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1999 Cape Verdean Football Championships

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Cape Verdean Football Championship
Season1999
ChampionsGD Amarantes
Matches played21
Goals scored52 (2.48 per match)
Biggest home winGD Amarantes, Solpontense
Biggest away winseveral clubs
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The 1999 Cape Verdean Football Championship season was the 20th of the competition of the first-tier football in Cape Verde. The tournament was organized by the Cape Verdean Football Federation.[1] GD Amarantes won their first and only title. Sporting Clube da Praia would be the only time that a non-winning title would participate in the 2000 CAF Champions League, the criteria for qualification was not continued.[2] No club took part in the 2000 CAF Winners' Cup.

Overview

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CS Mindelense was the defending team of the title. A total of 8 clubs participated in the competition, one from each island league, no club came from Santiago Island as the competition was cancelled for the season. The season had 6 matches in Group A but a shorter 2 and 3 matches in Group B,[1] it was the first ever season with twice the meetings with each club of the group, occurred in only one croup, the next time it was done was in 2017 with the club and the first in each of the three groups.

The league was contested by 8 teams with GD Amarantes winning the championship.[1] New records were made, Amarantes finished with a new record with 13 points since the points per win risen to three in the nation, Juventude got 10 points, at the time, it became the second highest point in the championships. Two years later, the highest point record was superseded by Onze Unidos. In goal numbers, Solpontense scored the most with 14 and was a record at the national championships, it was superseded in 2001 by Botafogo.

It marked the last appearance of GD Amarantes at the top-level competition.

Participants

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Participating football (soccer) clubs of the 1999 Cape Verdean Football Championships (Cape Verde)

Information about the clubs

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Club Location
Académica Operária Sal Rei
GD Amarantes Mindelo
Juventude Espargos
Nô Pintcha Nova Sintra
Onze Unidos Vila do Maio
Solpontense Futebol Clube Ponta do Sol
FC Ultramarina Tarrafal de São Nicolau
Vulcânicos São Filipe

League standings

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Group A

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 GD Amarantes 6 4 1 1 8 5 +3 13
2 Juventude 6 3 1 2 9 11 -2 10
3 Solpontense Futebol Clube 6 2 2 2 14 8 +6 8
4 FC Ultramarina 6 0 2 4 3 10 -7 2

Club

Ama JuvS Solp Ultr
GD Amarantes 4-0 2-1 0-0
Juventude (Sal) 2-0 2-2 2-1
Solpontense Futebol Clube 1-2 4-0 4-0
FC Ultramarina --+ 0-2 2-2

Group B

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Vulcânicos FC 3 1 2 0 6 3 +3 5
2 Académica Operária 3 1 2 0 5 4 +1 5
3 Onze Unidos 2 0 1 1 2 3 -1 1
4 Nô Pintcha 2 0 1 1 1 4 -3 1

Club

Vul Aop Onze NôPi
Vulcânicos 1-0 3-1 1-0
Académica Operária 1-1 3-1 +--
Onze Unidos 0-2 2-0 --+
Nô Pintcha 1-2 1-1 3-1

Finals

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Cape Verdean Football 1999
Champions
GD Amarantes
1st title

Footnotes

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  1. ^ a b c "Cape Verde Islands 1999".
  2. ^ The criteria for qualification of Sporting Clube da Praia into the 2000 CAF Champions League was not continued
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