 Also due to a disastrous political option by the FPF.According the regulations all the teams from Madeira and Azores were automatically allocated to the Southern series of the II B and Third Division.This would mean that rich clubs in the North and Centre of Portugal would only need to travel a few kilometers to play, poor teams from the South were forced to exhausting and expensive flights to the islands constantly throughout the mid-1990s and 2000s.