The Sal Island Cup (Portuguese: Taça da Ilha do Sal, Capeverdean Crioulo, Sal Creole: Taça Dja d' Sal, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Tasa da Dja du Sal) is a cup competition played during the season in the island of Sal, Cape Verde, it consists of all the clubs from all the two regional divisions and are divided into about five to six rounds. The competition is organized by the Sal Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol de Sal, ARFS).Sal Football (Soccer) Association at the FCF website The cup winner competed in the regional super cup final in the following season. For several seasons, the winner qualified into Cape Verdean Cup which has been cancelled due to financial and scheduling reasons.
Its recent cup winner is SC Santa Maria who won their only title.
History Académico do Aeroporto do Sal has won the most number of cup titles, the least are SC Santa Maria and SC Verdun.
Espargos has the most number of cup titles won numbering about 13. Santa Maria of the south of Sal is second with four and last is Pedra de Lume of the east of Sal.
Between 2012 and 2014, SC Santa Maria was the only club who never won a cup title, in 2015, it was one of five clubs who never won a title including ASGUI and Chã de Matias, up to 2018, it was one of nine who never won a cup title. After March 31, 2018, all of the original six has a cup title or more, leaving eight clubs who never won a cup title, six of the eight included ASGUI, Chã de Matias, Florença, JURF, Oásis Atlântico and Pretória.
In the 2017-18 season, its recent non competitor was ASGUI who withdrew.
Winners SeasonWinnerScoreRunner-up1999-2000not listed2000/01SC Verdun2001/02Académico do Aeroporto2002/03Académico do Aeroporto2003/04not listed2004/05Académica do Sal2005/06Académico do Aeroporto2006/07Académica do Sal2007/08Académica do Sal4–0 Juventude2008/09Académico do Aeroporto2009/10Juventude2010-11Académica do Sal2011-12GD Palmeira2012/13GD Palmeira1–0 Académico do Aeroporto2013/14Juventude2014/15GD Palmeira2015/16JuventudeAcadémico do Aeroporto2016-17Académica do Sal2–1Académico do Aeroporto2017–18SC Santa Maria1–0 (aet)GD Palmeira
Performance By Club Club Winners Winning years Académico do Aeroporto4/52002, 2003, 2006, 2009Académica do Sal52005, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2017Juventude32010, 2014, 2016GD Palmeira32012, 2013, 2015SC Santa Maria12018SC Verdun12001
Performance by area Settlement or city Area Winning years Espargos 11/122002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2017 Pedra de Lume 1 2001Santa Maria 4 2012, 2013, 2015, 2018
See also Sal Island Super Cup Sal Island Opening Tournament Sal Island League
References
External links Sal Regional Football Association which includes the Sal Cup