2018 Cape Verdean Football Championships

The 2018 Cape Verdean Football Championship season is the 39th beginner level (likely amateur) competition of the first-tier football in Cape Verde. Also it was another season that it was sponsored by a clothing company Tecnicil, it was also known as the 2018 Cape Verdean Tecnicil football season or the 2018 Tecnicil Football Championships. The championship was governed by the Cape Verdean Football Federation.[1] The season began earlier started on 7 April 2018 and finished on 2 June.

Cape Verdean Football Championships
Season2018
ChampionsAcadémica da Praia
Matches played41
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Académica da Praia won their only national championship title,[2][3] their last Cape Verdean title was won in 1965 which was a provincial title, used until independence in 1975. Académica Praia will likely to participate in the CAF Champions League competition in 2018, no runner-up of the championships, Mindelense will participate in the 2017 CAF Confederation Cup

Overview

The triangular phase was used for the second straight time, fifth overall, it was also the second season with four clubs each and with playoffs. A total of 12 clubs participated in the competition, one from each island league and one who won the last season's title. The top club from each group qualified for the first time as well as the club with the most points of a second position of each group qualified into the semis.

The finals featured only one leg, the last time that the championship had one leg was in 1985. The final was played in Porto Novo, the most populated place in the island of Santo Antão. A week after the championship final, the cup final took place.

A total of 12 clubs participated in the national championship (Campeonato Nacional).[4] Cape Verdean clubs of the nine inhabited islands played between late 2017 and early 2018 in the eleven regional leagues (Santiago and Santo Antão ha stwo each), where each championship (league) winner qualified for the national championship.[5] The defending champions Sporting Praia also qualified, the club finished fourth in the regional season, four positions Académica Praia, made the next few seasons that a club qualified only as 2017 national champions.

The season was the second time featuring three groups where the top three qualifies alongside the second placed club with the most points (if one has the same, it may include the most goals scored) into the knockout phase.

FC Belo Horizonte, based in Juncalinho in the east of São Nicolau was the recent first timer into the national championships, also it was the next from that island in nearly 28 years being fourth ever.

Group A featured the champions of Boa Vista, Santo Antão South, Santiago South and São Vicente, Group B featured the champions of Brava, Santo Antão North, Santiago North and São Nicolau and Group C featured the national champion of the previous season and champions of Fogo, Maio and Sal.

Académica Praia and Mindelense met three times in the season, the group stage and the final, the next in two seasons, also it was the first that the club met twice in group stage and once in the final.

Participating clubs
Team Qualifying method Group
Sporting Clube da Praia Winner of the 2017 Cape Verdean Football Championships Group C
Sport Sal Rei Club Winner of the Boa Vista Island League Group A
SC Morabeza Winner of the Brava Island Championships Group B
Vulcânicos FC Winner of the Fogo Premier Division Group C
Barreirense FC Winner of the Maio Premier Division Group C
Palmeira Sta. Maria Winner of the Sal Premier Division Group C
CD Scorpion Vermelho Winner of the Santiago North Premier Division Group B
Académica da Praia Winner of the Santiago South Premier Division Group A
Os Foguetões Winner of the Santo Antão North Premier Division Group B
Académica do Porto Novo Winner of the Santo Antão South Island Championships Group A
Belo Horizonte Juncalinho Winner of the São Nicolau Island League Group B
CS Mindelense Winner of the São Vicente Premier Division Group A

Group stage

Final table.

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1Académica da Praia632164+211
2CS Mindelense[lower-alpha 1]624064+210
3Académica Porto Novo622287+18
4Sport Sal Rei Club6024510-52
  1. Qualified as the first of three clubs finished second of each group

Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1CD Os Foguetões632154+111
2CD Scorpion Vermelho[lower-alpha 1]623186+29
3FC Belo Horizonte[lower-alpha 2]623195+49
4SC Morabeza6105411-73
  1. Scorpion Vermelho finished second as they had 2 away goals
  2. FC Belo Horizonte finished third as they had one away goal

Group C
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1GD Palmeira631287+110
2Sporting Clube da Praia62225508
3Vulcânico CF62224408
4Barreirense FC613278-16

Knockout stage

Semifinals
Semi-Finals Finals
CS Mindelense 2 1 3
GD Palmeira 1 0 1 Académica da Praia 2
Académica da Praia 0 1 2 CS Mindelense 1
Os Foguetões 0 0 0

First legs
CS Mindelense2-1GD Palmeira
Estádio Adérito Sena,
Mindelo
Os Foguteões0-0Académica da Praia
GD Palmeira1-0CS Mindelense
Académica da Praia1-0Os Foguetões

Final
CS Mindelense0-2 (a.e.t.)Académica da Praia
Ró  112'
Mike  119'
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: António Rodrigues
 Cape Verdean Football 2018 Champions 
Académica da Praia
1st title

See also

Notes

    References
    1. "2018 Cape Verdean Football Championships at RSSSF". 6 June 2018. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
    2. "Futebol/Cabo Verde: Presidente da República Felicita Académica da Praia Título de Campeão de Cabo Verde" (in Portuguese). Desporto Sapo PT. 8 June 2018. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
    3. "Académica da Praia Campeã de Cabo Verde Pela Segunda Vez na Sua História" [Académica da Praia, Capeverdean Champions for the Second Time in History]. Desporto Sapo (in Portuguese). 2 June 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
    4. Cape Verde Islands 2017/18, RSSSF.com
    5. "Campeonato Cabo Verde: Jorge Santos dá "Nota Positiva" à Organização da Final". Desporto Sapo PT (in Portuguese). 3 June 2018. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
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