The Boa Vista Island League or Championships is a regional championship played in Boa Vista Island, Cape Verde. The winner of the championship plays in the Cape Verdean football Championships of each season. It is organized by the Boa Vista Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol da Boa Vista, abbreviation: ARFBV). Since 2010, it has the largest regional football association governing body in area in the nation.

Académica Operária won the most titles numbering nineteen, Sal Rei is second now numbering ten with their recent championship win.

During the 2004-05 season as Sal-Rei was also the national winner and received automatic qualification (the first to do so), second place Desportivo Estância Baixo qualified into the 2005 National Championships, the only time a second place club qualified from Boa Vista.

History The island league was founded around 1978.

The regional association started out with four clubs in 1978, together with Brava and Maio the fewest clubs of each championship in Cape Verde for a couple of years. It rose to five clubs in the 1990s, and later matched Sal and even later Brava with six clubs, the nation's least at the time. In 2004, it possessed one club more than neighbouring Sal to the north, but matched with Brava's club total for the fourth least. When Onze Estrelas was registered in 2010, it had eight clubs, more than Brava and another nearby island of Maio to the south, and was ranked 8th out of 11 championships by number of clubs; later it became 7th in 2011. When nearby Sal added their Second Division in 2014, its club totals became 8th out of 11th in the nation, after Maio's addition of five clubs in 2015 ranked Boa Vista's club totals of 9th out of 11th in the nation and it is the current total.

Title history Almost every championship title won are based in Sal Rei with only one title that was won by Bofareira of the north of the island. Before 2010, every title won on the island were a club only based in Sal Rei.

Boa Vista Island League – Clubs 2016–17 Source:Boa Vista League season at RSSSF

Académica (Sal Rei) África Show (Rabil) Desportivo Estância Baixo Juventude do Norte (Norte, Cape Verde) Onze Estrelas (Bofarreira) Sal-Rei Sanjoanense Sporting Clube da Boa Vista - Sal Rei

Winners Source:

1977–78: Académica Operária 1978–79: Académica Operária 1979–80: not known 1980–81: not known 1981–82: Académica Operária 1982–83: Académica Operária 1983–84: not known 1984–85: Sal-Rei 1985–86: Sal-Rei/Académica Operária? 1986–87: not known 1987–88: not known 1988–89: Académica Operária 1989–90: not known or not held 1990–91: Académica Operária 1991–92: not known or not held 1992–93: Académica Operária 1993–94: Sal-Rei 1994–95: Académica Operária 1995–96: Académica Operária 1996–97: Académica Operária 1997–98: Sal-Rei 1998–99: Académica Operária 1999–2000: Académica Operária 2000–01: not held 2001–02: Académica Operária 2002–03: Académica Operária 2003–04: Sal-Rei 2004–05: Sal-Rei 2005–06: Sal-Rei 2006–07: Sal-Rei 2007–08: Sal-Rei 2008–09: Académica Operária 2009–10: Sporting 2010–11: Sal-Rei 2011–12: Académica Operária 2012–13: Onze Estrelas 2013–14: Académica Operária 2014–15: Académica Operária 2015–16: Sal-Rei 2016–17: Sal-Rei 2017–18: Sal-Rei 2018–19: Onze Estrelas 2019–20: Sporting 2020–21: abandoned due to COVID-19 pandemic 2021–22: Académica Operária 2022–23: Juventude do Norte 2023–24: Juventude do Norte 2024–25: Sal-Rei

Performance by club Club Winners Winning seasons Académica Operária 20 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2022 Sal-Rei FC 11 1994, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2025 Juventude do Norte 2 2023, 2024 Sporting 2 2010, 2020 Onze Estrelas 2 2013, 2019

See also Boa Vista Island Cup Boa Vista Island Super Cup Boa Vista Island Opening Tournament

Notes

References

External links Boa Vista Island League Boa Vista Regional Championships at Sports Midia