CBE SA (a.k.a. Ethiopia Nigd Bank) is an Ethiopian professional

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club, in the city of

Addis Ababa Addis Ababa (; ,) is the capital city of Ethiopia, as well as the regional state of Oromia. With an estimated population of 2,739,551 inhabitants as of the 2007 census, it is the largest city in the country and the List of cities in Africa b ...

. They played in the

Ethiopian Premier League The Ethiopian Premier League (Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ፕሪምየር ሊግ), known as the BetKing Ethiopian Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is the top tier association football league of Ethiopia run by the Ethiopian Premier League ...

, the top level of professional football in Ethiopia.

History

The club was founded in 1982 (1975 E.C.) by the

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) is the largest commercial bank in Ethiopia. As of June 2021, it had about 1.1 trillion birr in assets and held approximately 67% of deposits and about 53% of all bank loans in the country. The bank has aroun ...

. In 2010, the club was renamed from Banks Sport Club to Commercial Bank of Ethiopia Sports Association. In the 2020/21 season, the club played in the Ethiopian League 1 and advanced to the Ethiopian Higher League. In the 2021/22 season, the club made their debut after a long absence from the Ethiopian Higher League but failed to qualify for the Premier League as runners-up to Ethio Electric. The current men squad has best players like Basiru Umar, Fetudin Jemal, Kitika Jema and Fuad Fereja. Their top scorer that year was ‘CBE Bank of the year’

Honors

Domestic

League

: 1 :: 2023–24

Cups

Addis Ababa City Cup The Addis Ababa City Cup (Amharic: አዲስ አበባ ከተማ ዋንጫ) is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout Association football, football competition in men's domestic Ethiopian Football. The tournament is organized by the Ad ...

: 1 ::2014

Performance in CAF competitions

CAF Confederation Cup The CAF Confederation Cup, known as the TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup for sponsorship purposes, is an annual association football football team, club competition established in 2004 and organized by Confederation of African Football, CAF ...

: 2 appearances ::

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

– First Round ::

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

– First Round

References

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