Association Sportive Bantous is a Congolese

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based in

Mbuji-Mayi Mbuji-Mayi (formerly Bakwanga) is a city and the capital of Kasai-Oriental Province in the south-central Democratic Republic of Congo. It is thought to be the second largest city in the country, after the capital Kinshasa and ahead of Lubumbashi ...

, Kasai-Oriental province and currently playing in the

Linafoot Ligue 2 Linafoot Ligue 2 also called Vodacom Ligue 2 (for sponsorship reasons), is an annual football competition played by Congolese amateur football clubs and organized by Congolese Association Football Federation The Congolese Association Footba ...

, the second level of the Congolese football.

History

AS Bantous was founded in 1961 and they won the

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, the most important football league in the

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...

, in 1995. They were finalists in the Coupe du Congo in 1994, in which they were defeated by

DC Motema Pembe Daring Club Motema Pembe, or simply DCMP for a short, is a Congolese professional football club based in Kinshasa. History Created in 1936 under the name Falcon Daring, by the Rev. Father Raphaël de la Kethulle de Ryhove who was a missionary o ...

. Internationally, they have participated in three continental tournaments, but have never passed the second round.

Honours

** Winners (1): 1995 * Coupe du Congo ** Runners-up (1): 1994

Performance in CAF competitions

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: 1 appearances ::

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

– First Round *

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: 2 appearances ::

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

– Second Round ::

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

– Second Round

References

External links

Club profile
- ''Soccerway.com''
Club logo
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