2011–12 in Cape Verdean football

Football in Cape Verde

Season	2011–12
2012 Cape Verdean Football Championships	Sporting Clube da Praia
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Diary of the season

In the 2011–12 season of competitive football (soccer) in Cape Verde:^[1]

• November 25: Celtic FC and GD Varanda, clubs of Praia's neighborhood of Achadinha de Baixo northwest of the center played a match in honor of Djack^[2]
• December 2: the 2011–12 Santiago Island League (South) season began
• Académica do Porto Novo won the Porto Novo Cup and qualified into the Cape Verdean Cup
• Académico do Aeroporto defeated Académica do Sal to claim their super cup title for Sal
• Juventude da Furna won their cup title for Brava and qualified into the Cape Verdean Cup
• CD Onze Unidos won their cup title for Maio and qualified into the Cape Verdean Cup
• GD Palmeira won the 2012 Sal Island Cup and qualified into the Cape Verdean Cup
• April 29: all qualifiers listed into the Cape Verdean football championships.
• May 5: Cape Verdean Football Championships begun
• June 3: Regular season ends, Sporting Praia, Académica Fogo, SC Atlético and Académica Porto Novo qualified into the semis
• June 10: the Semfinals started
• June 17: Sporting Praia and SC Atlético qualfiied into the finals
• July 7: Sporting Praia claimed their ninth and recent title for the club^[3]
• late-August: Onze Unidos won their only Cape Verdean Cup title. This was the recent Cape Verdean Cup held

Final standings

Cape Verdean Football Championships

Sporting Praia and SC Atlético each had 15 goals and were the first in each group, second placed Group A club Académica do Fogo had eight points and eleventh in the total of goals with three. Académica of Porto Novo, second in Group B had ten points and scored ten goals. The top four advanced into the semis, Sporting Praia and SC Atlético advanced with four goals scored. Sporting Praia won under the away goals rule in the first match and Sporting Praia claimed their ninth and recent title for the club.^[3][4] Sporting Praia later qualified into the first national Super Cup in the following year.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Sporting Clube da Praia	5	3	2	0	15	3	+12	11
2	Académica do Fogo	5	2	2	1	3	3	0	8
3	Juventude	5	2	2	1	8	9	-1	8
4	Batuque FC	5	2	2	1	6	3	+3	8
5	Estrela dos Amadores	5	1	2	2	8	7	+1	5
6	Académica da Brava	5	0	0	5	1	16	-15	0

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	SC Atlético	5	5	0	0	15	8	+7	15
2	Académica do Porto Novo	5	3	1	1	10	6	+4	10
3	CS Mindelense	5	2	1	2	10	4	+6	7
4	Paulense Desportivo Clube	5	1	2	2	6	9	-3	5
5	Académica Operária	5	0	2	3	9	13	-7	2
6	Academico 83	5	0	2	3	6	13	-7	2

Final Stages

	Semi-Finals							Finals
		Sporting Clube da Praia	3	1	4
		Académica do Porto Novo	0	0	0				Sporting Clube da Praia	1	0	1
		SC Atlético	2	2	4				SC Atlético	1	0	1
		Académica do Fogo	1	1	2

Leading goalscorer: Gerson (SC Atlético) - 13 goals

Cape Verdean Cup

The fourth Cape Verdean Cup took place. This was the first edition that all eleven participants participated, the cup winners from Boa Vista and Brava competed. Onze Unidos won their only cup title after defeating Académica do Porto Novo 2-1 in extra time.

Participants

• Juventude da Furna, winner of the Brava Island Cup
• CD Onze Unidos, winner of the Maio Island Cup
• GD Palmeira, winner of the Sal Island Cup
• Académica do Porto Novo, winner of the Santo Antão North Cup
• Falcões do Norte, winner of the São Vicente Cup

Island or regional competitions

Regional Championships Competition Winners Premier Second Boa Vista Académica Operária Brava Académica da Brava Fogo Académica do Fogo Maio Académico 83 Sal Juventude Santiago North Zone Estrela dos Amadores Santiago South Zone Sporting Clube da Praia Santo Antão North Zone Paulense Santo Antão South Zone Académica do Porto Novo São Nicolau SC Atlético São Vicente Batuque FC

Regional Cups Competition Winners Boa Vista Brava Juventude da Furna Fogo Maio Onze Unidos Sal GD Palmeira Santiago North Zone Santiago South Zone Santo Antão North Zone Santo Antão South Zone Académica do Porto Novo São Nicolau São Vicente Falcões do Norte

Regional Super Cups The 2011 champion winner played with a 2011 cup winner (when a club won both, a second place club competed). Competition Winners Boa Vista Brava Fogo Maio Sal Santiago North Zone Santiago South Zone Santo Antão North Zone Paulense Santo Antão South Zone not held São Nicolau São Vicente not held

Regional Opening Tournaments For the 2012 season Competition Winners Boa Vista Brava Fogo Maio Sal Santiago North Zone Santiago South Zone Santo Antão North Zone Santo Antão South Zone São Nicolau São Vicente

References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20150713062357/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesk/kaapv2012.html. Archived from the original on July 13, 2015. Retrieved July 27, 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)
2. "Equipas de Achadinha jogam torneio em homenagem ao Djack" [Achadinha's Teams Played a Tournament in Honor of Djack]. A Semana (in Portuguese). 25 November 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
3. "Sporting da Praia conquista 11º título de campeão nacional" [Sporting Praia Won the 11th National Title]. A Semana. 8 July 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-07-13. Retrieved 2015-07-27.