2005 Cape Verdean Football Championships

The 2005 Cape Verdean Football Championship season was the 26th of the competition of the first-tier football in Cape Verde. Its started on 14 May and finished on 16 July, earlier than the last season. The tournament was organized by the Cape Verdean Football Federation.[1] FC Derby won the 3rd title and did not receive entry to the 2006 CAF Champions League. No second place club would also receive entry to the 2006 CAF Confederation Cup

Cape Verdean Football Championships
Season2005
ChampionsFC Derby
Matches played35
Goals scored146 (4.17 per match)
Top goalscorerZé di Tchétcha (14)
Biggest home winSporting Praia
Biggest away winFC Derby
Highest scoringSporting Praia
2004
2006

Overview

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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. The season would be the first to have 12 titles for Sporting Praia.

Also it was the only time that a participant from Boa Vista (Desportivo Estância Baixo) came from the Rabil area and Estância de Baixo and the first time that a participant from the north of Santiago was from the municipality of Calheta de São Miguel and was Flor Jovem.

The season would break national records even in scoring, the annual goal totals was 146, Derby scored a record 10-1 against Académica from Porto Novo, later Sporting Praia first scored 6 against Morabeza two weeks later scored a record 13 against Estância Baixo, they would score 6 again in the semis and removing Sal Rei from the finals. Other high scoring matches were Académica from Fogo scored 6 against Morabeza and Derby scored 7 points against Morabeza. Sporting Praia had a record of 35 goals scored (24 in the regular season) and remains unbeaten as of 2016, while Derby scored a record 32 goals (23 in the regular season) . Also in the competition record was the scorer Zé di Tchétcha of Sporting Praia who scored 14 goals and remains unbeaten as of 2015. The Flor Jovem-Paulense match was cancelled and neither two would advance into the playoffs.

Two clubs from Santo Antão who played in the same group had their first meeting since the break-up into the two zones.

Participating clubs

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Information about the clubs

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Club Location
Associação Académica do Fogo São Filipe
Associação Académica do Porto Novo Porto Novo
Académica do Sal Espargos
FC Derby Mindelo
Desportivo Estância Baixo Estancia de Baixo
Flor Jovem Calheta de São Miguel
SC Morabeza Vila Nova Sintra
Onze Unidos Vila do Maio
Paulense Desportivo Clube Paúl
Desportivo Ribeira Brava Ribeira Brava
SC Sal Rei Sal Rei
Sporting Clube da Praia Praia

League standings

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Group A

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Associação Académica do Sal 5 4 1 0 10 4 +6 13
2 SC Sal Rei 5 3 1 1 9 6 +3 10
3 Associação Académica do Fogo 5 2 1 2 10 7 +3 10
4 Paulense Desportivo Clube 4 1 1 2 7 6 +1 4
5 Desportivo Ribeira Brava 5 0 3 2 4 9 -5 3
6 Flor Jovem 4 0 1 3 4 12 -8 1

Group B

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Sporting Clube da Praia 5 4 1 0 24 2 +22 13
2 FC Derby 5 4 1 0 23 3 +20 13
3 Onze Unidos 5 3 0 2 11 7 +4 9
4 Associação Académica do Porto Novo 5 2 0 3 9 18 -9 6
5 Desportivo Estância Baixo 5 1 0 4 7 26 -19 3
6 SC Morabeza 5 0 0 5 4 22 -18 0

Results

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Week 1
Home Score Visitor Date
Ribeira Brava 0 - 3 Paulense 14 May
Académica Fogo 0 - 1 Sal Rei 14 May
Flor Jovem 1 - 2 Académica Sal 5 June
Estância Baixo 1 - 2 Derby 14 May
Académica Porto Novo 3 - 1 Morabeza 14 May
Sporting Praia 2 - 0 Onze Unidos 5 June
Week 2
Home Score Visitor Date
Paulense 2 - 2 Académica Fogo 21 May
Académica Sal 1 - 1 Ribeira Brava 21 May
Sal Rei 3 - 1 Flor Jovem 21 May
Derby 10 - 1 Académica Porto Novo 21 May
Onze Unidos 5 - 1 Estância Baixo 21 May
Morabeza 1 - 6 Sporting Praia 22 May
Week 3
Home Score Visitor Date
Paulense 1 - 2 Académica Sal 28 May
Ribeira Brava 2 - 2 Sal Rei 28 May
Académica Fogo 6 - 1 Flor Jovem 28 May
Derby 3 - 0 Onze Unidos 28 May
Estância Baixo 3 - 2 Morabeza 28 May
Académica Porto Novo 0 - 2 Sporting Praia 28 May
Week 4
Home Score Visitor Date
Académica Sal 3 - 0 Académica Fogo 11 June
Sal Rei 2 - 1 Paulense 11 June
Flor Jovem 1 - 1 Ribeira Brava 11 June
Onze Unidos 3- 1 Académica Porto Novo 11 June
Sporting Praia 13 - 0 Estância Baixo 11 June
Morabeza 0 - 7 Derby 12 June
Week 5
Home Score Visitor Date
Académica Sal 2 - 1 Sal Rei 18 June
Académica Fogo 2 - 0 Ribeira Brava 18 June
Flor Jovem cancelled Paulense 19 June
Onze Unidos 3 - 0 Morabeza[a] 18 June
Sporting Praia 1 - 1 Derby 18 June
Académica Porto Novo 4 - 2 Estância Baixo 18 June

Final Stages

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Semi-Finals Finals
Sal-Rei FC 2 1 3
Sporting Clube da Praia 1 6 7 Sporting Clube da Praia 1 3 4
FC Derby 4 0 4 FC Derby 1 4 5
Académica (Espargos) 1 0 1

Semi-finals

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Sal-Rei FC2:1Sporting Clube da Praia
Ravs   40'
Cai   90'
João di Lélé   2'
FC Derby4:1Académica (Espargos)
Neu   12'
Amadeu   29'
Pate   78'
Bafa   81'
Bento   34'
Estadio Alcindo Nascimento
Mindelo
Sporting Clube da Praia6:1Sal-Rei FC
Zé di Tchetcha    
João di Lélé  
Gerson  
Di II  
Ravs  
Académica (Espargos)0:0FC Derby

Finals

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Sporting Clube da Praia1:1FC Derby
Di I   43' Kely   56'
FC Derby4:3Sporting Clube da Praia
Paty   15'  48'
Tubola   41'
Djica   80'
Kula (OG)   85'
Di I   87'
Zé di Tchetcha   90'
Estadio Alcindo Nascimento
Mindelo
Cape Verdean Football 2005
Champions
FC Derby
3rd title

Statistics

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  • Top scorer: Zé di Tchecha (14 goals) (Sporting Praia)
  • Biggest win: Sporting Praia 13-0 Estância Baixo (June 11)

Notes

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  1. ^ Morabeza did not show up, Onze Unidos was awarded 3-0

Footnotes

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