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| Season | 2015-16 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Real Marítimo |
| Promoted | Real Marítimo |
| Relegated | Beira-Mar |
| Matches played | 12 |
| Goals scored | 36 (3 per match) |
← 2014–15 | |
The 2015–16 Maio Second Division season was the first ever third tier competition of the second-tier football in the island of Maio, Cape Verde It started on 23 January and finished on 28 February, earlier than the Premier Division. The tournament was organized by the Maio Regional Football Association (Associação Regional do Maio de Futebol, ARMF). [1] Real Marítimo won their first title and headed to the Premier Division next season, they also qualified into the Maio Champion's Cup where they would be the first winner.
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.
Maio is the easternmost of the Sotavento islands of Cape Verde. Maio is located south of the island of Boa Vista and east of Santiago. Administratively, the island forms one concelho (municipality): Maio.
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country spanning an archipelago of 10 volcanic islands in the central Atlantic Ocean. It forms part of the Macaronesia ecoregion, along with the Azores, Canary Islands, Madeira, and the Savage Isles. In ancient times these islands were referred to as "the Islands of the Blessed" or the "Fortunate Isles". Located 570 kilometres (350 mi) west of the Cape Verde Peninsula off the coast of Northwest Africa, the islands cover a combined area of slightly over 4,000 square kilometres (1,500 sq mi).
A total of only four clubs competed in the edition including Cruzeiro, Figueirense, Miramar and Real Marítimo. A new club Santa Clara from Alcatraz-Pilão Cao would compete in the regionals for the first time in the Second Division, Beira-Mar chose to be the first club to be relegated in the regionals, originally a five match-division, Beira-Mar's withdrawal reduced it to four in the following season. Real Marítmo won the 2016 Second Division and became the eight club to compete in the Premier Division, also the club qualified for the first time into the regional Champions' Cup.
The next time the Second Division had four clubs would be the 2017-18 season with an additional club added to the Premier Division, the 2015-16 season was the only season that a club met twice, next time, they would meet three times.
