Tortola League
Encyclopedia
The Tortola League is a regional association football championship played in Tortola
, British Virgin Islands
. The winner of the championship is declared British Virgin Island football Champion
of each season.
Tortola
Tortola is the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands that form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands. Local tradition recounts that Christopher Columbus named it Tortola, meaning "land of the Turtle Dove". Columbus named the island Santa Ana...
, British Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands
The Virgin Islands, often called the British Virgin Islands , is a British overseas territory and overseas territory of the European Union, located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands archipelago, the remaining islands constituting the U.S...
. The winner of the championship is declared British Virgin Island football Champion
British Virgin Islands Championship
There are two football club competitions running in the British Virgin Islands. The Tortola League and the Virgin Gorda League.According to the National League Champions are the winner of Tortola League...
of each season.
Previous winners
- 1970: The Bronze
- 1971-78: not known
- 1979: SKB Budweiser
- 1980: Queen City Strikers
- 1981: SKB Budweiser
- 1982: International Motors
- 1983: International Motors
- 1984: SKB Budweiser
- 1985: SKB Budweiser
- 1986: SKB Budweiser
- 1987: SKB Budweiser
- 1988: League abandon
- 1989: Popeye Bombers
- 1990: Jolly Rogers Strikers
- 1991: Hiaroun
- 1992: Hiaroun
- 1993: Interfada
- 1994: Interfada
- 1995: Interfada
- 1996: Black LionsBlack LionsThe Black Lions was a resistance movement formed to fight against Italian occupation of the Ethiopian Empire.-Details:The Black Lions dominated the early resistance movement in Ethiopia. Members of the Black Lions included students from the Oletta Military Academy and foreign-educated Ethiopians...
- 1997: Interfada
- 1998: BDO Stingers
- 1999: HBA Panthers
- 2000: HBA Panthers
- 2001: Veterans
- 2002: Future Stars
- 2003: Old Madrid
- 2004: Valencia FC (BVI)
- 2005: League abandoned
- 2006-09: No competition
- 2009-10: Islanders FCIslanders FCIslanders FC is a British Virgin Islands football club based in Tortola, competing in the BVIFA Football League, the top tier of British Virgin Islands football.'Islanders FC are the current defending league champions.-References:...