 May and finished on 7 July, slightly earlier than last year. The tournament was organized by the Cape Verdean Football Federation. Sporting Praia won the ninth title, it would be the club's most recent title win. This time, Sporting Praia did not participate in the 2013 CAF Champions League. No club also participated in the 2013 CAF Confederation Cup. In 2012, Sporting Praia won the first super cup title and would become the first club to win both the championship and the super cup title in the same season.
The Cape Verdean Football Championship or the Campeonato Caboverdiano de Futebol is a football competition that was created in 1976 in Cape Verde. A local championship was founded in 1953 before independence, when the islands were still part of the Portuguese Empire.
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In Cape Verde, the finals were televised live on TCV and listened on radio on RCV.
The Radiotelevisão Caboverdiana is Cape Verde's first radio and television station broadcasting local programs from Cape Verde, Portugal and Brazil as well as the rest of the world especially France. It is a publicly owned company and enterprise and is located in the Capeverdean capital city of Praia, in the southern part in the middle of Achada Santo António RTC also has a few buildings, it also has offices in São Vicente, Sal, São Filipe on Fogo Island and Assomada in Santa Catarina. The building size is very small, only like local affiliates in North America as well as Latin America, Australia and Europe. The radio building is in the south on Rua 13 de Janeiro and the television station is in the north. Its current president is José Emanuel Tavares Moreira/
No competitions were played on the first week of July due to the local elections that took place on July 1.
The final was played betweenSporting from Praia of Santiago South and SC Atlético from São Nicolau. The winners did not compete into the Cape Verdean Super Cup and the 2013 CAF Champions League in the following season, primarily due to its schedule, a part of it, the regional championship and cup competitions within it.
Sporting Clube da Praia, short form: Sporting Praia is a professional football club that plays in the Santiago South Premier Division in Cape Verde. It is based in the capital city of Praia in the island of Santiago, one of the unrelegated clubs in the south of the island along with three of the city's four historically mightiest clubs including Académica, Boavista and CD Travadores. Along with Académcia, Boavista, Desportivo, Travadores and Vitória, it is one of several teams that share the same ground, Estádio da Várzea, which has a capacity of 8,000. Sporting has won six championships since independence and a few before independence. The first title was won in the summer of 1962 before independence. Sporting recently won the 2017 national title. Its current president is Carlos Daniel Caetano and its manager is Lito, who once played for Portuguese clubs as footballer.
Sport Club Atlético is a football (soccer) club based in Ribeira Brava and plays in São Nicolau Island League and had played in the Premier division in Cape Verde. Its current head is Artemiza Ramos and its coach is Pirico who is since January 2017. Also its honorary president is António Manuel Santos. Its nickname is Encarnados, the same nickname of Portugal's SL Benfica.
The 2013 CAF Champions League was the 49th edition of Africa's premier club football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), and the 17th edition under the current CAF Champions League format. The winner qualified for the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup, and earned the right to play in the 2014 CAF Super Cup.
The 2012 football championship final was Sporting Praia's twelfth appearance which was also their seventh consecutive in their 89 years of existence and SC Atlético's second appearance in their 46 years of existence, their next appearance in 18 years.
