2013–14 Santiago Island League (South)

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Santiago Island League (South)
Season2013-14
Champions Sporting Clube da Praia
Promoted Os Garridos
RelegatedTchadense
Matches played90
Goals scored233 (2.59 per match)
Biggest home winSporting Praia
Biggest away winDesportivo Praia
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The 2013–14 Santiago Island League (South) season was the competition of the second and third tier football in the southern part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. The winner qualified into the 2014 Cape Verdean Football Championships. It started on 15 November 2013 and finished on 30 March 2014. The tournament was organized by the Santiago South Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol de Santiago Sul, ARFSS). [1] Sporting Praia won the 8th title and finished with 44 points. Their next championship title for Sporting would be in 2017.

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Overview

Sporting Praia was the defending team of the title. A total of 21 clubs participated in the competition, 10 in the Premier Division and 11 in the Second Division. A total of 233 goals were scored, 8 goals scored in two promotional matches, its combined total is 241.

Tchadense was relegated and spend the next two seasons in the Second Division while Garridos, champion of the Second Division was promoted and spent the next three seasons in the Premier Division.

The biggest win were two matches with 5 goals, Sporting Praia 5-0 Vitória (2 March) and Tchadense 0-5 Desportivo da Praia (16 March).

The first six weeks had Desportivo took the lead, Sporting took it for the rest of the season.

Both Desportivo and Travadores scored the most number of goals numbering 37, Sporting was second with 36 and Vitòria scored the least numbering 12, a club who scored the least that was 5th place. Varanda conceded the most number of goals numbering 37, Tchadense second with 24 and Vitòria with 32, a club who conceded the most that was 5th place.

Sporting's 28 match unbeaten streak which started from February 18, 2012 came to an end after a loss to Travadores which was 0-1 on November 16. Sporting's record 28 match unbeaten streak was a record until March 5, 2017 which would be shared, it was surpassed on March 10, 2017 and is now the club's second record.

There were no competition on the second week of December due to the regional cup competitions.

The season marked Dário's end to his eleven season career with Sporting Praia and would later retire.

Dário Osvaldo Dias Furtado, simply Dário, is a retired Cape Verdean footballer who played for Sporting Clube da Praia mainly as a left defender. He is currently manager of Sporting Praia's U-15 team.

Participating clubs

League standings

Premier Division

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
1 Sporting Clube da Praia 181422369+2744
2 CD Travadores 1813413710+2743
3 Desportivo da Praia 1810623717+2036
4 FC Boavista 189452921+831
5 Vitória 1861111232-2019
6 Académica da Praia 184682126-518
7 AD Bairro 1844101323-1016
8 Celtic 1844101328-1516
9 GD Varanda 1850132237-1515
10 Tchadense 1835101734-1714

Second Division

Results

Week 1
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Boavista1 - 0Bairro15 November
Académica Praia1 - 1Tchadense16 November
Sporting Praia0 - 1Travadores16 November
Vitória0 - 3Desportivo Praia17 November
Varanda2 - 3Celtic17 November
Week 2
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Tchadense0 - 2Sporting Praia22 November
Celtic2 - 3Académica Praia23 November
Desportivo Praia4 - 0Varanda23 November
Vitória0 - 1Bairro24 November
Travadores1 - 1Boavista24 November
Week 3
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Celtic1 - 2Desportivo Praia22 January [lower-alpha 1]
Varanda1 - 0Bairro30 November
Boavista2 - 1Tchadense30 November
Académica Praia0 - 4Sporting Praia1 December
Vitória0 - 2Travadores1 December
Week 4
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Desportivo Praia1 - 0Académica Praia13 December
Bairro0 - 0Celtic14 December
Sporting Praia1 - 0Boavista14 December
Tchadense0 - 2Vitória15 December
Travadores3 - 1Varanda15 December
Week 5
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Vitória1 - 2Sporting Praia20 December
Desportivo Praia4 - 2Bairro21 December
Académica Praia3 - 0Boavista21 December
Varanda3 - 0 [lower-alpha 2] Tchadense22 December
Celtic0 - 3Travadores22 December
Week 6
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Bairro0 - 0Académica Praia22 January [lower-alpha 3]
Travadores1 - 1Desportivo Praia4 January
Sporting Praia2 - 1Varanda4 January
Boavista0 - 1Vitória 5 January
Tchadense1 - 1Celtic5 January
Week 7
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Desportivo Praia2 - 2Tchadense10 January
Varanda1 - 2Boavista11 January
Celtic0 - 1Sporting Praia11 January
Académica Praia4 - 0Vitória12 January
Bairro0 - 3Travadores13 January
Week 8
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Boavista3 - 0Celtic17 January
Vitória2 - 0Varanda18 January
Travadores4 - 1Académica Praia18 January
Tchadense2 - 0Bairro19 January
Sporting Praia2 - 1Desportivo Praia19 January
Week 9
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Travadores2 - 0Tchadense24 January
Desportivo Praia0 - 3 [lower-alpha 4] Boavista25 January
Bairro0 - 1Sporting Praia25 January
Celtic0 - 1Vitória26 January
Académica Praia3 - 1Varanda26 January
Week 10
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Celtic1 - 0Varanda31 January
Travadores2 - 2Sporting Praia1 February
Desportivo Praia4 - 0Vitória1 February
Tchadense0 - 0Académica Praia2 February
Bairro0 - 1Boavista2 February
Week 11
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Sporting Praia3 - 0Tchadense7 February
Académica Praia1 - 2Celtic8 February
Boavista2 - 0Travadores8 February
Varanda2 - 3Desportivo Praia9 February
Bairro2 - 0Vitória9 February
Week 12
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Bairro0 - 2Varanda14 February
Desportivo Praia1 - 1Celtic15 February
Travadores3 - 0Vitória15 February
Tchadense3 - 4Boavista16 February
Sporting Praia2 - 1Académica Praia16 February
Week 13
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Boavista1 - 1Sporting Praia21 February
Vitória2 - 1Tchadense22 February
Celtic1 - 2Bairro22 February
Varanda0 - 3Travadores23 February
Académica Praia1 - 1Desportivo Praia23 February
Week 14
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Boavista1 - 1Académica Praia28 February
Tchadense3 - 2Varanda1 March
Bairro1 - 1Desportivo Praia1 March
Travadores3 - 0Celtic2 March
Sporting Praia5 - 0Vitória2 March
Week 15
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Académica Praia1 - 1Bairro7 March
Celtic0 - 0Tchadense8 March
Vitória1 - 1Boavista8 March
Varanda0 - 4Sporting Praia9 March
Desportivo Praia0 - 0Travadores9 March
Week 16
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Travadores2 - 1Bairro14 March
Sporting Praia2 - 0Celtic15 March
Vitória2 - 1Académica Praia15 March
Boavista4 - 2Varanda16 March
Tchadense0 - 5Desportivo Praia16 March
Week 17
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Bairro1 - 2Tchadense21 March
Desportivo Praia1 - 0Sporting Praia22 March
Varanda2 - 0Vitória22 March
Académica Praia0 - 2Travadores23 March
Celtic0 - 3Boavista23 March
Week 18
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Tchadense1 - 2Travadores28 March
Boavista1 - 3Desportivo Praia29 March
Varanda2 - 0Académica Praia29 March
Vitória0 - 1Celtic30 March
Sporting Praia2 - 0Bairro30 March

Promotional matches

Varanda, ninth in the Premier Division won two promotional matches against Ribeira Grande, second place of the Second Division with a total of two goals. [2]

Promotion matches
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Varanda2 - 1Ribeira Grande26 July
Ribeira Grande2 - 3Varanda30 July

Varanda remained in the Premier Division.

Sources: [3] [2]

Position changes

Club / Week010203040506070809101112131415161718
Académica da Praia
6
2
5
7
4
4
4
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
6
6
6
AD Bairro
8
7
7
6
6
7
8
9
9
8
7
8
7
6
6
7
7
7
FC Boavista
4
4
3
4
5
5
5
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
Celtic
2
6
6
5
7
8
7
8
8
9
8
6
8
8
8
8
9
8
Desportivo da Praia
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
Sporting Clube da Praia
9
5
4
3
3
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Tchadense
5
8
9
10
10
10
9
7
7
7
9
9
9
9
9
9
8
9
CD Travadores
3
3
2
2
2
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
Varanda
7
10
8
9
8
9
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
Vitória
10
9
10
8
9
6
6
6
6
6
6
7
6
7
7
5
5
5
Santiago South Premier Division 2013-14
Champions
Sporting Clube da Praia
8th title

Statistics

Márcio (Desportivo da Praia)
Sporting Praia 5-0 Vitória (2 March)
Tchadense 0-5 Desportivo da Praia (16 March)
Tchadense 3-4 FC Boavista (16 February)

Notes

  1. ↑ Originally for November 29, no police shown up, it was rescheduled to December 18 which was rained off, it was rescheduled to January 22
  2. ↑ 3-0 awarded, originally 1-1 as Tchadense fielded an ineligible player
  3. ↑ Originally for January 3
  4. ↑ 0-3 awarded as Desportivo did not appeared in that match

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References

  1. ↑
  2. 1 2 "Varanda vence liguilha e garante manutencao" [Varanda won the Promotion Match and Remains in the Premier Division]. Criolosports (in Portuguese). 31 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "Varanda e Ribeira Grande defrontam se sabado para a liguilha" [Varanda and Ribeira Grande Challenged for the Promotion Match of the League]. Criolosports (in Portuguese). July 2014.
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