Académico do Aeroporto do Sal
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| Full name | Académico do Aeroporto do Sal |
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| Nickname(s) | Cadems, Controladores (Controllers) |
| Founded | December 1, 1966 |
| Ground |
Estádio Marcelo Leitão Espargos, Sal, Cape Verde |
| Capacity | 8,000 |
| Chairman |
 Carlos Moniz |
| Manager |
Nelito |
| League | Sal Island League |
| 2016–17 | 1st, Champion |
| Website | Club website |
| Académico do Aeroporto | |
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| Founded | 1980s |
| Arena | Polidesportivo do Sal |
| Website | http://www.academicosal.com/ |
Académico do Aeroporto (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Akadémiku du Aeropurtu) 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. The team was is named after its nearby airport (Sal International Airport). Its current director is Ivan Lopes since mid-February 2017, its chairman is Carlos Moniz who returned for the second time and its manager was Lúcio Antunes since 2015. Now that Verdun Pedra de Lume was relegated, the club became the island's five unrelegated original clubs.
Académico do Aeroporto is one of the most successful football (soccer) club in Cape Verde and is the most successful on the island, having won about 32 official titles, only one is national and the remaining 31 are regional titles.
The club was founded on December 1, 1966 and are one of two affiliates with Académica de Coimbra, the other is Académica do Sal. One of some in the nation having two affiliates in a championship, the other for example is CD Travadores and Benfica on Praia that are affiliated with S.L. Benfica. It is also the third oldest club in the city of Espargos.
The club won their first ever regional title in 1986, as the national competition was cancelled, they never appeared. They won their second title in 1988 and qualified into the nationals for the first time.
Between 1992 and 1993 with Juventude and Palmeira, then again in 2003 and 2004 and 2004 and 2005, the team had the same title with Associação Académica do Sal. Since 2003, the club won the most titles on the island with 14 titles and is fifth of any of the island leagues with the most championship titles. Also the club won 4 cup titles, their recent was in 2009. The club also has 5 super cup titles, their first was in 2008, their next two was won every two years, in 2011 and in 2013.
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