SC Beira-Mar (Tarrafal)
| Full name | Sport Clube Beira-Mar do Tarrafal |
|---|---|
| Founded | 7 December 1985 |
| Ground | Estadio de Mangue, Tarrafal, Santiago Island, Cape Verde |
| Capacity | 8,000 |
| Chairman | António Furtado |
| Manager | Hipólito |
| League | Santiago North Premier Division |
| 2016–17 | 7th |
Sport Clube Beira-Mar do Tarrafal is a football (soccer) club that plays in the Santiago Island North League in Cape Verde. It is based in the village of Chão Bom nearly 2 km south of Tarrafal in the northernmost part of the island of Santiago and plays in the Estádio de Mangue. Since the implementation of the two tier regional system in 2015, Beira-Mar is one of ten unrelegated clubs of the North Zone of Santiago.
Along with Varandinha and Santa Cruz's Scorpion Vermelho, it is considered being the most popular club of the North Zone.
The club is registered as the oldest in the municipality of Tarrafal, it was formed by the union of several sporting groups Voz de de África, Astros and Moscal. The name of the club name after the beauty of crystal waters of the bay. The club celebrated its 29th anniversary on December 7, 2014.
Beira Mar finished 4th in the first phase and qualified into the second phast, later the club won their only title in 2015 after finished first place and also appeared in the national competition for the first and only time. The club never had any wins though they had a draw, also they scored only three goals and finished with a point in the national competition.
Beira-Mar had a successful season for the club in 2016, some of these were new club records including 11 wins, 52 goals scored and 38 points. The point total, once fourth in the South Zone, now it became seventh behind Estrela dos Amadores and Grémio Nhágar's 38 and ahead of Desportivo da Calheta's 37 points.
Along with other clubs in the municipality, Beira Mar appeared at the 2016 GAFT Cup in October, the first edition.
Beira Mar was ready for another stint on winning their second regional title in the 2016-17 season, their chance was still held as they had a two goal draw with Varandinha in the Tarrafal derby in the first match of the season and was placed 7th. At the 2nd round, they lost to another club of the city Estrela dos Amadores and was placed 8th. Their first win of the season was the last match of 2016 as they defeated Juventus Assomada 1-5 which was the highest scoring match of the region up to late April. A two match winning streak was made with Grêmio Nhágar and their positions rose to fourth. A goal draw with Scorpion Vermelho was made and was placed 6th. Beira-Mar lost to Benfica Santa Cruz was followed on January 21 but lost a position. Beira-Mar went between 8th and 7th from the 8th to the 17th rounds, at the first part, they lost everything in having a chance to win another regional title. Beira Mar made a victory over ailing União Picos at the 18th round match on April 12 with the score 1-0 and was 6th place for a round as a loss to AJAC placed the club 7th for the rest of the season with the exception of the 21st round where they lost 6-3 to Calheta de São Miguel. The final match of the season was a 1-0 win over Desportivo de Santa Cruz. Beira-Mar finished with 33 points and had 9 wins, 6 draws and 7 wins shared with other Tarrafal clubs of Varandinha and Estrela dos Amadores. Beira Mar scored 36 goals together with Estrela dos Amadores, the only difference was Beira Mar conceded 36 goals, 13 more than that club.
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