2017–18 Maio Island Championships

Maio Island Championships
Season 2017-18
Champions Barreirense
Promoted Figueirense
Relegated Santana de Morrinho
Matches played 56
Goals scored 199 (3.55 per match)

The 2017–18 Maio Island League season was the 27th of the competition of the football competition in the island of Maio, Cape Verde and the third of the second and third tier football competitions.[1] Its started on December 16, 2017 and finished on April 1, 2018. The championships were organized by the Maio Regional Football Association (Associação Regional do Maio de Futebol, ARMF).[2] All matches were played at Estádio 20 de Janeiro. Barreirense FC won their third title and finished with a club record of 34 points. Barreirense will qualify for both the regional Super Cup and the second Champion's Cup at the end of the season. After Beira-Mar, Santana de Morrinho is recent of the original seven that will be relegated to the Second Division next season as they finished last place, they did not even played their final match of the season.

Onze Unidos was the defending team of the title. For the first time, a total of eight clubs participated in the competition and no bye weeks for each club. It was the third season that the Second Division and another in two years with four clubs. Figueirense won the Second Division title and will become the tenth and recent club to compete in the following season of the Premier Division.

The Second Division started a day before the Premier Division on December 17 and finished on February 25, later than last season.

Overview

A total of 199 goals were scored, more than four-fifths (80%) more than the previous season.

The biggest win was Onze Unidos.

Académico 83 scored the most number of goals of the season numbering 42, second was Barreirense with 35, third was 25 shared with two clubs, Onze Unidos and Morrerense. The least was 14 goals with Académica da Calheta. On the opposites, Santana de Morrinho conceded the most with 38, second least was fourth placed Morrerense with 33 and third was Real Marítimo with 30. The least conceded goals were 14 and were Barreirense and Académico 83.

Participating clubs

League standings

Premier Division

Pos
 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Barreirense (C) (Q) 14 11 1 2 35 14 +21 34 2018 Cape Verdean Football Championships
2 Académico 83 14 10 2 2 42 14 +28 32
3 Onze Unidos 14 7 2 5 17 23 −6 23
4 Morrerense 12 4 3 5 17 19 −2 15
5 SC Miramar 14 6 2 6 25 33 −8 20
6 Real Marítimo 14 4 2 8 18 2 +16 14
7 Académica da Calheta 14 4 2 8 19 30 −11 14
8 Santana de Morrinho (R) 14 3 2 9 14 27 −13 11 Relegation to 2018-19 Maio Second Division

Updated to games played on 1 April 2018.
Source: Cape Verde Islands: 2017/18: Maio regional championship competitions (Premier and Second Division)
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: Figueirense
  • 2nd: Beira Mar do Maio
  • 3rd: Cruzeiro SC
Maio Premier Division 2017-18
Champions
Barreirense FC
3rd title

Statistics

  • Biggest win: Onze Unidos

References

  1. ↑ 2017-18 Maio Premier and Second Divisions at RSSSF
  2. ↑ Maio Regional Football Association's website (in Portuguese)
  • "Federação Caboverdiana de Futebol" (in Portuguese).
  • Maio Premier and Second Divisions at the Cape Verdean Football Federation (Federação Caboverdiana de Futebol) (in Portuguese)
  • 2017-18 Maio regional championship competitions at RSSSF
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