GD Florença

Grupo Desportivo Florença (Capeverdean Crioulos of ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Grupu Disportibu Florensa) is a football club that plays in the Sal Island League in Cape Verde. It is based in the city of Santa Maria in the southern part of the island of Sal and plays in its municipal stadium north of the town center and at Estádio Marcelo Leitão. The level is a beginner club.

History

The club was founded in mid 1995. In its first years of competition, they played with lesser clubs mainly from the island including ASGUI, Gaviões and Jovens Unidos.

Florença became a registered club in 2014, at the time was one of the six newest clubs in the Sal Island League. They played their first match in the regional Opening Tournament in late 2014 and later the regional Second Division in 2015. Along with ASGUI, they became the next two clubs to compete in the regional Premier Division as the club finished first.

Florença and ASGUI became the two of the seventh clubs top participate at the second tier competitions in Sal. Their first Premier Division match was their first with Juventude of Morro Curral played on February 7, 2015 which ended in a scoreless draw. The club finished sixth and became the seventh club to spend their second season in the second tier competition, they had 17 points five wins and scored 16 goals, the club had only a win at home the highest goals scored over a club was over ASGUI with four goals. Their match average was 1.547. The club lost to Académico Aeroporto on April 9, 2016 and was their worst defeat for a year.

Florença played their 25th championship match on January 14, the start of the 2017 season, the club challenged the city's main club SC Santa Maria and lost 2-3 to that club. At the time, the club never lost to Juventude and Santa Maria. Their position ranged from low to moderate, they started 6th and finished 5th with 18 points and scored 14 goals, Florença conceded 23 goals, ahead of Verdun and Gaviões. Florença's worst defeat became worser, first a 0-4 loss to Académico do Aeroporto on April 23, then a 5-0 loss to Juventude on April 30 and became the club's worst match to date. In March 2017, the club headed straight to the regional cup semis for the first time and lost the match in mid-March, it was their greatest success at the regional cup competitions as a semifinalist.

So far as of February/March 2017, the club has played 30 matches and has a grand total of 44 points, 12 wins, 8 draws and 16 losses, it also has 42 goals scored. Of which two thirds are scored away and a third at home, the home and away draws are even at four, it also has ten home losses over seven away losses. Its goal average per match is now 1.342

Stadium

The club's stadium is Estádio Municipal de Santa Maria, the club trains partly at the stadium. Its matches are played at Estádio Marcelo Leitão, a multi-use stadium in Espargos, Cape Verde. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 8,000. The stadium has seat rows in the east side and is east-southeast of the city center and Monte Curral. The stadium is home to the two best football clubs on the island, the other being Académica do Sal, other clubs based in Espargos includes Juventude which is based in Morro Curral and the stadium is being located inside the neighborhood. Other clubs based in Espargos but a neighborhood includes the newly established clubs of Gaviões, Chã de Matias and GDRC Pretória.. Clubs playing the stadium but based on other parts of the island include Santa Maria, SC Verdun Pedra de Lume, Palmeira de Santa Maria and ASGUI.

Achievement

Secondary achievement

• Sal Second Division: 1

2015

League and cup history

Island/Regional Championship

Association cup

Statistics

• Best position: 5th (regional)
• Best position at cup competitions: Semifinalist (regional)
• Appearances at the regional competitions: 3, to be 4
  • First Division: 2, to be 3
  • Second Division:, Once, in 2015
• Appearances at cup competitions: 3
• Appearance at opening tournaments: 4
• Total championship matches played: 38 (regional)
  • Total matches played at home: 19
  • Total matches played away: 19
• Total points: 55 (regional)
• Total wins: 16 (regional)
  • Total wins at home: 10
  • Total wins away: 6
• Total draws: 7 (regional)
  • Total draws at home: 2
  • Total draws away: 5
• Total goals scored: 51 (regional, avg. of 1.342 per match)
• Highest number of goals scored in a season: 21 (regional), in 2015
• Highest number of points in a season: 20 (regional), in 2015
• Highest number of wins in a season: 6 (regional), in 2015
• Highest scoring match: Florença 8-0 JURF, Jan 11, 2015 in the Second Division
  • Sal Premier Division: 3 goals, some matches
  • Sal Second Division: Florença 8-0 JURF, Jan 11, 2015

• Lowest number of goals scored in a season: 14, in 2017
• Lowest number of points in a season: 17, in 2016
• Total losses: 15 (regional)
• Total goals conceded: 50 (regional)
• Highest number of matches lost in a season: 7 (regional), in 2016
• Highest number of goals conceded in a season: 23 (regional), in 2017
• Worst defeat: Juventude 5-0 Florença, 30 April 2017

Championship record by opponent

Key

• Teams with this background and symbol in the "Club" column are competing in the 2016–17 Sal Premier Division alongside Florença.

• P = matches played; W = matches won; D = matches drawn; L = matches lost; F = Goals scored; A = Goals conceded; Win% = percentage of total matches won

All-time championship record

Statistics correct as of the end of the 2016-17 Sal Regional season

Overall end

Statistics correct as of the end of the 2016–17 Sal Premier Division season.

External links

• Club profile at the Final Ball