The Fogo Regional Football Association (Portuguese: ''Associação Regional de Futebol do Fogo'', abbreviation: ''ARFF'') is a football (soccer) association covering the island of Fogo. It is headquartered in the city of São Filipe, the island capital. The Fogo Premier Division is a regional championship played in Fogo Island,

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. The winner of the championship plays in the

Cape Verdean football Championships The Cape Verdean Football Championship or the Campeonato Caboverdiano de Futebol is a football competition that was created in 1976 in Cape Verde. A local championship was founded in 1953 before independence, when the islands were still part of ...

of each season. Its current president is Pedro Fernandes Pires since September 2015.

About the Island/Regional League's area

The area includes the whole island.

Organization

The association also organizes and functions the Fogo Regional Championships, the

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, the

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, the Opening Tournament and now the Champions' Cup. The association has 20 registered clubs, Académica Fogo and Botafogo are pro clubs and Vulcânicos is a semi-pro club, the remaining are amateur, beginner and starter clubs. The regional champion competes in the National Championships each season, once did in the cup (2007, 2009, 2010, 2012) competition who competed at the national level. The association has the third largest number of clubs after Santiago's two zones and ahead of São Vicente. The regional championships has two divisions, each with ten clubs. *

Fogo Premier Division The Fogo Premier Division is a tier-2 regional championship played in Fogo Island, Cape Verde. The competition are organized by the Fogo Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol do Fogo, ARFF). The winner of the championshi ...

(10 clubs) *

Fogo Second Division Fogo (Portuguese for fire) may refer to: * Fogo, Cape Verde ** Mount Fogo * Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada ** Town of Fogo ** Fogo Aerodrome * Fogo, Scottish Borders, a village in Berwickshire, Scotland ** Fogo Priory, a religious house of the ...

(10 clubs)

About the Island/Regional Association

They are one of three regional associations that maintain more than one venue. Before the championship was established, the first football/soccer club was Vulcânicos which was founded in 1953, then Académica was founded later in 1962 and

Botafogo Botafogo (local/standard alternative Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: ) is a beachfront neighborhood (''bairro'') in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a mostly upper middle class and small commerce community, and is located between the hills of M ...

was founded in 1968 More clubs were created after the foundation of the championships including Cutelinho in 1983 and Desportivo de Cova Figueira in 1994, , the newest clubs are

Spartak d'Aguadinha Associação Spartak D'Aguadinha is a sports club whose football team had played in the Premier division and plays in the Fogo Island League in Cape Verde. It is based in São Filipe's subdivision of Aguadinha located next to Bila Baxo (the ci ...

established in 2003 and Valência in 2004. In the early -2000s, it would become the next island league to also have a second division. The last place club were relegated, from around 2009, the ninth placed club plays with a runner up of the Second Division in a division decisional match. At that time, Fogo had the third most number of clubs in the nation. In 2017, two last placed clubs will be relegated and participate in the Second Division in the following season. One of the largest scoring matches in league history is Spartak d'Aguadinha. Spartak has one of the highest numbers of goals scored in a single season with 73 in the 2014-15 season. In the second division on February 11, 2017, Nova Era defeated Brasilim 0-20 and made it the highest scoring match to date of any of the regional leagues and one of the highest in history. It put the club into the promotional zone and put União out from ever returning to the Premier Division.

Registered clubs

The region's registered clubs as of November 2017. * ABC de Patim *

Académica do Fogo Associação Académica do Fogo is a football club that currently plays in the Campeonato Nacional de Cabo Verde and in the Fogo Island League in Cape Verde. It is based in the island of Fogo and plays in the stadium with a capacity of 1000. The ...

* Atlântico - São Filipe * Atlético - Mosteiros * Baxada (Baixada Fluminense), also known as Beira-Mar - Cova Figueira *

( São Filipe) * Brasilim - Monte Vaca, São Filipe *

Cutelinho FC Cutelinho Futebol Clube is a professional football club that currently plays in the Fogo Island League in Cape Verde. It is based in the village of Mosteiros in the northeastern part of the island and plays in the stadium with a capacity of 1000. ...

( Mosteiros) * Esperança - Achada Furna * Figueira Pavão (registered in September 2017) * Grito Povo - Ribeira do Ilheu * Juventude - São Filipe * Juventus Curral Grande (registered in September 2017) * Luzabril -

Luzia Nunes Luzia Nunes is a settlement in the southwestern part of the island of Fogo, Cape Verde. It is situated 1.5 km west of Patim, 2 km southeast of Vicente Dias and 7 km southeast of the island capital São Filipe. At the 2010 census i ...

* No Pintcha - Mosteiros *

Nova Era Nova Era is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Minas Gerais. The city belongs to the mesoregion of Belo Horizonte and to the microregion of Itabira. As of 2020, the estimated population was 17,551. See also * List of municipaliti ...

- São Filipe * Parque Real - Cova Figueira *

Spartak Spartak may refer to: In sports *Spartak (sports society), an international fitness and sports society that unites some countries of the former Soviet Union In Russia *FC Spartak Moscow, a football club *FC Spartak Kostroma, a football club *PFC ...

(Aguadinha) * União FC - São Lourenço * Valência - Às-Hortas * Vulcânicos (São Filipe)

Former clubs

*Dynamo de Cova Figueira - now part of either Desportivo Cova Figueira or Parque Real *Tribo do Sol (2006-2008) - now part of Nova Era

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fogo Regional Football Association Association football governing bodies in Cape Verde Sport in Fogo, Cape Verde 1975 establishments in Cape Verde