Asmara Brewery FC or Asmara Birra is an

Eritrea Eritrea, officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa, with its capital and largest city being Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia in the Eritrea–Ethiopia border, south, Sudan in the west, and Dj ...

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club based in

Asmara Asmara ( ), or Asmera (), is the capital and most populous city of Eritrea, in the country's Central Region (Eritrea), Central Region. It sits at an elevation of , making it the List of capital cities by altitude, sixth highest capital in the wo ...

and founded in 1944 (with the original 1936 name ''GS Melotti''). It is linked and economically maintained by the Asmara Brewery.

History

The Asmara Birra plays in the Eritrean Premier League since the 1990s. The team was initially founded in 1944 with the name ''Asmara Birra'' by the engineer Melotti, who founded the "Asmara Brewery" under the name of GS Hamasien (he had already founded in 1936 the ''GS Melotti'', an amateur football team in Italian Asmara). In 2008, the club won the Eritrea championship.

Achievements

* Eritrean Premier League: 1 ::2008

Performance in CAF competitions

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: 1 appearance ::1998 – Preliminary Round

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Asmara Brewery (Sport) Football clubs in Eritrea Organisations based in Asmara Works association football teams Sports clubs and teams established in 1944

History

Achievements

Performance in CAF competitions

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