2016–17 Benfica da Praia season

Benfica da Praia

2016–17 season
Stadium	Estádio da Várzea
Top goalscorer	Kingsley Ezenwa (6 goals)
← 2015–16

The 2016–17 Benfica da Praia season are in the island division of football (soccer) and is their current season.^[1] This is Benfica's first ever season at the Premier Division. It is also the first that both affiliates of Benfica appear at the division, the other being Travadores.

Santiago Island League (South)

Their first match of the season was on November 6 where they made a scoreless draw with Tchadense, a week later, another with Eugénio Lima and made their second consecutive scoreless draw. No goals would be scored in 2016. Benfica's first loss was to Sporting 1-0 on November 18. Benfica's further two consecutive scoreless draws were followed, first to Académica then to Vitória, a club that would later suffer. Six consecutive losses were next, one was to Garridos, then to Travadores (a co-affiliate of the club) where Benfica scored the season's first goal and also in the Premier Division, third was to ADESBA on January 14 and the result was 3-2, the next three were without any goals and were to Celtic, ghesportivo and Boavista. Benfica's only win at the Premier Division was made to Tchadense, who was the mightiest club in the early part of the season. On February 19, the made a goal draw with Eugénio Lima, first draw with goals at the Premier Division. Two consecutive losses were made first to Sporting, then to Académica on March 5. A two match winning streak was followed, first over ailing Vitória then Garridos and the club became 9th and again ahead of Eugénio Lima. After two matches, another loss was followed to Travadores, the sister club but Benfica, it was followed by a two-goal draw shared with ADESBA, one of the two scorers was the Nigerian Kingsley Ezenwa. A repeat of the loss, this time to Celtic Praia at the 20th round and remains to be 9th, the club became 8th in conceded goals with 27, their goal total ranking dropped after Garridos' huge victory over Travadores and placed it second last to Eugénio Lima's and kept it for the remainder of the season along with their ranking and their point totals. With 18 points and a seven point difference from Garridos, listed in the relegation zone, Benfica will spend their second season in the Premier Division. The only scorer of the match was Ezenwa. A second straight loss was followed to Desportivo and was 0-4 at the 21st round and on April 30th, their third straight loss and lost to the mighty Boavista 4-1 and conceded 35 goals which became 9th behind ADESBA's, there they scored the last goal of the season. Benfica Praia finished 9th ahead of Eugénio Lima by two points and scored 18 goals.

Results

Results summary

Last updated: April 30, 2017.
Source: Rankings at rsssf

Santiago South Zone Cup

Benfica's first cup match of the season was to Desportivo Praia, the match ended in a two-goal draw but won 4-5 in the penalty shootout and advanced to the Round of 16 and lost to Ribeira Grande, a club based in Cidade Velha.

Squad

As of 5 March 2017^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player Ezeijofor Kingsley Ezenwa Agilson Michael S. Tavares Amail Gomes dos Reis Arantes Brito Moniz Ariclene Adérito Moreno Djamba Sony[lower-alpha 1]

No. Position Player Edilson Manuel Monteiro Edmilson Paulo Mendes Edson Yanick da Veiga Helton John Delgado Horo M'Begnan (Chrys Williams)[lower-alpha 2]

Transfers

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	From
Late 2016		Ezeijofor Kingsley	Celtic da Praia

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