Cotton Factory Club was an Ethiopian

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

Dire Dawa Dire Dawa (; , meaning"where the Dir (clan), Dir hit his spear into the ground" or "The true Dir", , Harari language, Harari: ድሬዳዋ, lit. "Plain of Medicine"; ) is a city in eastern Ethiopia near the Somali Region and Oromia, Oromo borde ...

. They were a member of the

Ethiopian Football Federation The Ethiopian Football Federation (EFF) (Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ እግር ኳስ ፌዴሬሽን) is the governing body of Football (soccer), football in Ethiopia. It organizes all tiers of the national football league and the Ethiopia nation ...

national league. Their home stadium was

Dire Dawa Stadium Dire Dawa Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia. It is currently used mostly for football (soccer), football matches, on club level by Dire Dawa City of the Ethiopian Premier League. The stadium has a capacity of 25,000 specta ...

. In 1960, 1962, 1963, 1965 and 1983 the team won 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 ...

History

The team was founded in 1936 and dissolved in 2000 after its relegation from the 1st division in the 1999–2000 football season.

Honours

: 5 ::Champion: 1960, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1983

Performance in Caf competitions

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: 1 appearance ::

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...

– Semi-final

References

External links

Team profile
– ''The Biggest Football Archive of the World''
Team profile
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