Académica da Praia
Associação Académica da Praia is a football club that plays in the Premier division of the Santiago Island League (South) in Cape Verde. It is played along with Praia's three other famous teams in Estádio da Varzea, the club also practices at the stadium and over a kilometer east in Achada Grande Frente (or Leite). Its current president is Kiki and manager is Janito Carvalho who coached Sporting Praia in the previous season.
| Full name | Associação Académica da Praia | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Micá, Briosa (former), Estudantes | ||
| Founded | 15 December 1962 | ||
| Ground | Estádio da Varzea Praia | ||
| Capacity | 8,000 | ||
| Chairman | Kiki | ||
| Manager | Janito Carvalho | ||
| League | Santiago Island League (South) | ||
| 2017–18 | 1st | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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Académica Praia is one of the most successful football (soccer) club in the island of Santiago and the South Zone, having won about 11 official titles, 2 are national and the remaining 9 are regional titles. It won several championship titles before and after independence. The team never won any national championship titles since independence. It also had won five insular titles, three island cup title and a national cup title.
Académica da Praia is an affiliate of the Portuguese club Académica de Coimbra.
Its nicknames are "Mica", the short of Académica used in many of other Académica clubs around the world, "Briosa", which has recently become rarely used today and "Estudantes" which means students (students of the academy), used in several other Académica clubs elsewhere.