2017–18 Celtic da Praia season

Celtic da Praia

2017–18 season
Manager	Gildo de Ribeira
Stadium	Estádio da Várzea
Santiago South Premier Division	3rd place
Santiago South Cup	Semifinalist
Home colours Away colours
← 2016–17

The 2017–18 Celtic da Praia season were in the island division of football (soccer). ^[1]

Santiago South Premier Division

Celtic started off moderate for the 2017-18 season, at the third round, they achieved first place. At the fifth round with 13 points, one ahead of Académica, at the sixth round, Celtic defeated Benfica 3-0 and had 16 points, they were three ahead of Boavista, Celtic scored the most for a few rounds, and had 11 goals, shared with Praia's one of four best (historically five best) clubs Sporting Praia. Celtic defeated Tira Chapéu 3-1. As Sporting had 17 points last season at the 7th round, Celtic has 19 points at the round and was still the one with first place in the region, 14 goals they scored and that ranking fell to fourth behind Sporting. A failure later that Celtic would made as they lost to almighty Sporting 1-2 on December 29 and this season the last club to get a loss in Santiago South early. Celtic would become second place in recent rounds after Académica Praia's rescheduled matches were made, their recent win was a Ribeira Grande ruing Celtic's loss to Sporting. Celtic had 25 points up to the 11th round. Celtic lost to Acaémica 0-1 on January 14 and lost a position to Boavista and became third, ahead of almighty Sporting. Celtic attempted their battle to return to second place and be one of the city's (and Sotavento's) mightiest clubs, they won it with a 2-1 victory over the mighty Boavista and was second alongside Boavista with 28 points. Celtic recently made a goal draw with Desportivo, their next draw in eight matches, Boavista's win over Tira Chapéu lost Celtic's position down to third with 29 points. Celtic made two more wins, first 2-0 over ailing Eugénio Lima at round 14 and was another back to back win for Celtic, also Celtic's 24 goal total matches Sporting this round and remains third in Santiago South. Then, they defeated Bairro 3-1, wins made by the top two clubs Boavista and Académica prevented a chance for Celtic being first, they were third with 35 points and remain even to Celtic's loss to Tchadense with the score 0-1 which was on February 17 but one opportunity on their never-ever chance for a regional title and national championship participation is now mostly lost. Celtic has 27 goals and have become one of the club records in goal scoring in Santiago South and their 11 wins matches that of the 2015-16 season. Celtic's loss also prevented the club from tying their 2015-16 club record in points which was 38, it remained prevented into the next round as they made a two goal draw with Benfica instead of a new pinnacle Celtlc would have reached with 39 points. Celtic is still third, but dissolved their half of the attempt of a championship title and a national championship participation due to Académica Praia's victory over Boavista, both continue to have two positions over Celtic with Académica being first. Celtic finally reached a new pinnacle of point totals surpassed their 38 made in the 2016 season as Celtic defeated AD Tira Chapéu (their second meeting) which that club has a possibility of facing relegation, the result was 0-2. Due to Académica's win, Celtic had a few remaining chances left of possibly claiming a regional title. Also one small chance of making a seasonal goal record is there as they had 31 goals scored, the record is 36 goals made in the 2002-03 season and Celtic may have made a season win record with 12, exceeding their 11 made in the 2015-16 season. Celtic made their 13th win as they defeated Travadores 2-1 on March 10, their wins became a record, 33 goals are scored, the same with Sporting, their point record continued to soar with their 42. Due to Académica's win, Celtic had one final chance of claiming a regional title and earning their national participation. Celtic played with almighty Sporting and another loss Celtic suffered with the result 1-0 and failed to make their records continue including their 14th win and what shattered in its entirety, a regional championship title. Celtic met Ribeira Grande and the match ended in a loss to a lesser powerful club at the 21st round, the score was 1-2, Celtic finished third this season, their final match was against Académica, both clubs were making club records the latter regional. Celtic won for their club record gain as they gladly defeated Académica 1-2 and made their final club record of 14 wins along with their 45 points, they also scored 36 goals matching to their 2003 club record. Overall, their 45 points in Santiago South are the top 25 highest since the implementation of the three point for a win system in the mid-1990s. Their third place position for Celtic became their greatest.

Date	Opponents	H/A	Result		Championship position
			F	A
November 4, 2017	Boavista Praia	H	1	0	5th
November 11, 2017	Desportivo da Praia	H	1	0
November 18, 2017	Eugénio Lima	A	4	0
November 26, 2017	ADESBA	H	1	0
December 3, 2017	Tchadense	A	1	1
December 8, 2017	Benfica Praia	H	3	0
December 17, 2017	AD Tira Chapéu	H	3	1
December 23, 2017	CD Travadores	A	2	0	2nd
December 29, 2017	Sporting Praia	A	1	2	2nd
January 10, 2018	AD Ribeira Grande	A	2	1	2nd
January 14, 2018	Académica Praia	H	0	1	3rd
January 19, 2018	Boavista Praia	A	2	0	2nd
January 27, 2018	Desportivo da Praia	A	1	1	3rd
February 3, 2018	Eugénio Lima	H	2	0	3rd
February 11, 2018	ADESBA	A	3	1	3rd
February 18, 2018	Tchadense	H	0	1	3rd
February 23, 2018	Benfica Praia	A	2	2	3rd
March 4, 2018	AD Tira Chapéu	A	2	0	3rd
March 10, 2018	CD Travadores	H	2	1	3rd
March 17, 2018	Sporting Praia	H	0	1	3rd
March 24, 2018	AD Ribeira Grande	H	1	2	3rd
March 31, 2018	Académica Praia	A	2	1	3rd

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion/Relegation
2	Boavista Praia	22	16	3	3	55	13	+42	51	None
3	Celtic da Praia	22	14	3	5	36	17	+19	45	None
4	Sporting Clube da Praia	22	12	5	5	39	17	+22	31	Advanced into the National Division as 2017 national champions

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	14	3	5	36	15	+21	45	7	0	4	14	7	+7	7	3	1	22	8	+14

Last updated: April 1, 2018.
Source: Rankings at rsssf

Santiago South Cup

Celtic started off the regional cup competition at the second round and defeated the same club in the round AD Bairro on December 20, 2017, this time in the penalty shootout with the result 8-7 as the match ended without any goals scored. Their next challenge was on January 24, a quarterfinal match with Os Garridos, overall their next challenge with that club as that club is again a Second Division club. Celtic defeated Os Garridos 3-0 and will proceed to the semis and face Travadores.

Date	Opponents	Result		Penalty shootout
		F	A
December 20, 2017	ADESBA	0	0	8-7
January 24, 2018	Os Garridos	3	0

Squad

As of 30 April 2017 ^[2]

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

No. Position Player Ivanir Barreto Edgar Moreno Mendes Pedro Manuel R. Fernandes Danielson Tavares José Pedro M. Tavares MF Michael Henry Amadi João Janito Gomes

No. Position Player José Pedro M. Tavares Vilton Lúcio Manuel Fernandes Ailton Jorge Lopes Danielson Kennedy C. Lopes FW José Augusto Rocha

Club

The Management

Position	Staff
Manager and head coach	Gildo Ribeiro

Last updated: 5 February 2017
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Other information

As of 2016

Ground (capacity and dimensions)

Estádio da Várzea (5,000 / 108x69 m)

Last updated: November 2017
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Team kit

Home	Away/Alternate

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References

1. Santiago South, past and current highlights at rsssf.com
2. "Scorer and squad statistics". Konkuri. Retrieved 2018-01-18. 

External links

• Celtic Praia's 2017-18 squad at Konkuri
• Celtic Praia at Sports Mídia (in Portuguese), includes the squad section