Santiago South Second Division
The Santiago Island or Regional Second Division is a tier-3 regional championship played in Santiago Island, Cape Verde. The tournament is organized by the Santiago South Zone Football Association. The winner of the championship plays in Santiago South Premier Division in the following season. The runner up plays with a club in the last two positions of the Premier Division to decide on promoting or remain in the Second Division. In 2016, two clubs were promoted, Benfica (winner) and Tchadense (runner-up).
The regional division was formed after the split of the Santiago Island League into the north (the Second Division was not created until 2015) and south zones in 2002 and The Two are the youngest island leagues in Cape Verde, it featured clubs only from the municipality of Praia, Ribeira Grande de Santiago split in 2005 and featured from two parts up to 2010, clubs from São Domingos switched from the North to the South Zone in 2010 and increased the number of clubs in two divisions of the south zone, Garridos first played in the Second Division. It was the first island league to feature a second division league, it was once known as the second level. In the late 2000s and up to mid 2015, the league contained ten clubs in each of the two divisions. The championship has the most number of clubs in the country with the exception of the 2015-16 season which was second, currently it is shared with the island's North Zone. In the Second Division, it is one of three that has ten clubs, the others being the Santiago North Zone and Fogo.
It is another season featuring ten clubs, two new clubs competed for the first time, Relâmpago and Tira Chapêu.
Santiago South Second Division- Clubs of the 2017-18 season
- Asa Grande - Achada Grande (Leite (where the club is based) and Tras)
- Calabaceira-Fiorentina - Calabaceira neighborhood, Praia
- Delta - Praia
- Garridos - São Domingos
- Kumunidadi (Kumunidade)
- Relâmpago (Portuguese for lightning)
- Tira Chapêu - based in the homonymous neighborood - also serves the west of Praia
- Unidos (União) dos Norte - Achada Grande Tras, Paiol, Achada São Filipe and the north of Praia
- Vilanova - based in the homonymous neighborhood and covers the north of Praia
- Vitória - Praia
Winners
Santiago Island Second Division
- 1996/97: Tchadense
- 1997/98: Paiol
Santiago South Second Division
- 1999-2004: Not held
- 2004-05 : Lapaloma
- 2005-06: Vilanova
- 2006/07 : Ribeira Grande
- 2007/08 : Varanda
- 2008/09 : Black Panthers
- 2009.10: Celtic da Praia
- 2010/11 : Tchadense
- 2011/12 : AD Bairro
- 2012/13 : Vitória FC
- 2013/14 : Os Garridos
- 2014/15 : Delta
- 2015-16: Benfica da Praia
- 2016-17: Ribeira Grande
Former clubs
- Andorinha - São Domingos, now part of Os Garridos
- Associação Black Panthers
- Lapaloma
- Paiol, now part of Unidos do Norte
- Praia Rural, now part of Unidos do Norte
See also
- Sports in Santiago, Cape Verde