Desportivo de Guadalupe
| Founded | 31 March 1964 |
|---|---|
| Ground | Campo dos Lobatos Guadalupe, Lobata District, São Tomé Island, São Tomé and Príncipe |
| League | São Tomé Island League |
| 2015 | Second Division |
Clube Desportivo de Guadalupe is a football club that plays in the São Tomé Island League in São Tomé and Príncipe. The team is based in the island of São Tomé and played in the island Second DIiision as of 2016.
Its logo are blue and yellow.
Its home uniform is blue with two yellow stripes and a middle part, yellow sleeve rims, six thin yellow lines and two yellow lines on its shorts with a rim on the legs portion and two yellow stripes on top of each socks. Its away or alternate colors are opposite with yellow then blue
Its former uniform colors had red clothing with white socks used during home games and its colors opposite during away/alternate games. Its uniform colors between 2014 and 2016 featured blue clothing with yellow sleeves and socks.
The club are one of the oldest in the country. The club was founded during the days of colonial rule in March 31, 1964.
The team has won two titles and is the only second team in history to claim its first title in 1980, all of its titles won two in a row, they won their last in 1981.Guadalupe is the only club from Lobata to get a regional and a national competitive honor. Also the club was the first to win a national cup title. The club started their career in the Premier Division and remained until they finished last in the season and relegated to the second division. The club again returned to the second division and remained until 2014 when they were relegated, the team currently plays in the second division.
In cup title possession rankings, it was shared with Sporting Praia Cruz in 1982, later Vitória Riboque in 1984. Along with a few other clubs, Guadalupe's total became second in 1985, third in 1993 behind Sporting Praia Cruz, fourth behind GD Os Operários of Príncipe in 2003, fifth in 2010 and sixth since 2016.
The club advanced into the 2012 São Tomé and Príncipe Cup and faced Sporting Clube do Príncipe and lost 2–1, as Sporting Príncipe was the national winner, Guadalupe was the first ever São Tomean club to enter the CAF Confederation Cup, the club faced US Bitam of Gabon and scored nothing and lost 0–5, Guadalupe scored only a goal in the second leg and their results were awful, Desportivo Guadalupe faced a huge defeat, lost 1–12 to Bitam, one of the largest in history and the largest to a São Tomean team.
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