2016–17 Fogo Island League

Fogo Island League

Season	2016-17
Champions	Vulcânicos
Promoted	Nova Era Atlético Mosteiros
Relegated	Baxada Juventude
Matches played	90
Goals scored	356 (3.96 per match)
Top goalscorer	Luzim (26)
Biggest home win	Académica do Fogo
Biggest away win	Nô Pintcha (Mosteiros)
← 2015–16

The 2016-17 Fogo Island League season was the competition of the second and third tier football in the island of Fogo, Cape Verde. Its started later on 26 November 2014^[1] and finished on 23 April 2015, a day earlier. The tournament was organized by the Fogo Regional Football Association (Associação Regional do Fogo de Futebol, ARFF).^[2] Vulcânicos won the tenth straight and recent title and will compete in the Cape Verdean Football Championships in mid-May.

Overview

Vulcânicos was the defending team of the title. A total of 18 clubs participated in the competition, 10 in the Premier Division and 8 in the Second Division. Clubs based in the municipalities of São Filipe and Santa Catarina do Fogo were played at Estádio 5 de Julho while clubs based in Mosteiros Municipality were played at Estádio Francisco José Rodrigues, matches in Mosteiros were played each Saturday at 16:00, the 12th round match were played on Friday.

The football (soccer) calendar was competed in October in São Filipe and determined the ordering, the date and time of the matches.

A total of 358 goals were scored, 12 less than last season. The largest win was Académica who scored 14-0 over Baxada on April 23, it was the highest in several years. Vulcânico made an 18 match unbeaten streak at the regional championships, their last loss was on March 22, 2016 where they lost to Spartak 2-3, their next and last was to Nô Pintcha Mosteiros.

Nô Pintcha held the number one spot for the first two rounds, Académica Fogo took it up to the 11th round on February 25, Vulcânicos took it for the rest of the season. In the first part, the club only had a point difference, Vulcânico lost to Nô Pintcha on April 1 and Académica Fogo made a goal draw with ABC Patim, in the last few rounds Vulcânicos and Académcia had the same points but Vulcânicos scored more and finished with Vulcânicos scoring 66 goals, five more than Académica.

The Second Division started later on December 3 and will finish on May 14. In the Second Division, Nova Era defeated Brasilim 0-20 in a match in around February 2016 and made it the highest scoring match of any Second Division competitions in Cape Verde and any tiers, not just Fogo, but all of the country. Nova Era won their second Second Division championship title and will qualify into the Premier Division in the following season after six years being in that division. In three years after Parque Real, Atlético Mosteiros will be the next club to be the first ever into the regional Premier Division after being runner up in the final phase.

Participating clubs

League standings

Premier Division

Updated to games played on 23 April 2017.
Source: Cape Verde Islands: 2016-17: Fogo
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

First phase

• Top two clubs of Group A:
  • Nova Era (5 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss, 32 goals scored 16 points)
  • União de São Lourenço

• Top two clubs of Group B:
  • Grito Povo
  • Atlético Mosteiros

Final phase

Atlético Mosteiros, Grito Povo, Nova Era were União are participants in the final phase featuring four clubs. The top two will qualify into the Fogo Premier Division in the following season being the first ever season to do so.

• 1st, Champion: Nova Era (6 wins (all matches), 19 goals, 18 points) - total: 11 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss, 41 goals, 35 points)
• 2nd: Atlético Mosteiros - also promoted
• 3rd - Grito Povo
• 4th - União do São Lourenço

Results

Position changes

Statistics

• Topscorer: Luizim: 26 goals (of Nô Pintcha dos Mosteiros)
• Biggest win: Académica Fogo 14-0 Baxada (23 April)
• Biggest away win: Baxada 4 - 11 Nô Pintcha (April 16)
• Longest winning streak: 7 weeks:
  • Académica Fogo (weeks 1-7)
  • Valência (weeks 12-18)
• Longest unbeaten streak: Vulcânicos: 14 weeks (weeks 1-14)

References

External links

• "Federação Caboverdiana de Futebol" (in Portuguese). 
• Fcf.cv
• 2016-17 Fogo Island Season at RSSSF