Sporting Clube de São Tomé is a

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club based in the national capital São Tomé, in the island of São Tomé in

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. The team is part of the São Tome Island Football Association and the Santomean Football Association. The club is historically the second best club both on the island and in the nation.

History

Sporting São Tomé is the fathering club of

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and is the 183rd affiliate. The team was one of the archipelago's first. Their first provincial title was won in 1952, their second was won in 1966 and their last was in 1971. Sporting São Tomé alongside Andorinha and the club now

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never won any titles after independence in 1975. In recent years, the club was relegated into the Second Division and later relegated into the Third Division until 2015 when they were in the top two positions and returned to the Second Division for two seasons, in September 2017, the club finished first with 42 wins, 13 wins, 3 draws and a marvelous 71 goals which was the highest in several seasons for the club, with the mainstreams of a few high scoring matches with the highest, a victory over

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0-10 which was the highest match in the nation of any tiers or levels. That gave a might a club actually being the top five of the nation. Sporting São Tomé will return yet again to the regional Premier Division in several years.

Logo

Its logo is the same as to that of Sporting Lisbon.

Uniform

Its uniform is identical to Sporting CP, but several are different from Sporting Lisbon's.

Honours

São Tomé and Príncipe Championship São Tomé and Principe Championship (Portuguese: ''Campeonato Nacional'') is the top division of the São Toméan Football Federation. In the current 2021/22 season there are 18 teams participating in two separate leagues - 12 teams from São T ...

: 3 **Before independence: 3 ::1952, 1966, 1971

League and cup history

Island championships

Statistics

*Highest number of goals scored in a season: 71 (regional), in 2017

References

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