The 2013 São Tomé and Principe Championship was the 28th season of the

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the top-level

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championship of

São Tomé and Principe SAO or Sao may refer to: Places * Sao civilisation, in Middle Africa from 6th century BC to 16th century AD * Sao, a town in Boussé Department, Burkina Faso * Serb Autonomous Regions (''Srpska autonomna oblast'', SAO), during the breakup of ...

. It began in 13 April and concluded on 16 September. Two national final matches occurred in the season.

Sporting Praia Cruz Sporting Clube da Praia Cruz is a professional Association football, football club that plays in the São Tomé and Príncipe Championship. The team is based in the island of São Tomé Island, São Tomé. The team has won eight national and six ...

from

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island won their second title.

Teams

16 teams participated in the

, 10 from

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and 6 from

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. At the end of season champion of

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and champion of Principe Island League play one match for champion of

São Tomé teams 2013

Ten clubs participated in the 2013 season (second time since its reduction), the competition began in 13 April and finished on 21 September. 90 matches were played and a total of 268 goals were scored.

won the title and went on to participate in the national championship match for the seventh time in November. UDRA was second place and UDESCAI and Cruz Vermelha were relegated

Teams

League table

Principe teams 2013

Six clubs took part,

FC Porto Real Futebol Clube Porto Real is a football club that plays in Porto Real in the island of Principe in São Tomé and Príncipe. The team plays in the Principe Island League in its local division and plays at Estádio 13 de Julho in the island capi ...

returned to the competition due to that the club was suspended for a season. The competition started on 17 May and finished on 2 November with four intervals and three for some other club.

won the 2013 title and participated in the national championship match in November.

League table

National final

Two national final matches took place on November 9 and 16 at noon. The match featured

from Príncipe and

. Every goal were scored in the last few minutes of the match. Sporting Praia Cruz won 0-2 in the first leg, all goals were scored by Jujú at the 30th and the 53rd minute. Sporting Praia Cruz won the second leg, Pinguinho scored at the 17th minute and Naí at the 43rd minute, the last goal was scored at the second half, a penalty kick was scored at the 73rd minute by Jair and the club won all two legs and claimed the sixth national title and achieved entry into the 2014 CAF Champions League. There was some problem by the São Tomean Football Federation (FSF) that the sorting was approved by the CAF before the start of the dispute.

USM El Harrach Union Sportive de la Médina d'El Harrach (), known as USM El Harrach or simply USMH for short, is an Algerian Association football, football club based in El Harrach, a suburb of Algiers. The club was founded in 1935 as Union Sportive Musulmane ...

was excluded from the competition

References

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Championship In sport, a championship is a competition in which the aim is to decide which individual or team is the champion. Championship systems Various forms of competition can be referred to by the term championship. Title match system In this sys ...