Sporting Clube do Lubango
| Sporting do Lubango | |||
| Basic data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Sporting Clube do Lubango | ||
| Seat | Lubango | ||
| founding | 1922 | ||
| Colours | green white | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Venue | Estádio do Ferroviário | ||
| Places | 10,000 | ||
| league | Girabola | ||
| 1996 | 13. | ||
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The Sporting Clube do Lubango , usually just called Sporting do Lubango , is an Angolan football club from Lubango , the capital of the province of Huíla . In addition to football, the club mainly operates tennis, but also basketball, table tennis, taekwondo and boxing.
history
The club was founded on July 27, 1922 as Sporting Clube de Sá da Bandeira , in what was then the Portuguese colony of Angola. The current city of Lubango then had the Portuguese place name Sá da Bandeira. It was founded as the 45th branch of the Portuguese club Sporting Lisbon .
After Angola's independence in 1975, the club was promoted to the top division in the country in 1994, the Girabola . After two seasons in Girabola, Sporting do Lubango rose again at the end of the 1996 season . Today the club competes in the leagues of the Provincial Association of Huíla.
The club is also known in tennis in Angola. In 2010 he was able to win the Huílas provincial championship.
Web links
- Profile of Sporting do Lubango in the Girabola professional league
- Sporting do Lubango is listed on Sporting Lisbon's own website
- Photo of the club on Flickr
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry by Sporting do Lubango on Sporting Lisbon's own website, accessed on March 22, 2015
- ↑ Article from March 23, 2010 , Angolan news agency ANGOP , accessed on March 22, 2015