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Sal Opening Tournament
The Sal Island Opening Tournament (Portuguese: ''Torneio de Abertura da Ilha do Sal'', Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''Turneiu de Abertura Idja du Sal'') is an opening tournament competition played during the season in the island of Sal, Cape Verde. The competition is organized by the Sal Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol de Sal, ARFS). The competition is similar to a league cup used in other countries. The first competition began in the 2000s. As the league later had two divisions, unlike other islands, the 2015 season had all of the clubs from the first and second divisions competed and extended to 11 rounds with several new clubs who started competing in official competitions. The group system was restored for the 2016-17 season and had two groups and each round, the leader of each group headed to the final and has two divisions.. The current winner is SC Santa Maria who became the fourth club to win their only title. Winners Perfor ...
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Sal, Cape Verde
Sal (Portuguese for "salt") is an island in Cape Verde. Sal is a tourist destination with white sandy beaches and over 350 days of sunshine a year. It is one of the three sandy eastern islands of the Cape Verde archipelago in the central Atlantic Ocean, off the west coast of Africa. Cabo Verde is known for year-round kiteboarding, for the large reserve of Caretta turtles which hatch from July to September, and the music of Cesaria Evora. History For Europeans , the island was discovered on 3 December 1460 and named ''Llana'' ("flat"). This name was changed into the current "Sal" when the two large salt ponds ( Pedra de Lume and Santa Maria) were discovered. The first three centuries after its discovery, the island was only sparsely inhabited; in 1720 there was a small fishing village near present Palmeira. This changed when the salt industry was developed at the end of the 18th century, starting in Pedra de Lume. Santa Maria was founded in the south of the island in 1830 ...
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Académica Do Sal
Académica may refer to: * Academica a Miami, Florida-based charter school operator * Associação Académica de Coimbra (Coimbra Academic Association), the students' union of the University of Coimbra * Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F., an autonomous professional football organization of the Associação Académica de Coimbra and Portuguese football club * Académica do Mindelo, a football organization in São Vicente Island, Cape Verde * Académica do Sal, a football organization in Espargos, Sal Island, Cape Verde * Academica (Gyldendal), a publisher in the Gyldendal Akademisk Group, a Danish publishing house * Académica da Praia, a football organization in Santiago Island, Cape Verde * Académica Maputo Associação Académica de Maputo, usually known as Académica, is a sports club from Maputo, Mozambique. It features teams in football (soccer), Roller hockey (quad) Roller hockey (in British English), rink hockey (in American English) o ...
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Sal Island SuperCup
The Sal Island Super Cup (Portuguese: ''Super Copa da Ilha do Sal'', Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''Super Kopa da Idja du Sal'', Sal Crioulo: ''Super Taça Dja d'Sal'' São Vicente Crioulo: ''Super Kopa da Ilha d' Sal'') is a SuperCup competition played during the season in the island of Sal, Cape Verde. The competition is organized by the Sal Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol de Sal, ARFS). The regional winner competes with the cup winner. Sometimes, if a champion also has a cup title, a cup club who is runner-up qualifies. The first super cup competition began in 2000. Since 2012, the super cup is also known as Supertaça Sança Gomes. Académico do Aeroporto has likely won the most Super Cup titles on the island. The upcoming super cup edition will feature Palmeira, to qualify as champions and Santa Maria, to qualify as a cup winner. Winners Performance By Club Listed titles only Performance by area Listed titles only. Ital ...
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Sal Island Cup
Sal, SAL, or S.A.L. may refer to: Personal name * Sal (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or nickname Places * Sal, Cape Verde, an island and municipality * Sal, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province * Cay Sal, a small island between Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas * Sal Glacier, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica * Sal River (India), Goa * Sal (Russia), a tributary of the Don in southern Russia Arts and entertainment * ''Sal'' (film), a 2011 film about Sal Mineo * Laffing Sal, an automated character Science * Sal (tree) (''Shorea robusta''), from the Indian subcontinent * Saharan Air Layer, or SAL * Salivary lipocalin, or SAL, the pig major urinary protein homologue * Society of Antiquaries of London, a British historical and archaeological learned society * Sterility assurance level, or SAL, in microbiology Transportation * Seaboard Air Line Railroad, reporting mark SAL * Sociedade de Aviação Ligeira, or SAL, Luanda, Angola, an air taxi opera ...
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Sal Premier Division
The Sal Premier Division is a regional championship played in Sal Island, Cape Verde. The winner of the championship plays in Cape Verdean football Championships of each season. The competition are organized by the Sal Regional Football Association (Associação Regional de Futebol de Sal, ARFS). The Premier Divisions contains eight clubs. In title history, Académico do Aeroporto has the most titles numbering 14, and is ranked fifth in the most championship titles of any of the island leagues in Cape Verde. The champion promotes into the Cape Verdean Football Championships each season while the last placed club relegates into the second division the following season. History The regional championships was founded shortly after independence and became the four championships to compete at the national level. SC Verdun from Santa Maria was the first club to win a title, Académico Sal, Palmeira and Académica do Aeroporto were the next club to win a title, SC Santa Maria was th ...
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Sports In Sal, Cape Verde
The Sal, Cape Verde, island of Sal in Cape Verde in the east of the Barlavento Islands is home to several teams and clubs. The major professional club may now be Académico do Aeroporto do Sal, the remaining clubs are amateur or beginners. In 1976, Sal would have its own island championships of each sport. The football competition was the third along with Fogo to have its own first held in 1976 after the nation's independence. Since 2014, the football (soccer) was the only competition divided into two divisions. Football (soccer) Football (soccer) remains to be the most popular sport both in the island and the nation. The island has 13 football (soccer) clubs in two divisions governed by the Sal Regional Football Association. Sal was the third island to have a football (soccer) club known as SC Santa Maria, founded in what was the island capital in 1939. SC Verdun, based in Pedra de Lume was founded in 1945. At the time, Sal was the least inhabited island in the archipelago, ...
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Santa Maria, Cape Verde
Santa Maria (Portuguese for Saint Mary) is a cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015
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in the southern part of the island municipality of , . It is located on the south coast, about 16 km south of the

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Espargos
Espargos (Portuguese for "asparagus") is the capital and main commercial centre of the island and municipality of Sal, Cape Verde. The cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015
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is situated in the heart of the island.


Geography

The highest point of Espargos is Monte Curral, elevation 109 meters, where the radar station and the control tower for the airport are located. The

2017 Sal Island Opening Tournament
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Grupo Desportivo Palmeira
Grupo Desportivo Palmeira ( Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''Palméra'', also in the Sal Crioulo) is a football club that had played in the Premier division and plays in the Sal Island League in Cape Verde. It is based in the town of Santa Maria and plays in its municipal stadium north of the town center. Palmeira is the fourth successful football (soccer) club on the island, having won 8 official regional titles. Origin of the name The name mainly originates from several palms in the area, one area, there are palms on Avenida Amílcar Cabral today, since there is a village name Palmeira in the west of the island which has the same origin, the team does not owe its name from a village on the same island. To avoid confusion, the club mainly calls it under the name Palmeira do Sul do Sal or Palmeira de Santa Maria Logo Its logo contains a green colored (or palm) shield with three white lines and the abbreviated full form on top, Palmeira on top of the second shield w ...
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Cape Verde
, national_anthem = () , official_languages = Portuguese , national_languages = Cape Verdean Creole , capital = Praia , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , demonym = Cape Verdean or Cabo Verdean , ethnic_groups_year = 2017 , government_type = Unitary semi-presidential republic , leader_title1 = President , leader_name1 = José Maria Neves , leader_title2 = Prime Minister , leader_name2 = Ulisses Correia e Silva , legislature = National Assembly , area_rank = 166th , area_km2 = 4033 , area_sq_mi = 1,557 , percent_water = negligible , population_census = 561,901 , population_census_rank = 172nd , population_census_year = 2021 , population_density_km2 = 123.7 , population_density_sq_mi = 325.0 , population_density_rank = 89th , GDP_PPP ...
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