The Santiago South Premier Division is a regional championship played in Santiago Island,

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and is a part of the Santiago South Zone Football Association. The winner of the championship plays in

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of each season while the last two placed clubs relegates in the following season. In 2007 and 2013 when Sporting Praia automatically qualified in the championships as they won their national titles in the previous season, a second place club qualified to the national championships. The division features 12 clubs in the premier division for the second time, Varanda and Delta were relegated into the Second Division, Tchadense and Benfica were promoted last season.

History

The league was formed after the split of the

Santiago Island League The Santiago Island League was a regional championship played in all of Santiago Island until 2002 when it was broken up into two present divisions, the North and the South zones, Cape Verde. It formed a part of the Santiago Regional Football As ...

into the

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and south zones in 2002 and the two are the youngest island leagues in Cape Verde, it featured clubs only from the municipality of

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split in 2005 and featured from two parts up to 2010, clubs from São Domingos switched from the North to the South Zone in 2010, Garridos first played during the 2013–14 season. In the late 2000s and up to mid 2015, the championship/league contained ten clubs in each of the two divisions. The Premier Division risen to twelve clubs started from the 2015–16 season and is the current number today. The championship has the most number of clubs in the country with the exception of the 2015–16 and the 2016–17 seasons which were second, shared with the island's North Zone. Up to the 2014–15 season, the 11th placed club plays with the second placed Second Division club to decide to remain in the Premier Division or be relegated, the last place club directly relegated into the

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in the following season. Started from the 2015–16 season, the last two placed clubs relegated and the top two Second Division clubs qualified as two clubs in the Second Division were registered for the 2016–17 season. The reduction of the Santiago North Premier Division's clubs to ten now makes it the sole tier 2 competition having the most number of clubs in the nation. The 2017–18 season has the second division.

Title history

Every title won are clubs that serves the whole of Praia. The first club won after the breakup was Travadores in 2003, Académica was the second winner in 2004, Sporting Praia won two consecutive titles in 2005 and in 2006. Académica won in 2007, then Sporting in 2008, Académica won two back to back titles in 2009, then Sporting in 2010. Boavista won their first in 2011. Sporting won three consecutive titles, one was their recent in 2014. Boavista won their recent title in 2015. Desportivo won their only title in 2016. Sporting won their tenth title in 2017.

Records and successes

Sporting Praia had the longest streak with only wins which was 19 which lasted from April 3, 2004, to April 10, 2005. Sporting Praia recently surpassed the record point total of 49 in 2005 and had 53 points at the end of the 2016–17 season.

Clubs of the 2017-18 season

The 2017–18 season was the third season featuring twelve clubs. * Académica - Praia * ADESBA - Craveiro Lopes neighborhood * Benfica da Praia * Boavista Praia *

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- Achadina de Baixo neighborhood *

Desportivo da Praia Desportivo da Praia is a football club that currently plays in the Premier division and the Santiago Island League (South) in Cape Verde. It is based in the capital city of Praia in the island of Santiago. It is the military team of Cape Verde. Its ...

* Eugenio Lima - based in the homonymous neighborhood - finished 11, to be relegated * Ribeira Grande - based in the homonymous municipality and serves Cidade Velha, Porto Gouveia and Porto Mosquito - champion and promoted * Sporting Praia * Tchadense - Achada Santo Antônio neighborhood * Travadores - Praia *

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- based in the homonymous neighborhood the west of Praia - finished last, to be relegated

Winners

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Sporting Clube da Praia Sporting Clube da Praia, short form: Sporting Praia ( Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK as well as Badiu: ''Sporting Klubi di Praia'') is a professional football club that plays in the Santiago South Premier Division in Cape Verde. It is bas ...

* 2002/03 :

CD 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 ...

* 2003/04 :

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* 2005/06 :

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* 2007/08 :

* 2008/09 :

*2009/10 :

* 2010/11 :

Boavista FC (Cape Verde) Boavista Futebol Clube ( Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''FK Boavista'' or ''FK Boabista'', ''Boavista'' or ''Boavista Futibol Klubi'') is a football club that had played in the Premier division and plays in the Santiago Island South Zone L ...

* 2011/12 : Sporting Praia * 2012/13 : Sporting Praia * 2013/14 : Sporting Praia * 2014/15 : Boavista * 2015-16:

* 2016–17:

* 2017–18:

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 a ...

Performance By Club

Topscorers

By season

Seasons in the Santiago South Premier Division

:''Half listed'' The number of seasons that each team (in alphabetical order) has played in the Premier Division from 1999 to 2017. In Brackets are their overall appearances with the Santiago Island (or Regional) Championships. The teams in Bold participating in the 2017-18 Santiago South Premier Division:

References

External links

Santiao Island League (South)

Information about the league at RTC

History of ARFSS at Facebook
{{Regional Competitions in Cape Verde Second level football leagues in Cape Verde 1999 establishments in Cape Verde Sports leagues established in 1999