Sporting Praia Cruz

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Sporting Praia Cruz

File:SC da Praia Cruz Logo.png
Full name	Sporting Clube da Praia Cruz
Nickname(s)	Os Leões (the Lions)
Ground	Estádio Nacional 12 de Julho, São Tomé Island, São Tomé and Príncipe
Ground Capacity	6,500
League	São Tomé and Príncipe Championship
2015	1st
Home colours Away colours

Sporting Clube da Praia Cruz is a football club that plays in the São Tomé and Príncipe Championship. The team is based in the island of São Tomé. The team has won eight national and six island titles and is the third team in history to claim its first title in 1982. The team currently plays in the island premier division. Its logo has a shield and is colored green and features a lion with a soccer ball on the left, the abbreviated name is bubbled on the top and the unabbreviated form is at the bottom. The logo is identical to Sporting Clube de Portugal old logo (also known as Sporting Lisbon), the logo is different to other Sporting's logos, examples included Praia, Cape Verde, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau and Luanda, Angola. Sporting Lisbon are the fathering club of Sporting Praia Cruz and its 82nd affiliate.

Uniform

Its uniform features a striped green-white shirt with green sleeves and green socks. The uniform is identical to its fathering club, Sporting Clube de Portugal.

Its home uniform is yellow with green stripes on the shirt top edges and a green short and socks.

Its former uniform was a green (coloured like tourmaline)-white t shirt with green socks striped at the top and a black shorts for home games and a pastel green short, green shirt and green socks which were colored black for away games. Its later uniform would be a yellow shirt with green sleeve and collar edges, green shorts and socks for home games, a white t-shirt with black shorts and green socks for away games and a half white half black t-shirg with white shorts and green socks for alternate uniform when another team has a uniform colored white.

Home uniform in around 2012 and 2014

History

Sporting Won their first insular and national titles along with their first cup in 1982, their second were an island and then a national title won in 1984, their third were an island and national title along with a cup title in 1994, the club lost their fourth cup title in 1989, Sporting won their fourth nine years later in 1998, the fifth cup title in 2000 and won their sixth insular title in 2012, their seventh was won in 2013 and would win the nation's sixth in 2013 and the following year participated in the 2014 CAF Champions League against Stade Malien of Mali in the preliminaries, they've won their first match and never scored in the second match and lost. They've scored only a total of three goals. Sporting Praia Cruz won the 2015 title for São Tomé Island, then they won their sixth and recent cup title and now had won their seventh and recent national title and claims the most number of titles won in the country, Praia Cruz remains one of the clubs that won the most national cup titles.

Achievements

• São Tomé and Príncipe Championships: 7

1982, 1985, 1994, 1999, 2007, 2013, 2015

• São Tomé Island League: 8

1982, 1985, 1994, 1999, 2007, 2012, 2013, 2015

• Taça Nacional de São Tomé e Principe: 6

1982, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2015

• São Tomé and Príncipe Super Cup: 2

1999, 2000

• São Tomé and Príncipe Soldarity Cup: 1

1999

League and cup history

Performance in African competitions

• CAF Champions League: 1 appearance

2014 - Preliminary Round

Stade Malien: 3-2, 5-0

Island championships

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	GD	P	Cup	Qualification/relegation
2011	2	2	21	12	4	5	41	23	+18	40		None
2012	2	1	18	16	0	2	40	12	+28	48		Advanced into the 2012 National Championship
2013	2	1	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Quarterfinals	Advanced into the 2013 National Championship

Famous players

• Veloso Staydner

External links

• Team profile - ogol.com