2017–18 Desportivo da Praia season

Desportivo da Praia

2017–18 season
Chairman	Jorge Martins Andrade
Manager	Kuko
Stadium	Estádio da Várzea
Santiago South Premier Division	7th place
Santiago South Cup	1st Round
Home colours Away colours
← 2016–17

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

Friendly competitions

GAFT Cup

Desportivo advanced up to the finals where they would lose to Benfica de Santa Cruz on October 28.

Date	Opponents	Result
		F	A
October 13	Boavista da Praia	2	1
October 24	Sporting Praia	1-1 (4-3 pen)
October 28	Benfica de Santa Cruz	0-0 (3-4 pen)

Santiago South Premier Division

Desportivo Praia started the regional 2017-18 season with two straight losses before they made a win over the newcomer Tira Chapéu on November 17, another was made over the historically mighty Travadores a week later. A draw with almighty Sporting was followed. On December 10, they defeated AD Ribeira Grande before a loss to Académica was made. Their December 23 match with Boavista was delayed due to no referees appeared in the match, rescheduled for January 9, they lost 3-1. Desportivo made another win on December 20 over Benfica, then a two-goal draw with Eugénio Lima was made at the fifty day of 2018 in January. Recently Desportivo made a goal draw with ADESBA and is fifth with 15 points, three ahead of ADESBA and nine less than almighty Sporting. Desportivo failed to make another win as they lost again to Tchadense, this time with the score 2-1, the club's fifth of the season but is still fifth, with 11 points behind fourth placed Sporting. Another draw was next with a goal made with Celtic. Desportivo now has 16 points, shared alongside Tchadense, Ribeira Grande and ADESBA though their position dropped to 7th as they scored 13 goals. A round later, win number four came to Desportivo and made it the club's highest scoring match (third overall in Santiago South) of the season with the score 0-5 over newcomer Tira Chapéu and returned the 5th position to Desportivo and had 18 goals scored in total, a second straight win (fifth win of the season) was made on February 10 over CD Travadores who once had their successful seasons up to the late 2010s and has 22 points, at the time it was six less than Sporting's and scored more than 20 goals. In the next round, Desportivo suffered their next loss in four matches, to almighty Sporting with the score 2-0 and was nine point less than Sporting. Desportivo's 22 points are shared with Tchadense and Bairro, the only difference is Desportivo had 21 goals, a goal more than Tchadense. Desportivo suffered a second straight loss and no a goal scored in the last two matches, they lost to Ribeira Grande 0-2 on February 25, they also lost a position to Tchadense and is now 6th, their goal totals were shared with Bairro. Desportivo was even Steven to their goals scored and conceded. Straight loss number three came as they lost to the mighty Académica at the 18th round and their goal conceded was one more than their goals scored. Their 22 points totals are now shared with Ribeira Grande and no longer with Tchadense. No minimal relief came as they lost to another powerful club of Boavista 0-4 and made their fourth straight loss and four weeks without another goal scored. Desportivo had nine points above 11th placed Tira Chapéu which was also the relegation zone. Desportivo was seventh with 22 points alongside Ribeira Grande, they had two goals more than that club. Desportivo suffered their fifth straight loss as they lost 1-2 to Benfica on March 20, nonetheless the club entirely escaped a chance of being relegated. Desportivo remains seventh with 22 points, their difference is 22 goals over Ribeira Grande's 19. Desportivo's goals are also being shared with Bairro and ninth placed Travadores, also sharing is their six wins with Travadores. On March 25, Desportivo defeated Eugênio Lima with the score 1-4 and threw that club into the Second Division for next season. Their 25 points were shared with Ribeira Grande and Bairro, Desportivo conceded 29 goals made the club sixth One more match to go and was with Bairro, it ended in a goal draw again with that club and finished seventh with 26 points sharing Bairros', the main difference was they scored 27 goals, four more than that club.

Date	Opponents	H/A	Result		Championship position
			F	A
November 5, 2017	Tchadense	H	0	3	10th
November 11, 2017	Celtic da Praia	A	0	1	9th
November 17, 2017	AD Tira Chapéu	H	3	0
November 25, 2017	CD Travadores	A	1	0
December 1, 2017	Sporting Praia	H	0	0
December 10, 2017	AD Ribeira Grande	A	1	0
December 16, 2017	Académica da Praia	H	0	3	6th
January 9, 2018 [lower-alpha 1]	Boavista Praia	H	1	3
December 30, 2017	Benfica da Praia	A	2	0
January 5, 2018	Eugénio Lima	A	2	2	5th
January 13, 2018	ADESBA	A	1	1	5th
January 20, 2018	Tchadense	A	1	2	5th
January 27, 2018	Celtic da Praia	H	1	1	7th
February 2, 2018	AD Tira Chapéu	A	5	0	5th
February 10, 2018	CD Travadores	H	3	1	5th
February 16, 2018	Sporting Praia	A	0	2	5th
February 25, 2018	AD Ribeira Grande	H	0	2	6th
March 2, 2018	Académica Praia	A	0	1	5th
March 9, 2018	Boavista Praia	H	0	4	7th
March 18, 2018	Benfica da Praia	H	1	2	7th
March 25, 2018	Eugénio Lima	H	4	1	6th
March 31, 2018	AD Bairro	H	1	1	7th

1. Originally for December 23, during the scheduled match, no referees showed up which made the match to be rescheduled, no date has been announced

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
6	AD Ribeira Grande	22	9	1	12	28	30	-2	28
7	Desportivo da Praia	22	7	5	10	27	30	-3	26
8	AD Bairro	22	7	5	10	23	38	-15	26

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	7	5	10	27	30	−3	26	3	3	5	14	21	−7	4	2	5	13	9	+4

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

Santiago South Cup

Desportivo lost to Desportivo 2-1 in the first round on December 13 and was kicked out from further competition for the season.

Date	Opponents	Result
		F	A
December 13	Desportivo da Praia	1	2

Current squad

As of August 2017 ^[2]

No.	Pos.	Name	Age	Regional
				Goals
-	-	José Edlly Soares de Carvalho
-	-	Euclides Tavares Monteiro
-	FW	Ro (Óscar Romário Lopes Vaz)
-	-	Silvério o Rosário Sanches Lopes
-	-	Wilson Patrick Tavares

Club

The Management

Jorge Martins Andrade continues to be president and Kuko continues to be coach.

The Management

Position	Staff
Manager and head coach	Kuko

Last updated: November 2016
Source:http://www.scp.cv

Other information

As of 2016

Chairman	Jorge Martins Andrade
Ground (capacity and dimensions)	Estádio da Várzea (8,000 / 108x69 m)

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

Team kit

Home	Away/Alternate

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

References

1. Santiago South, past and current highlights at rsssf.com
2. "Statistics of the 2017-18 Santiago South Zone football (soccer) season". Konkuri. 

External links

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