2018 São Tomé and Príncipe Championship

The 2018 São Tomé and Principe Championship is the 33rd season of the São Tomé and Principe Championship the top-level football championship of São Tomé and Principe.

São Tomé and Principe Championship
Season2018
ChampionsUDRA
2017
2019

There are two separate championships, one for teams of São Tomé Island and one for teams of Príncipe Island. The champions of the two island championships play a home-and-away two-legged final to decide the overall champions.[1]

Regional Leagues

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São Tomé

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Final table.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 UDRA 22 14 3 5 52 21 +31 45 Champions
2 Sporting Praia Cruz 22 13 2 7 32 20 +12 41
3 Trindade FC 22 9 7 6 31 25 +6 34
4 Vitória Riboque 22 8 7 7 26 27 −1 31
5 6 de Setembro 22 9 4 9 36 42 −6 31
6 Aliança Nacional 22 8 6 8 36 32 +4 30
7 Agrosport 22 8 5 9 36 41 −5 29
8 Sporting São Tomé 22 8 5 9 31 39 −8 29
9 Caixão Grande 10 9 0 1 24 31 −7 27
10 Folha Fede 22 7 7 8 33 32 +1 28
11 FC Neves 9 8 0 1 27 33 −6 24 Relegation to lower division
12 Inter Bom-Bom 5 2 0 3 15 36 −21 6
Updated to match(es) played on last day of season. Source: [1]

Selected results

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São Tomé's played their next top tier match in a few decades, they suffered their first two losses, first to Agrosport, then to Neves, at the third round, they made a 1-0 win over Vitória Riboque their next at the top tier in decades. The first of three matches that were ăto play on May 5, Folha Fede vs. Aliança Nacional and Caixão Grande and Agrosport were abandoned in the middle of the second half due to heavy rain, they continued on May 9, the first ended in a three goal draw, the second Agrosport won. The third one was Sporting

Príncipe

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Final table.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 FC Porto Real 20 16 2 2 78 27 +51 50 Champions
2 Operários 20 11 2 7 41 33 +8 35
3 1º de Maio 20 9 1 10 48 57 −9 28
4 Sundy 20 7 4 9 40 41 −1 25
5 Sporting Clube do Príncipe 20 5 3 12 38 57 −19 18
6 UDAPB 20 5 2 13 36 66 −30 17
Updated to match(es) played on last day of season. Source: [2]

National final

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Team Qualifying method
UDRA Champions of São Tomé
Porto Real Champions of Príncipe

First Leg [Dec 8, Estádio Regional 13 de Junho, Santo António]

Porto Real 2-2 UDRA

Second Leg [Dec 15, Estádio Nacional 12 de Julho, São Tomé]

UDRA 2-1 Porto Real

UDRA win 4-3 on aggregate

References

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