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2012 CAF Confederation Cup
The 2012 CAF Confederation Cup (also known as the 2012 Orange (telecommunications), Orange CAF Confederation Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 9th edition of the CAF Confederation Cup, Africa's secondary club association football, football competition organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). AC Léopards from the Republic of the Congo won their first title, defeating Djoliba AC, Djoliba from Mali with a 4–3 win on aggregate in the 2012 CAF Confederation Cup Final, final. They earned the right to play in the 2013 CAF Super Cup. Association team allocation Theoretically, up to 55 CAF member associations may enter the 2012 CAF Confederation Cup, with the 12 highest ranked associations according to CAF 5-year ranking eligible to enter 2 teams in the competition. For this year's competition, Confederation of African Football, CAF used ''2006-10 5-Year ranking''. As a result, a maximum of 67 teams could enter the tournament – although this level has never been re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AC Léopards
Athlétic Club Léopards de Dolisie is a football (soccer) club from the Republic of Congo based in Dolisie, Niari Department. Honours *Congo Premier League **Winner (5): 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2024 **Runners-up (3): 2009, 2010, 2011 *Coupe du Congo (Republic of Congo), Coupe du Congo **Winner (5): 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017 **Runners-up (2): 2012, 2015 *Super Coupe du Congo (Republic of Congo), Super Coupe du Congo **Winner (2): 2009, 2011 *CAF Confederation Cup **Winner (1): 2012 CAF Confederation Cup, 2012 Performance in CAF competitions References External links * (archived 6 May 2013)Team profile at National-Football-Teams.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Leopards, AC AC Léopards, Football clubs in the Republic of the Congo Association football clubs established in 1953 Niari Department 1953 establishments in Moyen-Congo CAF Confederation Cup winning clubs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CAF Champions League
The CAF Champions League, known for sponsorship purposes as the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League and formerly the African Cup of Champions Clubs, is an annual football club (association football), club football competition organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and contested by list of top-division football clubs in CAF countries, top-division African clubs, deciding the competition winners through a round robin group stage to qualify for a double-legged knockout stage, and then a home and away final. It is the most prestigious club competition in African football. The winner of the each season of the competition earns a berth for the FIFA Club World Cup, a tournament contested between the champion clubs from all six continental confederations, faces the winner of the CAF Confederation Cup in the following season's CAF Super Cup and from 2024 onwards, along with the next 4 best teams, a place in the new FIFA Intercontinental Cup. Clubs that finish as runners-up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigeria Football Federation
The Nigeria Football Federation (known as Nigeria Football Association until 2008) is Nigeria's association football, football sports governing body, governing body. It was formally launched in 1945 and formed the first Nigerian national football team in 1949. It joined Confederation of African Football, CAF in 1959 and FIFA in 1960. The NFF headquarters is located in the city of Abuja. As of 2008 it organises three leagues: The Nigerian Premier League, the Nigeria Amateur League, Amateur League and the Nigerian Women's Championship, Women's League, and five competitions, including the Nigerian FA Cup, Federation Cup and Nigerian Women's Cup, Women's Cup. The next Election is slated for 2022. Formation dispute Author and Nigerian football historian Kunle Solaja has found evidence that the Nigerian Football Federation could have been formed in 1933 and not 1945 as previously thought. Solaja cited two ''Nigerian Daily Times articles dated from 21 July and 21 August 1933. The fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coupe Du Congo (DR Congo)
The Coupe du Congo is the top knockout tournament of the Congolese (DR Congo) football. It was created in 1961. Winners *1961: FC Saint Eloi Lupopo (Lubumbashi) 5–1 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) *1962–63: Not Played *1964: CS Imana (Kinshasa) 3–1 FC Saint-Éloi Lupopo (Lubumbashi) *1965: AS Dragons (Kinshasa) *1966: TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi) *1967: TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi) *1968: FC Saint Eloi Lupopo (Lubumbashi) *1971: AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) *1972: AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) *1973: AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) *1974: CS Imana (Kinshasa) *1975:: AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) *1976: TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi) *1977: AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) *1978: CS Imana (Kinshasa) *1979: TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi) *1980: Lubumbashi Sport *1981: AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) *1982: AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) *1983: AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) *1984: CS Imana (Kinshasa) 1–2 1–0 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) *1985: DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) *1986: AS Kalamu (Kinshasa) *1987: AS Kalamu (Kinshasa) *1988: AS Kalamu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
US Tshinkunku
Union Sportive Tshinkunku commonly known as US Tshinkunku, is a Congolese football club based in Kananga, Kasaï-Central province, currently playing in the Linafoot, 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, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Linafoot
The 2011 Linafoot season was the 50th season of Top League Linafoot in DR Congo. Defending champions are AS Vita from Kinshasa. Seventeen teams entered the competition. TP Mazembe won the championship. Changes from 2010 A new format was introduced. In contrast to the previous season, the final round is made up of eight teams in one group. In 2010 eight teams were divided into two groups of four with the top two finishers advancing to yet another group stage. The winner of the group of 8 will be the champion. Preliminary round In the preliminary round 12 teams in three groups played a double round robin. The group winners advanced to the next round. SuperLeague (final round) In the final round the three teams from the preliminary round join the top four placed teams from last season and 2010 Cup winner DC Motema Pembe. The eight teams play a double round robin, that is each team plays 14 matches. *US Tshinkunku also qualified for the 2012 CAF Confederation Cup as the 2011 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Saint Eloi Lupopo
FC may refer to: Businesses, organisations, and schools * Fergusson College, a science and arts college in Pune, India * Finncomm Airlines (IATA code) * FranklinCovey company, NYSE stock symbol FC * Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force in Pakistan Science and technology Computing * fc (Unix), computer program that relists commands * FC connector, a type of optical-fiber connector * Flash controller * Family Computer, video game console released in Japan in 1983, later redesigned and brought to the west as the Nintendo Entertainment System * Fibre Channel, a serial computer bus * File Compare (fc), an MS-DOS, OS/2 and Windows command line tool * fc a casefolding feature in perl Vehicles * Fairchild FC, 1920s and 1930s aircraft * A tenth generation Honda Civic * Holden FC, a motor vehicle * A second generation Mazda RX-7 car * Fully cellular, a type of container ship Other sciences * Female condom (FC1, FC2), a contraceptive * Foot-candle (symbol fc or ft-c), a unit of illumi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congolese Association Football Federation
The Congolese Association Football Federation (, FECOFA) is the governing body of football in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It founded in 1919 and affiliated to the FIFA in 1964 and CAF in 1964. It organizes the national football league Linafoot and the national team. The organisation was previously named the Zairian Association Football Federation (, FEZAFA) while the country was known as Zaire. In September 2021, the General Inspectorate of Finance claims to have foiled an attempt to embezzle public funds. Fécofa, the Congolese Football Association, was forced to return nearly a million US dollars acquired fraudulently. This sum was initially allocated to the organization of a sporting event. Scandal riddled, on April 25, 2023 the Bureau of the FIFA council has decided to appoint a normalization committee to run FECOFA's daily affairs. References External links * DR Congoat the FIFA website. DR Congoat the CAF website Congo DR Football in the Democratic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egypt Cup
The Egypt Cup (also known as the Egyptian FA Cup and formerly as the King Farouk Cup) is the main knockout football cup competition in Egypt. It is the oldest club competition in Africa. The first team to win the trophy was Zamalek in 1922. Al Ahly hold the record of total number of titles with a total of 39 titles, Zamalek also holds the record of being the only club to win the title for 4 consecutive years twice; from 1957 to 1960 and 2013 up to 2016. History The Egypt Cup is the oldest tournament in the history of Egyptian football that is still being held to-date, and it is the first competition to be organized by the Egyptian Football Association. However, it is not the first football tournament to be held in the country. The first local football tournament in Egypt was the Sultan Hussein Cup. It was launched in 1917, and its last edition was held in the 1937-38 season. The Sultan Hussein Cup witnessed the participation of Egyptian clubs with clubs belonging to the British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ENPPI Club
ENPPI Sporting Club (), simply known as ENPPI, is an Egyptian football club based in East Cairo, that competes in the Egyptian Premier League and plays home matches at Petrosport stadium in New Cairo. The club is related to ENPPI (Engineering For The Petroleum And Process Industries), which was established in 1978. The club's greatest achievement is winning the Egypt Cup twice and being the league runner-up in the 2004–05 season. Performance in CAF competitions *PR = Preliminary round *FR = First round *SR = Second round *PO = Play-off round *SF = Semi-final Performance in domestic competitions Players Current squad Managers * Taha Basry (July 1, 2001 – June 30, 2006) * Rainer Zobel (May 25, 2006 – Feb 1, 2007) * Hany Ramzy (Feb 1, 2007 – Sept 30, 2008) * Anwar Salama (July 1, 2007 – Aug 10, 2009) * Stoycho Mladenov (Jan 1, 2010 – July 12, 2011) * Mokhtar Mokhtar (July 12, 2011 – Dec 27, 2011 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egyptian Football Association
The Egyptian Football Association () is the governing body of association football in Egypt. A member of FIFA since 1923 and a founding member of the CAF, the EFA has jurisdiction over the Egyptian football league system and is responsible for the men's and women's national teams. The EFA headquarters is located in Gezira, Cairo. The EFA organizes the semi-professional Egyptian Second Division as well as the lower regional leagues at the third and fourth levels of the league system. Controversy Christians comprise approximately 5–15% of Egypt's population, the majority of whom are Coptic Orthodox Christians. Despite their significant numbers, there are currently no Coptic members on the national football team. However, in the past, there have been notable Christian players, such as Hany Ramzy. Additionally, prominent Christian families, like the Sawiris family, own major football clubs, including El Gouna FC and ZED FC. Over the years, there have been numerous repor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Africain
Club Africain (), known as CA for short, is a Tunisian professional football club based in Tunis. The club was founded in 1920 and its colours are red and white. Their home stadium, Hammadi Agrebi Stadium, has a capacity of 60,000 spectators. The club currently plays in the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1. Club Africain, as some of its founding fathers affirm, is the natural extension of the Stade africain (association founded in 1915 and dissolved in 1918) of which it retains the colors, the spirit, part of the name as well as a core of players (particularly Mohamed Soudani). Club Africain was the first Tunisian club to win an international trophy, when they won the Maghreb Cup Winners Cup in 1971. Twenty years later, in 1991, Club Africain became the first Tunisian team to win the African Champions League. Honours Crest and colours Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors Current squad * Managers Presidents Rival clubs * ES Tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
