Rosariense Desportivo Clube

Rosariense Desportivo Clube (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Rozariensi Klubi and the São Vicente Crioulo: Rosariense Klube) is a football club that had played in the Premier division and plays in the Santo Antão Island League South Zone in Cape Verde. It is based in the town of Ribeira Grande in the northeastern part of the island of Santo Antão. Its current chairman is Orlando de Jesus Delgado who is since September 12, 2015 It was the first team ever to win the title after breaking the island's division zones into two and the team won in 1997. For only a year, the team only had one title with Beira Mar, its teams' recent win in 2007 now made it having two titles with Solpontense.

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Rosariense's recent appearance was the 2011 Cape Verdean Football Championships and was placed in Group B, the club played four matches, one short as the Brava Island season was cancelled, the team was last place and had no wins and had a draw and three losses, four goals were scored and the club conceded 14 goals and won a point, its worst defeat ever was the match with Boavista FC at Praia which lost 6-0 on June 11 at the fifth and final round of the championships.

The club was ranked sixth and last in the 2014–15 season and was relegated, for the next two seasons, Rosariense was in the Second Division. In the 2016-17 season, along with Solpontense being the best two clubs of the Second Division along with the withdrawal of São Pedro Apóstolo and Irmãos Unidos, the two only challenged the newcomer Torrense, based in Xoxo the middle of Ribeira da Torre, as Torreense was not a powerful team, Rosariense seeked the opportunity for a chance to return to the regional Premier Division and three weeks before the end of the Second Division on February 19, Rosariense was listed winner of the Regional Second Division for the season and will be promoted in the following season.