Batuque Futebol Clube (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC: Batuki Futibol Klubi, São Vicente: Batúque Futebol Klube) is a football club that plays in the São Vicente Premier Division in Cape Verde.

[citation needed] The club was formed on May 5, 1981[2] and was founded by players one of them was Jota (João José Cardoso da Silva) and students from Liceu Ludgero Lima located across the stadium southeast of the city center in the subdivision of Monte Sossego.

The football club is named after the Cape Verdean music and dancing genre, the batuque.

[citation needed] Batuque's final match of the season was a loss to their rival Mindelense which ended in 0–2.

[citation needed] Batuque started the 2017–18 season with a win over Salamansa and was in mid-position, a two-goal draw with the mighty Derby came up and was the year's last match.

[citation needed] Batuque competed at the national level for the first time in the 2002 season, finishing second with fewer goals than Sporting Praia.

The point total of 19 shared with Sporting Praia was the highest total in the national championships; no other club matched that total since, after the restructuring implemented for the following 2017 season it did not even supersede the maximum of 18 but only the combined portion, the new triangular phase became longer than the three early triangular phases but with three groups, this time with a playoff stage with four clubs that featured the second placed club with the most points (sometimes goals if the two has the same points) of that position of each group.

Seven years later, they made their next appearance and there and played in Group A, they scored the highest match at the nationals defeating Fogo's Botafogo 0–4 on May 22.

[citation needed] Batuque faced Mindelense on March 7 in the regional cup semis and ended in a goal draw which led to the penalty shootout, Batuque finally won 4–5 and got a chance for another cup title in their next cup final appearance in four years, again competed with Derby on April 7, it went into extra time after no goals were scored and the extra time ended without a goal scored, it went into the penalty shootout and Batuque finally got their next cup title in four years, they claimed their sixth title.

Batuque won their second and recent title in December 2016 for the 2016/17 season, the club had 17 points, five wins and two draws.

The club had four wins and a draw and scored 14 goals, shared with the island's magnificent team Mindelense.

[citation needed] The today's logo has an outer angled shield also rimmed black with the club name on top and its location on the bottom.