CD Scorpion Vermelho

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Scorpion Vermelho
Full nameClube Desportivo Scorpions Vermelho (de Santa Cruz)
Founded2003
GroundEstádio Municipal 25 de Julho, Santa Cruz on Santiago Island,
Cape Verde
Capacity1,000
LeagueSantiago North Premier Division
2016–178th

Clube Desportivo Scorpions Vermelho de Santa Cruz is a

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. Since the implementation of the two-tier regional system in 2015, Scorpion Vermelho are one of the ten unrelegated clubs of northern Santiago.

Along with Tarrafal's Beira-Mar and Varandinha, it is considered the most popular club of the North Zone. It may became the North Zone's top five clubs in 2016.

History

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 endemic scorpion and listed in the list of endangered species. The first club of the name is not the Portuguese name for scorpion which is escorpião, it is the English name, the last name is Portuguese for red. Its English name is not known as the Red Scorpions, especially translingual, but Scorpion Vermelho. The Capeverdean Creole of ALUPEC is called Scorpion Bermedju and not Skorpion Bermedju.

Regional competitions

The club was registered in 2006 and participated their first season in 2007. 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.

Before winning three more championship titles, Scorpion Vermelho also won a cup title for 2007 and later won their only super cup title later in the year. In 2012, they won their last regional cup title.

Scorpion Vermelho celebrated its 10th anniversary of the club's foundation in 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,[citation needed] 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[citation needed] and Scorpion Vermelho's second-place position was kept, it delayed the first round national match which Varandinha played.[1]

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 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, from 2017 Boavista Praia with 51, on March 22, 2018, it is now ahead of Académica da Praia
currently at 56. Scorpion Vermelho's second total of any regional competitions is kept at 61.

Scorpion Vermelho started off the 2016–17 season last place after a 0–4 loss to Estrela dos Amadores, Scorpion defeated Juventus 0–3 and became 6th. On December 29, a two-goal draw with

AJAC
4–3 on April 13, later they were 6th at the 20th round after a loss to Calheta de São Miguel, the first of three straight losses, they the last two to Desportivo de Santa Cruz and Tarrafal's Varandinha and Scorpion Vermelho finished 8th with 30 points, 8 wins, 7 draws and losses and scored 30 goals.

Scorpion Vermelho started off the 2017–18 season with a goal draw with Flor Jovem, their season's first won was on November 25 as they defeated Benfica. Two straight wins came after their loss to Varandinha on December 2. A single goal draw was made with GDR São Lourenço and is now second place at the sixth round. They had 4 wins with their recent with the score 4–1 over Tarrafal's Beira Mar, their recent was over Flor Jovem on February 17. Two straight draws, a scoreless one with Benfica Santa Cruz and a goal apiece with Varandinha at the 12th round. The club is now first place with 20 points, shared with Flor Jovem and had 14 goals, a seven difference over their 8 conceded. They were still first with 24 points and had 6 wins sharing with four other clubs including the top four clubs, their last win was over AJAC on March 3 in Calheta. A round later, they defeated São Lourenço 0–5 and gained a greater chance for another regional title, they had 27 points, this gained with their win over Estrela dos Amadores and they got it after their win over ailing Calheta and heads for the fifth time at the nationals. The final match of the season will be against Tarrafal's Beira Mar.

National competition

Scorpion Vermelho entered the

Académica da Calheta do Maio was cancelled and officially ended in a draw without goals awarded to the clubs. Scorpion Vermelho finished last for the season.[3]

Their next two participations were all in Group B, Scorpion Vermelho came back for the

Académico 83. The remaining four matches were losses, the last match of the season saw their last goal scored for the club in a match with Sporting Praia from down south, it ended in a 3–1 loss.[5]

At the nationals, they have 15 points, a number equalling to their goals, 4 wins and draws, they also played 20 matches.

Logo and uniform

Its logo features the crest with the green ribbon reading the club name with the top left colored white and features a scorpion and the bottom right colored blue and features a boat.

Honours
2006/07, 2007/08, 2009/10, 2012/13, 2017/18
2006/07, 2011/12, 2013
2006/07

League and cup history

National championship

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA GD P
Cup
 Notes Playoffs
2007 1B 5 5 2 0 3 5 5 0 6 Did not advance Did not participate
2008 1B 5 5 0 2 3 2 8 -6 2 Did not advance Did not participate
2010 1B 3 5 2 0 3 7 8 -1 6 Did not advance Did not participate
2013 1B 6 5 0 1 4 1 6 -5 1 Not held Did not advance Did not participate
Total: 20 4 3 13 15 27 -12 15

Island/Regional Championship

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA GD P Cup Notes
2006–07 2 1 - - - - - - - - Winner Promoted into the National Championships
2007–08 2 1 - - - - - - - - Promoted into the National Championships
2009–10 2 1 - - - - - - - - Promoted into the National Championships
2012–13 2 1 - - - - - - - - Not held Promoted into the National Championships
2014–15[6] 2 6 12 5 3 4 13 9 +4 18 Did not advance into the final phase
2015–16[7] 2 2 26 18 7 1 57 13 +44 61
2016–17 2 8 22 8 7 7 30 31 -1 31

Statistics

References

  1. A Nação (in Portuguese). 13 May 2016. Archived from the original
    on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  2. ^ "Cape Verdea Islands 2006/07". RSSSF. Retrieved July 18, 2015.[dead link]
  3. ^ 2008 Cape Verdean Football Championships at RSSSF
  4. ^ "2010 Cape Verdean Football Championships". RSSSF. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
  5. ^ "2013 Cape Verdean Football Championships". RSSSF. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  6. ^ Batalha, José (16 December 2015). "2014/15 Santiago North Premier Division". RSSSF. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  7. ^ Batalha, José (16 December 2015). "2015/16 Santiago North Premier Division". RSSSF. Retrieved 24 March 2017.

External links

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