The club in 2015 got a new manager for a year from Spartak d'Aguadinha, Joel de Castro from Portugal. In the 2015/16 season, first time with 22 matches, the club did poorly in the first week inside the relegation zone being eleventh then soared to fourth and reached the number one spot on the 11th week and then slipped to 5th in the 15th week and finished second with 46 points, 14 wins and scored 45 goals behind Desportivo and ahead of Sporting also with 46 points but with 13 goals, the most goals scored was Matxona numbering 14. Overall in point totals, it is behind Desportivo's total of 47 set in the same season, Boavista's 46 points became a club record. Sporting also had it in 2013 and are one of the highest in the region and of any island leagues in Cape Verde.