2015–16 Sporting Clube da Praia season

Sporting Clube da Praia

2015–16 season
Chairman	Paulo Veiga
Manager	Janito Carvalho
Stadium	Estádio da Várzea
Santiago Island League (South)	3rd place
Santiago South/Praia Cup	Quarterfinalist
Top goalscorer	António Correia (14)
Home colours Away colours

The 2015–16 Sporting Clube da Praia season were in the island division of football (soccer). The club finished 3rd after Boavista FC.^[1][2]

The club scored 49 goals and had 13 wins, 7 ties, 2 losses and 46 points. More than a quarter of the goals scored were two matches with Vitória and Eugênio Lima, 18 or 36.7% with the match with Varanda.

Santiago Island League (South)

The 2015-16 season would have a good start, the club was unranked for the first two weeks as he second week match was rescheduled to November 25 from the 14.^[3] The club lost to Celtic for the second week match, it was the only one lost away and was eleventh, the first week match rescheduled and defeated Os Garridos club 2-1. Another victory occurred after winning over Travadores, Sporting had its formal position of being fourth, week 4's match was a draw with ADESBA. Two victories followed over Varanda and Desportivo, in between the clubs took the holiday break, followed by two draws to Académica and Delta, then Sporting was fourth. The final loss was to Boavista at home on January 31 as the club scored nothing and the club was fifth. The club went for a three-game winning streak, first over Vitória 6-1 where they regained the fourth-place position, then Eugênio Lima, a club once known as Lapaloma and Os Garridos where they picked up to third on February 20. The match with Vitória was the club's second biggest win A goal draw was followed by Celtic at home, Sporting defeated Travadores on March 5 and a scoreless draw with ADESBA followed. A two match winning streak was next over Varanda 0-4 which was the club's fourth biggest and Desportivo Praia and Sporting reached the first position, a two-goal draw with Académica dropped the club's position to third again. Sporting defeated last placed Delta on April 17 and regained the number one spot for the last time, it made Delta, the match was the first week 19 match and of the additional four matches, it was also the club's third biggest win. Sporting went to a two-goal draw with Boavista Praia and was dropped to third, Sporting's last goals conceded for the season. The week 21 match was saw Sporting defeating Vitória at home 1-0, the final match had a huge win over Eugênio Lima 0-7 on May 8, it shared with Desportivo with the highest scoring match in the region but it had the region's biggest win of any club of the season.

Sporting Praia scored a total number of 49 goals nearly double than last season and had the region's highest goal total ahead of Boavista's and Desportivo's.^[1] Sporting again started having most of the goals away numbering 30 or 61.2%, nearly half were two matches, VItória and Eugênio Lima, and 60% with a match with Varanda added, 19 or less than 40% were scored at home, a quarter was scored during a match with Delta. The win ratio was a match more at home, in draws, a match more away. 70% of the goals conceded were away and numbered 12.

António Correia was second in individual goal scoring for the Santiago South Zone number 14 and the most in the club, second was Euclides Ramos Mendonça who scored nine which was fifth in the region.

Squad statistics

As of March 2016^[4][5][6]

No.	Pos.	Name	Age	Previous club	Regional
					Goals
1	DF	Madjer	age 29	CD Travadores
2	DF	Beto (Walter Jorge Monteiro)	age 23
4	DF	Victor Alberto Silva Dias	age 25
5	DF	Fred (Steven Frederico Fernandes)	age 27
6	MF	Vava (Manuel Sebastião Ribeiro)	age 27
7	FW	Rodi/Rody (Roditley José Duarte)	age 24	Politehncia Timișoara
9	FW	Ró (Oscar Romário Vas)	age 26
10	DF	Dá (Odiar Moisés Vieira)	age 26
12	DF	Miká (Mikael M. Fernandes)	age 27
13	DF	Panduru	age 19	Sal Rei (youth club)
14		Bada (Maldin dos Santos Almeida)	age 21
15	MF	Lé (Lenin Junior Gonçalves)	age 28
16	GK	Kelvi Lévi Lopes	age 22	Sal Rei
17	MF	Kadú	age 36	CD Travadores
18	DF	João Paulo Ferreira	age 24	Vitória FC
19	MF	Tigana	age 32	Boavista FC
20		Génesis Cardoso Moteiro
21	FW	Euclides R. Mendoça			9
22	FW	Gily (Carlos Manuel Lima)
23	FW	Gaussou Bakayoko	age 25
24	FW	António Correia			14
25	FW	Alberto Cardoso
26	MF	Admar Bruno G. Almeida
27	FW	Sissoko	age 23	Garridos

Transfers

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To
2016	MF	Ro (Óscar Romário Lopes Vaz)	Desportivo da Praia
2016	DF	Beto (Walter Jorge Monteiro)
2016	DF	Fred (Steven Fernandes)	Os Garridos
2016	DF	Vava
2016	FW	Rody
2016	DF	Dá
2016	DF	Mika	Académica da Praia
2016		Bada
2016	MF	Lé
2016	FW	Sissoko
2016	DF	João Paulo Ferreira	CD Travadores

Club

Paulo Veiga was chairman of the club for the last season, Carlos Daniel Caetano would be the next in the following season in October 2016. Janito Carvalho once again coached Sporting Praia but for a season, for the 2016-17 season, he would coach Académica da Praia.

The Management

Position	Staff
Manager and head coach	Janito Carvalho

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

Other information

As of 2016

Chairman	Paul Veiga
Assistant manager	Dino
Goalkeeping coach	Berra
Team chef	Nelson/ Manú (as of 2012/13 season)
Ground (capacity and dimensions)	Estádio da Várzea (8,000 / 108x69 m)

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

Team kit

Home

Away

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Notes

References

External links

• Official website
• Sporting Praia's 2015/16 squad and stats at Konkuri