2007 Cape Verdean Football Championships

The 2007 Cape Verdean Football Championship season was the 28th of the competition of the first-tier football in Cape Verde. Its started on 12 May and finished on 21 July, earlier than the last season. The tournament was organized by the Cape Verdean Football Federation.[1] Sporting would win their 6th title and second straight after defeating Académica do Mindelo under the away goals rule, the only time it happened, the scorer was Dário who scored their only goal at the finals during stoppage time. They would have entry to the 2008 CAF Champions League. No second place team would also participate in the 2008 CAF Confederation Cup

Cape Verdean Football Championship
Season2007
ChampionsSporting Clube da Praia
Matches played36
Goals scored93 (2.58 per match)
Top goalscorerKadú (9)
Biggest home winAcadémico do Aeroporto
Highest scoringAcadémica do Mindelo
2006
2008

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. As Sporting Praia won the 2006 national title, Académica da Praia, runner-up of the island division would compete in the championships.

The season at the time would have the second club to win two back-to-back titles after CS Mindelense in 1976 and 1977.

Scorpion Vermelho was the first participant of the north of Santiago that came from the municipality of Santa Cruz.

The biggest win was Académico do Aeroporto who won 8-0 against Sporting from Porto Novo, the most goals was Académica do Mindelo. In the knockout stage, three of the four clubs would be with the name Académic-, The Battle of Académica would feature two homonymous clubs from Praia and Mindelo and the latter would win two goals (one per match).

Participating clubs

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Information about the clubs

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Club Location
Académica da Calheta Calheta
Académica (Mindelo) Mindelo
Académica da Praia Praia
Académico do Aeroporto Espargos
SC Morabeza Vila Nova Sintra
Rosariense Clube Ribeira Grande
SC Sal Rei Sal Rei
Scorpion Vermelho Santa Cruz
Sporting Clube da Praia Praia
Sporting Clube do Porto Novo Porto Novo
FC Ultramarina Tarrafal de São Nicolau
Vulcânicos FC São Filipe

League standings

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Group A

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Académica do Mindelo 5 4 1 0 16 0 +16 13
2 Sporting Clube da Praia 5 3 1 1 11 1 +10 10
3 SC Sal Rei 5 2 2 1 6 9 -3 8
4 FC Ultramarina 5 2 2 1 6 9 -3 8
5 SC Morabeza 5 0 2 3 3 10 -7 2
6 Académica da Calheta 5 0 2 3 3 13 -10 2

Group B

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Académico do Aeroporto 5 3 2 0 10 3 +7 11
2 Académica da Praia 5 3 1 1 6 3 +3 10
3 Vulcânicos FC 5 3 0 2 8 5 +3 9
4 Rosariense Clube 5 2 1 2 5 3 +3 7
5 Scorpion Vermelho 5 2 0 3 5 5 0 6
6 Sporting Clube do Porto Novo 5 0 0 5 5 20 -15 0

Results

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Week 1
Home Score Visitor Date
Ultramarina 0 - 3 Académico Mindelo 12 May
Sporting Praia 5 - 0 Académica Calheta 13 May
Morabeza 1 - 3 Sal Rei 31 May
Académico Aeroporto 8 - 3 Sporting Porto Novo 12 May
Scorpion Vermelho 1 - 0 Rosariense 13 May
Académica Praia 1 - 0 Vulcânicos 30 May
Week 2
Home Score Visitor Date
Académica Calheta 0 - 1 Ultramarina 19 May
Sal Rei 1 - 0 Sporting Praia 19 May
Académico Mindelo 3 - 0 Morabeza 20 May
Sporting Porto Novo 0 - 2 Scorpion Vermelho 19 May
Rosariense 2 - 1 Académica Praia 19 May
Vulcânicos 0 - 1 Académico Aeroporto 19 May
Week 3
Home Score Visitor Date
Ultramarina 0 - 0 Sal Rei 26 May
Académico Mindelo 4 - 0 Académica Calheta 26 May
Morabeza 0 - 2 Sporting Praia 26 May
Académica Praia 0 - 0 Académico Aeroporto 26 May
Rosariense 3 - 0 Sporting Porto Novo 26 May
Scorpion Vermelho 2 - 3 Vulcânicos 27 May
Week 4
Home Score Visitor Date
Sporting Praia 4 - 0 Ultramarina 9 June
Académico Mindelo 6 - 0 Sal Rei 9 June
Académica Calheta 1 - 1 Morabeza 9 June
Sporting Porto Novo 1 - 3 Académica Praia 9 June
Académico Aeroporto 1 - 0 Scorpion Vermelho 9 June
Rosariense 0 - 1 Vulcânicos 9 June
Week 5
Home Score Visitor Date
Ultramarina 1 - 1 Morabeza 17 June
Sporting Praia 0 - 0 Académico Mindelo 23 June
Sal Rei 2 - 2 Académica Calheta 23 June
Académico Aeroporto 0 - 0 Rosariense 24 June
Vulcânicos 4 - 1 Sporting Porto Novo 24 June
Scorpion Vermelho 0 - 1 Académica Praia 24 June

Final Stages

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Semi-Finals Finals
Sporting Clube da Praia 3 3 6
Académico do Aeroporto 2 1 3 Sporting Clube da Praia 0 1 1
Académica da Praia 0 0 0 Académica do Mindelo 0 1 1
Académica do Mindelo 1 1 2

Semi-finals

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Sporting Clube da Praia3:2Académico do Aeroporto
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  • Alex   93'
Académica da Praia0:1Académica do Mindelo
  • Adelino   81'
Académico do Aeroporto1:3Sporting Clube da Praia
Académica do Mindelo1:0Académica da Praia
Referee: Isaias Livramento

Finals

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Sporting Clube da Praia0:0Académica do Mindelo
Referee: Nelson Barbosa
Académica do Mindelo1:1Sporting Clube da Praia
Kelly   70' Dário   90+4'

Sporting Praia won all two legs under away goals rule and claimed the national title.

Cape Verdean Football 2007
Champions
Sporting Clube da Praia
6th title

Statistics

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See also

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ "2007 Cape Verdean Football Championships". RSSSF. Retrieved July 18, 2015.[dead link]
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