page_title: Estádio Municipal Adérito Sena
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Estádio Municipal Adérito Sena / History
caption_attribution_description: English: MINDELO, Cape Verde (Sept. 10, 2008) Yeomen 2nd Class Rafael Flores holds off a defender as he advances the ball up the field during a soccer match between the European Region U.S. Navy soccer team and a Cape Verde military team at the Municipal Stadium in Mindelo, Cape Verde. The soccer team is participating for an 11-day sports diplomacy tour. The tour is focused on improving understanding and developing goodwill through sports, music and community relations in Cape Verde, Cameroon, and Gabon. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Marc Rockwell-Pate/Released)
context_page_description: Estádio Municipal Adérito Sena is a multi-use stadium in Mindelo, Cape Verde. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Derby as well as CS Mindelense, Académica, GD Amarantes and Batuque FC and the lesser club of Corinthians São Vicente. The stadium holds 5,000 people and area is 105x68 m and its ground is artificial grass. The stadium is owned by the municipality of São Vicente and is operated by the São Vicente Regional Football Association. It is a certified stadium by FIFA for international competition as well as friendly matches
  It also has the island's only athletic field where it is slightly narrow and dirt.
context_section_description: The field and stadium was possibly the first ever built in Cape Verde, opened in around the mid to late 1930s. The stadium was built on a stream named Ribeira Bote, a 4 km stream that flows around the middle of the island west to Mindelo south of Praça Estrela.  The stream flowed southward and today flows underneath Avenida 12 de Setembro and empties into the bay through an underflow tunnel.
  The final matches between the winners of the islands of Santiago and São Vicente before independence in 1975 took place at Estádio Fontinha, one of them was in 1972, they were held each year with the exceptions of 1955, 1957 to 1959 and in 1970.
  Also in the final years of colonial rule, one of two matches of two Portuguese Cups were played at the field, first, the 1965-66 season where Mindelense lost to CS Marítimo of the Madeira Islands which was played on 9 March and a single 6th round match around April in 1970-71 season where Mindelense lost to Sporting Lisbon 0-21.  Mindelense, being the only club from Cape Verde who competed at the Portuguese Club and the only venue ever played in Cape Verde.
  Until 1992, the stadium was named Estádio da Fontinha (or Campo da Fontinha).  It was renamed and named it after Adérito Carvalho de Sena who played for CS Mindelense and played for several seasons in Boavista FC Porto in the 1930s.
  The stadium was renovated in 2006 which included the addition of synthetic turf as the grass was dry and in bad shape due to the climate that is not favorable for natural grass, also its seats were changed and its changerooms were remodeled, they were completed in April 2007. During that time, its matches were played at nearby Alcindo Nascimento.
  On September 10, 2008, the US Navy soccer team of the European Region played a match with the Cape Verdean military team as part of the 11 day sports diplomacy tour which improved understanding and developed goodwill through sports, music and community relations in Cape Verde, Cameroon, and Gabon.
  The 2009 Cape Verdean Cup had the group stage matches played at the stadium which featured Group A teams, from the west of the archipelago.
  It was recently renovated again in 2014 as artificial turf was added that costed around 600 million escudos (€500,000).  The island Super Cup competition took place in the stadium with Batuque defeating Derby on January 13, 2015, this was the first match after renovation.
caption: Yeoman 2nd Class Rafael Flores holds off a defender at the stadium on September 10, 2008
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