page_title: Sports in Santiago, Cape Verde
section_title: Basketball
hierarchical_section_title: Sports in Santiago, Cape Verde / Basketball
caption_attribution_description: English: Gimno-desportivo Vavá Duarte, in Praia
context_page_description: The island of Santiago in Cape Verde in the middle of the Sotavento Islands is home to several teams and clubs. The major professional clubs are Sporting Praia, Boavista Praia and CD Travadores, semi-pro teams includes Académica da Praia and Desportivo da Praia. From its foundation in 1953 to 1999, the island had a single league of each sport. Since that time, the association and competition are currently divided into two zones, the north and the south and includes all sports including football, basketball, volleyball, futsal and athletics, the only island to have nearly all the sport competitions into two zones.
  As Praia is the Capverdean capital, the Capeverdean Football, Basketball, Volleyball, Athletics and Futsal Federations are headquartered in the city, much of them in the neighborhood of Várzea and nearby Chã das Areias.
context_section_description: Basketball is the second most popular sport on the island. Its most popular clubs are ABC Praia and Desportivo da Praia.  Lapaloma (later Eugénio Lima), probably withdrawn, AD Bairro and Black Panthers are the other clubs.  The champion competes in the national basketball championships each season.  AD Bairro became the first club to compete in the African competitions in 2015.
  Travadores once had a basketball club but it was eliminated in 2004.
  Praia has the most titles won on the island, some are won by a neighborhood, Craveiro Lopes with Bairro numbering two.
  Basketball venues include Gimnodesportivo Vavá Duarte and the one in Tarrafal near its football field.
caption: Gimnodesportivo Vavá Duarte, the major sports arena in Cape Verde, home of Praia's top basketball, volleyball and futsal clubs
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