2016–17 Académica do Porto Novo season
| 2016–17 season | |||
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| Chairman |
 Osvaldinho Silva Lopes |
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| Manager |
Gunga |
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| Stadium | Estádio Municipal do Porto Novo | ||
| Santo Antão Island League (North) | Champion | ||
| Santo Antão South Zone Cup | Winner | ||
| Santo Antão Cup | Unilateral Winner | ||
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The 2016–17 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 11th title and became the next club to win seventh 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.
Académica Porto Novo's regional championship titles covers half of the 21 regional titles won with the exception of some seasons in the late 1990s.
The 2016-17 season was their seventh consecutive season that finished first place. It was a slightly more successful than the previous season and did not had a single loss. Their first match was a 0-7 win over Sporting. Académica made the season's only draw with Lajedos. Académica underwent a 10 match winning streak, their greatest result were 8 goals, first to Inter (8-0), then Sporting (9-2) and last another challenge with Inter as an alternate match (1-8). The March 18 match was the only one that was awareded 0-3 as Santo André did not show up due to financial concerns and not to concede a goal more than Sporting Porto Novo's at the final round. Later that round, Sporting had 38 goals conceded and the club conceded 39, a week later Sporting Porto Novo conceded the most goals in the region. Académica currently has a 12 match unbeaten streak and its record still continues on home matches.
Académica Porto Novo finished with 11 wins and a draw
Now a club from Brava named Sporting Brava has a 49 match unbeaten streak at the regions, four less than Académica Porto Novo's.
Uncommon in other leagues in other countries, some of the matches of different portions were mixed up and in different round which were not in order.
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