2015–16 Santiago Island League (South)

The 2015-16 Santiago Island League (South) season was the competition of the second-tier football in the southern part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. Its started on 13 November 2014 and finished on 8 May 2016. The tournament was organized by the Santiago South Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol de Santiago Sul, ARFSS). All the matches were played at Estádio da Várzea. Desportivo won the first and only title for the South Zone and participated in the 2016 Cape Verdean Football Championships and was finished with 47 points, Desportivo's last title win for Santiago was in 1990 and totals three overall.

The season was the first that featured a total of 12 clubs, 22 matches for each club, match total extended to 132 and lasted four weeks longer, Delta and Eugěnio Lima were promoted and added to the championship's club totals, clubs in the second division were reduced to 8, a total of 333 goals were scored and this was a championship record, 120 more and partly more goals were scored per capita numbering 2.52, overall fewer than Fogo's 412 goals scored in the 2014-15 season and the capita 4.58 per match, of any island league, it is third overall and the second of the season to Fogo. Sporting Praia scored the most goals numbering 49, second Boavista with 45, fifth Garridos with 27 who was placed 10th, sixth were three clubs, ADESBA, Celtic and Travadores who scored 26 each, Varanda scored the least numbering 12. Desportivo conceded the fewest numbering 12 and Delta the most numbering 60. Delta's conceded the most goals in the regional championships, of any of the island leagues, second to Fogo's Parque Real's 104 conceded goals in the 2014/15 season. Also Delta had not a single win.

The season took a break due to the regional cup competitions, on the first week of December, the holiday season and the third week of March.

Delta just participated for a season, Eugênio Lima stays in the Premier Division in the following season. The Second Division will feature 10 clubs in the following season. Varanda and Delta were relegated and will participate in the second division in the following season. It was the first that a second place club of the second division promoting and a second last place club relegating to the second division in the following season that featured not a single division decisional match. In the following season, Benfica Praia and Tchadense will pariticipate in the Premier Division.

Participating clubs

Premier Division

• Académica da Praia
• Bairro (Craveiro Lopes)
• FC Boavista (Praia)
• Celtic (Achadinha de Baixo)
• Delta
• Desportivo da Praia
• Garridos
• Eugenio Lima
• Sporting Clube da Praia
• CD Travadores (Praia)
• GD Varanda (Praia)
• Vitória FC (Praia)

Information about the clubs (Premier Division)

Second Division

• Asa Grande
• Benfiquinha (aka Benfica Praia)
• Fiorentina
• Kumunidade
• Ribeira Grande (Ribeira Grande)
• Tchadense (Praia) - Achada Santo António
• União dos Norte - Achada São Filipe
• Vilanova

League standings

Premier Division

Second Division

• 1st: Benfica Praia
• 2nd: Tchadense

Results

All times in Cape Verdean Time (UTC -1)

Position changes

Statistics

• Biggest win: Eugenio Lima 0 - 7 Sporting Praia (May 8)
• Most difference in number of goals: two matches

Desportivo Praia 7 - 1 Delta (6 March)

Boavista 7 - 1 Eugenio Lima (10 April)

• Longest leading streak: Académica Praia: 7 weeks (weeks 4-10)
• Longest winning streak: FC Boavista: 11 weeks (weeks 2-12)

Championship top scorers

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