Paulense Desportivo Clube

History

Paulense won their first title in 2003 and in 2005 won two more totaling three titles in a row, now the club has won two recent titles in a row in 2014 and 2015. In other competitions, the team won two cup titles, their first was in 2013 and won two consecutive in 2016. Paulense also has four titles in a row for the Super Cup, their recent was in 2015 and four of the five Opening tournament titles were won two years each, in 2007 and 2008 and 2013 and 2014, the last title before the opening tournament competition would be held for the whole island.

The club celebrated its 32nd anniversary in 2013

Regional championships

In the 2014-15 season, Paulense had a ten match winning streak at the Regional Championships in two seasons, it started after a goal draw with Rosariense in the previous season on March 15, 2014 and ended in a loss on March 28 to Rosariense with the score 1-3. Paulense also had a 13 match unbeaten streak at the regionals, Paulense's last was loss was on February 13, 2014 to Foguetões 0-2. Paulense also had the region's highest match scored defeating Janela 8-0 on January 31 in a round 5 match. Paulense's position in the 2016 season was second place with 21 points behind Sinagoga. Paulense never reached above second place, they started at fourth, two weeks later climbed to fifth and to second for the rest of the season. Paulense had the first two rounds with draws, the second one with Sinagoga was scoreless, the only loss was to Sinagoga on March 17. Paulense scored the region's most number goals numbering 20, tied with Beira-Mar. Since the last match of the 2012-13 season, Paulense had not had a loss away.

Currently Paulense has the lead in the entire 2016-17 regionals and for the upcoming weeks and having 21 points, as Foguetões defeated second placed Sinagoga (with 10 points) on February 18, the club became listed as regional champions for the season and will participate in the 2017 national championships in May.

Other regional competitions

In the 2014 subregional super cup, Paulense (as champion) defeated Sinagoga, as cup winner the 2016 title for the region's north zone, the club faced the champion Sinagoga, based just northwest in the North Zone's super cup, Paulense lost the match to Sinagoga.

Other competitions

In October 2016, Paulense along with Académica do Porto Novo of another league of the south of the island were participants from outside the neighboring island in the revived and reformatted Mindelo Cup, a competition that has not been held in nearly a decade, it featured the champion of São Vicente Mindelense and the cup winner of São Vicente Salamansa.

In local competitions, Paulense won the 2016 and the 2017 Paul Municipal Tournaments, the recent one had the club finished with 6 points.

Logo

Its logo is with a coconut crest with a golden bird above, a green-red ribbon with its motto, unlike other clubs with the Benfica based logo in the country, written in Portuguese, a red and white shield with an orange ball and a blue ribbon with the club name acronym in the middle. Except for the colour and the full semi-circular crest. Its logo is the nearly the same as Portugal's Benfica and remains an affiliate. Other logos that are the same in the nation are CD Travadores, one Benfica club and Benfiquinha.

Uniform

Its uniform consists of a red clothing with white sleeves used for home matches.

Up to late 2016, is uniform had a crimson red t-shirt with white rim and the remainder black for home matches.

Stadium

The club has a dirt stadium located in Pombas and with no seats, much of the matches are played in Ponta do Sol at Estadio João Serra as the field is slightly wider.

The club trains at the stadium and at their home field of Coqueiral.

Achievements

Current squad

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As of 2015

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