Maio Island Cup
Founded2007
RegionCape Verde MaioIsland, Cape Verde
Number of teams12
Current championsOnze Unidos (4th time)
Most successful club(s)Onze Unidos (4 titles)

The Maio Island Cup (Portuguese: Taça (Copa) da Ilha do Maio, Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Tasa da Idja du Maio or Tasa da Djarmaiu, Maio Creole: Taça d' Djarmai) is a regional cup competition and is played during the season in the island of Maio, Cape Verde, it consists of all the clubs from all the two regional divisions and are divided into about three rounds, for some seasons, a group stage was featured. The cup competition is organized by the Maio Regional Football Association (Associação Regional do Maio, ARFM).[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.

Its current cup winner is Onze Unidos who recently won two straight titles.

Up to 2014, it had seven clubs, for some seasons, five were active, the additional four made it to 11 in 2016 and the addition of Santa Clara in 2017 would it had it to 12, the withdrawal of Beira-Mar kept it at 11. It finally had 12 clubs for the 2017–18 season, the season also had started from group stage, divided into two groups and a club had one meeting, the top two advanced into the semis.

Winners

Season Winner Score Runner-up
2006/07 Académica da Calheta
2008-09 Not held
2009/10 Barreirense FC
2010-11 Académico 83
2011-12 Onze Unidos
2012/13 Académico 83 3–1 Beira-Mar do Maio
2013/14[2] Académica da Calheta
2014/15[3] Onze Unidos
2015/16[4] Académico 83
2016-17 Onze Unidos 0–0 (4–3 p) Santana de Morrinho
2017-18 Onze Unidos 2–0 Barreirense

Performance By Club

Club Winners Winning Years
Onze Unidos 4 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018
Académico 83 3 2011, 2013, 2016
Académica da Calheta 2 2007, 2014
Barreirense 1 2010

Performance by area

Settlement or town Area Winning years
Cidade do Maio 7 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Calheta do Maio 2 2007, 2014
Barreiro 1 2010

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Maio Regional Football Association at the FCF website". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2017-05-07.
  2. ↑ Batalha, José (4 June 2014). "2013/14 Maio Island League". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  3. ↑ Batalha, José (23 December 2015). "2014/15 Maio Island League". RSSSF. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  4. ↑ Batalha, José (23 December 2015). "2015/16 Maio Island League". RSSSF. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
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