Boa Vista Island League

Boa Vista Island League

Region	Brava Island, Cape Verde
Founded	around 1978
Number of teams	8
Promotion to	Cape Verdean Football Championship
Domestic cup(s)	Boa Vista Island Cup Boa Vista Island Super Cup
Current champions	Sal Rei (10th time) (2014-15)
Most championships	Académica Operária (19 times)
Website	Official website

The Boa Vista Island League is a regional championship played in Boa Vista Island, Cape Verde. The winner of the championship plays in the Cape Verdean football Championships of each season. The island league was founded around 1978.

Académica Operária won the most number of titles numbering nineteen, Sal Rei is second now numbering nine with their recent championship win.

During the 2004-05 season as Sal-Rei was also the national winner and received automatic qualification (the first to do so), second place Desportivo Estância Baixo qualified into the 2005 National Championships, the only time a second place club qualified from Boa Vista.

Boa Vista Island League – Clubs 2014–15

Source:^[1]

• Académica (Sal Rei)
• África Show (Rabil)
• Desportivo Estância Baixo
• Juventude (Norte, Cape Verde)
• Onze Estrelas (Bofarreira)
• Sal-Rei
• Sanjoanense
• Sporting (Sal Rei)

Winners

Source:^[2]

• 1977-78: Académica Operária
• 1978-79: Académica Operária
• 1979-80: not known
• 1980-81: not known
• 1981-82: Académica Operária
• 1982-83: Académico Sal Rei
• 1983-84: Académica Operária
• 1984-85: Académica Operária
• 1985-88: not known
• 1988-89: Académica Operária
• 1989-90: not known
• 1990-91: Académica Operária
• 1991-92: not known
• 1992-93: Académica Operária
• 1993–94: Sal-Rei
• 1994–95: Académica Operária
• 1995–96: Académica Operária
• 1996–97: Académica Operária
• 1997–98: Sal-Rei
• 1998–99: Académica Operária
• 1999–2000: Académica Operária
• 2000–01: not held
• 2001–02: Académico Sal Rei
• 2002–03: Académica Operária
• 2003–04: Sal-Rei
• 2004–05: Sal-Rei
• 2005–06: Sal-Rei
• 2006–07: Sal-Rei
• 2007–08: Sal-Rei
• 2008–09: Académica Operária
• 2009–10: Sporting
• 2010–11: Sal-Rei
• 2011–12: Académica Operária
• 2012–13: Onze Estrelas
• 2013–14: Académica Operária
• 2014–15: Académica Operária
• 2015-16: Sal Rei

Performance by club

Club	Winners	Winning seasons
Académica Operária	18 listed (19 total)	1978, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2015
Sal-Rei FC	9	1994, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2016
Académico Sal Rei	2	1983, 2002
Sporting	1	2010
Onze Estrelas	1	2013

References

1. Batalha, José (23 April 2015). "Cape Verde Islands 2014/15". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
2. Batalha, José (3 April 2014). "Cape Verde Islands – List of Regional Tournament Winners". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 27 April 2015.

External link

• Boa Vista Island League (Portuguese)