Its current president is Pedro Fernandes Pires since September 2015.
The association has the third largest number of clubs after Santiago's two zones and ahead of São Vicente.
Before the championship was established, the first football/soccer club was Vulcânicos which was founded in 1953, then Académica was founded later in 1962 and Botafogo was founded in 1968 More clubs were created after the foundation of the championships including Cutelinho in 1983 and Desportivo de Cova Figueira in 1994, the newest clubs are Spartak d'Aguadinha established in 2003 and Valência in 2004.
One of the largest scoring matches in league history is Spartak d'Aguadinha.
In the second division on February 11, 2017, Nova Era defeated Brasilim 0-20 and made it the highest scoring match to date of any of the regional leagues and one of the highest in history.