Fogo Regional Football Association
| Founded | 1975 |
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President
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Pedro Fernando Pires |
| Affiliations | Cape Verdean Football Federation |
| Website | Official website |
The Fogo Regional Football Association (Portuguese: Associação Regional de Futebol do Fogo, abbreviation: ARFF) is a football (soccer) association covering the island of Fogo. It is headquartered in the city of Espargos, the island capital. The Fogo Premier Division is a regional championship played in Fogo Island, Cape Verde. The winner of the championship plays in the Cape Verdean football Championships of each season. Its current president is Pedro Fernandes Pires since September 2015.
The area includes the whole island.
The association also organizes and functions the Fogo Regional Championships, the Cup, the Super Cup, the Opening Tournament and now the Champions' Cup. The association has 20 registered clubs, Académica Fogo and Botafogo are pro clubs and Vulcânicos is a semi-pro club, the remaining are amateur, beginner and starter clubs. The regional champion competes in the National Championships each season, once did in the cup (2007, 2009, 2010, 2012) competition who competed at the national level. The association has the third largest number of clubs after Santiago's two zones and ahead of São Vicente. The regional championships has two divisions, each with ten clubs.
They are one of three regional associations that maintain more than one venue.
Before the championship was established, the first football/soccer club was Vulcânicos which was founded in 1953, then Académica was founded later in 1962 and Botafogo was founded in 1968 More clubs were created after the foundation of the championships including Cutelinho in 1983 and Desportivo de Cova Figueira in 1994, , the newest clubs are Spartak d'Aguadinha established in 2003 and Valência in 2004.
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