The 2015–16 Académica do Porto Novo season were in the island and top division of Cape Verdean football. The season for the club was as not as successful as the previous four seasons, a part of it were defeating the region's weakest clubs, since the association has only a single division. The club won their 10th title and became the next club to win six consecutive titles of each island leagues, others are CS Mindelense of nearby São Vicente several times between the foundation up to 1994, Botafogo of Fogo in 1981 and Brava's Nô Pintcha in 1996. The title total has became to be one of the most number of clubs having the most regional titles.

The club scored a total of 69 goals, Of which, 60 were regional and was a record breaking total in the island and South Zone's history, the other nine in the national championships, six in the regular season and only three in the playoffs. Their total points was 33 for the island and made it their third highest to 36 made in 2012 and 11 in the national championships totalling 44, their overall made it second in the club's history.

Académica Porto Novo's regional championship titles covers half of the 20 regional titles won with the exception of some seasons in the late 1990s.

The 2016 season was their sixth consecutive season that won first place ahead of Marítimo who had the same points but scored 34 goals. It was not a successful one in the final round of the season made their first loss in four years losing to their second rival Marítimo 2-1 on April 23, it had 60 matches without a loss and is the highest recorded of any of the island leagues in Cape Verde, in away matches, it had 30 matches without a loss, ahead of Santiago South's Sporting Praia who now has 19 matches without a loss away on February 26, 2017, one part its recently extended 22 match season, and third is Mindelense. Also on week 13, Académica defeated Sporting, a club that was once strong now weak, with a high scoring match of 11-0 which made it the highest in the region for the season. Also it holds record without a loss that is a combined South Zone championship-cup-super cup matches numbering about 60 and the over lasted until April 23 but not on home matches which continues into the present day.

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