2013–14 Sporting Clube da Praia season

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Sporting Clube da Praia
2013–14 season
Chairman Flag of Cape Verde.svg Paulo Veiga
Manager Flag of Cape Verde.svg Beto
Stadium Estádio da Várzea
Santiago Island League (South) Champion
Cape Verdean Football Championships Semifinalist
Santiago South/Praia Cup Winner
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The 2013–14 Sporting Clube da Praia season were in the island and top division of Cape Verdean football. They would be regional champions and qualified into the national championship. Their success would reach as high as the Semifinals where they lost to Académica from the island of Fogo west of Praia. [1] [2]

Football in Cape Verde

Football is the most popular sport in Cape Verde. The league is divided into eleven divisions, of which seven of them are singles and two islands, Santiago and Santo Antão has two zones since 2000. The football association is a federation which is known as the Cape Verdean Football Federation, it became affiliated with CAF in 1986 and later with FIFA in 2001.

Académica do Fogo

Associação Académica do Fogo is a football club that currently plays in the Campeonato Nacional de Cabo Verde and in the Fogo Island League in Cape Verde. It is based in the island of Fogo and plays in the stadium with a capacity of 1000. The logo and the uniform as well as other teams with the name Académica and Académico in Cape Verde is identical to Académica de Coimbra, it features the volcanic mountain on the right. The club name and the year of foundation are at the bottom. Académica do Fogo are one of the unrelegated clubs on the island which includes Vulcânicos and Botafogo.

Fogo, Cape Verde island in Cape Verde

Fogo is an island in the Sotavento group of Cape Verde. Its population is 35,837 (2015), with an area of 476 km². It reaches the highest altitude of all the islands in Cape Verde, rising to 2,829 metres above sea level at the summit of its active volcano, Pico do Fogo.

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The club scored a total of 45 goals. Of which 36 was scored in the Santiago South League and 9 in the national championships, 7 in the regular season and 2 in the playoffs. Their total points was 44 for the island and 13 in the national championships.

Santiago Island League (South)

The 2013-14 season would start being ninth, the first match on November 16 lost to Travadores 0-1, second to last place. The next 8 matches were victorious, the greatest match was with Academica da Praia who won with 4 goals on December 1, 2013. Also their rankings slowly gained 5th when they challenged Tchadense, then 3rd for the next three weeks and finally first place after defeating Desportivo Praia on January 19. The match on February 1 was tied 2 apiece with CD Travadores, Sporting won the next two matches until Boavista tied the match with 1 each on February 21, the club went to have a three match winning streak until Desportivo clumbered Sporting 1-0 on March 22. The final match of the season had Sporting defeated Bairro 2-0 on March 30 and claimed their recent island title. [1]

CD Travadores association football club

Clube Desportivo Travadores is a football club in the Santiago South Premier Division in Cape Verde and are one of the unrelegated clubs of the Premier Division. It is based in the capital city of Praia, on the island of Santiago, and plays in a stadium with a capacity of 8,000. It is affiliated with S.L. Benfica and was the first Benfica affiliate in Cape Verde and the western part of West Africa. Its nicknames are indios and águias

The club had a total of 36 goals of which 19 were scored at home and 17 were scored away. Up to week 10, around 70% of the goals were scored away, it was mostly scored away at week 12 and after week 16, more than half were away.

DateOpponentsH/AResult
F–A		ScorersAttendanceLeague
position
15 November 2013 CD Travadores H0-1no goals scored9th
22 November 2013 Tchadense A0-25th
1 December 2013 Académica (Praia) A0-44th
14 December 2013 Boavista FC H1-03rd
20 December 2013 Vitória A1–23rd
4 January 2014VarandaH2-12nd
11 January 2014 Celtic A0-11st
19 January 2014 Desportivo Praia H2-11st
25 January 2014 AD Bairro A0-11st
1 February 2014 CD Travadores A2-21st
7 February 2014 Tchadense H3-01st
16 February 2014 Académica (Praia) H2-11st
21 February 2014 Boavista FC A1-11st
2 March 2014 Vitória H5-01st
9 March 2014VarandaA0-41st
15 March 2014 Celtic H2-01st
22 March 2014 Desportivo Praia A1-0no goals scored1st
30 March 2015 AD Bairro H2-01st
PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion/Relegation
1 Sporting Clube da Praia 181422369+2744Advanced into the national championships
2 CD Travadores 1813413710+2743None

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

Results summary

OverallHomeAway
PldWDLGFGAGDPtsWDLGFGAGDWDLGFGAGD
181422369 +2744801194 +15621175 +12

Last updated: April 1, 2014.
Source: Rankings at rsssf

Santiago South/Praia Cup

Sporting Praia claimed their first and only cup during the season.

Cape Verdean National League

The club achieved entry into the national championships after winning the regional title of Santiago South. Sporting succeed as high as the semis, their overall ranking was third with two goals scored in the playoffs. Of its straight appearances, Sporting competed for the tenth straight time, one of the highest, the highest being Brava's Nô Pintcha in the country.

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.

The club participated in Group A and finished first with 13 points and 4 wins. [1] [2] Their overall championship titles (their last title won in 2012) numbering nine became second behind CS Mindelense after their win, it continues into the present day with three titles less than Mindelense in 2016.

CS Mindelense

Clube Sportivo Mindelense (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: KS Mindelensi, São Vicente Crioulo: KS Mindelense is a football club that plays in the Premier division of the Interisland League in Cape Verde. It is based in the city of Mindelo in the island of São Vicente. Mindelense is the oldest club in Cape Verde. It is the team won the most cups before and after independence especially in the 1950s and the 1970s with nine titles before independence and eleven after independence. Their first participation in the national division before independence was unofficially in 1938 and officially in 1954, Mindelense first appeared after independence in 1980. Since 30 April 2017, they are one of three unrelegated clubs in the island along with Batuque and Derby. Its current chairman is Daniel de Jesus. The club's nickname is Leões Encarnados or the Incarnated Lions. A nickname that is used less often is the Red Devils or the Diablos Vermelhos.

Their first match against Académica do Porto Novo ended in a scoreless draw on April 6. Sporting Praia went on for a four-game winning streak, they defeated Paulense on April 12, Sporting Brava on April 19, the first-timer Grémio Nhagar of the north of the island on April 26 and Mindelo's FC Derby on May 4. [1]

Académica do Porto Novo

Associação Académica do Porto Novo is a multi-sport club that plays in the Santo Antão Island League South Zone in Cape Verde. It is based in the town of Porto Novo in the southeastern part of the island of Santo Antão. Sporting activities includes football and volleyball. Its current head is Osvaldinho Silva Lopes and its coach is Gunga. The nickname of the club like many other Académicas is Mica.

DateOpponentsH/AResult
F–A		ScorersAttendanceLeague
position (Group A)
6 April 2014 Académica do Porto Novo A0-04th
12 April 2014 Paulense A0-12nd
19 April 2014 Sporting (Brava) A3-02nd
26 April 2014 Grémio Nhagar H2-11st
4 May 2014 FC Derby A0-11st
PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion/Relegation
1 Sporting Clube da Praia 541071+613Advanced into playoffs
2 Académica do Porto Novo 522172+58Advanced into playoffs

Playoffs

As they were first in the group, the club headed on to the semis and faced with Académica of Fogo, a club from the west and dared to defeat them. All two semi-final matches ended in draws, the first with nil and the second with two, Sporting lost in the penalty kicks and ended their appearance in the 2014 national season. [1] The club's next appearance will be in three years, the 2017 Football Championships

Semi-finals

DateOpponentsH/AResult
F–A		Scorer(s)Attendance
10 May 2014 Académica do Fogo A0-0no goals scored
17 May 2014 Académica do Fogo H3-0Ró 23', 51'

Squad

As of April 2014 [3]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.PositionPlayer
1 Flag of Senegal.svg GK Maguette
Flag of Cape Verde.svg DF Loloti
Flag of Cape Verde.svg MF Júnior Monteiro
Flag of Cape Verde.svg DF Tó
Flag of Cape Verde.svg FW Ká Semedo
Flag of Cape Verde.svg MF Lê
Flag of Cape Verde.svg FW Vargas Fernandes
Flag of Cape Verde.svg MF Dário
Flag of Cape Verde.svg DF Piki

Club

The Management

PositionStaff
Manager and head coach Flag of Cape Verde.svg Beto

Source:[ citation needed ]

Other information

As of 2012

Chairman Flag of Cape Verde.svg Paulo Veiga
Assistant manager Flag of Cape Verde.svg Zé Piguita
Goalkeeping coach Flag of Cape Verde.svg Tchabana
Team chef Flag of Cape Verde.svg Nelson/ Manú
Ground (capacity and dimensions) Estádio da Várzea (5,000 / 108x69 m)

Last updated: September 2012
Source:http://www.scp.cv

Team kit

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Home
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Away
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Third Colours

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Santiago South highlights at rsssf.com Archived 2015-07-13 at the Wayback Machine .
  2. 1 2 2013-14 season at Sporting Praia homepage Archived 2015-10-11 at the Wayback Machine .(in Portuguese)
  3. ↑ 2014 Season - Squad
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