2016 Cape Verdean Football Championships

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Cape Verdean Football Championship
Season2016
Champions CS Mindelense
Matches played36
Goals scored88 (2.44 per match)
Biggest home winMindelense
Biggest away winMindelense
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The 2016 Cape Verdean Football Championship season was the 37th beginner level (likely amateur) competition of the first-tier football in Cape Verde. It started on 14 May and finished on 9 July, it started five days later than last season and finished two days earlier, the season was a week shorter than last. The championship was governed by the Cape Verdean Football Federation. [1] The scheduling was completed on November 16 and the group system was kept instead of becoming a one portion season without playoffs and was the last time. [2] CS Mindelense won the record breaking title and became the second club after Sporting Praia to win four in a row, the highest ever, also it was Mindelense's last. Mindelense chose to not participate in the CAF Champions League competition in 2017, Académica do Porto Novo did not participate in the 2017 CAF Confederation Cup, both of the clubs due to financial concerns, of any club, it is the eighth consecutive time and becomes the recent African nation not to bring a champion to the continentals for the most consecutive years, in the cup competition, Cape Verde is the longest for not bringing a club in Africa lasting for more than 15 years straight, not even the three national cup winners competed. Mindelense qualified and participated in the 2017 National Championships.

Contents

Overview

The triangular phase started to be used for the 2017 season, it became the fourth time and first with four clubs each and with playoffs. [3]

CS Mindelense was the defending team of the title. A total of 12 clubs participated in the competition, one from each island league and one who won the last season's title. The finals had two matches, Académica scored the first and Mindelense score the second leg, each with a goal, the second match went into extra time and again went into the penalty shootout, this was the first time that the season had the finals with two consecutive penalty shootouts, Mindelense won the shootout by four and claimed the recent national title.

Six clubs returned again, Desportivo da Praia returned in three years, Sport Sal Rei Club returned in five years and Vulcânicos returned in several years, Sinagoga of Santo Antão and Varandinha of Tarrafal de Santiago, two clubs competed for the first time. Varandinha's appearance was the first from the Santiago North Zone into the semifinals. At the finals, it was the sixth time that the two clubs were from Barlavento known as the Battle of Barlavento.

The biggest win was Mindelense, who scored 5-2 over Sal Rei from Boa Vista, the rest of the matches had a maximum of three goals in some of its matches as it was a low scoring season, one fifth approximately of last season, though overall are ranked third, the second highest match was Varandinha - Mindelense who Mindelense won 1-4. In Group A, neither club scored ten goals while only Mindelense from Group B scored eleven, the second club in the group scored eight and was fifth placed Sal Rei. Vulcânicos scored the fewest with two goals. Overall, Mindelense scored 16 goals, Derby and Varandinha second with ten goals and Académica Porto Novo and Sal Rei fourth with eight goals.

One match, Desportivo Praia and Varandinha originally for mid-May, on May 13, it was rescheduled to June 1, [4] the main reason that on an April 3 match (19th round) featuring Desportivo Santa Cruz and Scorpion Vermelho that Desportivo fielded an ineligible player, it occurred after the goals were scored and the award to Scorpion Vermelho in mid-May was revoked and the 2-0 result was kept along with Varandinha first championship title. The next such delay was in 2017.

Participating clubs

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Participating football (soccer) clubs of the 2016 Cape Verdean Football Championships (Cape Verde)

Information about the clubs

ClubLocationVenueCapacity
Académico 83 Vila do Maio 20 de Janeiro 4,000
Académica do Porto Novo Porto Novo Porto Novo 8,000
Académico do Aeroporto Espargos Marcelo Leitão 8,000
SC Atlético Ribeira Brava Orlando Rodrígues 5,000
Desportivo da Praia Praia Várzea 12,000
FC Derby Mindelo Adérito Sena 5,000
Mindelense MindeloAdérito Sena5,000
Clube Desportivo Sinagoga Sinagoga João Serra 2,000
Sport Sal Rei Club Sal Rei Arsénio Ramos 500
Sporting Clube da Brava Nova Sintra Aquiles d'Oliveira 500
GD Varandinha Tarrafal Mangue
Vulcânicos São Filipe 5 de Julho 1,000

Italics indicates a team playing in a stadium in a different town or city.

League standings

Group A

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
1 FC Derby 541082+613
2 GD Varandinha 531194+510
3 Desportivo da Praia 521276+17
4 Sporting Clube da Brava 520367-16
5 SC Atlético 5113510-54
6 CD Sinagoga 5023410-62

Group B

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
1 CS Mindelense (C)5320113+811
2 Académica do Porto Novo 532061+511
3 Académico do Aeroporto 52124407
4 Académico 83 512258-35
5 Sport Sal Rei Club 5113811-34
6 Vulcânicos 510429-73

Results

Week 1
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Sinagoga2 - 3Sporting Brava15 May
Derby3 - 1SC Atletico15 May
Desportivo Praia1 - 3Varadinha1 June
Académico Aeroporto3 - 0Academico 8314 May
Sal Rei3 - 0Vulcânicos14 May
Mindelense1 - 1Académica do Porto Novo14 May
Week 2
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Sinagoga0 - 0Desportivo Praia21 May
Varadinha0 - 0Derby21 May
SC Atletico1 - 0Sporting Brava21 May
Académico Aeroporto1 - 0Sal Rei21 May
Vulcânicos0 - 3Mindelense22 May
Académica do Porto Novo2 - 0Academico 8322 May
Week 3
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Varadinha3 - 0Sinagoga28 May
Desportivo Praia3 - 0SC Atletico28 May
Sporting Brava0 - 1Derby29 May
Vulcânicos2 - 0Académico Aeroporto28 May
Sal Rei0 - 2Académica do Porto Novo28 May
Academico 830 - 0Mindelense28 May
Week 4
HomeScoreVisitorDate
SC Atletico2 - 2Sinagoga4 June
Sporting Brava2 - 1Varadinha5 June
Derby2 - 1Desportivo Praia5 June
Academico 832 - 0Vulcânicos4 June
Mindelense5 - 2Sal Rei4 June
Académica do Porto Novo0 - 0Académico Aeroporto5 June
Week 5
HomeScoreVisitorDate
Sinagoga0 - 2Derby11 June
Desportivo Praia2 - 1Sporting Brava11 June
Varadinha2 - 1SC Atletico11 June
Académico Aeroporto0 - 2Mindelense12 June
Vulcânicos0 - 1Académica do Porto Novo12 June
Sal Rei3 - 3Academico 8312 June

Final stages

Semi-Finals Finals
FC Derby 0 2 2
Académica do Porto Novo 0 2 2 CS Mindelense 0 1 1
CS Mindelense 4 2 6 Académica do Porto Novo 1 0 0
GD Varandinha 1 0 1

Semi-finals

[1]

Varandinha 1:4 CS Mindelense
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FC Derby 2:2 Académica do Porto Novo
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CS Mindelense 2:0 Varandinha
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Mindelo

Finals

CS Mindelense 0:1Académica do Porto Novo
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Estádio Municipal Adérito Sena
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Referee: António Rodrigues
Académica do Porto Novo 0:1 CS Mindelense
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Penalties
4-5
Municipal de Porto Novo
Porto Novo
Referee: Jaime Figueiredo
Cape Verdean Football 2016
Champions
CS Mindelense
12th title

Statistics

See also

Related Research Articles

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