Académica do Sal
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| Full name | Associação Académica do Sal |
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| Nickname(s) | Atlético |
| Founded | August 3, 1963 |
| Ground |
Estadio Marcelo Leitão Espargos, Cape Verde |
| Capacity | 8,000 |
| League | Sal Island League |
| 2015–16 | 2nd |
Associação Académica do Sal (Capeverdean Crioulo, also in the Sal Crioulo language, ALUPEC or ALUPEK, Akadémika) is a football club that had played in the Premier division and plays in the Sal Island League in Cape Verde. It is based in the city of Espargos in the island of Sal and its location is on Palmeira Road (Caminho da Palmeira) next to the city library. It is one of many teams that only won one title since independence. Its current proprietor is Mário Ramos.
It is played along with Sal's famous teams including Académico do Aeroporto.
Académica Sal is one of the most successful football (soccer) club in Cape Verde, having won about 17 official titles, only one is national and the remaining 16 are regional titles.
The logo and the uniform as well as other teams with the name Académica and Académico in Cape Verde is identical to Académica de Coimbra.
Its current uniform feature a blue-yellow striped t-shirt with yellow in its edges and blue sleeves along with blue shorts and socks used during home matches and the uniform used during away matches remains white.
Its former uniform colours were black for home matches and white for away matches.
The club was founded on August 3, 1963 in Espargos (then a newly founded town) and is also the second oldest club in Espargos. The club serves the whole island. Three years later, another club affiliate to Académica would be founded in Sal and is Académico do Aeroporto do Sal and serves Espargos, Palmeira, Pedra de Lume and Terra Boa.
The club celebrated its 25th annversary in 1988 and the 50th anniversary in 2013.
At the regional competitions, the club has won about 6 championship titles, 5 opening tournament titles and four cup titles.
One of the club's recent national appearance were in 2001 and in 2005, the first finished with 13 points and had 4 wins. Their next was in 2005 and had the same number of wins, goals and points as they did four years earlier, but was slightly more successful with no loss and only four goals conceded, the club headed to the semis and lost to FC Derby 4-1 in the first match, the second match was scoreless and the club was out of the competition.
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