AD Bairro

AD Bairro

Full name	Associação Desportiva do Bairro Craveiro Lopes
Nickname(s)	Canarinha (little canary)
Founded	1975
Ground	Estádio da Várzea, Av. Cidade da Lisboa, Praia, Cape Verde
Capacity	8,000
Chairman	Guto (Fernando Augusto Fernandes Ribeiro)
Manager	Cley
League	Santiago Island League (South)
2014–15	6th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Associação Desportiva do Bairro Craveiro Lopes (ADESBA for short) is a multisport club that had played in the Santiago Island South Zone League in Cape Verde. It is based in the capital city of Praia in the island of Santiago and plays in the stadium with a capacity of 8,000 The club never won a title, they only have a single cup title which was won in 1995. Its sports include football (soccer), basketball, futsal, similar to arena football and volleyball. Its current president is Guto (Fernando Augusto Fernandes Ribeiro) and its manager is Cley who came in September or October 2016.

It is played along with Praia's three other famous teams including Sporting Praia, Boavista, Académica and CD Travadores in the same stadium.

The athletic club was formed in 1975. Its logo color has a gree seal with ADESBA on top and the club's full name on the bottom with the football (soccer ball) and basketball in the middle, the sports that Bairro have.

Uniform

Its uniform color is yellow with black pants and black striped socks for home games and all light green clothing for away games.

Stadium

Estádio da Várzea is a multi-use stadium in Praia, Cape Verde. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 8,000. The stadium has seat rows in the left and right sides and a small hill and a plateau lies to the west.

History

The football club was created in the late 1960s and participated in the second division until they reached the first division in 1990 and continued uninterruptedly since 1992.^[1] Zé Piguita played for ADESBA between 1999 and 2002 and became one of the greatest players of the club. The club entered the national competition for the first time in 2008, as Sporting, also from Praia won the island championship for the year and also they won the 2007 championship, they automatically participated which gave Bairro, the second place team to participate. Bairro reached the semi-finals and challenged against Sporting Praia, they won 3–2 in the first match and scored nothing and lost at the second match.

ADESBA had 16 points and scored 13 goals and had 4 wins and draws and 10 losses in the 2013/14 season, in the 2014/15 season, the club had 19 points and their goal total double than last season with 26. In the 2015/16 season, the first featuring 22 matches, they had the same goal total as last season numbering 26 but their point total skyrocketed nearly doubling to 41, their seasonal wins risen from 5 to 11 and their draws doubled from 4 to 8, Bairro conceded 13 goals, more than half than last season. Their position slightly risen from 7th in 2014 to 5th in 2016.

Achievements

• Praia Cup: 1

1995

League and cup history

National championship

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	GD	P	Notes	Playoffs
2008	1B	2	5	2	2	1	12	5	+7	8	Promoted into playoffs	3rd
Total:			5	2	2	1	12	5	+7	8

Island/Regional Championship

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	GD	P	Cup	Tour	Notes
2007–08	2	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-			Also promoted into the National Championships
2013–14	2	7	18	4	4	10	13	23	-10	16
2014–15	2	6	18	5	4	9	26	28	-2	19
2015–16	2	5	22	11	8	3	26	13	+13	41

Statistics

• Best ranking: 3rd (overall, national)
• Total wins: 3 (national)
• Total goals scored: 15 (national)
• Total points: 8 (national)
• Highest number of matches played in a season: 22 (regional)
• Highest number of points in a season: 41 (regional)

Current squad

As of 21 November 2015^[2][3]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 Admilson Monteiro 2 Igor Barros 3 Yuri Correia 4 Gilson Correia 5 Djalo Moreno 6 Keoma Cabral 7 Edson Teixeira 8 Wacily Monteiro 9 Jair Garcia 10 Edilson Seródio 11 Nelson Ribeiro 12 Milton Cunha 13 Kevin de Pina

No. Position Player 14 Andradino Moniz 15 Ailton Monteiro 16 Emanuel da Graça 17 Erickson Robalo 18 Mário Afonso 19 António Anacleto 20 Ariano Tavares 21 Osvaldo Martins 22 Márcio Robalo 23 Walter Fernandes 24 Sandro Silva 25 Clarimundo Santos

Other clubs

Basketball

ADESBA is also a basketball club that competes at Gimnodesportivo Vava Duarte in Gamboa, Praia just south of Estadio da Vàrzea.

AD Bairro (Craveiro Lopes) won their national competition title in 2014/15 and was the first basketball club to compete in the African competitions and finished eight in the 2015 season.^[4] Bairro Craveiro Lopes was the next club to compete in the African competitions in any sport, the last appearance was Sporting Clube da Praia in soccer in 2009.

Achievements

• Cape Verdean Basketball Championships: 3, 2 listed

2012, 2015

Statistics

• Best position: 8th (continental)

Former players

• Ivan Almeida (in 2010–11, 2012 and 2013)
• Joel Almeida (in 2011)

References

1. "History of AD Bairro". Club website. 13 January 2014.
2. AD Bairro's Facebook Pages
3. AD Bairro article on the Spanish Wikipedia
4. "Liga dos Campeões Africanos: Bairro termina na oitava posição" [African Champions League, Bairro Finished Eight in Basketball]. A Semana. 19 December 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2015.

External links

• Official website (Portuguese)
• Club profile at Zerozero