2017 LFA Primeira

The 2017 LFA Primeira is the second season of the Liga Futebol Amadora Primeira Divisão. The season began on February 18 and finished on September 16.

Primera Divisaun

Season	2017
Champions	Karketu Dili (1st)
Relegated	Porto Taibesi FC Zebra
Matches played	56
Goals scored	176 (3.14 per match)
Top goalscorer	Tingga (13 goals)
Biggest home win	Karketu Dili 9–1 Cacusan (30 July 2017)
Biggest away win	Porto Taibesi 1–10 Karketu Dili (6 August 2017)
Highest scoring	Karketu Dili 10–3 Zebra (23 April 2017)
Longest winning run	8 games, Karketu Dili
Longest unbeaten run	11 games, Karketu Dili
Longest winless run	7 games, Zebra
Longest losing run	5 games, Porto Taibesi
← 2016 2018 → All statistics correct as of 16 September 2017.

Sport Laulara e Benfica is the current defending champions.^[1]

All Primeira Divisão games are played at the Baucau Municipal Stadium and Malibaca Yamato Stadium. Primeira Divisão games used Dili Municipal Stadium for matchday 12 on 10-13 August 2017, matchday 13 on 1-4 September 2017 and three matches in matchday 14 on 7-9 September 2017.

Stadiums

Primary venues used in the 2017 LFA Primeira

Stadium	Location	Capacity
Baucau Municipal Stadium	Baucau	5,000
Municipal Stadium	Dili	5,000
Malibaca Yamato Stadium	Maliana	5,000

Teams

There are 8 teams that will play this season.

from Primeira

Aitana and DIT F.C. were relegated to 2017 Segunda Divisao after finished 7th and bottom place of 2016 Primeira Divisao.

to Primeira

Cacusan and FC Zebra promoted to 2017 Primeira Divisao after securing place as champions and runners-up in 2016 Segunda Divisao.

Locations

Dili

Dili Primera clubs:
Académica
Cacusan
Carsae
Karketu Dili
Ponta Leste
Porto

SL Benfica

Zebra

Locations of the 2017 LFA Primeira teams.

Personnel

Club	City / Area	Coach	Captain
Académica	Dili
Cacusan	Becora, Dili
Carsae	Dili	Rochy Putiray
Karketu Dili	Dili	Simón Elissetche
Ponta Leste	Dili
Porto Taibesi	Dili	Miro Baldo Bento	Miro Baldo Bento
Sport Laulara e Benfica	Laulara, Aileu	Kim Shin-hwan	Nidio Alves
Zebra	Baucau		Helder Mota Ricardo

Foreign players

Restricting the number of foreign players strictly to four per team. A team could use four foreign players on the field each game.

As of 13 July 2017

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4
Académica	Joseph Koomson
Cacusan	Moses Banggo
Carsae
Karketu Dili	Antonio Vega	Alan Leandro	Tingga
Ponta Leste	Antonio Teles	Edmond Hezzed	Shota Tokonaga
Porto Taibesi	Tassiou Bako
Sport Laulara e Benfica	Michael Debrah	Boateng
FC Zebra	Daniel Kwame	Devis Amegashie	Marco de Lima

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Karketu Dili (C)	14	8	4	2	43	15	+28	28
2	Ponta Leste	14	7	4	3	28	16	+12	25
3	Carsae	14	6	5	3	21	16	+5	23
4	SLB Laulara	14	6	3	5	20	15	+5	21
5	Académica	14	4	6	4	14	12	+2	18
6	Cacusan	14	4	6	4	22	29	−7	18
7	Zebra (R)	14	2	6	6	17	29	−12	12	Relegation to the 2018 LFA Segunda
8	Porto Taibesse (R)	14	1	2	11	11	44	−33	5

Updated to match(es) played on 16 September 2017. Source: Liga Futebol Amadora FIFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Result table

Home \ Away	ACA	CCS	CAR	KAR	POL	POR	SLB	ZEB
Académica		1–1	0–0	1–2	0–1	2–1	1–2	1–0
Cacusan	2–2		2–3	0–0	3–2	3–3	2–1	1–2
Carsae	1–1	1–1		1–1	1–0	5–1	1–3	1–1
Karketu Dili	0–1	9–1	3–2		1–1	3–0	1–0	10–3
Ponta Leste	1–1	3–2	2–1	1–2		5–0	2–2	0–0
Porto Taibesse	1–0	1–2	0–1	1–10	0–4		0–2	1–4
SLB Laulara	0–0	0–1	0–1	2–0	2–3	2–1		3–1
FC Zebra	0–3	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–3	1–1	1–1

Updated to match(es) played on 16 September 2017. Source: Liga Futebol Amadora
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of matches played on 16 September 2017.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Tingga	Karketu Dili	13
2	Antonio Vega	Karketu Dili	12
3	Alan Leandro	Karketu Dili	10
4	Edit Savio	Carsae	9
5	Joao Pedro	Sport Laulara e Benfica	7
6	Silveiro Garcia	Ponta Leste	6
7	Marco de Lima	FC Zebra	5
	Nidio Alves	Sport Laulara e Benfica
9	Armindo Almeida	Porto Taibesse	4
10	Ricardo Maia	Ponta Leste	3
	Anggisu Barbosa	Académica
	Moses Banggo	Cacusan
	Boavida Olegario	Karketu Dili

See also

• 2017 LFA Segunda
• 2017 Taça 12 de Novembro
• 2017 LFA Super Taça
• 2017 LFA Segunda Divisao Promotion Playoff