2016–17 Santiago Island League (South)

The 2016-17 Santiago Island League (South) season is the current competition of the second and third tier football in the southern part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. The season started on 4 November 2016. The tournament is organized by the Santiago South Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol de Santiago Sul, ARFSS). All the matches are played at Estádio da Várzea.

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. In the Second Division, two new clubs appeared, Relâmpago (Portuguese for lightning) and Tira Chapéu based in the neighborhood in the west of the city.

Currently Tchadense is at the number one spot, second is Sporting and third is Desportivo.

Participating clubs

Premier Division

• Académica da Praia
• Bairro
• Benfiquinha (aka Benfica Praia)
• FC Boavista
• Celtic
• Desportivo da Praia
• Garridos
• Eugenio Lima
• Sporting Clube da Praia
• Tchadense
• CD Travadores
• Vitória FC

Information about the clubs (Premier Division)

Second Division

• Asa Grande - Achada Grande (Leite (where the club is based) and Tras)
• Delta
• Fiorentina - Calabaceira
• Kumunidade
• Relâmpago
• Ribeira Grande - Ribeira Grande
• Tira Chapêu - based in the homonymous neighborood - also serves the west of Praia
• União dos Norte - Achada São Filipe, also serves Paiol and the north of Praia
• GD Varanda - Craveiro Lopes, Praia
• Vilanova - based in the homonymous neighborhood and covers the north of Praia

League standings

Premier Division

Results

All times in Cape Verdean Time (UTC -1)

Statistics

• Biggest win: Tchadense 4-0 Garridos (18 November)
• Most difference in number of goals: two matches

Bairro 3-2 Celtic (11 November)

Travadores 2-3 Tchadense (3 December)

Championship top scorers

As of Round 6 on December 18

Source:

4 goals

• João Paulino M. Fernandes (Tchadense)

• Narcelino Vaz da Costa (Boavista Praia)

• Jordy Antony F. Gomes (ADESBA)

• Matthew Mbutidem Sunday (Sporting Praia)

3 goals

• Euclides Monteiro (Desportivo Praia)

• Bruno Patrick dos Santos Furtado (Académica Praia)

2 goals

• Anilton Sanches (Boavista Praia)

• Silvério o Rosário Sanches Lopes (Desportivo Praia)

• Óscar Romário Lopes Vaz (Desportivo Praia)

• Nilton Cesar Paiva Tavares (Travadores)
• António Paiva Tavares (Travadores)
• Samuel Mascarenhas Cabral (Académica da Praia)