The association has 13 registered clubs, Santa Maria, Académica do Aeroporto do Sal and Académica do Sal are semi-pro clubs.
Pretória, based in the east of Espargos competed for the first time on March 27, 2017 and became the 13th and recent club on the island.
As ARFS was used for the Santiago Regional Football Association, until 2002 during its final dissolution of the organization, Sal's abbreviation was read as ARFSL.
Until May 2017, neither of the original six clubs was relegated, Verdun Pedra de Lume was the second unrelegated club to relegate as they finished last and first of the original six.
The region's registered clubs as of October 2017 include: