2003 Cape Verdean Football Championships

Cape Verdean Football Championships
Season	2003
Champions	Académico do Aeroporto
Matches played	31
Goals scored	77 (2.48 per match)
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The 2003 Cape Verdean Football Championships season was the 24th of the competition of the first-tier football in Cape Verde. Its started on 17 May and finished on 2 August. The tournament was organized by the Federação Caboverdiana de Futebol (Cape Verdean Football Federation, FCF).^[1] No club participated in the 2004 CAF Champions League or the 2004 CAF Winner's Cup.

Sporting Clube da Praia was the defending team of the title. A total of 11 clubs participated in the competition, one from each island league.

Participants

Académica Operária, winner of the Boa Vista Island League
Nô Pintcha, winner of the Brava Island League
Cutelinho FC, winner of the Fogo Island League
Onze Unidos, winner of the Maio Island League
Académico do Aeroporto, winner of the Sal Island League
Paulense Desportivo Clube, winner of the Santo Antão Island League (North)
Associação Académica do Porto Novo, winner of the Santo Antão Island League (South)
FC Ultramarina, winner of the São Nicolau Island League
Batuque FC, winner of the São Vicente Island League
Barcelona, winner of the Santiago Island League (North)
CD Travadores, winner of the Santiago Island League (South)

Information about the clubs

Club	Location
Académica do Aeroporto	Espargos
Académica Operária	Sal Rei
Académica do Porto Novo	Porto Novo
Barcelona	Tarrafal de Santiago
Batuque FC	Mindelo
Cutelinho FC	São FIlipe
Nô Pintcha	Vila Nova Sintra
Onze Unidos	Vila do Maio
Paulense	Paul
Travadores, CDCD Travadores	Praia
Ultramarina, FCFC Ultramarina	Tarrafal de São Nicolau

Overview

The league was contested by 11 teams with Académico do Aeroporto winning the championship.^[1]

League standings

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	FC Ultramarina	4	3	0	1	9	4	+5	9
2	CD Travadores	4	2	1	1	7	4	+3	7
3	CD Nô Pintcha	4	2	1	1	4	4	0	7
4	Onze Unidos	4	1	1	2	4	6	-2	4
5	Associação Académica do Porto Novo	4	0	1	3	3	9	-6	1

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Académico do Aeroporto	5	4	0	1	7	1	+6	12
2	Cutelinho	5	3	2	0	7	3	+4	11
3	Batuque FC	5	3	1	1	7	4	+3	10
4	Paulense Desportivo Clube	5	1	1	3	5	8	-3	4
5	Barcelona	5	0	3	2	4	8	-4	3
6	Académica Operária	5	0	1	4	6	12	-6	1

Results

Week 1
Home	Score	Visitor	Date
Académica Porto Novo	1 - 1	Travadores	17 May
Onze Unidos	0 - 0	Nô Pintcha	17 May
Académico Aeroporto	2 - 0	Académica Operaria	17 May
Batuque	1 - 1	Cutelinho	18 May
Paulense	0 - 0	Barcelona	18 May

Week 2
Home	Score	Visitor	Date
Ultramarina	4 - 1	Onze Unidos	24 May
Nô Pintcha	3 - 1	Académica Porto Novo	25 May
Barcelona	0 - 2	Académico Aeroporto	24 May
Cutelinho	3 - 2	Paulense	24 May
Académica Operaria	2 - 3	Batuque	24 May

Week 3
Home	Score	Visitor	Date
Travadores	3 - 0	Nô Pintcha	31 May
Académica Porto Novo	1 - 3	Ultramarina	31 May
Académico Aeroporto	2 - 0	Paulense	31 May
Batuque	2 - 0	Barcelona	31 May
Cutelinho	2 - 0	Académica Operaria	31 May

Week 4
Home	Score	Visitor	Date
Onze Unidos	2 - 0	Académica Porto Novo	14 June
Ultramarina	2 - 1	Travadores	14 June
Académico Aeroporto	1 - 0	Batuque	14 June
Barcelona	1 - 1	Cutelinho	14 June
Paulense	2 - 1	Académica Operaria	14 June

Week 5
Home	Score	Visitor	Date
Nô Pintcha	1 - 0	Ultramarina	29 June
Travadores	2 - 1	Onze Unidos	29 June
Académica Operaria	3 - 3	Barcelona	28 June
Batuque	2 - 1	Paulense	28 June
Cutelinho	1 - 0	Académico Aeroporto	28 June

Final Stages

Semi-Finals					Finals

	Cutelinho	0		0
	FC Ultramarina	3	-	3		FC Ultramarina	1	2	3
	CD Travadores	0	0	0		Académico do Aeroporto	3	3	6
	Académico do Aeroporto	1	0	1

Semifinals

Cutelinho FC v FC Ultramarina

12 July 2003

Cutelinho FC	0:3^{[lower-alpha 1]}	FC Ultramarina

Fogo Island

CD Travadores v Académico do Aeroporto

10 July 2003

CD Travadores	0:1	Académico do Aeroporto

Campo do Coco
Praia

FC Ultramarina v Cutelinho

19 July 2003

FC Ultramarina	Cancelled	Cutelinho

Estádio João de Deus Lopes da Silva
Ribeira Brava on São Nicolau Island

Académico do Aeroporto v CD Travadores

19 July 2003

Académico do Aeroporto	0:0	CD Travadores

Estadio Marcelo Leitão
Espargos

Finals

26 July 2003

FC Ultramarina	1:3	Académico do Aeroporto
Páscoa 5'		Pu 10' 32' Nhuca 53'

Estadio João de Deus Lopes da Silva
Ribeira Brava on São Nicolau Island

Académico do Aeroporto	3:2	FC Ultramarina
Dixa		Vítor

Cape Verdean Football 2003 Champions
Académico do Aeroporto 1st title

Statistics

Biggest win: Ultramarina 4-0 Onze Unidos (May 24)

Notes

↑ The match was abandoned at the 90th minute with the score 0-2 after a referee was attacked, Cutelinho was excluded and kicked out of the championships, Ultramarina was awarded 0-3

Footnotes

1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2015-07-12.

External links

Cape Verdean Football Championship seasons

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