AS Ponta Leste is a professional
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
club based in
Dili
Dili (Portuguese language, Portuguese and Tetum language, Tetum: ''Díli'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Timor-Leste. It lies on the northern coast of the island of Timor, in a small area of flat land hemmed in by mountai ...
,
East Timor
Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the coastal exclave of Oecusse in the island's northwest, and ...
. The team plays in the
Liga Futebol Timor-Leste
Liga-Futebol Timor Leste is the overall competition featuring football clubs from Timor Leste. Sanctioned by the Football Federation of Timor-Leste (FFTL). The competition consists of two main divisions, the Primeira Divisão and Segunda Divis� ...
in the
Primeira Divisão. The club's most successful season came in 2016 in which the team won the
2016 Taça 12 de Novembro
The 2016 Taça 12 de Novembro is the 4th staging of the Taça 12 de Novembro.
Aitana will enter as the defending champions after winning the 2015 edition by defeating Dili Institute of Technology (DIT) 3-2 in the final.
Ponta Leste won the ti ...
after beating
Assalam FC 1–0 in the final, as well as the
Super Taça which they won against league champions
Benfica Laulara 2–1. Since then however the team has yet to win any further competitions.
The club owned by
Inácio Moreira the Vice-Minister of Public Works, Transport and Communications of Timor Leste and
Osório Florindo the vice-president of
Federação de Futebol de Timor-Leste
The Football Federation of Timor-Leste ( - FFTL) is the governing body of football in Timor-Leste.
In 2016 Timor-Leste run their own league under supervision of and Secretary of State for Youth and Sport. The name of the league is ''Liga Fute ...
.
Squad
Below are a list of known players set to compete in the
2025 Liga Futebol Timor-Leste
Competition records
''Competitive records from RSSSF''
Club honours
Liga Futebol Timor Leste Primeira Divisão
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2017: Runners Up
Taça 12 de Novembro
Taça 12 de Novembro is an annual knockout association football competition in men's domestic Football in East Timor, Timor football. This competition was organised by Liga Futebol Timor-Leste and East Timor Football Federation, FFTL.
Competiti ...
*
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
: Champions
LFA Super Taça
*
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
: Champions
External Links
Facebook Page
References
Football clubs in Timor-Leste
Football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
Sport in Dili
Association football clubs established in 1991
1991 establishments in East Timor
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