Scorpions (Santa Cruz)
| Full name | Clube Desportivo Scorpions Vermelho (de Santa Cruz) |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2003 |
| Ground |
Estádio Municipal 25 de Julho, Santa Cruz on Santiago Island, Cape Verde |
| Capacity | 1,000 |
| League | Santiago Island League (North) |
| 2014–15 | 6th (first phase) |
Clube Desportivo Scorpions Vermelho de Santa Cruz is a football (soccer) club that plays in the Santiago Island League North Zone of the Grupo Centro Sul in Cape Verde. The team is based in the town of Santa Cruz in the southeastern part of the island of Santiago and plays at Estádio Municipal 25 de Julho west of town.
Along with Tarrafal's Beira-Mar and Varandinha, it is considered being the most popular club of the North Zone. It may became the North Zone's top five clubs in 2016.
The club was founded in 2003, the club was formed in the late 1990s. It is named after a red scorpion as there is on the island, the Cape Verde red scorpion (Hottentotta caboverdensis) which is the island's and the country's only scorpion founded and listed in the endangered list.
It entered into the level and became the Centro Sul group. In April 2007, the team won their first zonal (now regional) title in the team's history, they won their second straight in 2008. The club would play in the first and second phases for some seasons. Later, two more titles were won in 2010 and 2013.
In May 2016, a championship declaration dispute arose between Scorpion Vermelho and Varandinha as in a match as on an April 3 match (19th round) featuring Desportivo Santa Cruz and Scorpion Vermelho that Desportivo fielded an ineligible player, it occurred after the goals were scored and the award to Scorpion Vermelho in mid-May was revoked just before the start of the national season and the 2-0 result was kept and Scorpion Vermelho's second place position was kept, it delayed the first round national match which Varandinha played.
Nonetheless, Scorpion Vermelho got their best season ever for the records with the extended 2015-16 season, they finished with 18 wins, 7 draws, scored 57 goals and had 61 points, all were club records. Regionally it is now ahead of Benfica de Santa Cruz's 46 and AJAC de Calheta's 45 made in 2017, until 2016, third in the region was Desportivo de Santa Cruz. Overall in goal scoring of any regional leagues in the country, it is a goal ahead of Brava's Juventude da Furna but behind South Santo Antão's Académica do Porto Novo, Sporting Brava, and several clubs of Fogo, the highest being Spartak d'Aguadinha has its own goal scoring records higher than Varandinha's. In the highest points of each season of any of the island leagues, it was once held by Sporting Praia of the Santiago South Zone until 2016 with 49 points, Scorpion Vermelho would have the nation's second highest of any of the regional championships behind Varandinha and ahead of Sporting with a total of 55 and now Boavista Praia with 51, Scorpion Vermelho's second total is kept at 61.
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