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| Full name | Associação Benfica Futebol Clube da Praia |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | Benfiquinha |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Ground | Estádio da Várzea Praia |
| Capacity | 8,000 |
| League | Santiago South Premier Division |
| 2017–18 | 10th |
| Website | Club website |
Associação Benfica Futebol Clube da Praia is a football club that plays in the Premier division of the Santiago South Regional Championships in Cape Verde. It is played along with Praia's three other famous teams in Estádio da Varzea, the club also practices at the stadium.
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.
The Santiago South Premier Division is a regional championship played in Santiago Island, Cape Verde and is a part of the Santiago South Zone Football Association. The winner of the championship plays in Cape Verdean football Championships of each season while the last two placed clubs relegates in the following season. In 2007 and 2013 when Sporting Praia automatically qualified in the championships as they won their national titles in the previous season, a second place club qualified to the national championships. The division features 12 clubs in the premier division for the second time, Varanda and Delta were relegated into the Second Division, Tchadense and Benfica were promoted last season.
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country spanning an archipelago of 10 volcanic islands in the central Atlantic Ocean. It forms part of the Macaronesia ecoregion, along with the Azores, Canary Islands, Madeira, and the Savage Isles. In ancient times these islands were referred to as "the Islands of the Blessed" or the "Fortunate Isles". Located 570 kilometres (350 mi) west of the Cape Verde Peninsula off the coast of Northwest Africa, the islands cover a combined area of slightly over 4,000 square kilometres (1,500 sq mi).
Its nickname is "Benfiquinha" and sometimes the club is being called Benfiquinha.
