Estádio da Várzea

Estádio da Várzea
Location Avenida Cidade de Lisboa
Praia on Santiago Island, Cape Verde
Owner Câmara Municipal da Praia
Capacity 8,000
Opened 2006
Tenants
Cape Verde national football team
Sporting Clube da Praia
Académica da Praia
ADESBA
Boavista FC
Desportivo da Praia
CD Travadores
Vitória

Estádio da Várzea is a multi-purpose stadium in Praia, Cape Verde just west of the city center's plateau and on Avenida Cidade de Lisboa. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 10,000 people. The stadium has seat rows in the left and right sides and a small hill and a plateau lies to the west. The stadium is home to the four best football clubs in Cape Verde, Sporting, CD Travadores, Académica and Boavista FC the Santiago Island first division. Other teams that base in another part include ADESBA located in the nearby neighborhood of Craveiro Lopes some hundreds of meters north but play in the stadium. Its size is 108 by 69 m. The stadium was opened in 2006, Campo de Coco formerly occupied the site until the area would be renovated. Campo do Coco was one of the first football (soccer) fields opened in around 1930, around the 1990s, the stadium name became Várzea.

The stadium hosted the Amilcar Cabral Cup in 2000 where the team defeated Senegal 1-0 and won the only title. Music concerts also took place in the stadium especially in 2007.[1] The first Cape Verdean Cup final took place in September 2007 which was won by Académica Praia.[2] Improvements along with artificial grass were made in 2011.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Várzea tem música em 2007" (PDF). A Semana (in Portuguese). 16 February 2007. p. 4.
  2. ↑ "Académica Praia won the first Cape Verdean Cup". Panapress (in Portuguese). 2 September 2007. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  3. ↑ "Praia e São Vicente inauguram iluminação artificial do Estádio da Várzea". A Semana (in Portuguese). 26 December 2012. Retrieved 13 March 2016.

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Coordinates: 14°54′58″N 23°30′44″W / 14.91611°N 23.51222°W / 14.91611; -23.51222


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