2016–17 São Vicente Island League

The 2016–17 São Vicente Island League season was the 79th (41st since independence) of the competition of the second and third tiers of football in the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde. It started on 17 December 2016 and finished on 30 April 2017. The championship was organized and goveroed by the São Vicente Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de São Vicente de Futebol, ARSVF). CS Mindelense won the 49th title, as they were national champions in the previous season, once again Derby as second place qualified into the 2017 Cape Verdean Football Championships, two weeks later in May. Mindelense will qualify into the regional Super Cup as champion later in the year and will face the cup winner Derby.

Its chairman of the season was Júlio do Rosario.

Overview

CS Mindelense was again the defending team of the title. A total of 14 clubs participated in the competition, 8 in the Premier Division and 6 in the Second Division. In the Premier Division, a total of 132 goals were scored, around twenty fewer than in 2015 and two last season.

Mindelense finished with 32 points, the club did not lose a single match. Mindelense scored the most numbering 27, second was Derby and third was Farense Fonte Filipe, the least was Salamansa with 10 and Ribeira Bote with 14. On the opposites, Mindelense conceded the fewest with 9 goals, second was Ribeira Bote with 14 while Salamansa conceded the most with 23 and second was Falcões do Norte with 22.

GS Castilho was promoted into the Regional Premier Division after participating for three seasons and failed to return after losing promotional matches in two seasons, Falcões do Norte was relegated and will participate in the regional Second Division in the following season. Salamansa went into 7th place and challenged runner up in the Second Division, Ponta d'Pom in the promotional match. The first match ended in a goal draw, Salamansa won 1-0 in the second match and Salamansa stays in the Premier Division in the following season.

Académica Mindelo started with first place, it was taken by Farense, Mindelense took it for the rest of the season. Académica Mindelo's position fallen to fifth at the 13th round and that club finished 3rd for the season while Derby was runner up for the season.

Académica Mindelo was thought to be first place up to the 13th round (originally with 29 points), in April, Derby made a protest that the club was using a goalkeeper with a fake identity. On April 24, the Disciplinary Council of the Cape Verdean Football Federation, removed every points that the fake goalkeeper had played totalling 11 and included one with Salamansa, Derby, Farense, the almighty Mindelense and Ribeira Bote, from February 25, they were the first three matches and the last two matches on April 15. Their positions were dropped from first to fifth and also, their National qualification was lost.. The club did not used the fake goalkeeper in an April 1 match over Falcões do Norte., all this will remove the coach from the club and formed the club's part of some match fixing. The second place position was replaced by FC Derby, earlier positions were also changed, the club was actually third, then fifth and their points was 18.

Participating clubs

Premier Division

Second Division

• Amarante - Mindelo
• Calhau
• Castilho
• SC Corinthians
• Ponta d’Pom
• São Pedro

League standings

Premier Division

Second Division

• 1st place: Castilho
• 2nd place: Ponta d'Pom - remains in the second division as they lost the promotional match.

Results

All times are in UTC-1 (Cape Verde Time)

¹Originally for 15 January as Derby's squad did not appeared

²Originally for 15 January as Mindelense's squad did not appeared

³Derby awarded 3-0, originally 0-0 as Académica Mindelo fielded a fake goalkeeper

⁴Salamansa was awarded 0-3, originally 2-1 as Académica Mindelo fielded a fake goalkeeper

⁵Farense was awarded 0-3, originally 1-1 as Académica Mindelo fielded a fake goalkeeper

⁶Ribeira Bote was awarded 3-0, originally 1-2 as Académica Mindelo fielded a fake goalkeeper

⁷ Mindelense awarded 3-0, originally 0-1 as Académica Mindelo fielded a fake goalkeeper

Promotional matches

All times are in UTC−1 (Cape Verde Time)

Position changes

Statistics

• Biggest win: Salamansa 0-5 Mindelense (March 19)
  • Biggest home win:' 4 matches

Academica Mindelo 4-2 Farense (January 7)

Academica Mindelo 4-1 Falcões (April 1)

Derby 4-0 Salamansa (April 14)

Ribeira Bote 4-3 Falcões (April 15)

• • Biggest win away: Salamansa 0-5 Mindelense (March 19)
• Longest winning streak: Mindelense: 9 weeks (rounds 1-9)
• Longest unbeaten streak: Mindelense: entire round (rounds 1-14)
• Best season: Mindelense

See also

• 2016–17 São Vicente Association Cup

External links

• São Vicente Regional Football (Soccer) Association at the FCF website
• 2016-17 São Vicente Island League at RSSSF