[1] The league is divided into eleven divisions, of which seven of them are singles and two islands, Santiago and Santo Antão has two zones since 2000.

Though equivalent to the League Cup used in other countries, Cape Verde are one of a few nations being labelled as an "opening tournament" challenge.

[4] In the early 1980s, the creation of more soccer teams led to creating a new division in the 1990s which became based by island except for one of them at the time there were only six and later seven, of which one of them qualified for the two groups.

Zé di Tchétcha scored the highest goals in the championships numbering 14.

In the 2017 season which starts in mid-May, the triangular system would be returned and will feature four clubs in each of the three groups, the remainder each champion of the regional association (some of them having its own Premier/First Division) and will have the final phase,[5] the previous season's champion qualified and Mindelense will be placed in Group A. CS Mindelense holds the most national titles won numbering twelve.

Garridos is the only club to change regional divisions from Northern to Southern Santiago in 2011 as its location is in the south of the island.

The most clubs of any island/regional league is Southern Santiago, the fewest is Brava, Maio once held it until 2015.

In the early 2010s, Cape Verde would contain around a hundred football clubs in 11 regional competitions, some of them with two divisions.

In 2014, six new football clubs were added to the Sal Island League and the second division was formed., a year later in 2015, nearly all of the clubs (one of them was suspended) returned to the competition in the Santiago North Zone, some new clubs were added and the two division system were established, the regional league featured a 26 match season and saw some records in goals, wins and points got by some clubs, the 2015-16 Santiago North Zone season was the longest regional season of any of the regional leagues in the country, Varandinha was the 2015/16 winner with a record number of points numbering 63 succeeding the South Zone's Sporting Praia's total of 49 which was in 2005, the South Zone of Santiago was the second longest and the third longest being Fogo.

[7] Other records includes best season which Académica Porto Novo had achieved in 2012 that were all wins.

[8] For some seasons, there were championship disputes in one of the region, São Nicolau in 2005 and one season, and Santiago North Premier Division including Scorpion Vermelho and Varandinha in 2016 and AJAC da Calheta and Benfica Santa Cruz in 2017.

The winner of the national championship takes part in the CAF Champions League the following season, the second place club takes part in the CAF Confederation Cup, the first was in 1992 and their recent was Sporting Clube da Praia in 2009.

A total of six clubs participated including Sporting Praia, Mindelense, FC Derby, Académica do Sal, Boavista Praia and Travadores, only one club SC Atlético was disqualified due to that the football federation did not name the entrant on time.

The most used stadium in the country is Estádio da Várzea which is located in Praia, it holds up to 8.000 capacity.

The largest stadium in Cape Verde is Estádio Municipal Adérito Sena which is located in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente which has 12,000 seats.