Barreirense (Cape Verde)

Barreirense

Founded	1977
Ground	Barreiro, Cape Verde and Cidade do Maio Maio Island, Cape Verde
League	Maio Island League
2014–15	Did not participate
Website	Club home page

Barreirense Futebol Clube (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Barrerensi) is a sports club in Maio Island, Cape Verde based in the village of Barreiro in the south of the island and mainly plays in the stadium in the southeast of Cidade do Maio.

Barreirense is the third most successful football (soccer) club on Maio having won about 5 official regional titles.

The club was founded in 1977. Their first title was an opening tournament title won in 2001. Five years later, the team claimed their first championship title in history since independence in 2006 and advanced to the national division for the first time. They would receive a single win and two points and would be their career total for the whole league, they would be sixth in Group B. They won their second title in 2010 and participated again in the same group and was placed sixth again, this time without a win or goal like their last appearance. Barreirense won a cup title in 2010 and qualified into the 2010 Cape Verdean National Cup. Barreirense won their only super cup title for Maio in late 2010.

Until 2014, the club's area included the whole of the southeast of the island which included the villages of Alcatraz, Figueira da Horta, Pilão Cão and Ribeira Dom João. Figueira da Horta would have Figueriense and Ribeira Dom João would have Miramar. In 2016, Alcatraz and Pilão Cao would have Santa Clara. The club's area is the area within Barreiro.

Recently the club has not appeared in the island championships and has been absent even in the 2013–14 and the 2014–15 season. The club finally returned during the 2015-16 season and Barrerense finished 6th ahead of Beira-Mar with 7 points, two wins and 15 goals scored.

Apart from football (soccer) there are also in the club basketball, volleyball and athletics departments.

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