2008 Cape Verdean Football Championships

The 2008 Cape Verdean Football Championships season was the 29th of the competition of the first-tier football in Cape Verde. Its started on 10 May and finished on 16 August, later than the last season. The tournament was organized by the Cape Verdean Football Federation.[1] Sporting would win their 7th title and third straight after defeating Académica do Mindelo in penalty kicks. Sporting gained entry into the 2009 CAF Champions League, it is the last club to enter to date. No second place club would participate in the 2009 CAF Confederation Cup.

Cape Verdean Football Championship
Season2008
ChampionsSporting Clube da Praia
Champions LeagueSporting Clube da Praia
Matches played36
Goals scored107 (2.97 per match)
Top goalscorer Fufuco (7)
Biggest home winAD Bairro and Sporting Praia
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Overview

Sporting Clube da Praia was the defending team of the title. A total of 12 clubs participated in the competition, one from each island league and one who won the last season's title. As Sporting Praia won the 2007 national title, Académica da Praia, runner-up of the island division would compete in the championships.

The season at the time made Sporting Praia to be the first club to win three back-to-back titles. It was the only club that got three titles until 2015 when CS Mindelense became the second club to win three back-to-back titles in 2015.

The biggest win were AD Bairro and Sporting Praia who scored 6 each match, Bairro against Fiorentina and Sporting Praia against Corôa. Two matches which one team scored the highest point and the season was not the retelling of high scoring records. Derby won all five matches in any of the group stages, the first since two teams were added in 2003, it was the only club to do so until 2012. Derby won the most matches at the national championships and remains one of the records as of 2016.

There were no competitions on the third week of May (May 17 & 18) due to the 2008 local elections.

Platini played his last match for Sporting Praia and a Cape Verdean team on the second leg of the finals before moving to Académica de Coimbra in Portugal in the following season.

The semifinals were originally scheduled for July 5 to 11, as an ineligible player was fielded, they were rescheduled to July 26 and August 2 and the finals on August 9 and 16. It interrupted the 2nd Cape Verdean Cup which was to take place in August, it was indeed cancelled, the second edition of the cup took place in the following year.

The next such rescheduling was in 2017 between Ultramarina Tarrafal of São Nicolau and Mindelo's Mindelense of São Vicente as Estádio Orlando Rodrigues had no extra keys for opening its doors so players can play a first leg match along with the personnel.

Participating clubs

Information about the clubs
Club Location Stadium
Académica da CalhetaCalheta do Maio20 de Janeiro
Académica (Fogo)São Filipe5 de Julho
Académico do AeroportoEspargosMarcelo Leitão
Associação Desportiva do BairroPraiaVárzea
GD CorôaVila Nova SintraAquiles de Oliveira
FC DerbyMindeloAdérito Sena
Grupo Desportivo, Recreativo e Cultural FiorentinaPorto NovoAmílcar Cabral
Desportivo Ribeira BravaRibeira BravaJoão de Deus
SC Sal ReiSal ReiArsénio Ramos
Scorpion VermelhoSanta Cruz25 de Julho
SolpontensePonta do SolEstádio João Serra
Sporting Clube da PraiaPraiaVárzea

League standings

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1Sporting Clube da Praia5401153+1212
2Académica (Fogo)531196+310
3Académico do Aeroporto531175+210
4Sal-Rei FC512258-35
5Desportivo Ribeira Brava511326-44
6GD Corôa 5014313-101

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1FC Derby5500143+1115
2AD Bairro5221125+78
3Académica da Calheta52218808
4Solpontense Futebol Clube520357-26
5Fiorentina Porto Novo502328-62
6Scorpion Vermelho502328-62

Results
Week 1
Home Score Visitor Date
Sal Rei 0 - 1 Académico Aeroporto 10 May
Sporting Praia 2 - 0 Ribeira Brava 10 May
Corôa 0 - 2 Académica Fogo 8 June
Derby 4 - 1 Scorpion Vermelho 10 May
Académica Calheta 1 - 0 Solpotense 10 May
Bairro 6 - 1 Fiorentina 8 June
Week 2
Home Score Visitor Date
Académica Fogo 4 - 1 Sal Rei 24 May
Académico Aeroporto 1 - 3 Sporting Praia 24 May
Ribeira Brava 1 - 0 Corôa 25 May
Scorpion Vermelho 0 - 0 Bairro 24 May
Fiorentina 2 - 3 Académica Calheta 24 May
Solpotense 0 - 1 Derby 15 May
Week 3
Home Score Visitor Date
Sal Rei 2 - 1 Sporting Praia 31 May
Académica Fogo 2 - 1 Ribeira Brava 31 May
Corôa 1 - 2 Académico Aeroporto 1 June
Bairro 3 - 0 Solpotense 31 May
Académica Calheta 1 - 3 Derby 31 May
Fiorentina 1 - 0 Scorpion Vermelho 31 May
Week 4
Home Score Visitor Date
Sporting Praia 6 - 0 Corôa 14 June
Académica Fogo 1 - 1 Académico Aeroporto 14 June
Ribeira Brava 0 - 0 Sal Rei 15 June
Derby 1 - 0 Bairro 14 June
Fiorentina 1 - 2 Solpotense 14 June
Scorpion Vermelho canc. Académica Calheta 15 June
Week 5
Home Score Visitor Date
Sporting Praia 3 - 0 Académica Fogo 28 June
Académico Aeroporto 2 - 0 Ribeira Brava 28 June
Corôa 2 - 2 Sal Rei 29 June
Derby 5 - 1 Fiorentina 28 June
Solpotense 3 - 1 Scorpion Vermelho 28 June
Bairro 3 - 3 Académica Calheta 5 June

Final Stages
Semi-Finals Finals
Académica (Fogo) 1 1 2
FC Derby 2 3 5 FC Derby 1 0 1
AD Bairro 3 0 3 Sporting Clube da Praia 0 3 3
Sporting Clube da Praia 2 2 4

Semi-finals
AD Bairro3:2Sporting Clube da Praia
Académica do Fogo1:2FC Derby
Estadio 5 de Julho
São Filipe
Sporting Clube da Praia2:0AD Bairro
FC Derby2:1Académica do Fogo

Finals
FC Derby1:0Sporting Clube da Praia
Nelson  36'
Sporting Clube da Praia3:0FC Derby
Zé di Tchetcha  1'  21'
Platini  64'
Cape Verdean Football 2008
Champions
Sporting Clube da Praia
7th title

Statistics

See also

Footnotes
  1. 2008 Cape Verdean Football Championships at RSSSF
  • "Federação Caboverdiana de Futebol" (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-07-20.
  • 2008 Cape Verdean Football Championships at RSSSF
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