Founded around the 1970s Number of teams 6 Region Sal | Website Official website Current champion Académico do Aeroporto | |
Domestic cup(s) Sal Island Cup
Sal Island SuperCup Current champions Académico do Aeroporto (14th time)
(2015-16) Most championships Académico do Aeroporto (14 times) Promotion to Cape Verdean Football Championship Teams Académico do Aeroporto, Académica do Sal, FC Juventude, GD Palmeira, SC Santa Maria | ||
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The Sal Island League is a regional championship played in Sal Island, Cape Verde. The winner of the championship plays in Cape Verdean football Championships of each season. The league contains eight clubs in the premier division and four clubs in the second division. Académico do Aeroporto has the most number of titles numbering 14, and is ranked fifth in the most number of championship titles of any of the island leagues in Cape Verde.
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History
The regional championships was founded shortly after independence and became the four championships to compete at the national level.
SC Verdun from Santa Maria was the first club to win a title, Académico Sal, Palmeira and Académica do Aeroporto were the next club to win a title, SC Santa Maria was the fifth club to win a title in 1987. From 1990 to 2014, it was the only regional championship in Cape Verde that every club has won a title, Juventude was the last club who was without a title in 1990.
Up to the 2014 season, the league had only six clubs competing. From the mid 2000s to 2011, it had the second most number of clubs in the country, up until 2014, it had the least number of clubs in the country after Maio and Brava. When the Second Division was introduced, the championships has the fifth most number of clubs in the nation after São Vicente.
Sal was the most recent club to have a Second Division added in the 2014/15 season, each two divisions had 6 clubs each. In the following season, two clubs added to the premier division totalling eight and the second division clubs was reduced to four. The promotion/relegation system was introduced, the first placed second division club promotes in the following season and the last place club relegated into the second division the following season.
Basketball
The island also has its basketball competition. All of its games are played at Polidesportivo Municipal do Sal. One of its clubs include: