Paulense Desportivo Clube (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Paulensi Disportibu Klubi and the São Vicente Crioulo: Paulense Dsportiv' Klube) is a football club that had played in the Premier division and plays in the Santo Antão Island League North Zone in Cape Verde.

It is based in the town of Pombas, the seat of Paúl in the northeastern part of the island of Santo Antão and is being the main club of Vale do Paul.

Paulense is the most successful football (soccer) club in the North Zone and the second on the island, having won about 18 official regional titles.

Paulense did not lose a single match during the season and finished with 28 points and scored the region's most goals numbering 29.

On June 14, Paulense made their first national champ win over Boa Vista's Académica Operária 2–1.

Paulense lost the final match of the season to Mindelo's Batuque and finished fourth with a win and a draw and had four points and was out of the competition after being outside the qualification zone of the playoff stage.

The final match of the season featured champion of the Santiago North Zone Flor Jovem da Calheta and did not play as Paulense was fourth with only four points, six behind Académica Fogo's and Flor Jovem, a weak team withdrew from the competition.

Paulense made their fifth win as they defeated the second mightiest team of São Vicente FC Derby 0–1 on April 19, in the challenge of Santo Antão with Académica from Porto Novo, a scoreless draw was made and the final match was a loss to Santiago North's Grémio Nhágar from a subdivision of Assomada on May 4.

Until March 2017, Paulense's total stats at the nationals had 31 matches played and had nine wins and seven draws, also the club scored 31 goals.

Paulense lost 1–3 to Académico do Aeroporto at the 5th round and lost their ticket to the playoff stage, Paulense finished last in the group and suffered as they had their worst season without a win and 10 goals conceded totalling 55 and their victory to loss ratio is now less than a quarter of its 37 matches played.

In October 2016, Paulense along with Académica do Porto Novo of another league of the south 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 nearly a decade, it featured the champion of São Vicente Mindelense and the cup winner of São Vicente Salamansa.

In local competitions, Paulense won the 2016 and the 2017 Paul Municipal Tournaments, the recent one had the club finished with 6 points.

The club has a dirt stadium located in Pombas named Campo de Coqueiral and with no seats, all of its matches are played in Ponta do Sol at Estádio João Serra as the field is slightly wider.

Its logo is with a coconut crest with a golden bird above, a green-red ribbon with its motto, unlike other clubs with the Benfica based logo in the country, written in Portuguese, a red and white shield with an orange ball and a blue ribbon with the club name acronym in the middle.

Up to late 2016, is uniform had a crimson red t-shirt with white rim and the remainder black for home matches.

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