2016–17 Vitória FC da Praia season

Vitória FC da Praia

2016–17 season
Manager	Daniel Ángula Cardoso
Stadium	Estádio da Várzea
Santiago Island League (South)	12 place, relegated
Santiago South Cup	Quarterfinalist
Top goalscorer	3 goals: Edmir João dos Santos Guido
Home colours Away colours
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

The 2016–17 Vitória FC da Praia season were in the island division of football (soccer). ^[1] The club finished last behind Os Garridos, together with that club, were relegated from the Premier Division, Vitória will return to the Second Division for the following season.

Santiago Island League (South)

Unlike its previous seasons, Vitória would be at its worst position for the club again, the club suffered a three-match losing streak and lost to Boavista, Tchadense and Eugénio Lima. On December 4, the club scored the season's first goal and made a draw to Sporting. ^[2] A scoreless draw was followed with Benfica on December 11. ^[3] Vitória made another scoreless draw, this time to Garridos of São Domingos on January 7. ^[4] A two-match losing streak was followed and lost to Travadores to Bairro. Another single goal draw was made on January 28, this time to Celtic Praia. ^[5] A six match losing streak was followed, first to Desportivo, then Boavista, the first two were the worst matches for the club for four weeks, Tchadense, Eugénio Lima, Sporting which was Vitória's worst match of the season, Benfica and Académica and made the club suffering, the club was placed in the 50/50 zone for rounds 19 and 20, it also slimmed the chances to remain in the Premier Division. Until the 16th round, they scored the least number of goals, afterwards, the goals conceded was shared with Garridos. After 18 matches, the club made a win on March 26 and defeated Os Garridos 3-4 and made it the highest scoring match for the club ^[6] and slowed their slimming the chance to remain in the division but this was their last, also the conceded 40 goals. A week later, Vitória lost to the top three clubs of Praia, Travadores 1-2 and was placed in the relegation zone and became inescapable. Vitória made their second win defeating ADESBA 1-2, ^[7] the club conceded 42 goals, the second most in the regions, two less than Garridos and four goals more than Travadores. A third win (also their last in the Premier Division) was followed and defeated Celtic Praia on April 22. ^[8] Vitória FC da Praia was in last place in the regionals and became a part of their second/third downfall of a historically major club. No goals were conceded at the 21st round and was the first in almost a year and was a goal more than Travadores and three less than Os Garridos. The last time the club did not concede a goal in a match at the regional championships was on April 24, 2016 in a match with Eugénio Lima. Vitória lost the final match of the season to Desportivo Praia 2-1 and finished with 13 points and had four wins, 11 out of 16 goals were scored away. Its highest goals for the club were three, scored by Edmir and João Guido. The club will return again to the Second Division in the following season.

Results

Date	Opponents	H/A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance	League position
4 November 2016	Boavista Praia	A	1-0			8th
10 November 2016	Tchadense	H	0-1			12th
19 November 2016	Eugénio Lima	A	1-0			12th
4 December 2016	Sporting Praia	H	1-1			11th
11 December 2016	Benfica Praia	A	0-0			10th
16 December 2016	Académica Praia	H	1-2			10th
7 January 2017	Os Garridos	H	0-0			11th
15 January 2017	Travadores	A	3-1			11th
21 January 2017	ADESBA	H	0-1			11th
28 January 2017	Celtic	A	1-1			12th
3 February 2017	Desportivo Praia	H	0-4			12th
10 February 2017	Boavista	H	0-5			12th

Tchadense v Vitória

18 February 201713	Tchadense	3–1	Vitória	Praia
15:45		Report		Stadium: Várzea

Vitória v Eugénio Lima

25 February 201714	Vitória	0–1	Eugénio Lima	Praia
14:00		Report		Stadium: Várzea

Sporting Praia v Vitória

5 March 201713	Sporting Praia	7–0	Vitória	Praia
14:00		Report		Stadium: Várzea

Vitória v Benfica Praia

12 March 201716	Vitória	1–3	Benfica Praia	Praia
15:45		Report		Stadium: Várzea

Académica da Praia v Vitória

17 March 201717	Académica da Praia	2–1	Vitória	Praia
17:45		Report		Stadium: Várzea

Os Garridos v Vitória FC Praia

26 March 201718	Os Garridos	3–4	Vitória FC Praia	Praia
14:00		Report		Stadium: Várzea

Vitória v Travadores

1 April 201719	Vitória	1-2	Travadores	Praia
15:45		Report		Stadium: Várzea

ADESBA v Vitória

8 April 201720	ADESBA	1–2	Vitória	Praia
14:00		Report		Stadium: Várzea

Vitória FC Praia v Celtic

22 April 201721	Vitória FC Praia	1–0	Celtic	Praia
14:00		Report		Stadium: Várzea

Desportivo da Praia v Vitória FC

28 April 201722	Desportivo da Praia	2–1	Vitória FC	Praia
17:45		Report		Stadium: Várzea

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
11	Os Garridos	22	3	6	13	24	45	-21	15	Relegated to the Regional Second Division
12	Vitória Praia	22	3	4	15	16	44	-28	13

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
22	3	4	15	16	44	−28	13	1	2	8	5	20	−15	2	2	7	11	24	−13

Last updated: April 30, 2017.
Source: Rankings at rsssf

Santiago South Zone Cup

Vitória FC Praia came up at the round of 16 and faced Travadores for the Santiago South Zone Cup on 28 December, they made a goal draw and the club won the penalty shootouts 4–3 and advanced into the quarterfinals, originally for January 25, the match was rescheduled to February 21 and the match went to a goal draw, Vitória lost to Celtic in penalty kicks and is out of the competition.

Vitória FC v Travadores

28 December 20161/8 final	Vitória FC	1–1 (4–3 p)	Travadores	Praia
				Stadium: Várzea

Celtic da Praia v Vitória FC

21 February 20171/4 final	Celtic da Praia	1–1 (4–3 p)	Vitória FC	Praia
				Stadium: Várzea

Squad

As of 2 February 2017 ^[9]

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

No. Position Player Silas Damão S. Silva Élio Patrick C. Semedo Reginaldo Santos Lamas Audair Ferreira Olveira Manuel de Jesus F. Barros Ivandro Borges Cabral Maxi Iolando Fonseca

No. Position Player João Paulo da C. Lopes Wilker Estefâncio A. Fernandes Mario Mendes Rodrigues Rui Veloso M. Freire Edmir Gonçalves Geremias Gonçalves Brito

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From
2016		Audair Ferreira Olveira	Celtic da Praia
2016		João Paulo da C. Lopes	Desportivo da Praia

Club

Other information

As of 2016

Ground (capacity and dimensions)

Estádio da Várzea (5,000 / 108x69 m)

Last updated: May 2016
Source:^{[ citation needed ]}

Team kit

Home	Away/Alternate

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

References

1. Santiago South highlights at rsssf.com
2. "2016-17 Santiago South Premier Division: Round 4: Vitória da Praia vs. Sporting Praia". Konkuri. 4 December 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2017. 
3. "2016-17 Santiago South Premier Division: Round 5: Benfica Praia vs. Vitória da Praia". Konkuri. 7 December 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2017. 
4. "2016-17 Santiago South Premier Division: Round 7: Vitória da Praia vs. Os Garridos". Konkuri. 7 January 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2017. 
5. "2016-17 Santiago South Premier Division: Round 10: Celtic da Praia vs. Vitória da Praia". Konkuri. 28 January 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2017. 
6. "2016-17 Santiago South Premier Division: Round 18: Os Garridos vs. Vitória da Praia". Konkuri. 28 March 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2017. 
7. "2016-17 Santiago South Premier Division: Round 20: ADESBA vs. Vitória da Praia". Konkuri. 8 April 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2017. 
8. "2016-17 Santiago South Premier Division: Round 21: Vitória da Praia vs. Celtic da Praia". Konkuri. 22 April 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2017. 
9. "Scorer and squad statistics". Konkuri. Retrieved 12 December 2016. 

External links

• 2016-17 season at Konkuri - including the season's squad