Associação Académica do Porto Novo (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Asosiason Académica du Portu Nobu, Santo Antão Crioulo: Associaçôm Akadémica d' Port' Novo, São Vicente Crioulo: Associação Akadémika d' Port' Novo) is a multi-sport club that plays in the Santo Antão Island League South Zone in Cape Verde.
It is based in the town of Porto Novo in the southeastern part of the island of Santo Antão.
Académica do Porto Novo is the most successful football (soccer) club on the island, having won about 33 official regional titles.
It does not include the single Santo Antão Island Cup which the club lost one match and getting knocked out of the competition.
In the 2015–16 season, the club had ten titles,[2] One of the few clubs of each island leagues ever to win six consecutive titles; the others being CS Mindelense of nearby São Vicente several times between the foundation up to 1994, Botafogo of Fogo in 1981 and Brava's Nô Pintcha in 1996.
On home matches, it maintained a 35-match unbeaten streak at the regionals, a feat which it continued for six years.
Also, other clubs who won 7+ consecutive titles of any island leagues were Mindelense (1975–82), Botafogo (1976–83) and No Pintcha (1994–2001) with eight.
Académica made a 9–0 win over Inter and had the highest scoring match of the season for the region and not enough to reach a record total of 60.
[4] Porto Novo won their seventh consecutive cup title in 2018 with their recent with the score 2–1 in extra time over Marítimo.
[5] Before they won their recent cup title, in the semis on March 8, Académica Porto Novo qualified on an occasion that they were awarded 3–0 by the regional association as the team Santo André who failed to head above the 7th position in the championships in recent years did not show up.
Académica do Porto Novo kept another achievement going as they participated in their next Opening Tournament competition in three years, the club finished first with 13 points and 7 goals and won their recent title.
[8] In 2005, they won their first match defeating Brava's SC Morabeza, a week later, it became their worst season ever for the club after a 10–1 loss to FC Derby from the adjacent island (São Vicente) down south and became their worst match at the nationals, that formed most of their goals conceded.
The final match of the season which was on June 18 was a 4–2 win over Boa Vista's Estância Baixo who were regional runner-up as Sal Rei won the 2004 national title.
Académica Porto Novo had three wins but scored only six goals in 2016 and finished with 11 points which got another playoff entry.
[13] For the 2017 season, they made their eleventh appearance and out of the newly recreated three groups, they played twice with CS Mindelense from nearby São Vicente, Académico do Aeroporto from Sal and Paulense, winner of the North Zone.
Again, they finished with 11 points and had three wins, they also had 12 goals scored in the regular season which became a club record.
[10] In 2013, Académica Porto Novo again appeared in the semi's and defeated Desportivo Praia 3–0 in the first leg.
In October 2016, Académica along with Paulense of another league of the north of the island were participants from outside the neighboring island in the revived and reformatted Mindelo Cup, a competition that has not been held in several years, it featured the champion of São Vicente Mindelense and the cup winner of São Vicente Salamansa.
As Paulense finished last in the 2017–18 Santo Antão North Premier Division, the club was relegated and the rivalry came to an end.
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