The Liga Meo Açores is a
Portuguese non-professional league for
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
clubs from
Azores
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.
It belongs to the 5th tier of the
Portuguese football league system
The Portuguese football league system consists of several leagues bound together hierarchically by promotion and relegation. Reserve teams are allowed to compete in the main league system, as is the case with most of Europe. However, they are not ...
with the
Liga 3 creation, with promotion to the 4th Tier (
Campeonato de Portugal) and relegation to the 6th Tier (Regional championships from
Ponta Delgada FA,
Angra do Heroísmo FA and
Horta FA).
Current format
The league consists in ten teams playing a round robin as a regular season. After that teams 1 to 5 play a championship group, teams 6 to 10 play a relegation group.
The points obtained in the regular season are added to those in the playoffs. The winner of the championship group is crowned the champion and qualifies for
Campeonato de Portugal.
The teams in the last three places of the relegation group get relegated to the
Ponta Delgada FA,
Angra do Heroísmo FA and
Horta FA championships.
[ Ponta Delgada FA, Angra do Heroísmo FA and Horta FA]
Teams
For the 2023-2024 season:
List of champions
The following teams won the league:
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2013–14 Angrense (1)
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2014–15 Sporting Ideal (1)
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2015–16 Lusitânia (1)
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2016–17 Sp. Guadalupe (1)
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2017–18 Angrense (2)
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2018-19 Fontinhas (1)
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2019-20 Rabo de Peixe (1)
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2020-21 Operário (1)
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2021–22 Angrense (3)
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2022–23 Lusitânia (2)
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2023-24 Operário (2)
References
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Football leagues in Portugal
Football in the Azores