Sporting Clube de Benguela
| Sporting de Benguela | |||
| Basic data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Sporting Clube de Benguela | ||
| Seat | Benguela | ||
| founding | 1915 | ||
| Colours | green white | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Venue | Estádio do Arregaça | ||
| Places | 4,000 | ||
| league | Gira Angola | ||
| 2006 | 2. | ||
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The Sporting Clube de Benguela , usually just called Sporting de Benguela , is a sports club from the Angolan provincial capital Benguela . He is particularly known for his soccer and basketball teams.
history
The club was founded on November 16, 1915 by the Portuguese in Benguela as branch club No. 21 of the Portuguese club Sporting Lisbon .
Born in 1952 in Benguela, Rui Jordão began his football career here at the age of 16 in 1968. In 1971 he moved to Benfica Lisbon in Portugal. He then became a national player, twice top scorer in the Primeira Divisão , and several Portuguese national champions, both with Benfica and Sporting.
In the course of anti-colonial efforts after Angola's independence from Portugal in 1975, the association was renamed Desportivo de Benguela . After the 1989 season , the club returned to its old name.
In 1983 he rose to the highest Angolan league, the Girabola . The descent in 1986 was followed by a resurgence in 1987. At the end of the 1992 season , Sporting Benguela rose to the second division. The club has not yet managed to rise again (as of 2014).
Most recently, instead, the club's basketball department ensured success. The U18 women's team became Angolan champions in 2014, and the club's female U16 team finished the first half of the 2015 national championship as leaders. The men's professional basketball team rose in late 2013 as champions of the second division ( Campeonato Nacional de Basquetebol da II. Divisão ) in the first division, the Campeonato Nacional de Basquetebol (BIC Basket).
Web links
- Profile of the Sporting de Benguela in the professional football league Girabola
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on Sporting Benguel on the club's internal website of Sporting Lisbon, accessed on February 14, 2015
- ↑ Article on the Angolan news portal www.portaldeangola.com on the intended title defense, accessed on February 14, 2015
- ↑ Article from January 18, 2015 on the U16 standings of Sporting Benguelas by the Angolan news agency ANGOP , accessed on February 14, 2015
- ↑ Article of November 25, 2013 on the second division championship of Sporting de Benguela in the Angolan daily Jornal de Angola , accessed on February 14, 2015