2017 Cape Verdean Football Championships
| Season | 2017 |
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| Champions | Sporting Clube da Praia |
| Matches played | 42 |
| Goals scored | 92 (2.19 per match) |
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The 2017 Cape Verdean Football Championships season was the 38th beginner level (likely amateur) competition of the first-tier football in Cape Verde. It started on 13 May and finished on 27 August, it started a days later than last season. Originally to finish on 15 July, instead, it was rescheduled to 27 August. The championship was governed by the Federação Caboverdiana de Futebol (Cape Verdean Football Federation, FCF).
Sporting Praia won their 10th and recent national championship title, also it was the club's next in five years. Sporting Praia will likely to participate in the CAF Champions League competition in 2018, Uncertainty that Ultramarina Tarrafal will participate 2017 CAF Confederation Cup, both of the clubs due to financial concerns, of any club, it is the eighth consecutive time and becomes the recent African nation not to bring a champion to the continentals for the most consecutive years, in the cup competition, Cape Verde is the longest for not bringing a club in Africa lasting for more than 15 years straight, not even the three national cup winners competed. Sporting Praia will participate into the 2018 National Championships.
The triangular phase started to be used for the 2017 season, it became the fourth time and first with four clubs each and with playoffs.
CS Mindelense was once more the defending team of the title. A total of 12 clubs participated in the competition, one from each island league and one who won the last season's title. The top club from each group qualified for the first time as well as the club with the most points of a second position of each group qualified into the semis for the first time.
Sporting Praia defeated Académica Porto Novo in the semis in its two legs, Sporting Praia won the first and the second one was scoreless, on the other Ultramarina defeated Mindelense 2-0 and qualified into the finals without the first leg played.
Six clubs returned again, on the other only AJAC da Calheta de São Miguel was the only first timer in the national championships.
No huge wins dominated a match this season, the highest result was no more than three goals which was a few matches, one of them the Sporting Praia-Ultramarina Tarrafal (São Nicolau) match which Sporting won 3-2. Académica Porto Novo scored the most goals in the regular season numbering 12. Overall Ultramarina Tarrafal (São Nicolau) scored the most goals totaling 16, followed by Sporting Praia with 15.
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