2017–18 Santiago South Premier Division
| Season | 2017–18 |
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| Promoted |
Académica Praia (Champions) Sporting Praia (4th place, qualified as they were 2017 national champions) |
| Relegated |
Eugěnio Lima AD Tira Chapéu |
| Matches played | 132 |
| Goals scored | 367 (2.78 per match) |
| Highest scoring | Sporting Praia? |
| Longest unbeaten run | Académica Praia (December 16, 2017-March 22, 2018) |
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The 2017–18 Santiago South Premier Division season was the 16th second tier football competition in the southern part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde, from 3 November 2017 to 1 April 2018, a month earlier than last season. The tournament was organized by the Santiago South Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol de Santiago Sul, ARFSS). All matches were played at Estádio da Várzea. Académica Praia won their next title in nine years and participated in the 2017 Cape Verdean Football Championships and played in Group A. Académica finished with a new regional record of 56 points superceding Sporting Praia's 55 made last season , overall of any regional championship (second tier) competitions, it is third behind of the clubs of the island's North Zone, GD Varandinha with 63 and Scorpion Vermelho with 61. Sporting Praia, the previous national champion also qualified, the club finished fourth for the season. Académica Praia will qualify in the upcoming 2018 Santiago South Super Cup.
As Sporting Praia also won the national championship on August 27, for the 2017-18 season, a second place club will participate in the 2018 national football championships.
The season was the third that featured a total of 12 clubs, Ribeira Grande, champions of the Second Division returned to the Premier Division after six years. Originally second placed GD Varanda was to qualify, as that club withdrew November 2017, third placed Tira Chapéu competed for the first time into the Premier Division in the following season while Varanda was kept as a Second Division club for the following season and was not competing. Next season, another first timer will participate in the Premier Division and will be Relâmpago.
A total of 367 goals were scored and this was another championship record, partly more goals were scored per capita numbering , 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 sixth/seventh overall and the fourth of the season to the north of the island and Fogo (2015-2017 seasons).
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