2000 Cape Verdean Football Championships

Cape Verdean Football Championship
Season	2000
Champions	FC Derby
Matches played	10
Goals scored	19 (1.9 per match)
Biggest home win	Académica Operária
Biggest away win	several clubs
	← 1999 2001 →

The 2000 Cape Verdean Football Championship season was the 21st of the competition of the first-tier football in Cape Verde. The competition started on 13 August and finished on 10 September, it started and finished later due to the 2000 Amílcar Cabral Cup that took place at Estádio da Várzea from May 4 to 14. The tournament was organized by the Cape Verdean Football Federation.^[1] FC Derby won their second title and later participated in the 2001 CAF Champions League the following year. Sporting Clube da Praia would be the only time that a non-participant would participate in the 2000 CAF Winners Cup, the criteria for qualification was not continued.^[2]

Overview

The league was contested by 7 teams with FC Derby winning the championship.^[1]

GD Amarantes was the defending team of the title but was no participant in the competition. A total of 7 clubs (4 in Group A, 3 in Group B) participated in the competition, one from each island league, no club came from the islands of Brava and Maio as the competition was cancelled for the season. The season had a shorter 2-3 matches in Group A and 2 matches in Group B. There were only 10 matches, the total number of goals scored was only a low 19.

It was the last season they used the group system with the final matches, they would use the common ranking system with the club with the most points winning the title the following season. Not until the 2003 season they would use the group system with 4 matches and with playoffs though the semis would be added.

It marked the final appearance of GD Palmeira of Santa Maria at the national championship competition, their next national appearance for that club was the 2012 Cape Verdean Cup.

Participants

Participating football (soccer) clubs of the 2000 Cape Verdean Football Championships (Cape Verde)

Académica Operária, winner of the Boa Vista Island League
Vulcânicos FC, winner of the Fogo Island League
GD Palmeira, winner of the Sal Island League
CD Travadores, winner of the Santiago Island League.
Solpontense Futebol Clube, winner of the Santo Antão Island League
SC Atlético, winner of the São Nicolau Island League
FC Derby, winner of the São Vicente Island League

Information about the clubs

Club	Location
Académica Operária	Sal Rei
SC Atlético	Ribeira Brava
FC Derby	Mindelo
GD Palmeira	Santa Maria
Solpontense Futebol Clube	Ponta do Sol
CD Travadores	Praia
Vulcânicos	São Filipe

League standings

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Académica Operária	3	1	2	0	6	3	+3	5
2	SC Atlético	3	1	2	0	5	4	+1	5
3	Solpontense	2	0	1	1	2	3	-1	1
4	CD Travadores	2	0	1	1	1	4	-3	1

Club	Atl	Sol	Tra
Académica Operária	2-2	1-1	3-0
SC Atlético		2-1	1-1
Solpontense Futebol Clube			4-0
CD Travadores

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Futebol Clube Derby	2	1	1	0	1	0	+1	4
2	Vulcânicos	2	1	0	1	1	1	0	3
3	Grupo Desportivo Palmeira	2	0	1	1	0	1	-1	1

Club	Vul	Pal
FC Derby	1-0	0-0
Vulcânicos		1-0
GD Palmeira

Results

Week 1
Home	Score	Visitor	Date
Solpontense FC	1 - 1	Académica Operária	13 August
CD Travadores	1 - 1	SC Atlético	13 August
Vulcânicos FC	0 - 1	FC Derby	13 August
Week 2
Home	Score	Visitor	Date
SC Atlético	2 - 1	Solpontense FC	20 August
Académica Operária	3 - 0	CD Travadores	20 August
GD Palmeira	0 - 1	Vulcânicos FC	20 August
Week 3
Home	Score	Visitor	Date
CD Travadores	-	Solpontense FC	27 August^[a]
SC Atlético	2 - 2	Académica Operária	27 August
FC Derby	0 - 0	GD Palmeira	27 August

Positions by round

Group A

Team/Round	01	02	03
Académica Operária	1	1	1
SC Atlético	1	2	2
Solpontense	1	3	3
CD Travadores	1	4	4

Group B

Team/Round	01	02	03
FC Derby	1	1	1
GD Palmeira	3'	3	3
Vulcânicos	2	2	2

Finals

3 September 2000

FC Derby	1:1	Académica Operária
Colega 45'		Eli 31'

Estádio Municipal Adérito Sena
Mindelo on São Vicente Island

10 September 2000

Académica Operária	0:1	FC Derby
		Ica 70'

Sal Rei on Boa Vista Island

Cape Verdean Football 2000 Champions
FC Derby 2nd title

Statistics

Highest scoring match: Académica Operária 3 - 0 CD Travadores (20 August)

Notes

^ No match took place

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b "Cape Verde Islands 2000".
^ The criteria for qualification of Sporting Clube da Praia into the 2001 CAF Winners' Cup was not continued

External links

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[2] The criteria for qualification of Sporting Clube da Praia into the 2001 CAF Winners' Cup was not continued

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