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| Full name | Bequia United Football Club |
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| Founded | 2012 |
| Ground | Clive Tannis Playing Field, Port Elizabeth |
| Capacity | 500 |
| League | NLA Premier League |
| 2018 | 9th |
Bequia United Football Club is a Vincentian football club from Port Elizabeth, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The club plays in the NLA Premier League, the highest tier of football in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the Caribbean. It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean.
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