AS Dragons Kinshasa
| AS Dragons | ||
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| Basic data | ||
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| Surname | Amicale Sportive Dragons | |
| Seat | Kinshasa | |
| founding | 1938 | |
| Colours | Red Yellow | |
| president |
 Lili Lumande
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| Board |
Edouard Mwe di Malila Apenela
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| First soccer team | ||
| Venue | Stade 24 November | |
| Places | approx. 25,000 | |
| league | Linafoot | |
| 2017/18 | 12th place | |
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Amicale Sportive Dragons is a Congolese football club from Kinshasa . The club is a multiple national champion and was twice in the final of the African Cup of Champions Club in the 1980s under the name AS Bilima .
history
The club was founded in 1938 under the name AS Bilima . After the country gained independence from Belgium in June 1960, the team developed into one of the leading clubs, as evidenced by the first championship in 1965. Subsequently, however, a dominance of the trio AS Vita Club , Imana Kinshasa and Tout Puissant Mazembe developed , which was only broken occasionally. In 1969, the Congolese businessman Édouard Mwe di Malila Apenela joined the team as president and financier. On his arrival he brought in players like Pembele Ngunza, Magie Mafwala and Romain Bamuleke. Thanks to Mwe di Malilas Apenela's financial and moral commitment, the club reached, after the second championship title in 1979, in 1980 the finals for the African Cup of Champions Clubs, in which the Cameroonian opponent Canon Yaoundé prevailed. After another title in 1982, the club won the fourth championship title in 1984 again with a final in the African Cup of Champions Clubs, but this time FAR Rabat was too strong. In the 1990s, the club, now renamed AS Dragons, won the Coupe du Congo several times , but in the championship it was no longer able to build on previous successes. President Édouard Mwe di Malila Apenela later left the board to transfer the leadership to others. However, he remained available to the club as a sponsor and honorary president. Lili Lumande is currently the president of the association.
successes
- African Cup of Champions Clubs 0
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- Finalist: 1980, 1985
- Linafoot 4
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- 1965, 1979, 1982, 1984
- Coupe du Congo 5
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- 1965, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
Performance in CAF competitions
- African Cup of Champions Clubs 4
- CAF Cup Winners' Cup 4
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- 1997 - eliminated in the second round
- 1998 - second round
- 1999 - quarter finals
- 2000 - first round
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Congo-Kinshasa: Lili Lumande élu président de coordination de l'AS Dragons , fr.allafrica.com , November 17, 2008 (French)
- ↑ Nouvelles sportives: L'AS Dragons pleure Edouard Apenela ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on 7sur7.cd June 11, 2014, (French)
