Ground Capacity 8,000 Founded 3 July 1977 | 2014–15 2nd | |
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Full name Associação Académica e Operária da Boa Vista Nickname(s) Preto e Branco
Os Sal Reis League Campionato Regional da Boavista Ground Estádio Municipal Arsénio Ramos | ||
Associação Académica e Operária da Boa Vista (first part, Portuguese meaning: "academy", Capeverdean Crioulo: Asosiason Akadémika y Operária/Uperária) is a sports club that its football (soccer) team had played in the Premier division and plays in the Boa Vista Island South Zone Division in Cape Verde. It is based in the island capital of Sal Rei in the island of Boa Vista and plays with Boa Vista's teams in the same stadium. Apart from football (soccer) there are also in the club basketball, volleyball and athletics departments.
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Académica Operária is one of the most successful football (soccer) club in Cape Verde and is Boa Vista's most successful club, having won about 22 official titles, only one is national and the remaining 21 are regional titles.
History
The club was founded on July 3, 1977. The first name of the club Académica is named after the Portuguese football club from Coimbra, the second is Portuguese for Operators. It is one of Académica clubs founded after independence. The left part reads OBV. Académico Sal Rei merged with Operária and became Académica e Operaria in the 1980s.
The team has one national title and nineteen titles, some of them won in a row between 1995 and 1996, 2001 to 2003 and their recent in 2015. Associação Académica e Operária also won their first and only opening tournament title in 2005. The club have one of the most number of island titles of any island league in the nation numbering nineteen, their total was less than Botafogo from Fogo, in 2000, the total number of 14 island titles was tied with that club and later 15 from 2003, they did not tied with 16 until 2009 and not with 17 until 2012, the number of island titles won succeeded Botafogo's in 2014 with 18 and now they have 19 which they won in 2015.
Playoff advance
The team entered the playoffs in the 1999–2000 season even though it did not claim any title but were runner up and challenged São Vicente's Derby FC, the first leg was tied apiece with only one point, in the second leg, Académica lost its championship hope by one point.
Rivalry
The club's only rivalry is Sport Sal Rei Club forming the Derby of Boa Vista Island
Stadium
Estádio Municipal Arsénio Ramos is a multi-use stadium in Sal Rei, Cape Verde. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 500. The stadium is home to the island's best football clubs including Sal Rei and Sporting Boa Vista. It is also the home of Sanjoanense. The club also practices at the stadium