Today, the uniform features white stripes on the shirt's side for home games and its shorts became red.

One of the first greatest players was Adérito Carvalho da Sena who appeared in the 1930s, he would have the stadium named after him.

Mindelense will be present at the 2018 National Division and play in Group A, other participants will be the Académicas of Praia and Porto Novo, the latter from across the island and Boa Vista's Sport Sal Rei Club.

In 1960, Mindelense won their third after another victory over Travadores, their fourth was in 1962, fifth in 1966, Mindelense got their sixth in 1968 after defeating Académica da Praia in 1968, their 1969 provincial appearance was unsuccessful as they lost to Sporting Praia, a year later as the 1970 edition did not take place, they won their final provincial title and was their last appearance before independence.

Their chance for the fourth one did not claim as Académico Sal Rei beaten CS Mindelense 2–0 in 1983 and was the first Battle of Barlavento, not until 1988 when in both two legs beat Sporting Clube da Praia 2–0 in the first and finally 0–1 in the last., the sixth title was claimed after beating CD Travadores from Praia.

The team won the most national titles between 1980 and 2008, Sporting tied it for one year and surpassed Mindelense in 2009 which would last until 2011 when Mindelense tied it once again as they won their eight title defeating Sporting 1–0 in the second finals match, their first match was scoreless.

The 2014–15 CS Mindelense season would be successful once again and this time challenged Paulense from Paúl, lost one in the first and won two in the second and advanced to the finals and challenged the city's other rival FC Derby by having a single point in each of the two matches, the match went on to penalty kicks and scored 4–3 to claim their third straight national title totalling eleven and two more than Sporting Praia, Mindelense was second and recent in winning consecutive titles in a row numbering three ahead of two (1976–77) by the same club and behind of four by Sporting Praia (2006–09).

Mindelense faced Académica from Porto Novo from the neighbouring island northwest, it was the second match ever that was won on penalty kicks and Mindelense defeated Académica Porto Novo the second time and the club won their fourth consecutive national title for the 2016 season, now tied with Sporting Praia with fourth consecutive but a record 12 national titles won, three ahead of Sporting Praia.

An almighty regional success came once more, it first came as the other club Académica Mindelo fielded a fake goalkeeper.

One of the five was the April 14 match where the club was awarded 3–0 by the regional association over Académica Mindelo, the original result was 0–1.

Mindelense claimed their third consecutive regional title and finished with 32 points, won 9 matches, yet again, not a single loss was made and scored 27 goals.

Mindelense is currently second place with 7 points, their first position was grabbed by Batuque, they made a draw with Ribeira Bote on January 6 without any goals scored.

Another win was made over Salamansa on January 27 and was still third with 11 points and 5 goals scored alongside Académica Mindelo, the fourth most.

Mindelense made another win on March 18, this one over Salamansa and the club had ten goals less than Derby's.

Mindelense came back for the last time to another cup final, in May 2017 and featured Derby, another loss was made and lost the title to that club.

Between January 13 and November 7, 2015, Mindelense shared their most possessed super cup titles together with Batuque.

Mindelense, again qualified as champion made their sixth super cup appearance on October 16, 2017, the match was the only second meeting with the clubs at the regional super cup, the club attempted their third straight title, that had failed as they lost to FC Derby 2–1.

Nearby buildings is the former Cory Brothers building, Other points of interests are Mindelo's marina and yacht, the statue of Diogo Afonso, the replica of Lisbon's Torre de Belém, the Fish Market and Praça Estrela The club and plays in the Adérito Sena Stadium with a capacity of once served up to 4,000, now serves 5,000 after the renovation, it is named after one of the first players of the club Adérito Carvalho da Sena (1905–1970).

FC Derby, Académica do Mindelo, Amarante and Batuque are the other major clubs of the island playing in that stadium.

2 February 2017 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply.