2016–17 Santiago South Premier Division

Santiago South Premier Division
Season	2016-17
Promoted	Sporting Praia
Relegated	Os Garridos ; Vitória FC Praia
Matches played	132
Goals scored	352 (2.67 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ro (16 goals)
Biggest home win	Tchadense 4-0 Garridos (November 18)
Biggest away win	Travadores 2-3 Tchadense (December 3)
Longest unbeaten run	Sporting Clube da Praia (November 4, 2016-April 7, 2017)
	← 2015–16 2017–18 →

Last updated March 04, 2019

The 2016–17 Santiago South Premier Division season was the 15th second tier football competition in the southern part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde, from 4 November 2016 to 30 April 2017.^[1] The tournament was organized by the Santiago South Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol de Santiago Sul, ARFSS).^[2] All the matches were played at Estádio da Várzea. Sporting Praia won their next title in three years^[3] which was their 10th title and participated in the 2017 Cape Verdean Football Championships and played in Group C that includes Sporting Brava, Sporting Praia had 55 points and made it a club record, overall of any regional tier 2 championship competitions, it was third behind of the clubs of the island's North Zone, GD Varandinha with 63 and Scorpion Vermelho with 61. Also Sporting Praia qualified in the 2017 Santiago South Super Cup and faced Os Garridos, runner up in the regional cup competitions as Sporting was also cup winner, Sporting would win that title.

The Santiago South Premier Division is a regional championship played in Santiago Island, Cape Verde and is a part of the Santiago South Zone Football Association. The winner of the championship plays in Cape Verdean football Championships 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.

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.

Santiago, Cape Verde largest island of Cape Verde

Santiago is the largest island of Cape Verde, its most important agricultural centre and home to half the nation’s population. Part of the Sotavento Islands, it lies between the islands of Maio and Fogo. It was the first of the islands to be settled: the town of Ribeira Grande was founded in 1462. Santiago is home to the nation's capital city of Praia.

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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. Its current president is Kiki and manager is Janito Carvalho who coached Sporting Praia in the previous season.

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Overview

The season is the second that featured a total of 12 clubs, Tchadense returned to the Premier Division and Benfica participated for the first time.

A total of 352 goals were scored and this was another championship record, 19 more and partly more goals were scored per capita numbering 2.67, overall fewer than Fogo's 412 goals scored in the 2014-15 season and the capita 4.58 per match and Santiago North's 500+ goals scored in the 2015-16 season, of any island league, it is fifth/sixth overall and the third of the season to the north of the island and Fogo (2015-2017 seasons). Boavista Praia scored the most goals (48), second were Desportivo with 44, third the champion Sporting with 43 and fourth Travadores with 34. On the opposites, the most goals conceded were Travadores, unusual for a top five club to concede the most, it numbered 48 of which 19 were in three matches. Second was Os Garridos with 45 and Vitória with 44. Ro of Desportivo Praia scored the most by player numbering 16 and was a club record, overall unsurpassed from the previous season's total per player.

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The fourteenth round's had only a match which was won with more than a goal where Académica defeated Celtic 1-2 on February 26, four clubs lost a match without any goals scored.

The highest scoring match was on February 19 where Boavista defeated Os Garridos 8-0 and became the highest scoring match in four seasons.

The 14th round had a low scoring matches with the highest being two goals, not the same in which four matches finished with a goal draw beach club, one had Académica won 2-0 and the other with Sporting defeating Vitória 7-0 and made it the second highest scoring match of the season.

Tchadense was number one in the first round, then Sporting took it for the rest of the season and got 55 points, second was Boavista and third was Desportivo. Sporting's point total now exceeded 49 with the total they had in 2005 which is the region's highest and also exceeded their 16 wins and got 17 and became the club's best season. Also Sporting had a 33 match unbeaten streak away at the regionals and became second for the club and the region, it ended in an April 22 loss to Boavista. The club a record 55 points which is the highest in Santiago North but not Cape Verde as Varandinha (63) and Scorpion Vermelho (61) both of the North Zone has the highest. Still continued for Sporting, a 23 match unbeaten streak in its away matches. Boavista finished with 51 points which was club record and became the region's second. Both Sporting's and Boavista's points records lasted for just a year as Académica took the record in the following season finished at 56 points. For Sporting, the same with the wins as Académica exceeded Sporting's totals in the following season, finished at 18.

Grupo Desportivo Varandinha is a football (soccer) club that plays in the Santiago Island League North Zone in Cape Verde. The team is based in the town of Tarrafal in the northern part of the island of Santiago in Cape Verde. Since the implementation of the two tier regional system in 2015, Varandinha are one of ten unrelegated clubs of northern Santiago. Its current head coach is Badau.

Participating clubs

Club	Location	2015-16 positions
Académica da Praia	Praia	4th in the Premier Division
ADESBA	Craveiro Lopes, Praia	5th in the Premier Division
Benfica	Praia	Second Division Champions
Boavista FC	Praia	2nd in the Premier Division
Celtic	Achadinha de Baixo, Praia	6th in the Premier Division
Desportivo da Praia	Praia	Premier Division Champions
Os Garridos	São Domingos	10th in the Premier Division
Eugenio Lima	Eugėnio Lima, Praia	8th in the Premier Division
Sporting Praia	Praia	3rd in the Premier Division
Tchadense	Achada Santo António, Praia	2nd in the Second Division
CD Travadores	Praia	7th in the Premier Division
Vitória FC	Praia	9th in the Premier Division

League standings


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sporting Clube da Praia (C) (Q)	22	17	4	1	43	10	+33	55	2017 Cape Verdean Football Championships
2	Boavista Praia	22	16	3	3	48	13	+35	51
3	Desportivo da Praia	22	14	4	4	44	18	+26	46
4	Académica da Praia	22	13	6	3	33	19	+14	45
5	ADESBA	22	9	4	9	31	33	−2	31
6	Tchadense	22	7	7	8	25	28	−3	28
7	Travadores	22	7	4	11	34	48	−14	25
8	Celtic Praia	22	6	6	10	22	28	−6	24
9	Benfica Praia	22	4	6	12	18	35	−17	18
10	Eugénio Lima	22	4	4	14	14	29	−15	16
11	Os Garridos (R)	22	3	6	13	24	45	−21	15	Relegation to 2017–18 Santiago South Second Division
12	Vitória FC (Praia) (R)	22	3	4	15	16	44	−28	13	Relegation to 2017–18 Santiago South Second Division

Updated to games played on 30 April 2017.
Source: Cape Verde Islands: 2016/17: Santiago South Zone
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) head-to-head away goals (only if two teams are tied); 6) goal difference
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Week 1
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Celtic	0 - 1	Travadores	4 November	16:00
Boavista	1 - 0	Vitoria	4 November	17:45
Eugénio Lima	0 - 2	Sporting Praia	5 November	14:30
Desportivo Praia	2 - 0	Os Garridos	5 November	16:15
Tchadense	0 - 0	Benfica Praia	6 November	14:30
Académica Praia	3 - 0	Bairro	6 November	16:15
Week 2
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Benfica Praia	0 - 0	Eugénio Lima	10 November	18:00
Vitoria	0 - 1	Tchadense	10 November	19:45
Bairro	3 - 2	Celtic	11 November	16:00
Sporting Praia	1 - 1	Académica Praia	11 November	17:45
Os Garridos	0 - 0	Boavista	13 November	15:00
Travadores	1 - 2	Desportivo Praia	13 November	16:45
Week 3
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Tchadense	4 - 0	Os Garridos	18 November	16:00
Sporting Praia	1 - 0	Benfica Praia	18 November	17:45
Eugénio Lima	1 - 0	Vitoria	19 November	15:00
Boavista	2 - 1	Travadores	19 November	16:45
Desportivo Praia	2 - 0	Bairro	20 November	15:00
Académica Praia	0 - 0	Celtic	20 November	16:45
Week 4
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Celtic	0 - 0	Desportivo Praia	2 December	16:00
Os Garridos	0 - 2	Eugénio Lima	2 December	17:45
Travadores	2 - 3	Tchadense	3 December	14:30
Bairro	2 - 1	Boavista	3 December	16:15
Vitoria	1 - 1	Sporting Praia	4 December	14:30
Benfica Praia	0 - 0	Académica Praia	4 December	16:15
Week 5
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Tchadense	1 - 1	Bairro	9 December	16:00
Eugénio Lima	0 - 2	Travadores	9 December	17:45
Sporting Praia	2 - 0	Os Garridos	10 December	14:30
Boavista	3 - 0	Celtic	10 December	16:15
Benfica Praia	0 - 0	Vitoria	11 December	14:30
Académica Praia	2 - 1	Desportivo Praia	11 December	16:15
Week 6
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Bairro	1 - 0	Eugénio Lima	16 December	16:00
Vitoria	1 - 2	Académica Praia	16 December	17:45
Os Garridos	0 - 2	Benfica Praia	17 December	14:30
Travadores	0 - 2	Sporting Praia	17 December	16:15
Celtic	0 - 1	Tchadense	18 December	14:30
Desportivo Praia	1 - 3	Boavista	18 December	16:15
Week 7
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Sporting Praia	5 - 0	Bairro	6 January	16:00
Tchadense	0 - 2	Desportivo Praia	6 January	17:45
Eugénio Lima	0 - 2	Celtic	7 January	14:00
Benfica Praia	1 - 2	Travadores	7 January	15:45
Vitoria	0 - 0	Os Garridos	8 January	14:00
Académica Praia	1 - 0	Boavista	8 January	15:45
Week 8
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Bairro	3 - 2	Benfica Praia	14 January	14:00
Os Garridos	2 - 3	Académica Praia	14 January	15:45
Travadores	3 - 1	Vitoria	15 January	16:00
Desportivo Praia	3 - 2	Eugénio Lima	15 January	15:45
Celtic	0 - 1	Sporting Praia	31 January^{[lower-alpha 1]}	18:00
Boavista	1-0	Tchadense	1 February^{[lower-alpha 2]}	18:00
Week 9
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Sporting Praia	1 - 0	Desportivo Praia	20 January	16:00
Os Garridos	2 - 2	Travadores	20 January	17:45
Vitória	0 - 1	Bairro	21 January	14:00
Benfica Praia	0 - 2	Celtic	21 January	15:45
Eugénio Lima	1 - 3	Boavista	22 January	14:00
Académica Praia	0 - 0	Tchadense	22 January	15:45
Week 10
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Desportivo Praia	2 - 0	Benfica Praia	27 January	16:00
Boavista	1 - 2	Sporting Praia	27 January	17:45
Celtic	1 - 1	Vitória	28 January	14:00
Bairro	0 - 1	Os Garridos	28 January	15:45
Académica Praia	0 - 1	Travadores	29 January	14:00
Tchadense	1 - 0	Eugénio Lima	29 January	15:45
Week 11
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Travadores	3 - 5	Bairro	3 February	16:00
Vitória	0 - 4	Desportivo Praia	3 February	17:45
Benfica Praia	0 - 1	Boavista	4 February	14:00
Sporting Praia	2 - 0	Tchadense	4 February	15:45
Eugénio Lima	0 - 1	Académica Praia	5 February	14:00
Os Garridos	1 - 2	Celtic	5 February	15:45
Week 12
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Travadores	2 - 2	Celtic	10 February	16:00
Vitória	0 - 5	Boavista	10 February	17:45
Sporting Praia	0 - 0	Eugénio Lima	11 February	14:00
Os Garridos	0 - 4	Desportivo Praia	11 February	15:45
Benfica Praia	2 - 1	Tchadense	12 February	14:00
Bairro	1 - 2	Académica Praia	12 February	15:45
Week 13
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Académica Praia	0 - 0	Sporting Praia	17 February	16:00
Celtic	0 - 1	Bairro	17 February	17:45
Eugénio Lima	1 - 1	Benfica Praia	18 February	14:00
Tchadense	3 - 1	Vitória	18 February	15:45
Boavista	8 - 0	Os Garridos	19 February	14:00
Desportivo Praia	2 - 2	Travadores	19 February	15:45
Week 14
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Os Garridos	1 - 1	Tchadense	24 February	16:00
Benfica Praia	0 - 1	Sporting Praia	24 February	17:45
Vitória	0 - 1	Eugénio Lima	25 February	14:00
Travadores	0 - 1	Boavista	25 February	15:45
Bairro	0 - 1	Desportivo Praia	26 February	14:00
Celtic	1 - 2	Académica Praia	26 February	15:45
Week 15
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Desportivo Praia	1 - 1	Celtic	3 March	16:00
Eugénio Lima	1 - 1	Os Garridos	3 March	17:45
Tchadense	1 - 1	Travadores	4 March	14:00
Boavista	1 - 1	Bairro	4 March	15:45
Sporting Praia	7 - 0	Vitória	5 March	14:00
Académica Praia	2 - 0	Benfica Praia	5 March	15:45
Week 16
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Bairro	0 - 0	Tchadense	10 March	16:00
Travadores	1 - 2	Eugénio Lima	10 March	17:45
Os Garridos	0 - 1	Sporting Praia	11 March	14:00
Celtic	1 - 3	Boavista	11 March	15:45
Desportivo Praia	5 - 2	Académica Praia	12 March	14:00
Vitória	1 - 3	Benfica Praia	12 March	15:45
Week 17
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Eugénio Lima	0 - 1	Bairro	17 March	16:00
Académica Praia	2 - 1	Vitória	17 March	17:45
Benfica Praia	3 - 2	Os Garridos	18 March	14:00
Sporting Praia	4 - 3	Travadores	18 March	15:45
Tchadense	1 - 3	Celtic	19 March	14:00
Boavista	1 - 1	Desportivo Praia	19 March	15:45
Week 18
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Bairro	0 - 2	Sporting Praia	24 March	16:00
Desportivo Praia	2 - 0	Tchadense	24 March	17:45
Celtic	2 - 1	Eugénio Lima	25 March	14:00
Travadores	4 - 0	Benfica Praia	25 March	15:45
Os Garridos	3 - 4	Vitória	26 March	14:00
Boavista	1 - 0	Académica Praia	26 March	15:45
Week 19
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Sporting Praia	3 - 0	Celtic	31 March	16:00
Benfica Praia	2 - 2	Bairro	31 March	17:45
Académica Praia	3 - 1	Os Garridos	1 April	14:00
Vitória	1 - 2	Travadores	1 April	15:45
Eugénio Lima	1 - 3	Desportivo Praia	2 April	14:00
Tchadense	1 - 3	Boavista	2 April	15:45
Week 20
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Desportivo Praia	0 - 1	Sporting Praia	7 April	16:00
Travadores	0 - 7	Os Garridos	7 April	17:45
Bairro	1 - 2	Vitória	8 April	14:00
Celtic	2 - 1	Benfica Praia	8 April	15:45
Boavista	2 - 0	Eugénio Lima	9 April	14:00
Tchadense	3 - 3	Académica Praia	9 April	15:45
Week 21
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Benfica Praia	0 - 4	Desportivo Praia	21 April	16:00
Sporting Praia	1 - 3	Boavista	21 April	17:45
Vitória	1 - 0	Celtic	22 April	14:00
Os Garridos	2 - 1	Bairro	22 April	15:45
Travadores	0 - 3	Académica Praia	23 April	14:00
Eugénio Lima	1 - 2	Tchadense	23 April	15:45
Week 22
Home	Score	Visitor	Date	Time
Bairro	7 - 1	Travadores	28 April	16:00
Desportivo Praia	2 - 1	Vitória	28 April	17:45
Boavista	4 - 1	Benfica Praia	29 April	14:00
Tchadense	1 - 3	Sporting Praia	29 April	15:45
Académica Praia	1 - 0	Eugénio Lima	30 April	14:00
Celtic	1 - 1	Os Garridos	30 April	15:45

All times in Cape Verdean Time (UTC -1)

Position by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Académica da Praia	1	2	5	6	5	4	2	2	2	3	4	4	4	4	3	4	3	4	4	4	4	4
ADESBA	12	7	8	7	7	6	6	6	5	7	5	5	5	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	6	5
Benfica Praia	6	8	9	8	9	7	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	9
FC Boavista	5	5	4	4	4	3	4	5	3	5	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Celtic	9	11	10	10	11	11	10	10	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	8	8	8	8	8	8
Desportivo da Praia	3	1	1	2	3	5	5	3	3	2	2	2	3	3	4	3	4	3	3	3	3	3
Os Garridos	10	9	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
E. Lima	11	10	6	5	6	8	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	8	10	10	10	10	10	10
Sporting Clube da Praia	2	3	3	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Tchadense	7	4	2	1	1	1	3	4	6	4	6	6	6	5	5	5	6	6	7	6	5	6
CD Travadores	4	6	7	9	8	9	7	7	7	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	6	7	7	7
Vitória	8	12	12	11	10	10	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12

Updated to match(es) played on 30 April 2017. Source: Cape Verde Islands: 2016/17: Santiago South Zone

Santiago South Zone Premier Division 2016-17 Champions
Sporting Clube da Praia 10th title

Statistics

Biggest win: Boavista 8-0 Os Garridos (February 19)
Most difference in number of goals:

Boavista 8-0 Os Garidos (February 19)

Travadores 3-5 Bairro (February 3)

Longest winning streak: Sporting Praia: 7 weeks (weeks 5-11)
Longest unbeaten streak: Sporting Praia: 11 weeks (weeks 1-11)
Longest streak with unconceded goals: Sporting Praia: 5 weeks (weeks 5-9)

Championship top scorers

Source:^[4]

16 goals

Ro (Desportivo Praia)

15 goals

Anilton Jorge V. Sanches (Boavista Praia)
António Paiva Tavares (Travadores)

14 goals

Matthew Mbutidem Sunday (Sporting Praia)

12 goals

Walter Patrick M. Tavares (ADESBA)

11 goals

Bruno Patrick dos Santos Furtado (Académica Praia)

8 goals

Euclides Ramos Mendonça (Sporting Praia)

Notes

↑ Originally for January 13
↑ Originally for January 13

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The 2016–17 Desportivo da Praia season were in the island division of football (soccer). The club finished third behind Boavista Praia and ahead of Académica da Praia.

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The 2016-17 Santiago South Cup season was the competition of the regional football cup in the southern part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. The season started on 25 November and finished on 7 May. The cup competition was organized by the Santiago South Regional Football Association. All the matches are played at Estádio da Várzea. Sporting Clube da Praia won their recent cup title. As Sporting Praia were also 2016-17 champions on April 8, Garridos achieved qualification into the upcoming 2017 Santiago South Super Cup, its qualification status was runner-up.

The 2017–18 Santiago South Premier Division season was the 16th second tier football competition in the southern part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde, from 3 November 2017 to 1 April 2018, a month earlier than last season. The tournament was organized by the Santiago South Regional Football Association. All matches were played at Estádio da Várzea. Académica Praia won their next title in nine years and participated in the 2017 Cape Verdean Football Championships and played in Group A. Académica finished with a new regional record of 56 points, beating Sporting Praia's 55 of the previous season, overall of any regional championship competitions, it is third behind of the clubs of the island's North Zone, GD Varandinha with 63 and Scorpion Vermelho with 61. Sporting Praia, the previous national champion also qualified, the club finished fourth for the season. Académica Praia will qualify in the upcoming 2018 Santiago South Super Cup.

References

↑ "Futebol Santiago Sul: Travadores e Celtic dão sexta-feira o pontapé de saída no campeonato". Criolosport (in Portuguese). 3 November 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
↑ "ARFSS at the FCF website". fcf.cv. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
↑ "Sporting da Praia sagra-se campeão regional de Santiago Sul" [Sporting Praia became Regional Champion of Santiago South]. Inforpress (in Portuguese). 7 April 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-04-08. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
↑ "Statistics of the 2016-17 Santiago South Zone football (soccer) season". Konkuri.

External links

"Federação Caboverdiana de Futebol" (in Portuguese).
"Santiago Sul". fcf.cv. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
"Cape Verde Islands 2016/17: Santiago South Zone". rsssf.com. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

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[4] Originally for January 13

[5] Originally for January 13

[1] "Futebol Santiago Sul: Travadores e Celtic dão sexta-feira o pontapé de saída no campeonato". Criolosport (in Portuguese). 3 November 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2016.

[2] "ARFSS at the FCF website". fcf.cv. Retrieved 5 November 2016.

[3] "Sporting da Praia sagra-se campeão regional de Santiago Sul" [Sporting Praia became Regional Champion of Santiago South]. Inforpress (in Portuguese). 7 April 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-04-08. Retrieved 8 April 2017.

[6] "Statistics of the 2016-17 Santiago South Zone football (soccer) season". Konkuri.

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