Sporting Praia Cruz

Uniform

Its shirt are supplied by Adidas. Its uniform colors are green for home, yellow as a second color and blue as its third. The home uniform has two yellow stripes on the top sleeve and a large one on the rims, The shorts rim and the sock top also has two yellow lines. It is oppositely green for its second color. The third color has a longer sky blue stripes, two of them on top and without rims, the shorts and sock's stripes are the same as the other two.

Its former uniform was a green (coloured like tourmaline)-white T-shirt with green socks striped at the top and a black shorts for home games and a pastel green short, green shirt and green socks which were colored black for away games. Its later uniform would be a yellow shirt with green sleeve and collar edges, green shorts and socks for home games, a white T-shirt with black shorts and green socks for away games and a half white half black T-shirt with white shorts and green socks for alternate uniform when another team has a uniform colored white. The uniform is now different than Sporting Lisbon and its colors relates to its own logo. Until 2014, its uniform were identical to its fathering club, Sporting Clube de Portugal. Between 2014 and 2015, its home uniform is yellow with green stripes on the shirt top edges and a green short and socks and its away/alternate uniform features a striped green-white shirt with green sleeves and green socks.

History

Sporting Won their first insular and national titles along with their first cup in 1982, their second were an island and then a national title won in 1984, their third were an island and national title along with a cup title in 1994, the club lost their fourth cup title in 1989, Sporting won their fourth nine years later in 1998, the fifth cup title in 2000 and won their sixth insular title in 2012 after finishing with 48 points, the club challenged the winner of the neighboring island of Príncipe, Sporting and started the first Santomean Sporting derby, the club lost the national championships. Their seventh was won in 2013 after finishing with 46 points, two less than last season, the club would later win the nation's sixth in 2013 and the following year participated in the 2014 CAF Champions League against Stade Malien of Mali in the preliminaries, they've won their first match and never scored in the second match and lost. They've scored only a total of three goals. Sporting Praia Cruz won the 2015 title for São Tomé Island, then they won their sixth and recent cup title and now had won their seventh national title and claims the most number of titles won in the country, Praia Cruz remains one of the clubs that won the most national cup titles. Sporting Praia Cruz qualified to the 2016 CAF Champions League, due to financial concerns, the club withdrew and did not challenge Nigeria's Warri Wolves in the preliminaries. Praia Cruz won a second straight title totalling 9 in 2016, in mid-December, they challenged against the winner of Príncipe which would be the second Santomean Sporting derby featuring Sporting Príncipe, this time, Praia Cruz would be winners, the club won the first match 1-2 on December 14 and the second match was a two-goal draw on the 20th and with a total of four goals won their second straight national title totaling eight. Praia Cruz will have their third appearance at the CAF Champions League for 2017.

Honours

Performance in African competitions

Statistics

Current squad

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