Grupo Desportivo Interclube, usually known as Interclube or Inter de Luanda, is an Angolan football club based in

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. The club is attached to the Angolan police force. Interclube is one of the two clubs based in Luanda (the other one is

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) with a stadium of its own as all the remaining clubs in the capital play their home matches at the state-owned 11 de Novembro and Coqueiros. The

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, built in 2004, has an 10,000-seat capacity.

History

Founded on February 28, 1976 by the then Ministry of the Interior Santana André Pitra aka Petroff as Inter de Luanda, it won its first title, the

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, in 1986. In 2005, the club finished 9th in the Angolan first division. In that year, it also reached the domestic cup final, but was defeated 1–0 by

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. Two players from Inter represented the Angola national team in its first

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tournament, in 2006 in

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and Mário.

Stadium

Interclube is one of two clubs in Angola to play their home games in their own stadium, the

Estádio 22 de Junho The Estádio 22 de Junho (22 June stadium) is an Angolan stadium built and owned by G.D. Interclube and is the venue for the club's home games in all events that it takes part of. The 7,800-seat stadium was inaugurated on February 2, 2005 and ...

Honours

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: 2 ::Winner:

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: 3 ::Winner: 1986,

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, 2011 ::Runners-up: (6) 1985, 1989,

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. *

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: 4 ::Winner: 1986,

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::Runners-up: (1) 2011

Recent seasons

Interclube's season-by-season performance:

League & Cup Positions

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Performance in CAF competitions

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– First Round ::

– First Round :: 2006 – Group Stage ::

– Group Stage :: 2011 – Semi-finals ::

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: 2 appearances ::1987 – First Round ::2001 – Finalist

Players and staff

Players

Staff

Manager history

* João Gonçalves da Silva (1981) * Severino Cardoso ''Smica'' (1982–83) * Joka Santinho (1984–87) Gold medal world centered-2

* Filipe Dikizeko (1988) * Joka Santinho (1989) * Severino Cardoso ''Smica'' (1989–91) * Carlos Alves (1991–92) * João Machado (1992–95) * Raúl Kinanga (1995–97) * João António André ''Cuca'' (1997–99) * Arnaldo Chaves (1999) * Raúl Kinanga (2000) *

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(2000) *

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(2001) *

(2001) * Itamar Amorim (2002) Gold medal world centered-2

* Raúl Kinanga (2002–03) * Zoran Pešić (2003–04) Gold medal world centered-2

* Raúl Kinanga (2004) *

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(2005) *

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(2006) * Raúl Kinanga (2006) *

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(2006–08)

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(2008–09) * João Arsénio ''Túbia'' (2009) *

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(2009–11)

António Caldas José António Caldas Oliveira (born 1 May 1959), known as Caldas, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and current manager. Playing career Born in Braga, Caldas played youth football with local S.C. Braga. He spent mos ...

(2011–12)

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(2012–13) *

Mirsad Omerhodžić Mirsad Omerhodžić (born 22 May 1967) is a Croatian football manager and former player. Playing career As a player, he started his career at Novi Pazar but it was while playing for another Second Yugoslav League club, Sloboda Užice, that he be ...

(2014) *

Ilian Iliev Ilian Dimov Iliev ( bg, Илиан Димов Илиев; born 2 July 1968) is a Bulgarian professional football manager and former player. He is the head coach at Bulgarian First League club Cherno More. He is best known for having played f ...

(2014–15) *

(2015) * Filipe Moreira (2015–16) *

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(2016–18) * Rui Garcia (2018-19) *

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(2018-19) * Ivo Campos (2019-20–)

Other Sports

Interclube Basketball Grupo Desportivo Interclube is an Angolan basketball club based in Luanda. It is part of the mutisports club with the same name. The club's basketball teams (men and women) compete at the local level, at the Luanda Provincial Basketball Champi ...

Interclube Handball G.D. Interclube (handball) is a men's handball team from Angola. The club competes at the Luanda Provincial Handball Championship and at the Angola National Handball Championship as well as at continental level, at the annual African Handball Cham ...

External links

Official club site

Girabola.com profile

Zerozero.pt profile

Facebook profile

References

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