Founded | 1997 |
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Region | Municipality of Porto Novo, Santo Antão, Cape Verde |
Current champions | Associação Académica do Porto Novo (11th time) |
Most successful club(s) | Associação Académica do Porto Novo (1 times) |
The Porto Novo Cup is a regional football (soccer) cup competition played during the season in the southern and westernmost parts of Santo Antão Island, Cape Verde. The winner participates in the Cape Verdean Cup. The first entrant was in 2007. Since 2013, there were no entrants to the national cup due to financial concerns. From the 2015 edition, the winner qualifies into the Santo Antão Cup, a single island cup competition challenging a club from the north.
The 2017 cup final will take place on April 9 and will feature Académica Porto Novo and Os Sanjoanenses. As Académica were 2016-17 regional champions, Sanjoanense received automatic qualification into the regional super cup, no full qualification status has yet been made.