Fogo Island League

Fogo Island League
Region Cape Verde Fogo Island, Cape Verde
Founded 1975
Number of teams 10 (Premier Division)
8 (Second Division)
Promotion to Cape Verdean Football Championship
Domestic cup(s) Fogo Island Cup
Fogo Island Super Cup
Current champions Vulcânicos FC (9th time)
(2015-16)
Most championships Botafogo FC (17 times)
Website Official website

The Fogo Island League is a regional championship played in Fogo Island, Cape Verde. The winner of the championship plays in the Cape Verdean football Championships of each season. Its current president is Pedro Fernandes Pires.

About the Island/Regional League

Before the league was established, the first football/soccer club was Vulcânicos which was founded in 1953, then Académica was founded later, Botafogo was founded in 1968 and Cutelinho in 1983. The newest clubs are Spartak d'Aguadinha established in 2003 and Valência in the late-2000s.

The island league was formed in 1975 when Cape Verde became independent, unofficial competitions took place in years before the founding. The first club that would win the most number of titles was Botafogo during the 1970s, their first nine title was won from 1976 to 1983, later two consecutive between 1984 and 1985 and their last in 2010. Académica for some times won titles, their first was in 1984, they won two consecutive in 1987 and 1988, then every two years between 1991 and 1997 and 2002 and 2004, Vulcânicos won three consecutive titles from 1998 up to 2000, they were the next club to win titles every two years between 2007 and 2011, Académica was the next club to win three consecutive titles from 2012 up to 2014. The 2014 volcanic eruption in mid-November delayed the season by about a month and matches were rescheduled, later in the season saw a couple of high scoring matches, the highest Spartak would finish with 12 points over Parque Real on April 12. In 23 years, a new first-timer in titles Spartak was the island champion for 2015 and is the recent victor of Fogo. Cutelinho scored the most number of goals in the first weeks of the 2015-16 season, later taken by Académica in the mid season, nevertheless Vulcânicos won their next title in five years.

In the late-2000s, it would become the next island league to also have a second division. Today, the second division features a group stage contaning groups A and B, the top 2 of each group advances into the semis and into the promotional final, the first place heads straight to the premier division, the second placed club plays a ninth place club in a division decisional match.

Botafogo has the most number of island titles with 17, the second is Académica (Fogo) with 13 and third is Vulcânicos with 9, the club with the fewest are two clubs with a single title, Cutelinho and recently Spartak d'Aguadinha.

One of the largest scoring matches in league history is Spartak d'Aguadinha. Spartak has one of the most number of goals scored in a single season with 73 in the 2014-15 season.

Fogo Island League – Clubs 2016–17

1st. Division

2nd Division

Former clubs

  • Achada Fluminense
  • Dynamo de Cova Figueira

Winners

Source:[1]
  • 1975-76: Botafogo
  • 1976-77: Botafogo
  • 1977-78: Botafogo
  • 1978-79: Botafogo
  • 1979-80: Botafogo
  • 1980-81: Botafogo
  • 1981-82: Botafogo
  • 1982-83: Botafogo
  • 1983-84: Académica
  • 1984-85: Botafogo
  • 1985–86: Botafogo
  • 1986–87: Académica
  • 1987–88: Académica
  • 1988–89: Botafogo
  • 1989–90: Botafogo
  • 1990–91: Académica
  • 1991–92: Botafogo
  • 1992–93: Académica
  • 1993–94: Vulcânicos
  • 1994–95: Académica
  • 1995–96: Botafogo
  • 1996–97: Académica
  • 1997–98: Vulcânicos
  • 1998–99: Vulcânicos
  • 1999–2000: Vulcânicos
  • 2000–01: Botafogo
  • 2001–02: Académica
  • 2002–03: Cutelinho
  • 2003–04: Vulcânicos
  • 2004–05: Académica
  • 2005–06: Botafogo
  • 2006–07: Vulcânicos
  • 2007–08: Académica
  • 2008–09: Vulcânicos
  • 2009–10: Botafogo
  • 2010–11: Vulcânicos
  • 2011–12: Académica
  • 2012–13: Académica
  • 2013–14: Académica
  • 2014-15: Spartak d'Aguadinha
  • 2015-16: Vulcânicos

Performance by club

Club Winners Winning seasons
Botafogo 17 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2010
Associação Académica do Fogo 13 1984, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014
Vulcânicos 9 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2016
Cutelinho 1 2003
Spartak d'Aguadinha 1 2015

References

  1. ↑ Batalha, José (3 April 2014). "Cape Verde Islands – List of Regional Tournament Winners". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 27 April 2015.

External links

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