2015–16 Boavista (Praia) football season

Boavista Praia

2015–16 season
Chairman	Luis Manuel Semedo
Manager	Joel de Castro
Stadium	Estádio da Várzea
Santiago Island League (South)	2nd place
Santiago South/Praia Cup	Unknown
Top goalscorer	Matxona (16)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

The 2015–16 Boavista Praia season were in the island division of football (soccer). The club finished second after Desportivo da Praia.^[1]

The club scored 45 goals and had 14 wins, 4 ties, 4 losses and 46 points.

Santiago Island League (South)

The 2015-16 season would have a bad then rough start in the first few weeks, their first match was on November 14^[2] with Travadores and lost to that club 0-1 their second rival to Sporting Praia. ADESBA was their second match which ended in a draw with a goal each. Boavista had a two-game winning streak and edfeated Varanda and Desportivo da Praia, each with a goal. The year's last match on December 18 lost to Académica 1-5 and was 8th. The first match of 2016 which was on 10 January featured Delta 1-0, from there, Boavista went on a six-game winning streak, and their positions rose, the club defeated the newcomer Eugênio Lima, Vitória, Sporting Os Garridos and Celtic and achieved the number one spot for only one week. On February 19, Boavista suffered a two-game losing streak and lost to Travadores and ADESBA, the second one had no goals. The club defeated Varanda 0-2 on March 5, there the positions fell to fourth and went to a scoreless draw with Desportivo on March 12. Another win followed after defeating Académica Praia and then a scoreless draw with the last placed Delta on April 3. Boavista defeated Eugênio Lima with 7-1, the highest of the season that was later shared by Sporting at the final week, also it had a large goal difference until that time. The club was no longer 4th after defeating Vitória 2-3. Boavista finished with a two-goal draw with Sporting on April 24 and both conceded the last goals of the season, for the last time, the club was again 4th. Boavista defeated Os Garridos for the second time 0-4 on April 29 and was 3rd again. Boavista's next win away was on December 18, 2016. The final match of the season was victorious as they defeated Celtic and finished second.

Boavista Praia scored a total number of 45 goals, second after Sporting Praia and befpre Desportivo, Matxona scored the most numbering 16, nearly a third of the total.^[1] Of the 14 wins, 9 or 2/3 of the matches were won away. 27 goals or 60% were scored away.

Santiago South Cup

The club reached up to the cup finals as of late April 2016. The match was to feature Boavista and Delta. Originally for May 2016, the match was rescheduled for another year and will be playing on April 15, 2017. In November, the 2016-17 Cup started and is the first time that the 2016 Cup is taking place within the 2017 Cup. Also the 2015-16 Super Cup was delayed. The last cancellation of the Super Cup was in 2010 in São Vicente where it was delayed for a year.

The cup took place and ended in a goal draw which led into a penalty shootout. Boavista, the city's top four club lost the title to Delta and finished as a finalist for the season. It was Boavista's recent appearance at a cup competition above the Round of 8 competitions. Boavista originally qualified into the regional super cup, later the 2015-16 super cup was cancelled.

Squad statistics

As of 21 November 2015^[3][4]

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

No. Position Player 1 Nana (Dinilson Duarte) 2 Cachito (Ailton Rodrigues) 3 Wily[lower-alpha 1] (Willan) Lima 4 Romário Cabral 5 Zequinha (Zeca) Soares 6 Edidi or Katio (Edson Correia) 7 Ciutre (Márcio da Veiga) 8 Ridney Mané 9 Lé (António dos Santos) 10 Nilton Tavares 11 Nedil (Carlos Ferreira) 12 Gerson (Geordanio Andrade) 13 Lito (Paulo Semedo)

No. Position Player 14 MF Dário Furtado 15 Lambreta (Agilson Garcia) 16 MF Palo (Paulino) Araújo 17 Djordy[lower-alpha 2] Gomes 18 Arlindo (Narcelino (Marcelino) Vaz da Costa) 19 Tá (Otaviano Pachi) 20 Vika (Rosalvo Fontes) 21 Toyzito (Nelson Martins) 22 Michel Guilavogui[lower-alpha 3] 23 Matxona (Márcio Tavares) 24 FW Patrick (Fábio Fernandes) 25 Xibaca (Paulo de Pina) 26 Tatá (Edmilson da Veiga)

Top scorers

	Scorer	No. of goals
1	Matxona	16
2	Toyzito	8
3	Michel Guilavogui	7

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From
2016	FW	Matthew Mbutidem Sunday	Nigeria
2016		Ciutre
2016		Lé
2016		Nedil
2016	MF	Dário Furtado	Sporting Clube da Praia
2016		Arlindo
2016		Tá
2016		Michel Guilavogui
2016		Xibaka	CS Mindelense
2016		Tatá

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To
late-2015	MF	Dário	retired, became manager
2016		Cachito
2016		Djordy Gomes	ADESBA
2016		Lambreta
mid-2016	FW	Mbutidem Sunday	Sporting Praia
2016		Nedil
mid-2016	MF	Palo	Sporting Praia
2016		Willy
mid-2016	FW	Patrick	Oliveira do Hospital

Club

Luis Manuel Semedo was chairman of the club. The next Portuguese coach in decades would be Joel de Castro who previously coached Spartak d'Aguadinha for the 2014-15 season.^[5] He was preceded in the last season by Nelito Antunes and was also succeeded by the same in the following season.

The Management

Position	Staff
Manager and head coach	Joel de Castro

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

Other information

As of 2016

Chairman	Luis Manuel Semedo
Ground (capacity and dimensions)	Estádio da Várzea (8,000 / 108x69 m)

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

Team kit

Home

Away/Alternate

Third colours

Source:

Notes

References

External links

• Boavista Praia's 2015/16 squad and stats at Konkuri