Cape Verdean football clubs in African competitions

Cape Verdean football clubs have participated in African football competitions since 1992 when Sporting Praia took part in the African Club of Championships Clubs. In total, six Cape Verdean clubs have participated in African competitions, only one SC Atlético was disqualified as the federation did not name their entrant on time. Only Sporting, Boavista and Travadores, the top three of Praia competed more than once in its competitions, of which Sporting and Travadores are the only ones who competed more than once at the championships and Boavista in two of its continental competitions. The biggest success was the First Round of continental championships, Sporting in 1992, Boavista in 1996 and again Sporting in 2008.

The last appearance of a Cape Verdean club at CAF competitions was in 2009, due to financial concerns and minimal scheduling difficulties, neither club have qualified into the CAF Champions League. Never any Cape Verdean club competed at the CAF Confederation Cup, founded in 2004 after the merger of both CAF Cup Winners' Cup and the CAF Cup. Even that the Cape Verdean Cup were held in 2007, 2009, 2010 and in 2012, neither club qualified into the CAF Confederation Cup due to financial problems.

Cape Verde has recently become one of the African nations who had the least participations at the CAF competitions, one of the nations such as Chad who first competed nearly the same time in the 1990s has more presentations at CAF Competitions than in Cape Verde. One example that Cape Verde has more appearances at the CAF competitions is they have more than São Tomè and Príncipe.

No announcement has recently been made for the national champion to compete in the upcoming 2018 CAF Champions League.

Appearances in CAF competitions

	CAF Champions League					CAF Confederation Cup (includes CAF Cup Winners' Cup)			CAF Cup				Total
Sporting Praia	5	13	3	3	7	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	7	14	3	3	8
CD Travadores	2	4	0	1	3	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	3	6	0	3	3
Boavista Praia	1	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	2	4	0	0	4
Académica do Sal	1	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	1
FC Derby	1	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	1
CS Mindelense	1	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	1

African Cup of Champions Clubs/CAF Champions League

Season	Club	Round	Opponent	Home	Away
1992	Sporting Praia	Preliminary Round	Port Autonome (Dakar)	0–0	0–0 (3–1 p.)
1992	Sporting Praia	First Round	Club Africain	0–0	3–1
1993	CS Mindelense	Preliminary Round	ASEC Ndiambour	1–1	2–1
1994	Académica do Sal	Preliminary Round	SONADER Ksar	0–0	2–0
1995	CD Travadores	Preliminary Round	Real de Banjul	0–0	1–0
1996	Boavista FC	Preliminary Round	ASC Sonalec	canc.	canc.
1996	Boavista FC	First Round	JS Kabylie	1–2	2–0
1997	CD Travadores	Preliminary Round	USM Alger	1–3	6–1
2000	Sporting Praia	Preliminary Round	AS Tempête Mocaf	2–3	0–1 (a)
2001	FC Derby	Preliminary Round	Real Banjul	0–0	1–0
2007	Sporting Praia	Preliminary Round	Fello Star	0–1	w/o²
2008	Sporting Praia	Preliminary Round	FAR Rabat	0–3	3–0 (5–4 p)
2008	Sporting Praia	First Round	Inter Luanda	2–1	0–1 (a)
2009	Sporting Praia	Preliminary Round	FAR Rabat	0–6	1–0

African (CAF) Cup Winner's Cup/CAF Confederation Cup

Season	Club	Round	Opponent	Home	Away
2001	Sporting Praia	Preliminary Round	Gazelle FC	2–5	w/o¹

CAF Cup

Season	Club	Round	Opponent	Home	Away
1993	CD Travadores	First Round	ASC Air Mauritanie	0–0	0–0
1994	Boavista Praia	First Round	Diamond Stars	1–4	3–1
1995	SC Atlético	First Round	ES Sahel	dq¹

¹ SC Atlético was disqualified as the federation did not name its entrant in time

¹ Sporting Praia withdrew

² Sporting Praia withdrew due to the Guinean Civil War that was taking place that year

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