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Manager
  
Badau

Founded
  
23 September 1994

2015–16 2016
  
Champion Semifinalist

GD Varandinha

Full name
  
Grupo Desportivo Varandinha

Ground
  
Estádio de Mangue Tarrafal on Santiago Island, Cape Verde

League
  
Cape Verdean Football Championship

Grupo Desportivo Varandinha (also in the Capeverdean Crioulos of ALUPEC or ALUPEK and São Vicente Crioulo) is a football (soccer) club that plays in the Santiago Island League North Zone in Cape Verde. The team is based in the town of Tarrafal in the northern part of the island of Santiago in Cape Verde. Its current head coach is Badau.

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Logo and uniform

Its logo colors features the front gate of the football (soccer) stadium and "GD Varandinha" read in the logo.

Its uniform colors is a red t-shirt with four orange edges on each side covering 2/3 of the shirt size and the rest of the clothing white for home matches. The color for away or alternate matches is orange clothing.

Up to 2014, its uniform colors were red and black for home games.

History

The club was founded on September 23, 1994.

Prior to 2006, the team was playing in the second level competition. It entered into the level and became the Northcentral (Centro Norte) group. today they were playing in the newly formed Group B. The team won their only regional title for the record breaking 2015-16 season, their points achieved was a regional record and was around 60, a week later, the club entered the national championships for the first time where the club advanced up to the semifinals, they played in Group A and was second after FC Derby, the club lost a total of six goals to Mindelense, Varandinha scored the most goals in Group A with nine and they were second overall to Mindelense with eleven.

Along with other clubs in the municipality, Varandinha appeared at the 2016 GAFT Cup in October, the first edition and featured only one meeting each with four matches, the club won their only title after finished with 10 points, the point total was shared with Estrela dos Amadores but Varandinha scored more goals than that club.

Achievements

  • Santiago Island League (North): 1
  • GAFT Cup: 1
  • Statistics

  • Best position: 4th (national)
  • Total matches played: 7 (national)
  • Highest number of matches played: 26 (regional), 33 (regional and national)
  • Highest number of goals in a season, national level: 9 (regular season), 10 (with playoffs)
  • Highest number of points in a season:
  • National: 10
  • Regional: 60/62 - a record of any of the island leagues made in 2016
  • References

    GD Varandinha Wikipedia