Football in Guinea-Bissau

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Football isprobably the most popular sportin Guinea-Bissau, West Africa.

Since the Portuguese navigator Nuno Tristão reached the local coast in 1446, but at the latest since the official establishment of the Bissau colony in 1753, the country was a Portuguese colony and only became officially independent in 1975. To this day, football in Guinea-Bissau is shaped by its Portuguese origins and relationships, for example through a number of branch clubs of the Portuguese clubs Sporting Lisbon and Benfica Lisbon . Many Guinea-Bissau footballers also play in Portugal .

The national football association of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau is the Federação de Futebol da Guiné-Bissau (FFGB). It was founded in 1974, the year the country became officially independent. Since then, the FFGB ​​has been responsible for the national soccer team of Guinea-Bissau and has organized the country's soccer leagues since 1975.

Club soccer

Since 1975 the FFGB ​​has hosted the national championship, the Campeonato Nacional da Guiné-Bissau . The record champions with 13 titles are the Sporting Clube de Bissau , founded in 1936 and the 89th branch of the Portuguese club Sporting Lisbon . In 2014 the title went to Nuno Tristão FC from Bula in the Cacheu region for the first time .

The FFGB ​​national cup, the Taça Nacional da Guiné-Bissau , has been played since 1977. The first winner was União Desportiva Internacional from Bissau, who won the trophy a total of six times (as of December 2014). The club is the record winner of the cup competition, on par with Sport Bissau e Benfica , a subsidiary of the Portuguese club Benfica Lisbon . In 2014, the second-class Futebol Clube de Canchungo from Canchungo surprisingly won . In the following Super Taça Nacional , the Supercup against champion Nuno Tristão FC, the club lost 3-2 on penalties on December 27, 2014.

National team

The Guinea-Bissau national football team has participated in FIFA tournaments since 1986 . So far she has not been able to qualify for either a World Cup or the African Nations Cup. Qualification for the African Cup of Nations was achieved for the first time in 2017 .

Guinea-Bissau took part in the West African Amílcar Cabral Cup several times, and hosted it itself in 1979, 1988 and 2007. Bissau's national team has not yet won the tournament. The country's selection has also always participated in the soccer competitions at the Jogos da Lusofonia and is still aiming for its first title there.

In December 2014, Guinea-Bissau was ranked 133rd in the FIFA world rankings . The selection achieved its highest FIFA ranking in July 1994 with 115th place, the worst in February 2010 with 195th place.

The former Portuguese international Carlos Manuel has been the coach of the Guinea-Bissau national team since 2012 .

Women's soccer

The Guinea-Bissau women's national soccer team has so far been registered twice for qualifying for the women's African championship , in 2002 and 2014 . The FFGB ​​withdrew the registration on both occasions.

Web links

Commons : Soccer in Guinea-Bissau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of branch clubs on the Sporting Lisbon website, accessed on January 3, 2014
  2. ↑ Cup results from Guinea-Bissau on the website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on January 3, 2015
  3. ↑ Article of December 27, 2014 on the outcome of the Supertaça ( Memento of the original of January 3, 2015 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 the website of the Portuguese sports newspaper A Bola , accessed January 3, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abola.pt
  4. ↑ Overview of Guinea-Bissau on the FIFA website, accessed on January 3, 2015