FC Derby

FC Derby
Full name Futebol Clube de Derby
Nickname(s) Dragões (Dragons)
Founded August 5, 1929
Ground Estádio Municipal Adérito Sena
Mindelo, Cape Verde
Ground Capacity 5,000
Chairman Cape Verde Carlos Alberto Lopes
Manager Cape Verde Yoya
League São Vicente Island League
Cape Verdean Football Championships
2015–16
2016		 2nd place
Semifinalist

FC Derby is a football club that had played in the Premier division and the São Vicente Island League in Cape Verde. It is based in the city of Mindelo on the island of São Vicente. It is the second team of the regional league who won the most titles after independence especially in the 1960s and the 1970s. Its current president is Carlos Alberto Lopes and its coach is Yoya who became in May 2017. The club name is the Dragons or Dragões. Since 30 April 2017, they are one of three unrelegated clubs in the island along with Batuque and Mindelense.

Derby is one of the most successful football (soccer) club in Cape Verde, having won about 21 official titles, 3 are national titles and 18 are regional titles.

History

The club was founded on August 5, 1929 and is the third oldest club on the island. In 1939, the club celebrated its 10th anniversary, its 25th anniversary in 1953 and its 50th anniversary in 1979.

Regional competition

Derby participated in the first regional championships in 1938 the club lost to CS Mindelense, they also lost in 1939.

FC Derby won their first title in 1965 and became the region's fourth club after Académica to do so, Derby had the least number of titles until the club won four island (or regional) titles in a row between 1983 and 1986, later they had two in a row titles in 2000 and 2001, their next titles would be achieved in 2001, 2005, 2008 and their most recent in 2014. Derby is second in the number of regional titles numbering ten together with Académica Mindelo since 2014. Between 1985 and 2014, Derby was third in the total number of titles won, in the middle of the season, they lost a chance for a regional title.

In 2014, Almara became coach for nearly three years, he previously coached Fogo's Desportivo de Cova Figueira and Mindelense. In the 2016-17 season, originally that Derby was third placed. In April, Derby made a protest that the club was using a goalkeeper with a fake identity. On April 24, the Disciplinary Council of the Cape Verdean Football Federation, removed every points that the fake goalkeeper had played totalling 11 and included one with Salamansa, Derby, Farense, the almighty Mindelense and Ribeira Bote, from February 25, they were the first three matches and the last two matches on April 15, one of five matches were on February 25 where Derby was awarded 0-3, the original result was a scoreless draw.[1] Derby's position risen to second and achieved the qualification zone for the 2017 national championships as Mindelense were national champions last season. Derby officially finished runner up in the regionals with 21 points, a difference with Académica Mindelo, won 6 matches, 4 draws and scored 22 goals.

National competition

Derby entered in 2005 to the national championships, in the second match, Derby defeated 10-3 over Académica do Porto Novo, a club from Santo Antão just northwest of the island making it the second highest scoring match of the season and the club's highest score to date in the national level, overall Derby scored 23 goals which is the club's highest, In 2006, the Santiago North Zone did not participate in the premier division as they did not win the championship, which meant that FC Derby automatically advanced into the premier league by virtue of having been champions in 2005. After winning a regional cup in 2007, Derby was the islands first team to qualify into the first ever Cape Verdean Cup, there, Derby lost. In 2008, after winning another regional title, Derby entered the 2008 Cape Verdean Football Championships and was placed in Group B and became the first club to win all five matches in a six club group stage and received 15 points, the club's record. In the 2015 edition, Derby of Group B done this for the second time winning all five matches in a six club group stage and received 15 points, this was done together with Mindelense but Derby conceded two goals, this was the most recent.

Overall, Derby competed 12 times in the national level. Since the introduction of the points system in the early 1990s, Derby has a total of 82 points won at the National Championships. Their 12th appearance was made at the 2017 championships, they compete for the first time in three groups and placed in Group C alongside the two Sporting clubs (Brava and Praia (of Santiago South) and Boa Vista's Sport Sal Rei Club. Their first national match was a loss to Sporting Praia 0-1 at home on May 13, an unexpected loss was made to a less prominent club Sporting Brava at the following round. Derby made their recent only win a week later as they defeated Boa Vista's Sport Sal Rei Club 1-0.

Full stories of the team's playoff victories and advances

Derby's first appearance into the Cape Verdean finals was in 1965 and lost 3-2 to Académica da Praia, their only appearance under Portuguese rule.

FC Derby entered the playoffs for the first time after independence in 1984 and won 3–2 over Académica (Espargos). Derby FC entered the playoffs in 2000 and challenged Académica Operária, a team from Sal Rei, the first match was tied at 1 apiece, and in the second defeated Académica Operária 1–0 and claimed the 2000 championship. The 2005 championship finals with Sporting Clube da Praia was a 1–1 tie in the first match and a 4–3 victory in the second, giving Cape Verde their third title, no qualification to the 2006 CAF Champions League would occur for Derby. In the 2008 edition, Derby advanced up to the finals and lost the competition to Sporting Praia, their next appearance in the finals was seven years later. The club would enter the 2015 Championships as second place of the regional league, already Mindelense who were first place of the regional league entered into the national championships as they won the 2014 national title. Derby advanced into the finals where they challenged against the city's rival Mindelense and scored 1 in each two matches, they would lose 4–3 on penalty kicks to Mindelense and earned second place. The finals were also the club's last before the two phase system at the nationals was announced in 2016.

So far Derby appeared five times at the finals, played 9 matches at the championship finals. They will compete again

Continental appearance

Their first and only appearance into the CAF Champions League was in 2001 and lost to Real Banjul in the preliminaries 1–0 in two matches.[2] As second place in the 2015 national season, due to uncertain reasons particularly financial, Derby did not appear in the 2016 CAF Confederation Cup.

Other regional competitions

Other competitions included the regional cup, their titles won in 2004, 2005 and 2007. In 2004, Derby was one of three club who had their only cup title, the others were Ribeira Bote and Batuque. In 2005, Derby possessed the most cup titles in the region for a season, in 2006, it was shared with Batuque and had the most again from 2007 to 2009. Derby lost it in 2010 and became second to Batuque in 2010, from 2015 to 2017, the second most total was shared with Mindelense.

Derby came up to the regional cup finals in the 2016-17 season, their next in three years and challenged CS Mindelense, Derby defeated the club and claimed their recent cup title, their next in a decade and became the second club with the most cup titles, behind Batuque FC and ahead of CS Mindelense. Derby will make their next regional super cup appearance in three years later in the year.

Also Derby has titles in the opening tournament in 2001 and 2011 and the only supercup title won in 2005.

Its logo colors are black, white and blue, the F.C. Derby is at the top, its dragon carrying the shield and the football colored in blue. In the dragon part features a ribbon reading "Mindelo Cidade" and "Morabeza" on right. The Dragon is also the club's nickname. The top part of the shield reads F.C.D. and has a blue-white striped shield in it.

Uniform

Home uniform up to 2014
Away uniform to 2014
Home uniform from September 2014 to November 2016
Away uniform from September 2014 to 2016
Home uniform up from November 2016 to May 2017

Its uniform color represents for its home games a blue and vertical T-shirt, and blue shorts and white socks for home games and a white T-shirt with the remainder blue for away and alternate games.

Its former uniform colors was blue with a single white stripe, white sleeves and socks and blue shorts for home games and white clothing with blue sleeves and socks for visitor's games, both used until 2014. Between September 2014 and October 2016, its colors were striped blue and a white T-shirt with blue pants and white socks. Its visitor's color was black with a white left sash, black socks and white shorts. From October 2016 to May 2017, its home uniform were a blue and vertical t-shirt with blue sleeves, blue shorts and socks.

Stadium

The club and plays in the Estádio Municipal Adérito Sena 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). Mindelense, Académica do Mindelo, Amarante and Batuque are the other major clubs of the island playing in that stadium. Derby also trains at the stadium and partly at Adilson Nascimento Field.

Rivalry

Derby's only main rivalry is CS Mindelense. (see Mindelense–Derby rivalry). In 2015, the rivalry was the only time it taken to a national level.

Honours

1983/84, 1999/00, 2004/05
1965, 1982/83, 1983/84, 1984/85, 1985/86, 1999/00, 2000/01, 2004/05, 2007/08, 2013/14
2000/01, 2010/11, 2011/12
2003/04, 2004/05, 2006/07, 2016/17
2004/05

League and cup history

Performance in African competitions

Derby's results in CAF competition
Season Competition Qualification method Round Opposition Home Away Aggregate
2001 CAF Champions League Cape Verdean national champions Preliminary Round The Gambia Real Banjul 0–0 1–0 0–1

Colonial era

Year Finals Club Result
1965 3–2 Académica da Praia Finalist

National championship

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA GD P Cup Notes Playoffs
2000 1B 1 2110 10+14 Advanced into the finals Champion
2001 1 5 6222 67-18
2005 1B 2 5410 233+2013 Champion
2006 1A 1 4310 132+1110 4th place
2008 1B 1 5500 143+1115 Semifinalist
2014 1A 5 5413 46-24 Did not advance Did not participate
2015 1A 1 5500 122+115 Advanced into the finals Finalist
2016 1A 1 5410 82+613 Advanced into the finals Semfinalist
2017 1C 2-U 6312 75+27 Did not advance Did not participate
Total:433187 8830+5889
Total with playoffs:61391312 11449+65
2-U: A club who finished second and in the second place ranking, ranked as a non-participant in the playoff stage which the club has been eliminated from

Island/Regional Championship

Since the 1960s

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA GD P Cup Notes
2004–05 2 1 ---- ---- Winner Promoted into the National Championships
2007–08 2 1 ---- ---- Promoted into the National Championships
2013–14 2 1 14950 279+1832 Promoted into the National Championships
2014–15 2 2 14644 1915+422 Also promoted into the National Championships
2015–16 2 2 14761 2611+1527 Also promoted into the National Championships
2016–17 2 2 14644 2218+422 Winner Also promoted into the National Championships

Association cup

Season Reg.
Div.		 Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA GD P
2016–17 1 2 7511 165+1116

Statistics

Current squad

2014–15 season, partial listing

Chairmen

Managers

NameNationalityFromTo
Alberto Gomes Cape Verde
Ika (Antônio Dias) Cape Verde
Tchida Cape Verdein 2012c. 2014
Almara Cape Verdec. 2014May 2017
Yoya Cape Verdesince May 2017

References

  1. ↑ "Futebol regional São Vicente:Académica do Mindelo perde título na secretaria" [São Vicente Regional: Académica do Mindelo Lost the Title by the Secretary]. Criolosport (in Portuguese). 25 April 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  2. ↑ "Profile of FC Derby". scoreshelf.com. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
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