São Vicente Regional Football Association
| Founded | c. 1938 |
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| Location | |
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President
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Júlio do Rosário |
| Affiliations | Cape Verdean Football Federation |
| Website | Official website |
São Vicente Regional Football Association (Portuguese: Associação Regional de Futebol de São Vicente, abbreviation: ARFSV) is a football (soccer) association covering the island of São Vicente. It is headquartered in the city of Mindelo, the island capital.
The area includes the northwest central part of Cape Verde (especially the three islands of Santa Luzia, Ilhéu Branco and Ilhéu Raso which are not populated today are included in area, though the name of other isles are not used, also there are no clubs in that area).
The association also organizes and functions the São Vicente Regional Championships, the Cup, the Super Cup, the Association Cup and now the Champions' Cup (equivalent to the Champions' Trophy). The association has 14 registered clubs, Mindelense and Derby are pro-clubs and Académica Mindelo could be a semi-pro club. The regional champion competes in the National Championships each season, once did in the cup (2007) and super cup (2014) competition who competed at the national level. The regional championships has two divisions.
The island league was founded in 1938 and is the oldest and existing association in Cape Verde. In the founding years, the league formerly included much of the Barlavento Islands, when more clubs were created even the other islands, it reduced the area to only the northwestern and then the northwestcentral part of the country. None of the clubs outside the island participated in the island division before their island divisions were created. In its first three seasons, only a single match existed, Académica and GD Amarantes were founded later and the number of clubs risen to four.
The two island competitions were the highest level local championship in Cape Verde. The island had the second largest championships in the country in 1953 which lasted to the late 2000s. The 1953 island champion who was Académica would compete in the first colonial championship and claimed the first colonial title. The only entrant was a club from the island of São Vicente up to the end of colonial rule. Some clubs were created years later including Castilho and Falcões do Norte in the 1960s and increased its clubs to six, the points system was introduced and featured a ten-match season that started in the early of the year. After Batuque was founded, the club number rise to eight and nine in around 1990 after Corinthians who was the first Brazilian based club on the island was founded in 1988, it started a sixteen match season and had a two-year season.
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