CD Travadores

CD Travadores
Full nameClube Desportivo Travadores
Nickname(s)Índios (Indians)
Águias (Eagles)
Founded15 October 1930
GroundEstádio da Várzea,
Praia, Cape Verde
Capacity8,000
ChairmanArmindo Oliveira[1]
ManagerTazinho
LeagueSantiago South Premier Division
2017–188th
Websitehttps://cdtravadores.wixsite.com/travadores

Clube Desportivo Travadores (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC: Klubi Desportivu Travadoris) is a football club in the Santiago South Premier Division in Cape Verde and are one of the unrelegated clubs of the Premier Division. It is based in the capital city of Praia, on the island of Santiago, and plays in a stadium with a capacity of 8,000. It is affiliated with Portuguese club S.L. Benfica and was its first affiliate in Cape Verde and in the western part of West Africa. Travadores' nicknames are Índios (Indians) and Águias (Eagles).

Travadores is one of the most successful football clubs in Cape Verde, having won 12 official titles, of which 3 are national and 9 are regional.

Along with Sporting and Boavista, they form the Big Three of Praia (until 2003, the Big Three of Santiago).

  1. ^ "Nova Direcção Dos Travadores Promete Continuidade De Tazinho Na Equipa Técnica". Criolosport (in Portuguese). 21 September 2014. Archived from the original on 23 September 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2014.