Sport in Cape Verde

Cape Verde has risen to prominence in a number of sporting areas in recent decades.

Kite surfing, windsurfing has recently increased in use and popularity in Cape Verde today.

The first club to compete at the African level was Sporting Praia in 1993, years after Cape Verde became a CAF member.

A total of five clubs participated including Sporting Praia, Mindelense, FC Derby, Boavista Praia and Travadores, only one club SC Atlético was disqualified in 1992 due to that the football federation did not name the entrant on time.

The Opening Tournaments (Association Cup in some islands) has one part with a club meeting once, some has three or four rounds than a final match.

Today it is one of the few countries that does not use the common division system, another small country smaller in size is São Tomé and Príncipe who uses the same system as Cape Verde, but the system which Cape Verde used up to the 1990s having only a national championship match, the winner of each island competes in the national championships, sometimes when an island winner also won the championship as they won a national title in the previous season, a second place club competes, the national winner competes in the following season.

After the end of the 20th century, this type of sports was gaining in other islands notably Sal and Boa Vista which has a lot of sands and dunes with its desert-type landscape.

It made Sal and Boa Vista the commonplace of kite and wind surfing in the country and does into the present day.

A small golf course is located about 3 km south of Mindelo in the island of São Vicente and was the first of its kind in Cape Verde.

At the time, its popularity was mostly done by British visitors in the late 19th century and the 1900s at the height of ship service and refueling at Porto Grande Bay.