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Estádio João Serra
Estádio João Serra is a multi-use stadium in Santo Antão, Cape Verde. Its location is south of the urban area. It is near the foot of the island's northern mountains and is nearby a newly built urban area. The stadium is operated by the Santo Antão North Regional Football Association (ARFSAN) and has its offices there. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Solpontense as well as Irmãos Unidos, other football clubs from the north of the island (members of the Santo Antão North Regional Football Association (ARFSAN or ARFNSA)) not based in the town play at the stadium including Paulense from Paul and Sinagoga located between Ribeira Grande and Paul and other parts of the two northern municipalities. The stadium holds 2,000 people. It is named for João Serra, its size is 100x65 m and its grass is artificial. Geographically it is the northernmost sports venue in Cape Verde and one of the westernmost in the whole of Africa. Other event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ponta Do Sol, Santo Antão, Cape Verde
Ponta do Sol (; en, "Cape of the Sun") is a municipality in the southwestern coast of the island of Madeira, in the archipelago of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 8,862, in an area of . History The settlement of Ponta do Sol began shortly after the discovery of the island of Madeira, around 1420. Geography Ponta do Sol is located between Ribeira-Brava and Calheta, on the southwest coast of Madeira, linked to Funchal (the capital) and surrounding communities by the main regional road. The municipality is crossed by a few pedestrian hiking trails, that usually follow the ''levadas'' ( en, aqueducts) carrying water from the mountains. Human geography Administratively, the municipal government is located in the civil parish (''freguesia'') of Ponta do Sol, while local government is handled through the three civil parishes: * Canhas * Madalena do Mar Madalena do Mar is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta do Sol in the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira. The populatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul, Cape Verde
Paul is a ''concelho'' (municipality) of Cape Verde. Situated in the northeastern part of the island of Santo Antão, it covers 7% of the island area (54.3 km2), and is home to 16% of its population (6,997 at the 2010 census). Its seat is the town Pombas. The municipality and parish The municipality consists of one ''freguesia'' (civil parish), Santo António das Pombas. The ''freguesia'' is subdivided into the following settlements (population at the 2010 census): * Cabo da Ribeira (pop: 912) * Campo de Cão (pop: 787) *Eito (pop: 979) *Figueiral (pop: 591) * Janela (pop: 1,658) *Pico da Cruz (pop: 138) * Pombas (pop: 1,295, city)Cabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ribeira Grande Municipality
Ribeira Grande may refer to the following places: Cape Verde *Ribeira Grande (stream), a stream on the island of Santo Antão *Ribeira Grande, Cape Verde, a town on the island of Santo Antão *Ribeira Grande, Cape Verde (municipality), a municipality on the island of Santo Antão *Ribeira Grande de Santiago, Cape Verde Ribeira Grande de Santiago is a ''concelho'' (municipality) of Cape Verde. It is situated in the southwestern part of the island of Santiago. Its seat is the city Cidade Velha. Its population was 8,325 at the 2010 census, and its area is 137.3&nbs ..., a municipality on the island of Santiago Portugal * Ribeira Grande (Azores), a municipality on the island of São Miguel, Azores {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Venues In Cape Verde
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called ''football'' include association football (known as ''soccer'' in North America and Australia); gridiron football (specifically American football or Canadian football); Australian rules football; rugby union and rugby league; and Gaelic football. These various forms of football share to varying extent common origins and are known as "football codes". There are a number of references to traditional, ancient, or prehistoric ball games played in many different parts of the world. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools during the 19th century. The expansion and cultural influence of the British Empire allowed these rules of football to spread to areas of British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports In Santo Antão, Cape Verde
The island of Santo Antão in Cape Verde in the west of the Barlavento Islands is home to several teams and clubs. The major amateur clubs are Sporting Clube do Porto Novo, Académica Porto Novo and Paulense. Its first football championship was founded in 1996 and from 2002, the association and competition are currently divided into two zones, the north (the championships and the association) and the south (the championship and the association) and includes all sports including football, basketball, volleyball and athletics and may have futsal today. Other than football, it has a single regional association covering the island. Football (soccer) Football (soccer) remains to be the most popular sport both in the island and the nation. The island has 20 football (soccer) clubs, of which 9 are in the North Zone (6 in the Premier Division and 5 in the Second Division) and nine in the South Zone. Unlike other parts of Cape Verde, Santo Antão was the last inhabited island to have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Football Stadiums In Cape Verde
This is a list of football (soccer) stadiums in Cape Verde, ranked in descending order of capacity.comprehensive. The minimum capacity is 1,000. It includes: * The stadiums of all clubs in the top two tiers of the Cape Verdean football league system as of the 2016–17 season (Cape Verdean Football Championships and the Regional Premier Divisions), with rankings within each league given. * The stadiums of teams from Cape Verde which play in national leagues of other football associations, as of the 2016-17 season. Existing stadiums Old stadiums *Estadio 20 de Janeiro - Maio *Estadio Municipal Amílcar Cabral - Porto Novo, Santo Antão *Estadio do Espargos - Sal *Estadio de Sal Rei - Boa Vista *Campo de Tarrafal - Tarrafal de São Nicolau, São Nicolau See also *List of association football stadiums by capacity *List of African stadiums by capacity References {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Capeverdean Football Stadiums By Capacity Cape Verde , national_anthem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Verde
, national_anthem = () , official_languages = Portuguese , national_languages = Cape Verdean Creole , capital = Praia , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , demonym = Cape Verdean or Cabo Verdean , ethnic_groups_year = 2017 , government_type = Unitary semi-presidential republic , leader_title1 = President , leader_name1 = José Maria Neves , leader_title2 = Prime Minister , leader_name2 = Ulisses Correia e Silva , legislature = National Assembly , area_rank = 166th , area_km2 = 4033 , area_sq_mi = 1,557 , percent_water = negligible , population_census = 561,901 , population_census_rank = 172nd , population_census_year = 2021 , population_density_km2 = 123.7 , population_density_sq_mi = 325.0 , population_density_rank = 89th , GDP_PPP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clube Desportivo Sinagoga
Clube Desportivo Sinagoga, also known as Sinagoga Futebol Clube (also in the Capeverdean Crioulo forms of ALUPEC or ALUPEK and the São Vicente Crioulo) 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 village of Sinagoga in the northeastern part of the island of Santo Antão. Its current manager is Cadoram since November 2016. The stadium is located in the northern part of the island, next to the mountains in Ponta do Sol at Estádio João Serra. Area The club area serves the easternmost areas of the municipality of Ribeira Grande and the eastern part of the parish of Nossa Senhora do Rosário. The club area serves the village of Sinagoga along with the settlements of Lombo Branco, Monte Joana and Pinhão. History In mid-2004, CD Sinagoga became a registered club of the Santo Antão North Zone Football Association and participated for the first time in the 2005 season. Sina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beira-Mar (Ribeira Grande)
Beira-Mar Desportivo Clube or Clube Desportivo Beira-Mar ( Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK and the São Vicente Crioulo: ''Béra-Mar'') 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 northwestern part of the island of Santo Antão. History The club is one of the most important formed by young players. Unlike the clubs of Maio and Tarrafal, the club is not an affiliate to Aveiro, Portugal's S.C. Beira-Mar, the logo and uniforms are different. The team won their first title in 2006 and entered for the first time in the National Division after the break-up into two island league zones, they would be placed in Group B and got only a single win and four points. Beira Mar was the fourth club from the north of the island to win a championship title and appear at the national championships. In the early 2010s, the club suffered from financial p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santo Antão North Regional Football Association
Santo Antão North Regional Football Association (Portuguese: ''Associação Regional de Futebol de Santo Antão Norte'', abbreviation: ''ARFNSA'', not commonly as ''Associação Regional de Futebol de Zona Norte do Santo Antão'', abbreviation: ''ARFZNSA'') is a football (soccer) association covering the north of the island of Santo Antão. It is headquartered in the city of Ponta do Sol. The association covers the municipalities of Ribeira Grande and Paul. It is the sublevel of both the Santo Antão Football Association, reestablished in 2015 and the Capeverdean Football Federation. The league is several that have a premier and a second division, six clubs participate in the premier and five clubs participate in the second division, a club with the most points promotes into the regional premier division the following season while the last placed club from the regional premier division relegates into the second division the following season. History The association was unil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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