2014–15 Brava Island League

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Brava Island League
Season 2014–15
Champions Sporting Clube da Brava
Matches played 42
Goals scored 156 (3.71 per match)
Biggest home win Juventude
Biggest away win Académica
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The 2014–15 Brava Island League season was the competition of the second and third tier football in the island of Brava, Cape Verde. Its started on 24 January and finished on 26 April 2015, over a month after the last season. The tournament was organized by the Brava Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol da Brava, ARFB). [1] All matches were played at Estádio Aquiles de Oliveira in Nova Sintra. Sporting Brava won their second consecutive title. [2]

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Sporting Brava was the defending team of the title. A total of 7 clubs participated in the competition. 156 goals were scored, slightly lower than last season. All matches were played at Estadio de Aquiles de Oliveira in Nova Sintra.

Overview

As Fogo saw a couple of record breaking matches during the season, Brava was nearly the same and saw another high scoring matches, the highest scoring match was the Juventude-Corôa match in which Juventude scored 12-1 tying Fogo's highest scoring match which was done by Spartak d'Aguadinha, the second were two matches that finished with 8 goals. The Juventude match (along with the Spartak match of the Fogo Island League) was the highest scoring goal of any island league in the country. Unlike last season, the records were not successful, it was one goal less than last season's highest scoring match and there were four high scoring matches of which one was a moderate one with 6 goals scored by Morabeza on February 7, the following season would be more successful than the last two. Also Sporting Brava had the 25th unbeaten match at the end of the season which became a club record. Sporting also finished with 28 points and ranked behind Académica's 29 points made in 2012, this ranking is now 8th in 2018.

Associação Spartak D'Aguadinha is a sports club whose football team had played in the Premier division and plays in the Fogo Island League in Cape Verde. It is based in São Filipe's subdivision of Aguadinha located next to Bila Baxo in the island of Fogo and plays at Estádio 5 de Julho. Spartak d'Aguadinha also has a basketball, volleyball and now a futsal department.

The first two weeks Benfica Brava took the lead, then Juventude of the Port of Furna took it for three weeks, Sporting took it at round 6 for three weeks, Académica took it for a week due to Sporting's bye round, then Sporting took it again for a week, Juventude retook it for three weeks, after Juventude played their last match of the season and took a bye round, Sporting took the number one spot where they finished.

Juventude Furna scored the most number of goals numbering 39, Sporting was second with 34, the last two were Corôa with 13 and Benfica with 12. Sporting conceded only four goals in the season, Corôa conceded the most and numbered 46.

Participating clubs

Club Location2013-14 positions
Académica da Brava Nova Sintra5th place
Benfica da Brava Nova Sintra and Nossa Senhora do Monte 7th place
Corôa Mato Grande 6th place
SC Juventude da Furna Furna 3rd place
SC Morabeza Nova Sintra4th place
Nô Pintcha FurnaRegional runner-up
Sporting Brava Nova Sintra and Lem Regional champions

League standings

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
1 Sporting 12840344+3028
2 Juventude da Furna 128313910+2927
3 Académica 126331915+421
4 Nô Pintcha 125162220+216
5 Morabeza 124261723-614
6 Benfica 122281238-268
7 Corôa 1211101346-334

Results

Week 1
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Sporting Brava2 - 2Juventude Furna24 January
Morabeza2 - 1Nô Pintcha25 January14:00
Benfica Brava4 - 2Académica Brava25 January16:00
Week 2
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Corôa1 - 5Académica Brava31 January
Nô Pintcha3 - 4Juventude Furna1 February14:00
Morabeza1 - 1Benfica Brava1 February16:00
Week 3
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Sporting Brava3 - 0Nô Pintcha7 February
Morabeza6 - 2Corôa7 February14:00
Juventude Furna5 - 0Benfica Brava8 February16:00
Week 4
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Académica Brava2 - 1Morabeza14 February
Benfica Brava0 - 4Sporting Brava15 February14:00
Corôa0 - 2Juventude Furna15 February16:00
Week 5
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Nô Pintcha1 - 0Benfica Brava21 February
Juventude Furna1 - 2Académica Brava22 February14:00
Corôa0 - 0Sporting Brava22 February16:00
Week 6
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Morabeza0 - 0Juventude Furna28 February
Corôa0 - 1Nô Pintcha1 March14:00
Académica Brava0 - 3Sporting Brava1 March16:00
Week 7
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Benfica Brava1 - 3Corôa7 March
Sporting Brava1 - 0Morabeza8 March14:00
Nô Pintcha1 - 2Académica Brava8 March16:00
Week 8
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Juventude Furna1 - 1Sporting Brava14 March
Académica Brava0 - 0Benfica Brava15 March14:00
Nô Pintcha2 - 1Morabeza15 March16:00
Week 9
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Académica Brava1 - 0Corôa21 March
Juventude Furna1 - 0Nô Pintcha22 March14:00
Morabeza2 - 1Benfica Brava22 March16:00
Week 10
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Nô Pintcha1 - 4Sporting Brava28 March
Corôa1 - 3Morabeza29 March14:00
Benfica Brava0 - 5Juventude Furna29 March16:00
Week 11
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Morabeza1 - 4Académica Brava4 April
Sporting Brava8 - 0Benfica Brava5 April14:00
Juventude Furna12 - 1Corôa5 April16:00
Week 12
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Benfica Brava1 - 4Nô Pintcha11 April
Académica Brava1 - 3Juventude Furna12 April14:00
Corôa0 - 3Sporting Brava12 April16:00
Week 13
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Juventude Furna3 - 0Morabeza18 April
Nô Pintcha8 - 2Corôa19 April14:00
Sporting Brava0 - 0Académica Brava19 April16:00
Week 14
HomeScoreVisitorDateTime
Corôa3 - 4Benfica Brava25 April
Morabeza0 - 5Sporting Brava26 April14:00
Académica Brava0 - 0Nô Pintcha26 April16:00

Position changes

Club / Week0102030405060708091011121314
Académica
7
4
5
4
2
3
2
2
1
3
3
3
3
3
Benfica
1
1
4
5
5
6
7
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
Corôa
5
6
7
7
7
7
6
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
Juventude da Furna
3
2
1
1
1
2
3
3
3
2
1
1
1
2
Morabeza
2
3
2
3
4
4
4
5
4
4
4
4
5
5
Nô Pintcha
6
7
6
6
6
5
5
4
5
5
5
5
4
4
Sporting Clube da Brava
4
5
3
2
3
1
1
1
2
1
2
2
2
1
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