2015–16 Sal Island League
| Season | 2015-16 |
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| Champions | Académico do Aeroporto |
| Matches played | 48 |
| Goals scored | 165 (3.44 per match) |
| Biggest home win | Académico Aeroporto (May 8) |
| Biggest away win | Palmeira (March 27) |
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The 2015-16 Sal Island League season was the competition of the second-tier football in the island of Sal, Cape Verde. The season started on 6 February and finished on later on 8 May 2016. The competition is organized by the Sal Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol de Sal, ARFS). Académico do Aeroporto won their 13th title. Its matches were predominantly both played in Estádio Marcelo Leitão and Santa Maria's municipal stadium, in the following season.
Académico do Aeroporto was the defending team of the title. It was the first season that the Premier Division featured eight clubs and 14 matches each club with a total of 48 matches, it also brought regional records for a club with Académico Aeroporto having 35 points, a club record for Sal and overall with the number of goals more than doubled to 165 and an average of 3.44 per match, higher than last season.
Florença later became Sal's seventh club to spend their second season in the second tier competition and the first in the Premier Division.
Académico Aerporto scored the number of goals numbering 30, second was Académica do Sal with 24 and third was Palmeira with 23, Juventude and ASGUI were sixth numbering 17 and Florença scored the least number of goals numbering 16 The biggest home win was Palmeira who scored 1-6 than ASGUI, two less than last season's rivalry of Académicas of Sal.
ASGUI who spent their first season in the Premier Division was relegated after being last with 9 points. Gaviões was the winner of the Second Division and became the ninth club to participate in the Premier Division for the first time.
Only one break took place on the third week of March due to the parliamentary elections on March 20, and later on the last days of April and May 1 where the regional cup final took place.
Updated to games played on 12 May 2016.
Source: Cape Verde Islands: 2015/16: Sal
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) head-to-head away goals (only if two teams are tied); 6) goal difference
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
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