2017–18 Santiago South Premier Division

The 2017–18 Santiago South Premier Division season was the 16th second tier football competition in the southern part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde, from 3 November 2017 to 1 April 2018, a month earlier than last season.^[1][2] The tournament was organized by the Santiago South Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol de Santiago Sul, ARFSS).^[3] All matches were played at Estádio da Várzea. Académica Praia won their next title in nine years and participated in the 2017 Cape Verdean Football Championships and played in Group A. Académica finished with a new regional record of 56 points, beating Sporting Praia's 55 of the previous season, overall of any regional championship (second tier) competitions, it is third behind of the clubs of the island's North Zone, GD Varandinha with 63 and Scorpion Vermelho with 61. Sporting Praia, the previous national champion also qualified, the club finished fourth for the season. Académica Praia will qualify in the upcoming 2018 Santiago South Super Cup.

As Sporting Praia also won the national championship on August 27, for the 2017-18 season, a second place club will participate in the 2018 national football championships.

Overview

The season was the third that featured a total of 12 clubs, Ribeira Grande, champions of the Second Division returned to the Premier Division after six years. Originally second placed GD Varanda was to qualify, as that club withdrew November 2017, third placed Tira Chapéu competed for the first time into the Premier Division in the following season while Varanda was kept as a Second Division club for the following season and was not competing. Next season, another first timer will participate in the Premier Division and will be Relâmpago.^[1]

A total of 367 goals were scored and this was another championship record, partly more goals were scored per capita numbering , overall fewer than Fogo's 412 goals scored in the 2014-15 season and the capita 4.58 per match and Santiago North's 500+ goals scored in the 2015-16 season, of any island league, it is sixth/seventh overall and the fourth of the season to the north of the island and Fogo (2015-2017 seasons).

New regional records were made including Académica Praia with 56 points and 18 wins, superseding Sporting Praia's 17 wins made last season.

Boavista Praia scored the most goals (55) which became a club record and one of the highest behind Sporting's 64 made in 2004. Second was Académica with 48, third was Sporting with 39 and fourth was Celtic with 36. Tira Chapéu scored the least with 15 and Eugénio Lima with 19, third least was Benfica with 22 and fourth least was Bairro with 23. On the opposites, the most goals conceded was Tira Chapéu with 57, second was Eugénio Lima with 49 and third was Benfica with 13. Académica conceded the least with 10, second least was Boavista with 13 and third least were Celtic and Sporting with 17.^[2]

Boavista's 51 points made it the second club record. Some of the other results became club record, Celtic finished third place, a position once unheard and finished with 45 points and had 14 wins, Tchadense finished fifth and AD Ribeira Grande finished sixth.

On the opposites, Tira Chapéu finished last place and will spend their second season in the Second Division next season. Eugénio Lima finished 13th place and will be relegated next season after three seasons.

Académica Praia was first place for most of the season from before mid-season up to the end. At the 19th round, Académica became regional champions.

Participating clubs

Standings

Updated to games played on 5 April 2018.
Source: Cape Verde Islands: 2017/18: Santiago South 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.

Results

Partially listed

All times in Cape Verdean Time (UTC -1)

Statistics

• Longest winning streak: Académica Praia: 7 weeks (weeks 14-21)
• Longest unbeaten run: Académica Praia 15 weeks (weeks 7-21)
• Longest streak with unconceded goals: Académica Praia: 5 weeks (weeks 17-21)

See also

• 2017–18 Santiago South Cup

Notes

References

External links

• "Federação Caboverdiana de Futebol" (in Portuguese).
• "Santiago Sul". fcf.cv. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
• "Cape Verde Islands 2017/18: Santiago South Zone". rsssf.com. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
• 2017–18 Santiago South Premier Division at Konkuri