Académica currently has the greatest number of opening tournament titles in the municipality of Porto Novo, the south of the island. Their cup titles, from 1998 to 2000 and 2012 to 2013, three straight titles in three years. Porto Novo won their seventh straight cup title in 2018 with their recent with the score 2–1 in extra time over Marítimo. In the two recent cup matches of the South Zone, Académica defeated Lajedos in 2016 and in 2017, the club defeated Sanjoanense. Before they won their recent cup title, in the semis on March 8, Académica Porto Novo qualified on an occasion that they were awarded 3–0 by the regional association as the team Santo André who failed to head above the 7th position in the championships in recent years did not show up.