Rosariense Desportivo Clube
| Full name | Rosariense Clube da Ribeira Grande Desportivo Clube |
|---|---|
| Ground | Campo de Futebol de Tarrafal, Ribeira Grande, Cape Verde Estádio João Serra, Ponta do Sol, Cape Verde |
| Chairman |
 Orlando de Jesus Delgado |
| Manager |
Artur Fortes |
| League | Santo Antão Island League (North) |
| 2016–17 | 1st, Promoted |
Rosariense Clube da Ribeira Grande, also as Rosariense Desportivo Clube, short or conventional form: Rosariense Clube (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Rozariensi Klubi and the São Vicente Crioulo: Rosariense Klube) is a football club that had played in the Premier division and plays in the Santo Antão Island League South Zone in Cape Verde. It is based in the town of Ribeira Grande in the northeastern part of the island of Santo Antão. Its current chairman is Orlando de Jesus Delgado who is since September 12, 2015
Rosariense is the third most successful football (soccer) club in the North Zone having won about 5 official regional titles, overall it is fourth with the South Zone's Sporting Porto Novo with 8 official regional and subregional titles combined.
After the creation of the island's regional competition around the 1980s, the club won their first title in 1989, they won their second two years later. In 1995, Rosariense won two back to back titles. Up to the creation of the North Zone competition, the club participated four times at the national championships and did not succeed, not even in group stage in the two later seasons.
It was the first team ever to win the title after breaking the island's division zones into two and the team won in 1998. For only a year, the team only had one title with Beira Mar, its teams' recent win in 2007 now made it having two titles with Solpontense.
Rosariense's recent appearance was the 2011 Cape Verdean Football Championships and was placed in Group B, the club played four matches, one short as the Brava Island season was cancelled, the team was last place and had no wins and had a draw and three losses, four goals were scored and the club conceded 14 goals and won a point, its worst defeat ever was the match with Boavista FC at Praia which lost 6-0 on June 11 at the fifth and final round of the championships.
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