Grupo Desportivo de Maputo, usually known as Desportivo de Maputo, Desportivo Maputo or by the acronym GDM, is an

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

club from

Maputo Maputo () is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Mozambique. Located near the southern end of the country, it is within of the borders with Eswatini and South Africa. The city has a population of 1,088,449 (as of 2017) distributed ov ...

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History

The club was founded on May 31, 1921, as ''Grupo Desportivo de Lourenço Marques'' by Professor Sá Couto, José Maria Rodrigues, Alfredo Fragoso, Américo Costa, Martinho Carvalho Durão and Professor Cabanelas. It was an affiliate team of Lisbon-based

Sport Lisboa e Benfica (), commonly known as Benfica, is a professional association football, football club based in Lisbon, Portugal, that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football league system, Portuguese football. Founded on 28 Febr ...

. In 1976, after Mozambique's independence from

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, the club was renamed to ''Grupo Desportivo de Maputo''. The club's logo was also changed. 1925 Desportivo won the

District Championship of Lourenço Marques The District Championship of Lourenço Marques was a competition for association football clubs in the then officially Portuguese Province Mozambique and was held 40 times between 1922 ad 1961. Participants were the clubs of Lourenço Marques, toda ...

, a competition held between 1922 and 1961. A further eleven wins followed. In 1957 Desportivo achieved its first of altogether eight Mozambican championships 1956, which was held first in 1956. The club won its last national championship in 2006. In 2012 Desportivo was relegated for the first time. Most famous of all players from Desportivo is

Mário Coluna Mário Esteves Coluna (; 6 August 1935 – 25 February 2014) was a Portuguese footballer who played mainly as a central midfielder. He spent most of his career with Benfica, appearing in 525 official matches and scoring 127 goals over 16 prof ...

, who won with Benfica amongst others the European Champion's Cup of 1961 and 1962 and achieved with Portugal the third place in the 1966 World Cup.

Stadium

The club plays their home matches at Estádio Nacional do Zimpeto, which has a maximum capacity of 42,000 people.

Club colors

The club colors are black and white.

Achievements

Football

* Championship of Mozambique: :: colonial era (2): 1957, 1964. :: after independence (6): 1977, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1995, 2006. *

: (12) ::1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1937, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1959. * Cup of Mozambique: (2) ::1981, 2006. * Honour Cup of Maputo: (2) ::2007, 2008.

Roller Hockey

* Championship of Mozambique: (15) ::1976, 1987, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2010. * Championship of Portugal: (3) ::1969, 1971, 1973.

Performance in African competitions

CAF Champions League The CAF Champions League, known for sponsorship purposes as the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League and formerly the African Cup of Champions Clubs, is an annual football club (association football), club football competition organized by the Conf ...

: 1 appearance ::2006–07: Last 32 - Lost against

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(3–1 on aggregate) *

CAF Cup Winners' Cup The African Cup Winners' Cup was a football competition that started in 1975 and merged with the CAF Cup in 2004 to form the CAF Confederation Cup. It was a competition between the winning clubs of domestic cups in CAF-affiliated nations and was ...

: 1 appearance ::1989–90: Semi-finals - Lost against

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(7–3 on aggregate)

Current squad

Other sports

Besides football, Desportivo de Maputo also has other sports sections, such as

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basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

five-a-side football Five-a-side football is a version of minifootball, in which each team fields five players (four Outfield#In association football, outfield players and a goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper). Other differences from association football ...

rink hockey Roller hockey (in British English), rink hockey (in American English) or ball roller hockey is a team sport played on roller skates. It is a quad-skate team sport where two teams face-off against one another, trying to drive a hard ball with t ...

, and

swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...

References

External links

Desportivo de Maputo's official website
{{Moçambola 2006 Association football clubs established in 1921 Desportivo Sport in Maputo 1920s establishments in Mozambique 1921 establishments in Africa 1921 establishments in the Portuguese Empire