CD Onze Unidos
Clube Desportivo Onze Unidos (Portuguese for "Eleven United", Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Unzi Unidus) is a football club that had played in the Premier division and plays in the Maio Island League in Cape Verde. It is based in the island of Maio Island. Since the implementation of the Second Division in 2015, Since the implementation of the Second Division in 2015, Onze Unidos are one of five unrelegated clubs of Maio. Onze Unidos is one of the most successful football (soccer) club in Cape Verde and is Maio's most successful club, having won about 20 official titles, 2 are national and the remaining 18 are regional titles. History The club was founded after independence in 1976. The club celebrated its 10th anniversary in 1986. It became a registered club before 1990 and competed in its first regional championships in the early 1990s. Since 1992, the club has the most number of regional titles ahead of Académico 83, from 1995 to 1996, the club was tied with the most number of regional titles. The team has only reached a few of these games after independence. The team won one national title in 2001 and is the only club from Maio to win a single national title. The club also won ten island titles, the team also won one national cup, three island cups and has two island super cups, each after defeating Académico 83. In 2001, Onze Unidos celebrated its 25th anniversary. In the 2001 season, Onze Unidos is the only club from Maio to win a national championship title and from 2012, the national honour with the cup. Onze Unidos finished with 14 points, a club record that stood for just a season before Sporting Praia and Batuque took it, also in the same season, SC Atlético, Académica do Fogo and Académico do Aeroporto superseded Onze Unidos' points total with 16. Onze Unidos also had four wins, two draws and eight goals scored, mid ranked. On May 1, 2013, Onze Unidos as the 2012 cup winner went to challenge with the 2012 champion Sporting Praia in the Cape Verdean Super Cup played in São Filipe in Fogo. The match went into extra time and no goals were scored, they kept their final luck to get a super cup title which was completely ran out as they lost the penalty shootout to Sporting Praia. So far, Onze Unidos is the only of the three participants in the nation without any super cup title. In the 2013–14 and the 2015 seasons, the club had the same results including wins and goals scored, but Onze Unidos conceded 15 goals in 2015, two more than in 2014. In 2015, Onze Unidos won their second cup title and their totals were shared with the island's two Académica affiliates, the latter of Calheta. Recently, the club qualified as a second place cup winner to the Maio Super Cup, the club lost to Académico 83 on November 13, 2016. The 2016–17 Regional Championships begin (second