Fogo Island Cup Explained

Fogo Island Cup
Region: Fogo Island, Cape Verde
Number Of Teams:20
Current Champions:Académica do Fogo

The Fogo Island Cup (Portuguese: Taça (Copa) da Ilha do Fogo, Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Tasa da Djarfogu, Fogo: Taça da Djarfogu (Djarfogo) or Djar Fogu (Fogo)) is a regional cup competition and is played during the season in the island of Fogo, Cape Verde, it consists of all the clubs from all the two regional divisions and are divided into about four to five rounds, for some seasons, a group stage was featured. The cup competition is organized by the Fogo Regional Football Association (Associação Regional do Fogo, ARFF).[1] The cup winner competes in the regional super cup final in the following season when a cup winner also wins the championship, a runner-up competes. For several seasons, the winner qualified into Cape Verdean Cup which has been cancelled due to financial and scheduling reasons.

The first cup competition took place in 2001, the 2013–14 and the 2014-15 editions were cancelled, the 2015 one was not held due to the volcanic eruption that happened on Pico do Fogo. The 2016 cup competition took place, the 2016 final did not take place.

Winners

Source:[2]

SeasonWinnerScoreRunner-up
2000/01Académica do Fogo
2001/02Académica do Fogo
2002/03Botafogo
2004-05Unknown
2005/06Botafogo
2006/07Spartak d'Aguadinha
2007/08Académica do Fogo2–0Valência
2008/09Académica do Fogo
2009/10BotafogoVulcânicos
2010-11VulcânicosSpartak d'Aguadinha
2011-12Valência
2012/13Unknown
2013/14Not held
2014/15Not held
2015/16Unknown
2016-17Académica do Fogo1–1 (5–4 p)Vulcânicos
2017-18Académica do Fogo2–1 (aet)Botafogo

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fogo Regional Football Association at the FCF website . 2017-05-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924011031/http://www.fcf.cv/pt/index.php/associacoes/fogo . 2015-09-24 . dead .
  2. Web site: Cape Verde Islands – List of Regional Tournament Winners . José . Batalha . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation . 3 April 2014 . 30 April 2017.