2016–17 Santiago Island League (South)
| Season | 2016-17 |
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| Promoted |
Ribeira Grande Varanda |
| Relegated |
Os Garridos Vitória FC Praia |
| Matches played | 132 |
| Goals scored | 352 (2.67 per match) |
| Top goalscorer |
 Ro (16 goals) |
| Biggest home win | Tchadense 4-0 Garridos (November 18) |
| Biggest away win | Travadores 2-3 Tchadense (December 3) |
| Longest unbeaten run | Sporting Clube da Praia (November 4, 2016-April 7, 2017) |
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The 2016-17 Santiago Island League (South) season is a second and third tier football competition in the southern part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde, from 4 November 2015 to 30 April 2017. The tournament is organized by the Santiago South Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol de Santiago Sul, ARFSS). All the matches are played at Estádio da Várzea. Sporting Praia won their next title in three years and will participate in the 2017 Cape Verdean Football Championships and participate in Group C that includes Sporting Brava, currently Sporting Praia has 52 points and made it a club record, overall of any regional tier 2 championship competitions, it is third behind of the clubs of the island's North Zone, GD Varandinha with 63 and Scorpion Vermelho with 61. Also Sporting Praia will qualify in the upcoming 2017 Santiago South Super Cup.
The season is the second that featured a total of 12 clubs, Tchadense returned to the Premier Division and Benfica participated for the first time. In the Second Division, two new clubs appeared, Relâmpago (Portuguese for lightning) and Tira Chapéu based in the neighborhood in the west of the city.
A total of 352 goals were scored and this was another championship record, 19 more and partly more goals were scored per capita numbering 2.67, overall fewer than Fogo's 412 goals scored in the 2014-15 season and the capita 4.58 per match and Santiago North's 500+ goals scored in the 2015-16 season, of any island league, it is fifth/sixth overall and the third of the season to the north of the island and Fogo (2015-2017 seasons). Boavista Praia scored the most goals (48), second were Desportivo with 44, third the champion Sporting with 43 and fourth Travadores with 34. On the opposites, the most goals conceded were Travadores, unusual for a top five club to concede the most, it numbered 48 of which 19 were in three matches. Second was Os Garridos with 45 and Vitória with 44. Ro of Desportivo Praia scored the most by player numbering 16 and was a club record, overall unsurpassed from the previous season's total per player.
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