2016–17 Vulcânicos FC season

Vulcânicos FC

2016–17 season
Chairman	Danildo Diniz
Manager	Manuel Ribeiro Raúl Santos
Stadium	Estádio 5 de Julho
Fogo Premier Division	Champion
Fogo Island Cup	Finalist
Home colours Away colours

The 2016–17 Vulcânicos FC (or Vulcânico) season were in the island and top division of Cape Verdean football. Again the season was successful for the club. The club won their 10th title which was also their second straight.^[1] Vulcânico will qualify into the regional Super Cup as champion, the next competition in three years.

Fogo Premier Division

The 2016-17 season was their second consecutive season that finished first place. Their first match of the season was with Cutelinho and nothing was scored which ended in a scoreless draw. A six match winning streak was next and defeated Valência, ABC Patim, Spartak d'Aguadinha, Baxada, Nô Pintcha dos Mosteiros and Juventude. In these matches, on December 22, Vulcânicos had their triumphant match defeating Baxada 10-0, the last one was quasi-triumphant as they defeated Juventude 2-6. A two goal draw was made in the derby with Académica do Fogo on January 29. The second part of their six match winning streak was made, first with Botafogo, then Cutelinho and the last two was Spartak whose result was 1-5 and Baxada with the score 8-1, their second triumphant and the club's third highest of the season. Vulcânico suffered a loss where they defeated Mosteiros' Nô Pintcha 2-1. On April 8, they defeated Juventude 1-10 and overthrew the club from further participation in the Second Division for the following season, their two 10 goal matches were also the region's highest up to April 23. Another draw was made in their derby with Académica, one less with just a goal scored each on April 16. Their final match of the season was a 5-0 win over Botafogo. Their championship hopes that day were nearly hanging on a thread as Académica's goal scored reached 50 but afterwards got the maximum of 61 for that club and achieved their second straight title as they finished with points tying their 2004 totals along with their 14 wins which were shared by Académica do Fogo. On their highest scoring matches of the season, it became second behind Académica's 14-0 win over Baxada in the region but not overall which is 3rd, two behind Nova Era's 0-20 win over Brasilim of the first phase of the Second Division. The club scored a total of 66 goals which became a club record for Vulcânico, also the only difference was they scored five more goals than Académica.

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

Fogo Island Cup

Vulcânico advanced up to the finals and lost the cup title to Académica do Fogo.

Fogo Island Super Cup

As champion, Vulcânico faced the cup winner Académica do Fogo on October 21 and claimed their next title in a decade.

Cape Verdean Football Championships

The 2017 National Championships season was the first reformatted into three groups. The club was placed in Group A. The season's first match which was to be on May 13 was delayed as a championship dispute in the Santiago South occurred that time, on May 17, the entrant became AJAC. Their first match was against Onze Unidos from Maio and lost 0-1. A single goal draw with São Nicolau's FC Ultramarina was made at the 3rd round, the match was played in Tarrafal de São Nicolau. On May 31, they played their rescheduled first round match with AJAC and made their only win to date 2-3 in Calheta. In their second rematch with AJAC, Vulcânicos lost it and even steven on goals scored to conceded at home, another loss to Onze Unidos was made at the fifth round and became eliminated from participation into the playoff stage together with AJAC, they were third and has 6 goals scored over AJAC's five, also Vulcânicos had a ratio of 5/6 goals scored and conceded away. Their second and last repeat of the suffering loss came to the club as they lost the final match of the season 1-2 to São Nicolau's Ultramarina and finished last in the group with 4 points, they had 7 goals scored, even with AJAC along with their goals conceded but a point less than AJAC's. All of its home matches ended in losses and had a 3 to 4 ratio of goals scored and conceded home and 5 to 6 away.

Squad

As of May 16, 2017^[2][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 GK Rolando Lopes 2 DF Nitchó 3 MF Victor Touré 4 DF Katio 5 DF Mané de Coia 7 MF Victor Piduca 8 MF Pilé 9 FW Kutchutcha[lower-alpha 1] 10 FW Adérito Andrade 11 MF Zé Batatinha 12 GK Lu 13 MF Kadú

No. Position Player 14 FW Kevy Badio 15 DF Mitchô 16 DF Deytchon 17 DF Vando 18 DF Branco 19 FW Badio 20 MF Kundum 21 MF Jú 22 MF Davi Alves 23 MF Kâ 25 FW Edgar Montrond

Club

The Management

Its chairman was Manuel Ribeiro up to May 2017 and after was taken by Raúl Santos. Its coach is Danildo Diniz.

Position	Staff
Manager	Danildo Diniz

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Other information

Chairman	Raúl Santos
Ground (capacity and dimensions)	Estádio 5 de Julho (1,000 / 100x65 m)

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Team kit

Home

Away

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References

External links

• Official website