2015–16 Sal Island League

Sal Island League
Season 2015-16
Champions Académico do Aeroporto
Promoted Gaviões
Relegated ASGUI
Matches played 48
Goals scored 165 (3.44 per match)
Biggest home win Académico Aeroporto (May 8)
Biggest away win Palmeira (March 27)

The 2015-16 Sal Island League season was the competition of the second and third tier football in the island of Sal, Cape Verde. The season started on 6 February[1] and finished on later on 8 May 2016. The competition is organized by the Sal Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol de Sal, ARFS).[2] Académico do Aeroporto won their 13th title. Its matches were predominantly both played in Estádio Marcelo Leitão and Santa Maria's municipal stadium, in the following season.

Overview

Académico do Aeroporto was the defending team of the title. It was the first season that the Premier Division featured eight clubs and 14 matches each club with a total of 48 matches, it also brought regional records for a club with Académico Aeroporto having 35 points, a club record for Sal and overall with the number of goals more than doubled to 165 and an average of 3.44 per match, higher than last season.

Florença later became Sal's seventh club to spend their second season in the second tier competition and the first in the Premier Division.

Académico Aerporto scored the number of goals numbering 30, second was Académica do Sal with 24 and third was Palmeira with 23, Juventude and ASGUI were sixth numbering 17 and Florença scored the least number of goals numbering 16 The biggest home win was Palmeira who scored 1-6 than ASGUI, two less than last season's rivalry of Académicas of Sal.

ASGUI who spent their first season in the Premier Division was relegated after being last with 9 points. Gaviões was the winner of the Second Division and became the ninth club to participate in the Premier Division for the first time.

Only one break took place on the third week of March due to the parliamentary elections on March 20, and later on the last days of April and May 1 where the regional cup final took place.

Participating clubs

League standings

Premier Division

Pos
 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Académico do Aeroporto (C) (Q) 14 11 2 1 30 7 +23 35 2016 Cape Verdean Football Championships
2 Académica do Sal 14 9 0 5 24 19 +5 27
3 Santa Maria 14 7 1 6 20 17 +3 22
4 Palmeira 14 6 3 5 23 13 +10 21
5 Verdun-Pedra de Lume 14 6 1 7 18 24 −6 19
6 Florença 14 5 2 7 16 20 −4 17
7 Juventude 14 3 3 8 17 23 −6 12
8 ASGUI (R) 14 3 0 11 17 42 −25 9 Relegation to 2016/17 Sal Second Division

Updated to games played on 12 May 2016.
Source: Cape Verde Islands: 2015/16: Sal
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.

Second Division

  • 1st: Gaviões

Results

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

Week 1
Home Score Visitor Date
ASGUI 4 - 3 Verdun 6 February
Académica Sal 2 - 1 Palmeira 6 February
Santa Maria 0 - 1 Académico Aeroporto 7 February
Florença 0 - 0 Juventude 7 February
Week 2
Home Score Visitor Date
Verdun 1 - 2 Florença 13 February
Juventude 1 - 4 Santa Maria 13 February
Palmeira 4 - 0 ASGUI 14 February
Académico Aeroporto 1 - 0 Académica Sal 14 February
Week 3
Home Score Visitor Date
Académica Sal 0 - 2 Juventude 20 February
ASGUI 1 - 5 Académico Aeroporto 20 February
Florença 1 - 2 Palmeira 21 February
Santa Maria 0 - 2 Verdun 21 February
Week 4
Home Score Visitor Date
Académico Aeroporto 2 - 1 Florença 27 February
Palmeira 0 - 0 Santa Maria 27 February
Verdun 3 - 2 Académica Sal 28 February
Juventude 1 - 5 ASGUI 28 February
Week 5
Home Score Visitor Date
ASGUI 1 - 2 Santa Maria 5 March
Académica Sal 2 - 3 Florença 5 March
Juventude 0 - 0 Palmeira 6 March
Académico Aeroporto 0 - 0 Verdun 6 March
Week 6
Home Score Visitor Date
Verdun 2 - 1 Juventude 12 March
Académico Aeroporto 1 - 1 Palmeira 12 March
Florença 1 - 2 ASGUI 13 March
Académica Sal 0 - 2 Santa Maria 13 March
Week 7
Home Score Visitor Date
Santa Maria 3 - 1 Florença 16 March
Palmeira 0 - 1 Verdun 16 March
ASGUI 0 - 1 Académica Sal 17 March
Juventude 1 - 3 Académico Aeroporto 17 March
Week 8
Home Score Visitor Date
Académico Aeroporto 2 - 0 Juventude 26 March
Santa Maria 0 - 2 Académica Sal 26 March
Florença 1 - 3 Verdun 27 March
ASGUI 1 - 6 Palmeira 27 March
Week 9
Home Score Visitor Date
Verdun 1 - 0 ASGUI 2 April
Palmeira 2 - 0 Juventude 2 April
Académica Sal 2 - 0 Académico Aeroporto 3 April
Florença 1 - 0 Santa Maria 3 April
Week 10
Home Score Visitor Date
Florença 0 - 3 Académico Aeroporto 9 April
Santa Maria 2 - 0 ASGUI 9 April
Juventude 4 - 0 Verdun 10 April
Palmeira 2 - 3 Académica Sal 10 April
Week 11
Home Score Visitor Date
Palmeira 0 - 2 Florença 16 April
Académica Sal 3 - 1 Verdun 16 April
Santa Maria 3 - 1 Juventude 17 April
Académico Aeroporto 4 - 0 ASGUI 17 April
Week 12
Home Score Visitor Date
Verdun 0 - 1 Académico Aeroporto 20 April
Santa Maria 0 - 2 Palmeira 20 April
Académica Sal 4 - 3 ASGUI 21 April
Juventude 0 - 0 Florença 21 April
Week 13
Home Score Visitor Date
Verdun 1 - 3 Santa Maria 23 April
Palmeira 0 - 2 Académico Aeroporto 23 April
Florença 0 - 2 Académica Sal 24 April
ASGUI 0 - 5 Juventude 21 April
Week 14
Home Score Visitor Date
Verdun 0 - 3 Palmeira 7 May
Juventude 1 - 2 Académica Sal 7 May
ASGUI 0 - 3 Florença 8 May
Académico Aeroporto 5 - 1 Santa Maria 8 May

Position changes

Club / Week 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14
Académica (Espargos)
2
5
7
8
8
8
7
5
5
5
4
2
2
2
Académico do Aeroporto
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
ASGUI
1
6
8
4
6
5
5
6
7
7
7
8
8
8
Florença
5
2
3
6
5
6
6
7
6
6
6
6
6
6
Futebol Clube Juventude
4
7
4
7
7
7
8
8
8
8
8
7
7
7
Palmeira
7
3
2
2
2
4
4
4
3
3
5
5
5
4
SC Santa Maria
8
4
6
5
4
2
2
3
4
4
2
3
3
3
Verdun-Pedra de Lume
6
8
5
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
3
4
4
5
Sal Island League 2015-16
Champions
Académico do Aeroporto
13th title

Statistics

References

  1. ↑ "Regional Championship Begins Saturday". Criolosport (in Portuguese). 5 February 2016. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  2. ↑ Sal Football (Soccer) Association at the FCF website
  • "Federação Caboverdiana de Futebol" (in Portuguese).
  • Sal Football (Soccer) Association at the FCF website
  • 2015–16 Sal Island League at RSSSF
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