2017–18 Sal Premier Division

Sal Premier Division
Season 2016-17
Champions GD Palmeira
Relegated Os Gaviões
Matches played 48
Goals scored 168 (3.5 per match)

The 2016-17 Sal Island League season was the competition of the second and third tier football in the island of Sal, Cape Verde and fourth as the Premier Division. The season started on December 2, 2017 and finished on March 25, 2018.[1] The competition was organized by the Sal Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol de Sal, ARFS).[2] GD Palmeira won their third title, their next title in 18 years and their national participation currently participating in Group C at the 2018 Cape Verdean Football Championships. Its matches were played at Estádio Marcelo Leitão.

Overview

For the last time, Académico do Aeroporto was the defending team of the title. It was the third season that the Premier Division featured eight clubs and 14 matches each club with a total of 48 matches, only Palmeira achieved the record number of points with 32, since the transition from 2 to 3 points for a win min the 1990s. The number of goals were 168, slightly more than last season and an average of 3.5 per match.

Second placed Santa Maria scored the number of goals numbering 39, one less than last season, second were Palmeira and Juventude with 3. Both Académica Sal and Os Gaviões scored the least with nine. On the opposites, both ASGUI and Os Gaviões conceded the most with 35, second most was Académica with 24, Palmeira conceded the least with ten.

Surprisingly Santa Maria (2nd), Juventude (3rd) and Florença (5th) finished in the same positions as they did last season. Also Florença made no draws this season and was the next club to do so with the last being ASGUI in 2016.

Florença was Sal's seventh club to spend their third season in the second tier competition and the first in the Premier Division. Gaviões became the eighth and recent club to spend their second season at the second tier competition.

Gaviões finished last and the third club ever to relegate and the second of the clubs who first participated in 2014, they will participate again in the Second Division next season.

Participating clubs

Premier Division

Club Location 2016-17 positions
Académico do AeroportoEspargosPremier Division champions
Académica do SalEspargos4th in the Premier Division
ASGUISanta MariaSecond Division champions
FlorençaSanta Maria5th in the Premier Division
GaviõesEspargos7th in the Premier Division
JuventudeMorro Curral, Espargos3rd in the Premier Division
PalmeiraSanta Maria6th in the Premier Division
Santa MariaSanta Maria2nd in the Premier Division

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League standings

Premier Division

Pos
 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Palmeira (C) (Q) 14 10 2 2 29 10 +19 32 2018 Cape Verdean Football Championships
2 SC Santa Maria 14 8 4 2 39 15 +24 28
3 Juventude 14 8 4 2 29 12 +17 28
4 Académico do Aeroporto 14 7 2 5 24 17 +7 23
5 Florença 14 7 0 7 15 21 −6 21
6 Académica do Sal 14 2 4 8 9 24 −15 10
7 ASGUI 14 2 2 10 15 35 −20 8
8 Gaviões (R) 14 2 2 10 9 35 −26 8 Relegation to 2018-19 Sal Second Division

Updated to games played on 25 March 2018.
Source: Cape Verde Islands: 2017/18: Sal Premier 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.

Sal Premier Division 2017-18
Champions
GD Palmeira
3rd title

References

  1. ↑ 2017-18 Sal Premier Division at RSSSF's Cape Verde Islands 2017/18 page
  2. ↑ Sal Football (Soccer) Association at the FCF website
  • "Federação Caboverdiana de Futebol" (in Portuguese).
  • Sal Football (Soccer) Association at the FCF website
  • 2017–18 Sal Premier Division at RSSSF
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