Union Sportive Tshinkunku commonly known as US Tshinkunku, is a Congolese

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club based in

Kananga Kananga, formerly known as Luluabourg or Luluaburg, is the capital city of the Kasai-Central Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was the capital of the former Kasaï-Occidental Province. It is the fourth most populous urban a ...

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province, currently playing in the

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, the first level of the Congolese football and their home games are played at Stade des Jeunes.

History

The club was founded in 1954 as Union St-Gilloise. US Tshinkunku had their first major success in 1985, when they won the National Championship Cup called Cup of Zaire (Coupe du Zaire) when Georges Mwanza Mande, alias Tshikem was the club president. In 2011, Trésor Kapuku, then the governor of Kasai Occidental brought second title back to the province when he was the president of ''US Tshinkunku'' club. In January 2014 the governor of then Kasai Occidental, Alex Kande Mupompa,Alex Kande élu président de l’US Tshinkunku
nbsp;– ''radiookapi.net'' was elected as the new club president, two years later, the club performed badly in the league and many fans were not happy with the management committee performance. Alexy Kayembe De Bampende, a long-time fan and a US based businessman who lives in Texas invited Georges Mwanza Tshikem to come to rebuild the team. Tshikem went to Kananga where he organized the team and the election for management committee. On 4 December 2016, club fans and players elected Georges Mwanza Mande, alias Tshikem as club president and Alexy Kayembe De Bampende was elected vice president of ''Union Sportive Tshinkunku''. Tshikem-Kayembe's vision is to make ''Tshinkunku'' a competitive club in national and international level. So far they managed to recruit Congolese qualified coaches to manage the team, Eric Tshibasu, the under-20 DR Congo national team, was hired as a team coach, but was fired three months later. Kayembe approached

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, the former

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captain to become ''US Tshinkunku'' manager. Mukanya signed a three year contract in Kinshasa on 3 July 2017 in front of hundreds of Kinshasa based ''US Tshinkunku'' fans. ...

Honours

* Winners (1): 1985 Coupe du Congo * Winners (1): 2011 Kasaï-Occidental Provincial League * Winners (2): 2006, 2007

Performance in CAF competitions

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: 1 appearance ::

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– First round * CAF Confederation Cup: 1 appearance :: 2012 – First round

References

External links

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Kananga Football clubs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Sports clubs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo {{DRCongo-footyclub-stub