2016–17 Sal Island League
| Season | 2016-17 |
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| Champions | Académico do Aeroporto |
| Promoted | ASGUI |
| Relegated | Verdun Pedra de Lume |
| Matches played | 48 |
| Goals scored | 157 (3.27 per match) |
| Biggest away win | Gaviões 1 - 10 Santa Maria (April 30) |
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The 2016-17 Sal Island League season was the competition of the second and third tier football in the island of Sal, Cape Verde. The season started on 14 January and finished on 30 April 2016. The competition was organized by the Sal Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol de Sal, ARFS). Académico do Aeroporto won their 14th title. Its matches were played at Estádio Marcelo Leitão.
Again, Académico do Aeroporto was the defending team of the title. It was the second season that the Premier Division featured eight clubs and 14 matches each club with a total of 48 matches, only Juventude Sal achieved the record number of points with 29, since the transition from 2 to 3 points for a win min the 1990s. The number of goals were 156, fewer than last season and an average of 3.25 per match.
Second placed Santa Maria scored the number of goals numbering 40, second was Juventude Sal with 30 and third was Académico do Aeroporto with 29, Verdun Pedra de Lume scored the least number of goals numbering fie. The biggest home win was Santa Maria who scored 1-10 over Gaviões at the final round, the highest in some seasons.
Florença was Sal's seventh club to spend their second season in the second tier competition and the first in the Premier Division. Gaviões became the eighth and recent club to compete at the second tier competition and third in the regional Premier Division.
Verdun Pedra de Lume became the second club to be relegated and the first club of the original six.
The Second Division started later on March 24 and finished on May 27. ASGUI won the Second Division title and will return to compete in the Premier Division for the second time, it is the first that no new participant will be made.
Earlier in the season, a plan for two additional clubs were made, only one would be added, GDRC Pretória would compete for the first time after being registered, it became the only club in the nation who did not compete in the regional opening tournament and cup competition for the season, the club finished second place.
Updated to games played on 30 April 2017.
Source: Cape Verde Islands: 2016/17: 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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