CD Travadores
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| Full name | Clube Desportivo Travadores |
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| Nickname(s) |
Indios Águias |
| Founded | 15 October 1930 |
| Ground |
Estádio da Varzea, Praia, Cape Verde |
| Capacity | 8,000 |
| Chairman |
 Armindo Oliveira |
| Manager |
Tazinho |
| League | Santiago Island League (South) |
| 2016–17 | 7th |
| Website | Club home page |
Clube Desportivo Travadores (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC: Klubi Desportivu Travadoris) is a football club that had played in the Premier division and the Santiago Island League (South) in Cape Verde. It is based in the capital city of Praia in the island of Santiago and plays in the stadium with a capacity of 8,000 It is one of the teams that won the most cups before and after independence. They are affiliated with S.L. Benfica. Its nicknames are indios and águias
Travadores is one of the most successful football (soccer) club in Cape Verde, having won about 12 official titles, 3 are national titles and 9 are regional titles.
Along with Sporting and Boavista, they form the Big Three of Praia (until 2003, the Big Three or Santiago) and being more popular than Mindelense today, it could be the Big Three of the nation.
Its logo is with a white crest (not fully circular) with a golden bird above, a green-red ribbon reading the Latin name "E pluribus unum", a red and white shield with a ball and a blue ribbon with the club name acronym in the middle. Its logo is nearly the same as Benfica's but the outer circle is white, Other logos are approximately the same but with some similarity are Paulense, Sport Sal Rei Club, Benfica of Brava and Benfica da Praia (Benfiquinha). Travadores' parent club is Benfica Praia which is another club who uses the same logo to Benfica's but slightly different.
Its uniform color are colored red with a white collar used for home games and a white t-shirt and socks with red shorts used for away games. Its former uniform was a red t-shirt and socks with white shorts used for home games.
The club was founded on 15 October 1930 in the capital Praia (then colonial), it is the island's second oldest club and Cape Verde's fourth oldest. CD Travadores was officially registered on 25 May 1939. Their first title was won in the early years of the club, title wins were achieved in 1960, 1968 and 1972, their greatest appearance in the colonial competition was in 1972 when they won their only colonial title. After independence, the club won two national titles in 1994 and in 1996. Travadores would enter African competitions three times. Their first continental competition was the CAF Cup in 1993 and advanced up to the preliminaries, their first appearance at the upper level was in 1995 and faced with Real de Banjul from the Gambia and their last was in 1997 when it became the CAF Champions League and participated up to the first round, this was their recent appearance in the continental level, in Travadores' last match at the CAF Champion's league which was on March 8, they lost the match 1-6 in Algiers, the club conceded six goals to three players including Nacer Zekri, Billel Dziri and Tarek Hadj Adlane, also it was the highest of any Cape Verdean club who conceded that many goals in a continental match.
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