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Sporting Clube de Porto Novo

Sporting Clube de Porto Novo
Full name Sporting Clube de Porto Novo
Nickname(s) leonino (little lion)
Founded 1956
Ground Porto Novo, Cape Verde
Chairman Cape Verde José Salomão
League Santo Antão Island League (South)
2016–17 6th

Sporting Clube de Porto Novo (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Sporting Klubi di Purtu Nobu) is a football club that had played in the Premier division and plays in the Santo Antão Island South Zone Division in Cape Verde. It is based in the island of Santo Antão. The club was founded in 1956 and is the island's oldest sporting club. Geographically it was once the westernmost sporting club in Cape Verde and the whole of Africa, now it is one of several today.

Sporting Porto Novo is the second most successful football (soccer) club in the South Zone having won about 5 official regional titles, overall it is fourth with the North Zone's Rosariense Clube with 8 official regional and subregional titles combined.

The club was founded in 1956. The name is identical to the Sporting Clube de Portugal. The club was called Sporting Clube de Carvoeiros, when the new port was completed in 1962, it adopted the current name of Sporting Clube de Porto Novo Its uniform is similarly different to Sporting Praia, it only has a green striped t-shirt and the remainder is white for home games and all white for away games.

The club celebrated its 25th anniversary in 1981 and later its 50th anniversary in 2006.

From 2006 until 2007, the team was tied at second for having the island's most number of titles before having two titles after their win after Maritimo in which they were last in its number of titles until 2010, it meant it entered the national division for the second time.

Sporting Porto Novo suffered during the 2015/16 season which the club only had a win and three points, the club scored only 8 goals and conceded 46 which was their highest. The most sufferable was their loss in week 13, the second last where the club lost 11 to Académica do Porto Novo and was the worst match in club history, that was also their final match of the season.


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