Clube Desportivo Ferrovia do Huambo
| Ferrovia do Huambo | |||
| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Clube Desportivo Ferrovia do Huambo | ||
| Seat | Huambo | ||
| founding | 1930 | ||
| Colours | green white | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach |
 João da Silva
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| Venue | Estádio do Ferroviário | ||
| Places | 15,000 | ||
| league | Gira Angola | ||
| 2019 | 1st place | ||
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The Clube Desportivo Ferrovia do Huambo , shortly Ferrovia do Huambo and occasionally Ferroviário do Huambo , is a football club from the Angolan city of Huambo . It was founded in 1930 as Ferrovia Sport Clube de Nova Lisboa .
The club welcomes its guests at the Estádio do Ferroviário in Huambo. The stadium holds 15,000 spectators.
history
The association was founded during the Portuguese colony of Angola on December 1, 1930 in Nova Lisboa, today's Huambo. The club was founded around the employees of the Benguela Railway , which opened in 1929 and called the Ferrovia Sport Clube de Nova Lisboa . The name is thus in the tradition of the founding of associations by railway workers from the lusophone- speaking area, who emphasized this reference with the addition of Ferroviário or variants of it.
In 1951, the club managed to win the Angolan championship, from which, after independence, today's top division Girabola emerged . In 1974 the club succeeded in winning another championship, the last national championship played under Portuguese colonial administration.
After Angola's independence in 1975, the association changed its name when the city dropped its Portuguese place name Nova Lisboa and changed to Huambo.
The first state championship after independence was not played again until 1979. The Ferrovia do Huambo was not represented in the preliminary round of the Girabola 1979 and played underclass in the following years.
At the end of the 2018/19 season, the club rose to the upper house as champions of the second division, the Gira Angola (also Segundona ). The 2019/20 Girabola season is the first season in the first division for Ferrovia do Huambo since independence.
successes
- Angolan champion : 1951, 1974
Web links
- Profile of Ferrovia do Huambo in the Girabola professional league
- Profile of Ferrovia do Huambo on www.fussballzz.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Profile of Ferrovia do Huambo at the professional league Girabola , accessed on March 7, 2020
- ↑ Results of the second division Segundona 2019 on the RSSSF website , accessed on March 7, 2020