Associação Académica do Porto Novo
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| Full name | Associação Académica do Porto Novo |
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| Nickname(s) | Mica |
| Founded | 14 February 1981 |
| Ground | Estádio Municipal do Porto Novo, Porto Novo, Cape Verde |
| Capacity | 5,000 |
| Chairman |
 Osvaldinho Silva Lopes |
| Manager |
Gunga |
| League | Santo Antão Island League (South) |
| 2016–17 | 1st |
| Website | Club home page |
Associação Académica do Porto Novo (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Asosiason Académica du Portu Nobu, Santo Antão Crioulo: Associaçôm Akadémica d' Port' Novo, São Vicente Crioulo: Associação Akadémika d' Port' Novo) is a multi-sport club that plays in the Santo Antão Island League South Zone in Cape Verde. It is based in the town of Porto Novo in the southeastern part of the island of Santo Antão. Sports includes football and volleyball. Its current head is Osvaldinho Silva Lopes and its coach is Gunga. Is nickname of the club like many other Académicas is Mica.
Académica do Porto Novo is the most successful football (soccer) club on the island, having won about 33 official regional titles.
The club was founded on February 14, 1981 and is an affiliate of the Portuguese club Académica de Coimbra.
Their first title was claimed in 1997 and the only title they would win for the island. Later, the team won the most titles since the breakup of the island division in 1997. Their next title was in 1998 and first after the breakup. After winning the 2000 title, the club did not participate in the national championships, none participated from the south zone in 2000. Académica celebrated its 25th anniversary of foundation in 2006. In 2011, success started to rise and finished with 23 points. Four clubs withdrew for the 2012 season and had only four clubs played, the club had six wins and no draws and losses and finished with 18 points, a low number. The 2013 season was Académica Porto Novo's successful career and best season where the club had 36 points and not a single draw or loss, their second was the 2014 season where the club had 34 points and not a single loss, their third was in 2015 and their fourth in 2013. Académica's next loss in a few seasons was at the final week losing to their second rival Marítimo 2-1 on April 23, their only success was in goal scoring which scored 60 and was the club record. Overall in any of the island leagues, Académica had about four years without a loss numbering 53 matches, though in a championship with a club less than São Vicente's and no second division, the record is mostly tied with CS Mindelense's, the record is four matches ahead of Brava's Sporting. Also on week 13, Académica defeated Sporting with a high scoring match of 11-0. From 2012 to April 2016, Académica's away matches without a loss numbered 30, ahead of Santiago South's Sporting Praia who now has 23 matches without a loss away on April 30, 2017, one part its recently extended 22 match season, and third is Mindelense. Also it holds record without a loss that is a combined South Zone championship-cup-super cup matches numbering about 60 and the over lasted until April 23 but not on home matches, it does not include the single Santo Antão Island Cup as the club lost one match and was later out. In the 2015-16 season, the club had ten titles, one of the few clubs of each island leagues ever to win six titles in six straight years, the others being CS Mindelense of nearby São Vicente several times between the foundation up to 1994, Botafogo of Fogo in 1981 and Brava's Nô Pintcha in 1996.
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