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2016–17 Sint Maarten Senior League

football league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 12, 2023
Entity authorityQ30635837 ↗
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The 2016–17 Sint Maarten Soccer Association (SMSA) Senior League was the 41st season of top division football in Sint Maarten. The season begin on 2 October 2016 and ended on 10 April 2017.

Defending champions Flames United were the defending champions, but finished runners-up to Reggae Lions. Both teams earned a berth in the 2018 Caribbean Club Championship, should they elect to participate in the tournament.

Clubs

A total of nine clubs participated during the season. Each team played every other team twice: once home and once away, for a 16-match season. Below is the table based on reported results.

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This entry incorporates text from “2016–17 Sint Maarten Senior League” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.