AD Bairro
| Full name | Associação Desportiva do Bairro Craveiro Lopes | ||
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| 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 | ||
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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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
- ↑ "History of AD Bairro". Club website. 13 January 2014.
- ↑ AD Bairro's Facebook Pages
- ↑ AD Bairro article on the Spanish Wikipedia
- ↑ "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
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