The Porto Novo Cup is a regional football (soccer) cup competition played during the season in the southern and westernmost parts of Santo Antão Island, Cape Verde. The winner participates in the Cape Verdean Cup. The cup tournament is organized by the Santo Antão South Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol de Zona Sul do Santo Antão, ARFZSSA).[1] The first entrant was in 2007. Since 2013, there were no entrants to the national cup due to financial concerns. From the 2015 edition, the winner qualifies into the Santo Antão Cup, a single island cup competition challenging a club from the north.

Porto Novo Cup
Founded1997
RegionCape Verde Municipality of Porto Novo, Santo Antão, Cape Verde
Current championsAssociação Académica do Porto Novo (11th time)
Most successful club(s)Associação Académica do Porto Novo (12 times)

Académica Porto Novo won their 11th and recent regional cup title which was also their sixth consecutive

The upcoming super cup edition will feature Académica Porto Novo and Marítimo, Académica will qualify as champions, also being cup winner, Marítimo will qualify as runner up in the cup final

Winners

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Season Winner Score Runner-up
1996/97 Associação Académica do Porto Novo
1997/98 Associação Académica do Porto Novo
1998/99 Associação Académica do Porto Novo
1999/2000 Associação Académica do Porto Novo
2000/01 Marítimo
2002 unknown
2002/03 Sanjoanense
2003/04 Not held
2004/05 Sporting Clube de Porto Novo
2005/06 Associação Académica do Porto Novo
2006-09 unknown
2009-10 Marítimo Inter Porto Novo
2010-11 not held
2011/12 Associação Académica do Porto Novo
2012/13 Associação Académica do Porto Novo 2–0 Fiorentina Porto Novo
2013/14 Associação Académica do Porto Novo[2] Sanjoanense
2014/15 Associação Académica do Porto Novo[3] Marítimo Porto Novo
2015/16 Associação Académica do Porto Novo[4] Lajedos
2016–17 Académica do Porto Novo Os Sanjoanenses
2017–18 Académica do Porto Novo 2–1 aet Marítimo Porto Novo

Club performance

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Club Winners Winning Years
Associação Académica do Porto Novo 12 listed, 13 total 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2006/2007?, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Marítimo 1 2001
Sanjoanense 1 2003
Sporting Clube de Porto Novo 1 2005

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Southern Santo Antão Football (Soccer) Association at the FCF website". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  2. ^ Batalha, José (4 June 2014). "2013/14 Santo Antão (South) Cup". RSSSF. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  3. ^ Batalha, José (23 December 2015). "2014/15 Santo Antão (South) Cup". RSSSF. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  4. ^ Batalha, José (23 December 2015). "2015/16 Santo Antão (South) Cup". RSSSF. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
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