 This was caused by the fold of the LPB after many years of financial problems, with the league now being a semi-professional league.Between the 1965–66 and 1973–74 seasons, the league champions were determined by a tournament between the winners of the Campeonato Metropolitano (representing Portugal) and the champions of the then Portuguese colonies Mozambique and Angola, as a similar fashion to the Portuguese Roller Hockey First Division, which was also played during those seasons.However, the first of these tournaments never came to be because of a protest launched by Mozambican team Sporting de Lourenço Marques.