2014–15 Sporting Clube da Praia season

Sporting Clube da Praia

2014–15 season
Chairman	Paulo Veiga
Manager	Beto
Stadium	Estádio da Várzea
Santiago Island League (South)	2nd place
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The 2014–15 Sporting Clube da Praia season were in the island division of football (soccer). The club finished 2nd after Boavista FC with 34 points and a point head of Desportivo.^[1][2]

The club scored 26 goals and had 9 wins, 7 ties, 2 losses and 34 points.

Santiago Island League (South)

The 2014-15 season would start being third, a near better start, rankings staggered to 8th in the third week and did not climbed to second in the ninth week, it dropped to third in the 16th week and regained it to second in the 17th, it did not recover, it remained second for the rest of the competition and finished it behind Boavista FC.

Like last season, a loss occurred in the first week to Bairro. The next two weeks had their matches ended in a draw but crippled a chance to become first place almost on its entirety, the second week match scored the club's first goal of the season. Their first victory was during the fourth week by only a single goal over Vitória. A scoreless draw was made with Varanda the following week, Sporting's second victory followed with a point over Garridos. Sporting's third draw was on February 7 with Boavista with a point. Sporting next victory was with Académica. The February 22 match with Travadores was disputed, Sporting originally finished 2-0 over Travadores, it was decided the match ended in a draw, Sporting lost three points and fully crippled their chance for winning a championship along with their entry into the national championships.^[3] The club done their three-game winning streak until a scoreless draw occurred with Desportivo on March 15, Sporting defeated Vitória the following week, Sporting's final draw was with Varanda on March 27 and then a victory over Garridos a week later. Sporting's second and final loss was on week 16 to Boavista by one goal. The remaining two matches was a two match winning streak over Académica and Travadores and Praia finished second behind Boavista.^[1]

Sporting Praia scored a total number of 26 goals. Sporting started having most of the goals away and much of it after the third week, 2/3 of the goals were away at the seventh week and then 60% of it scored away at the eight week, the number risen to 65% by the eleventh week, around 2/3 in week 13, around 70% in week 15 and more than 73% at the final week. Most of the 26 goals were scored away numbered 19, 7 were scored at home, the number equalled to the goals conceded to another team home and away.

Date	Opponents	H/A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance	League position
7 December 2014	AD Bairro	A	3-3			3rd
14 December 2014	Celtic	H	1-1			6th
21 December 2014	Desportivo da Praia	A	3-3			8th
11 January 2015	Vitória	H	1-0			4th
18 January 2015	Varanda	A	0-0			5th
1 February 2015	Os Garridos	H	1-0			4th
7 February 2015	Boavista FC	H	1-1			4th
15 February 2015	Académica da Praia	A	0-2			3rd
22 February 2015	CD Travadores	A	0-3			2nd
28 February 2015	AD Bairro	H	2-1			2nd
8 March 2015	Celtic	A	1-3			2nd
15 March 2015	Desportivo Praia	H	0-0			2nd
22 March 2015	Vitória	A	0-3			2nd
27 March 2015	Varanda	H	0-0			2nd
4 April 2015	Os Garridos	A	0-3			2nd
10 April 2015	Boavista	A	1-0			3rd
19 April 2015	Académica Praia	H	1-0			2nd
26 April 2015	CD Travadores	A	0-2			2nd

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion/Relegation
1	FC Boavista	18	13	4	1	37	14	+23	43	Elevated into the national championships
2	Sporting Clube da Praia	18	9	7	2	26	14	+12	34	None
3	Desportivo da Praia	18	9	6	3	37	20	+17	33	None

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
18	9	7	2	26	14	+12	34	3	5	0	7	7	0	6	2	2	19	7	+12

Last updated: April 1, 2014.
Source: Rankings at rsssf

Squad

As of 3 November 2014^[4][5]

No.	Pos.	Name	Age	Previous club
5	MF	Edson	age 24
16	FW	Sissoko	age 22	Garridos
19	FW	Ró	age 26
21	DF	Madjer	age 28	CD Travadores
23	MF	Dário Furtado	age 36	FC Paços de Ferreira
25	MF	Nelito	age 28
31	FW	Heta	age 32
-	GK	Igor
-	GK	Ady
-	GK	Maguette	age 29
-	DF	Kadú		CD Travadores
-	DF	Trapantony		Celtic Praia
-	DF	Loloti	age 41	CD Travadores
-	DF	Panduru	age 18	Sal Rei (youth club)
-	DF	Ademar
-	DF	Sócrates
-	DF	Vargas	age 38
-	DF	Miká	age 26
-	MF	Duko		Tchadense
-	MF	João Baptista Robalo	age 32	Sporting Praia
-	MF	Lé	age 26
-	MF	Duko
-	MF	Tigana	age 31	Boavista FC
-	FW	Tio		CD Travadores
-	FW	Tó	age 21
-	FW	Celso	age 26
-	FW	Dy de Mena		Primeiro de Maio

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From
mid to late 2014	DF	Panduru	Sal Rei
9 October 2014	FW	Sissoko/Cissoko	Os Garridos[6]

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To
2015	MF	Dário Furtado	Boavista FC
2015	GK	Igor	likely AD Bairro
2015	GK	Maguette
2015	FW	Dy de Mena
2015	DF	Loloti
2015	MF	Nelito
2015	DF	Vargas

Club

Beto would coach for the last season with Sporting Praia. In October 2015, he was replaced by Janito Carvalho following a four-year absence from Sporting Praia.

The Management

Position	Staff
Manager and head coach	Beto

Last updated: May 2015
Source: http://www.scp.cv

Other information

As of 2015

Chairman	Paulo Veiga
Assistant manager	Dino
Goalkeeping coach	Berra
Team chef	Nelson/ Manú (as of 2012/13 season)
Ground (capacity and dimensions)	Estádio da Várzea (5,000 / 108x69 m)

Last updated: May 2015
Source: http://www.scp.cv

Team kit

Home

Away

Source:

References

1. Santiago South highlights at rsssf.com
2. 2014-15 season at Sporting Praia homepage (Portuguese)
3. "Futebol Santiago Sul: Sporting Perde 3 Pontos Na Secretaria (Santiago South: Sporting Lost 3 Points)". Criolosport. 27 March 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2014. (Portuguese)
4. 2014/15 squad at Sporting's official website
5. Sporting Praia article on the Spanish Wikipedia
6. ""Sissoko assina pelo Sporting da Praia" ("Sissoko Signs to Play with Sporting Praia")" (in Portuguese). Sapodesporto CV. 9 October 2014. Retrieved 9 October 2014.

External links

• Official website