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2014–15 Brava Island League

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Season
  
2014-15

Goals scored
  
156 (3.71 per match)

Biggest away win
  
Académica Sporting

Matches played
  
42

Biggest home win
  
Juventude

Champions
  
Sporting Clube da Brava

The 2014-15 Brava Island League season was the competition of the second and third tier football in the island of Brava, Cape Verde. Its started on 24 January and finished on 26 April 2014, over a month after the last season. The tournament was organized by the Brava Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol da Brava, ARFB). Sporting Brava won their second and recent title.

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Sporting Brava was the defending team of the title. A total of 7 clubs participated in the competition. 156 goals were scored, slightly lower than last season. All matches were played at Estadio de Aquiles de Oliveira in Nova Sintra.

Overview

As Fogo saw a couple of record breaking matches during the season, Brava was nearly the same and saw another high scoring matches, the highest scoring match was the Juventude-Corôa match in which Juventude scored 12-1 tying Fogo's highest scoring match which was done by Spartak d'Aguadinha, the second were two matches that finished with 8 goals. The Juventude match (along with the Spartak match of the Fogo Island League) was the highest scoring goal of any island league in the country. Unlike last season, the records were not successful, it was one goal less than last season's highest scoring match and there were four high scoring matches of which one was a moderate one with 6 goals scored by Morabeza on February 7, the following season would be more successful than the last two.

The first two weeks had Benfica Brava took the lead, then Juventude of the Port of Furna took it for three weeks, Sporting took at at round 6 for three weeks, Académica took it for a week due to Sporting's bye round, then Sporting took it again for a week, Juventude retook it for three weeks, after Juventude played their last match of the season and took a bye round, Sporting took the number one spot where they finished.

Juventude Furna scored the most number of goals numbering 39, Sporting was second with 34, the last two were Corôa with 13 and Benfica with 12. Sporting conceded only four goals in the season, Corôa conceded the most and numbered 46.

Both Desportivo and Travadores scored the most number of goals numbering 37, Sporting was second with 36 and Vitòria scored the least numbering 12, a club who scored the least that was 5th place. Varanda conceded the most number of goals numbering 37, Tchadense second with 24 and Vitòria with 32, a club who conceded the most that was 5th place

Participating clubs

  • Académica
  • Benfica
  • Corôa
  • Juventude da Furna
  • Morabeza
  • Nô Pintcha
  • Sporting Brava
  • Statistics

  • Biggest home win: Juventude 12-1 Corôa (April 5)
  • Largest score difference: Juventude 12-1 Corôa (April 5)
  • Longest winning streak: Juventude: 5 weeks (weeks 9-13)
  • Longest number one leading streak: Juventude (6 weeks, weeks 3-6 and weeks 11-13) and Sporting Brava (6 weeks)
  • References

    2014–15 Brava Island League Wikipedia