2013–14 Brava Island League

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Brava Island League
Season2013–14
Champions Sporting Clube da Brava
Matches played42
Goals scored177 (4.21 per match)
Biggest home winNô Pintcha
Biggest away winNô Pintcha
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The 2013–14 Brava Island League season was the competition of the second and third tier football in the island of Brava, Cape Verde. Its started on 14 December 2013 and finished on 23 March 2014. The championship was organized by the Brava Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol da Brava, ARFB). [1] [2] All matches were played at Estádio Aquiles de Oliveira in Nova Sintra. Sporting Brava won their first title, they became listed on 23 February. [3] Sporting became the 6th and recent club to have a championship title. In overall competitive honours, the seventh and last one on the island.

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Juventude da Furna was again the defending team of the title. A total of 7 clubs participated in the competition and had a total of 42 matches, each club played 14 matches in the whole season and 177 goals were scored.

Overview

Five matches finished with high points and the highest was Nô Pintcha who scored 13 over Benfica on March 8, 2014 and made it one of the highest points ever scored in the island league until March 2016.

Nô Pintcha took the lead in the first week, Sporting took it for the rest of the season with the exception of the 6th round with Nô Pintcha took the lead as Sporting had their bye round. Sporting finished with 32 points, a regional record overtaking Juventiude Furna's 31 point record made last season.

At the final round, Sporting Brava had the 13th unbeaten match at the regionals. For Juventude, from January 25, 2014, they started their 17 match unbeaten streak which would last until April 10, 2016, what streak ended for the club was their 13 match unbeaten run at home, they suffered their first regional home loss on January 5 at the fourth round with a 2-3 loss to Nô Pintcha.

Nô Pintcha scored the most numbering 46, second was Sporting with 39 and Coroa scored the least numbering seven only. Sporting conceded only 11 goals while Benfica conceded the most numbering 52, second was 3rd place Juventude Furna with 18, 4th place Morabeza conceded the second most and was 31.

There was no competition in the third week of March due to the regional cup competitions.

Participating clubs

Grupo Desportivo Coroa da Brava or Desportivo Coroa is a football (soccer) club that currently plays in the Brava Island League in Cape Verde. It is based in Nossa Senhora do Monte and plays in Estádio Aquiles de Oliveira in Nova Sintra with a capacity of 500.

Clube Desportivo Nô Pintcha is a football club in Cape Verde that plays in the Brava Island Division in Cape Verde. It is based in Cidade Nova Sintra the island of Brava.

League standings

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
1 Sporting (Brava) 1210203911+2832
2 Nô Pintcha 128224620+2626
3 Juventude da Furna 126423718+1922
4 Morabeza 124172331-813
5 Académica 123361323-1012
6 Corôa 12156722-158
7 Benfica 1211101252-404

Results

Week 1
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Nô Pintcha2 - 0Académica Brava14 December
Morabeza1 - 2Sporting Brava15 December14:00
Benfica Brava1 - 1Corôa15 December16:00
Week 2
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Juventude Furna5 - 0Morabeza21 December
Corôa0 - 0Nô Pintcha22 December14:00
Sporting Brava1 - 0Benfica Brava22 December16:00
Week 3
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Académica Brava0 - 0Corôa28 December
Benfica Brava1 - 4Juventude Furna29 December14:00
Sporting Brava3 - 0Nô Pintcha29 December16:00
Week 4
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Morabeza3 - 1Benfica Brava4 January
Sporting Brava2 - 0Académica Brava5 January14:00
Juventude Furna2 - 3Nô Pintcha5 January16:00
Week 5
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Sporting Brava0 - 0Corôa11 January
Nô Pintcha3 - 2Morabeza12 January14:00
Juventude Furna0 - 0Académica Brava12 January16:00
Week 6
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Benfica Brava0 - 6Nô Pintcha18 January
Juventude Furna2 - 0Corôa19 January14:00
Morabeza1 - 2Académica Brava19 January16:00
Week 7
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Sporting Brava5 - 2Juventude Furna25 January
Académica Brava0 - 3Benfica Brava26 January14:00
Corôa0 - 3Morabeza26 January16:00
Week 8
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Académica Brava1 - 3Nô Pintcha1 February
Sporting Brava7 - 2Morabeza2 February14:00
Corôa3 - 2Benfica Brava2 February16:00
Week 9
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Morabeza2 - 2Juventude Furna8 February
Nô Pintcha6 - 0Corôa9 February14:00
Benfica Brava1 - 5Sporting Brava9 February16:00
Week 10
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Corôa1 - 1Académica Brava15 February
Juventude Furna9 - 0Benfica Brava16 February14:00
Nô Pintcha1 - 4Sporting Brava16 February16:00
Week 11
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Benfica Brava1 - 4Morabeza22 February
Académica Brava2 - 5Sporting Brava23 February14:00
Nô Pintcha4 - 4Juventude Furna23 February!6:00
Week 12
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Corôa1 - 4Sporting Brava1 March
Morabeza2 - 5Nô Pintcha2 March14:00
Académica Brava1 - 4Juventude Furna2 March16:00
Week 13
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Nô Pintcha13 - 2Benfica Brava8 March
Corôa1 - 2Juventude Furna9 March14:00
Académica Brava3 - 2Morabeza9 March16:00
Week 14
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Juventude Furna1 - 1Sporting Brava22 March
Benfica Brava0 - 3Académica Brava23 March14:00
Morabeza1 - 0Corôa23 March16:00

Position changes

Club / Week0102030405060708091011121314
Académica
7
6
5
6
6
4
5
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
Benfica
4
5
6
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
Corôa
3
4
4
4
4
5
6
4
5
4
5
5
6
6
Juventude da Furna
5
3
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
Morabeza
6
7
7
5
5
6
4
5
4
5
4
4
4
4
Nô Pintcha
1
2
3
2
2
1
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
Sporting (Brava)
2
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Brava Island League 2013-14
Champions
Sporting Clube da Brava
1st title

Statistics

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References

  1. ↑ Brava Island League at the FCF page
  2. ↑ 2013-14 Brava Island League at RSSSF Archived 2015-07-13 at the Wayback Machine .
  3. ↑ "Sporting e campeão da Brava" (in Portuguese). A Semana. 24 February 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
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