2015–16 Desportivo da Praia season

Desportivo da Praia

2015–16 season
Chairman	Jorge Martins Andrade
Manager	Kuko
Stadium	Estádio da Várzea
Santiago Island League (South) 2016 Cape Verdean Football Championships	1st, Champion 3rd, Group A
Santiago South/Praia Cup	Unknown
Top goalscorer	League: Leonel Maldini Pereira (11) All: Leonel Maldini Pereira
Home colours Away colours

The 2015–16 Desportivo da Praia season were in the island division of football (soccer). The club was regional champion for the 2015-16 season.^[1]

The club scored 42 goals and had 14 wins, 5 ties, 3 losses and 47 points.

Santiago Island League (South)

The 2015-16 season would have a good start in the first few weeks, their first match was on November 15^[2] Their first match of the season was a scoreless draw to Eugênio Lima, a club formerly known as Lapaloma and was their first meeting. Desportivo's first win of the season was on November 20 and defeated Académica Praia by only one goal, the club's second consecutive win was over Delta and their positions hiked to second. Desportivo suffered after losing to their rival Boavista 0-1 and was fifth. Desportivo was lucky again as they defeated Vitória 0-1 on the last match of the year and returned to third. Desportivo's first match of 2016 was with Sporting Praia on January 9 and lost 1-2 but remained third. A week later, the club went to a goal draw with Garridos but their position dropped to sixth. Slowly the club peaked its positions for a few weeks as a two match winning streak followed, Desportivo defeated Celtic and then Travadores, the latter high scoring 0-5 which was Desportivo's second highest. Desportivo was fourth, on February 6, the club was tied with ADESBA by a goal and was ranked 5th. Afterwards a longer four game winning streak followed and defeated Varanda, Eugênio Lima, Académica and Delta, the latter which was on March 25 was the highest scoring which was later tied by Boavista. over a month later and a month after that became the second highest after Sporting Praia's, Desportivo's positions went up to second place. Desportivo went to a scoreless draw with Boavista and was still first. Boavista defeated Vitória 4-0 on March 25 and finally reached the number one position. A week later, Desportivo lost to Sporting 2-1 and was dropped to second and was the club's last loss of the season. Desportivo regained the number one position for the second time after defeating Garridos 3-1. Desportivo's final draw was with Celtic of Achadina de Baixo by a goal, their position was dropped to third. Desportivo defeated Travadores 2-0, the first of their three-game winning streak, with minimal differences, Desportivo stayed at the number one spot for the rest of the season, Desportivo defeated ADESBA and finally Varanda, the final match of the season had Desportivo got the power to kick out Varanda out of the Premier Division in the following season and prevented Varanda from having a point over Garridos and remain in the Premier Division. Desportivo won with 47 points and claimed their next regional championship in 26 years and the first after the split into the two zones. The club in some years qualified into the national championships, their second as regional winner. The club again competed in the national championships in three years.

Desportivo Praia scored a total number of 42 goals, third after Boavista and Sporting Praia,^[1] Leonel Pereira Almeira scored the most numbering 11, nearly a quarter of the total.^[3] 8 of the 14 wins were at home, 24 of the 42 goals scored were at home, two draws were at home while four were away, only a loss was away. Of twelve goals that Desportivo conceded, each of the six goals conceded were home and away.

Cape Verdean National League

Their last appearance was in 2013 as they qualified as second place. The club came as a regional champion into the national level. The club participated in Group A, their first match was round 2 and challenged CD Sinagoga for the first time, the match was a scoreless draw. Round 3 match featured SC Atlético and ended in 3-0. Due to a major rivalry between two clubs from different parts of the island and league. Desportivo challenged Round 1 with Varandinha, their first match against each other and lost 1-3 on June 1, the match was also the last meeting as a single island and from two parts. Desportivo Praia faced FC Derby and lost 2-1 to that club. The final match which was on June 11 was their first against Sporting Brava and defeated that club 2-1. The club finished third with two wins, seven goals scored and seven points. The club was out of the national championships afterwards and their national season was finished.

Squad statistics

As of 21 November 2015^[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 Ailton Filomena Varela 2 António Gomes Correia 3 Ariano Edgar Sanches 4 DF Belssed Andrade M. Teixeira 5 Bruno Miguel Correia 6 Délcio António Carvalho 7 Danielson Tavares 8 Esmael Guilherme Ferreira 9 Euclides T. Monteiro 10 Fávio Miguel Monteiro

No. Position Player 11 Geginando P. Tavares 12 Gilson Henrique de Pina 13 Isaias Furtado Rocha 14 José dos Santos Rodrigues 15 Jeorginho Daniel de Pina 16 João Paulo C. Lopes 17 Keven dos Reis 18 Leonel Maldini Pereira 19 Luis Filipe G. Ribeiro 20 GK Patrick Brandão

Top scorers

	Scorer	No. of goals
1	Leonel Maldini Pereira	11

• Source:^[3]

Transfers

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To
2016		João Paulo da C. Lopes	Vitória FC Praia
Late 2016	DF	M. Teixeira	Sporting Clube da Praia

Club

Jorge Martins Andrade was chairman of the club and Kuku was its president.

The Management

Position	Staff
Manager and head coach	Kuko

Last updated: May 2016
Source: http://www.fa.gov.cv/index.php/desportivo-da-praia-futebol

Other information

As of 2016

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

Last updated: May 2016
Source:http://www.fa.gov.cv/index.php/desportivo-da-praia-futebol

Team kit

Home	Away/Alternate

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Notes

References

External links

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