Founded 1953 | ||
Number of teams 12 (up to 2002)2 in 2009 Promotion to Cape Verdean Football Championship (?–2002) | ||
The Santiago Island League (North) was a regional championship played in all of Santiago Island until 2002 when it was broken up into two present divisions, the North and the South zones, Cape Verde. It formed a part of the Santiago Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol de Santiago, ARFS) The winner of the championship had played in Cape Verdean football Championships of each season.
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The island league was one of the two oldest in Cape Verde. Until the 1960s, the league included clubs from the entire southern portion of Cape Verde and functioned as a regional league.
The island championship returned in 2009 for a season, it featured a single match with the winner of the North and South Zones competing for the single island championship, Académica da Praia won the championship.