Estádio Municipal Adérito Sena
 Estádio Municipal Adérito Sena
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| Former names | Estádio da Fontinha Campo da Fontinha |
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| Location | Av. 12 de Septembro Mindelo on São Vicente Island, Cape Verde |
| Coordinates | 16°52′57″N 24°59′07″W / 16.8825°N 24.9853°W |
| Owner | São Vicente Municipality |
| Operator | São Vicente Regional Football Association (ARFSV) |
| Capacity | 5,000 |
| Opened | 1938 |
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Académica GD Amarantes Batuque FC GS Castilho Corinthians São Vicente FC Derby CS Mindelense |
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Estádio Municipal Adérito Sena is a multi-use stadium in Mindelo, Cape Verde. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Derby as well as CS Mindelense, Académica, GD Amarantes and Batuque FC and the lesser club of Corinthians São Vicente. The stadium holds 5,000 people and area is 105x68 m and its ground is artificial grass. The stadium is owned by the municipality of São Vicente and is operated by the São Vicente Regional Football Association (ARFSV). It is a certified stadium by FIFA for international competition as well as friendly matches
It also has the island's only athletic field where it is slightly narrow and dirt.
Its location is at 12 de Setembro which is used as the main road connecting the northeast of the island and in the eastcenter part of the city just east of the city center (also Morada) and is in the subdivision of Fontinha (formerly Fonte Francés) and is west of Ribeira Bote. A couple of other sports complexes are in the stadium's same location. Concerts and cricket matches are also used.
Also the Mindelo Cup matches, a friendly match takes place at the stadium once every different years.
The field and stadium was possibly the first ever built in Cape Verde, opened in around the mid to late 1930s.
The final matches between the winners of the islands of Santiago and São Vicente before independence in 1975 took place at Estádio Fontinha, one of them was in 1972, they were held each year with the exceptions of 1955, 1957 to 1959 and in 1970.
Also in the final years of colonial rule, one of two matches of two Portuguese Cups were played at the field, first, the 1965-66 season where Mindelense lost to CS Marítimo of the Madeira Islands which was played in 9 March and a single 6th round match around April in 1970-71 season where Mindelense lost to Sporting Lisbon 0-21. Mindelense, being the only club from Cape Verde who competed at the Portuguese Club and the only venue ever played in Cape Verde.
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