São Nicolau Super Cup Explained

São Nicolau Super Cup
Founded:2006
Region: São Nicolau, Cape Verde
Current Champions:Ultramarina Tarrafal (6th time)
Most Successful Club:Ultramarina Tarrafal (5 times)

The São Nicolau Super Cup is a regional super cup competition played during the season in São Nicolau Island, Cape Verde. The super cup competition is organized by the São Nicolau Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de São Nicolau de Futebol, ARSNF).[1] Its current champions is Ultramarina Tarrafal which now possess the most titles numbering six.

The regional champion competes with the cup champion. If a champion also has a cup title, a cup club who is runner-up qualifies.

The 2018 Super Cup will feature the champion Belo Horizonte from Juncalinho and the cup winner Ultramarina Tarrafal.

History

The first edition took place on November 5, 2006. For several editions, it featured two legs, some of them if a match ended a draw, a second leg was held, it was the only regional super cup in the country that had two legs. Recently again only a single match takes place.

Tarrafal de São Nicolau, at the time, a year after the former municipality once consisted the whole island split in two started to possess a super cup title won by any clubs and was the only one, Tarrafal. Since 2007, Tarrafal de São Nicolau has the most titles won in the region, also since that time, Ultramarina has the most super cup titles won in the region., Ribeira Brava Municipality became second since 2008. In 2010, Ribeira Brava became the only municipality to have more than a club who have won a super cup title. in 2013, Ultramarina's three straight wins put the municipality solely having the most titles. In 2015, Belo Horizonte became the recent club to have a super cup title.

In 2016, the titles won by clubs in the eastern municipality of Ribeira Brava was tied with titles won by clubs in the western municipality of Tarrafal. In 2017, Ultramarina's win put Tarrafal de São Nicolau's title wins, one more than the eastern municipality, for Tarrafal, only one club has titles and is Ultramarina. Until December 23, 2017, never a club qualified as a cup runner up, Ultramarina Tarrafal became the only club to qualify both as champion and cup winner, Ribeira Brava qualified as runner up in the cup competitions. It was the last regional super cup competitions in Cape Verde where it never featured a club that was runner up in the cup competitions. Ultramarina Tarrafal beat Ribeira Brava 8-0 and made it the highest result in the regional super cup history and is one of the highest of any in the nation.

Winners

SeasonWinnerResultRunner-up
2005/06FC UltramarinaBelo Horizonte
2006/07FC Ultramarina0-0 (3-1 p)AJAT'SN
2007/08SC AtléticoDesportivo Ribeira Brava
2008/09Unknown
2009/10Desportivo Ribeira BravaFC Talho
2010-11FC UltramarinaDesportivo Ribeira Brava
2011-12FC Ultramarina0-0 (1st leg)
2-1 (2nd leg)
SC Atlético
2012/13FC UltramarinaSC Atlético
2013/14SC Atlético[2] FC Ultramarina
2014/15Belo Horizonte[3] FC Ultramarina
2015/16SC Atlético[4] AJAT'SN
2016/17Ultramarina Tarrafal[5] 8-0Ribeira Brava1

1 Runner up in the cup competition as the regional champion was also a cup winner

Performance By Club

ClubWinnersWinning Years
FC Ultramarina62006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017
SC Atlético32008, 2014, 2016
Belo Horizonte12015
Desportivo Ribeira Brava12010

Performance by Municipality

MunicipalityWinnersClub locationWinnersWinning years
Ribeira Brava5Juncalinho12015
Ribeira Brava42008, 2010, 2014, 2016
Tarrafal de São Nicolau6Tarrafal de São Nicolau62006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.fcf.cv/pt/index.php/associacoes/sao-Nicolau São Nicolau Regional Football Association at the FCF website
  2. Web site: Batalha. José. 2013/14 São Nicolau Super Cup. 4 June 2014. RSSSF. 30 December 2016.
  3. Web site: Batalha. José. 2014/15 São Nicolau Super Cup. 23 December 2015. RSSSF. 30 December 2016.
  4. Web site: Batalha. José. 2015/16 São Nicolau Super Cup. 12 January 2017. RSSSF. 12 January 2017.
  5. Web site: Batalha. José. 2016/17 São Nicolau Super Cup. December 28, 2017. RSSSF. December 28, 2017.