AD Tira Chapéu

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AD Tira Chapéu
Full name Associação Desportivo de Tira Chapéu
Ground Eugénio Lima,
Estádio da Varzea
Praia
Ground Capacity 8,000
League Santiago South Premier Division
2017–18 11th, Relegated

Associação Desportivo de Tira Chapéu (Tira Chapéu Sports Association) is a football club that is member of the Santiago South Regional Football Association based in the subdivision of Tira Chapéu west of the plateau of Praia in Santiago, Cape Verde. It has its own small football (soccer) field which the club practices before its matches but plays at Estádio da Varzea, also they sometimes practices there.

Association football team field sport

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.

Santiago South Regional Football Association is a football (soccer) association covering the south of the island of Santiago, it is an affiliate of the Cape Verdean Football Federation. It is headquartered in the city of Praia. The association covers the municipalities of Praia, Ribeira Grande de Santiago and São Domingos.

Praia City in Santiago

Praia, is the capital and largest city of Cape Verde, an island nation in the Atlantic Ocean west of Senegal. It lies on the southern coast of Santiago island in the Sotavento Islands group. It is the island's ferry port and is home to one of the nation's four international airports. The city centre is known as Plateau due to its location on a small plateau.

Its logo has a sky blue square with a football (soccer ball) inside and an outer rim surrounding the ball reading the club name. Its uniforms are sky blue and white.

History

The club was registered for the first time alongside Relâmpago in 2016 and being the recent two clubs registered into the Santiago South Regional Football Association, more may become members as early as next season.

Tira Chapéu finished third in the Second Division behind GD Varanda, they had 10 wins, three draws and 3 points, Varanda scored 29 and the club scored 26. They were originally failed to qualify, a few months later in October before the start of the new season, Varanda withdrew and Tira Chapéu finally qualified and competed for the first time in the Premier Division for the 2017-18 season. They lost the first three matches but made their first Premier Division win on November 24 where they defeated Eugénio Lima. Their success were moderate, mid-season, it became worse and they mostly suffered losses, their fourth and last loss was on March 10 where they defeated Benfica. Their only victory over one of Praia's historically top five club was over CD Travadores made on December 28 before the end of 2017. The final match of the season was an 7-0 loss to AD Ribeira Grande which became their worst in club history and finished last, together with Eugénio Lima, they will be relegated next season with Tira Chapéu competing for the second time in the Second Division, their third overall.

CD Travadores association football club

Clube Desportivo Travadores is a football club in the Santiago South Premier Division in Cape Verde and are one of the unrelegated clubs of the Premier Division. It is based in the capital city of Praia, on the island of Santiago, and plays in a stadium with a capacity of 8,000. It is affiliated with S.L. Benfica and was the first Benfica affiliate in Cape Verde and the western part of West Africa. Its nicknames are indios and águias

In cup competitions, they played their first cup match at the First Round, they lost to Eugénio Lima, they returned to the 2017-18 season and started at a further Second Round, it was also unsuccessful for the club where they lost to Os Garridos. Tira Chapéu may be the only club who never scored any cup goals.

So far, Tira Chapéu has played a total of 44 football (soccer) matches, 42 championship and two cup matches.

Stadium

Estadio da Varzea, second home field of Tira Chapeu Varzea-2014.JPG
Estádio da Várzea, second home field of Tira Chapéu

The club has its own small field in the southeast by the boundary with Palmarejo but it is only used for practices. Tira Chapéu plays at Estádio da Várzea, a multi-use stadium in Praia, Cape Verde. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 8,000. The stadium has seat rows in the left and right sides and a small hill and a plateau lies to the west. Tira Chapéu also played at Estádio da Calabaceira when they were in the Second Division for a few matches.

It is played along with Praia's other and more famous teams including Sporting Praia, Boavista, Vitória FC Praia, Desportivo Praia, CD Travadores and Académica da Praia as well as Benfica da Praia in the same stadium. The club sometimes practices also at the stadium.

League and cup history

Island/Regional Championship

SeasonDiv.Pos.Pl.WDLGSGAGDP Cup Notes
2016–17 [1] 23 [lower-alpha 1] 1810352621+533 1st Round Promoted into the Premier Division in October
2017–18 [2] 2122241171657-5213 2nd Round To be relegated into the Second Division
Total:40144224278-5646

Statistics

Squad

As of March 2018 [3]

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

No.PositionPlayer
Flag of Cape Verde.svg Danielson Lopes
Flag of Cape Verde.svg Delcio Adair
Flag of Cape Verde.svg Djelson Tavares
Flag of Cape Verde.svg Evanilson Teixeira
Flag placeholder.svgElmar Evanir
Flag of Cape Verde.svg Anilton Fernandes
Flag of Cape Verde.svg Bruno Samir Lopes
Flag of Cape Verde.svg António Lima Monteiro
Flag of Cape Verde.svg Bruno Tavares Moreno
Flag of Cape Verde.svg Anilton Semedo
Flag of Cape Verde.svg Èlio Semedo
Flag of Cape Verde.svg Fernando da Costa Semedo

Championship record by opponent

Key

All-time championship record

Statistics correct as of the end of the 2017-18 Santiago South Premier Division season
AD Tira Chapéu championship record by opponent
ClubPWDLPWDLPWDLFAWin%
HomeAwayTotal
Académica da Praia Dagger-14-plain.png100110012002070%
Asa Grande1001110021015350%
AD Bairro Dagger-14-plain.png100110012002350%
Benfica da Praia Dagger-14-plain.png1001110021014450%
Boavista Praia Dagger-14-plain.png100110012002040%
Calabaceira Fiorentina11001100220053100%
Celtic da Praia Dagger-14-plain.png100110012002150%
GDRC Delta 1100100121011150%
Desportivo da Praia Dagger-14-plain.png100110012002080%
Kumunidadi1100100121012250%
Eugénio Lima FC Dagger-14-plain.png11001100220042100%
Relâmpago1100101021103150%
AD Ribeira Grande Dagger-14-plain.png20112101411211025%
Sporting Praia Dagger-14-plain.png100110012002150%
Tchadense Dagger-14-plain.png101011002110020%
CD Travadores Dagger-14-plain.png1100100121013750%
Unidos do Norte 1010110021104350%
GD Varanda 1001110021013350%
GDRC Vila Nova 1100100121012350%
Total2073102071124014622427829.55%

Overall end

Statistics correct as of the end of the 2017–18 Santiago South Premier Division season.
AD Tira Chapéu overall championship record by competition
CompetitionPWDLPWDLPWDLFAWin%
HomeAwayTotal
Santiago South Premier Division 1121811209224117165718.18%
Santiago South Second Division 95229513181035262155.56%
Total2073102071124014622427829.55%


Notes

  1. After Varanda withdrew, Tira Chapéu qualified into the Premier Division

References

  1. Batalha, José (9 November 2016). "2016/17 Santiago Island League (South)". RSSSF. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  2. Batalha, José (5 April 2018). "2017-18 Santiago South Premier Division". RSSSF. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  3. "Scorer and squad statistics". Konkuri. Retrieved April 14, 2018.