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2001 Angola Cup
The 2001 Taça de Angola was the 20th edition of the Taça de Angola, the second most important and the top knock-out football club competition following the Girabola. Sonangol do Namibe beat Sporting de Cabinda 3-2 in the final to secure its 1st title. The winner qualified to the 2002 African Cup Winners' Cup. Stadiums and locations Championship bracket The knockout rounds were played according to the following schedule: * May 16 - preliminary rounds * Jul 18 - Sep 5: Round of 16 * Oct 10 - Sep 12: Quarter-finals * Oct 31: Semi-finals * Nov 11: Final Preliminary rounds 1/16 finals Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final See also * 2001 Girabola * 2002 Angola Super Cup * 2002 African Cup Winners' Cup * Sonangol do Namibe players * Sporting de Cabinda players External links profile at rsssf.com References {{Girabola seasons Angola Cup 2001 in Angolan football Angola , national_anthem = " Angola Avante"() , image_map ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlético Petróleos De Luanda
Atlético Petróleos de Luanda, also known as Petro Atlético de Luanda, or simply Petro Atlético or Petro de Luanda, is a football club from Luanda, Angola, founded in 1980. The club won its first title, the Angolan League, in 1982 and is the most successful team in the country. In its initial days, the club was known as Petroclube. Four players from Petro Atlético represented Angola at their first World Cup in 2006: Lebo Lebo, Lamá, Zé Kalanga and Delgado. The club has also a basketball team. Many basketball players of the team, participated with Angola national basketball team in the Olympics 2008. Achievements * Angolan League: 16 :: 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2008, 2009, 2022 *Angola Cup: 12 :: 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2021 * Angola Super Cup: 6 :: 1987, 1988, 1993, 1994, 2002, 2013 Recent seasons Petro de Luanda's season-by-season performance since 2001: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luanda
Luanda () is the capital and largest city in Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atlantic coast, Luanda is Angola's administrative centre, its chief seaport, and also the capital of the Luanda Province. Luanda and its metropolitan area is the most populous Portuguese-speaking capital city in the world and the most populous Lusophone city outside Brazil, with over 8.3 million inhabitants in 2020 (a third of Angola's population). Among the oldest colonial cities of Africa, it was founded in January 1576 as ''São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda'' by Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais. The city served as the centre of the slave trade to Brazil before its prohibition. At the start of the Angolan Civil War in 1975, most of the white Portuguese left as refugees, principally for Portugal. Luanda's population increased greatly from refugees fleeing the war, but its infrastructure was inadequate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estádio Sagrada Esperança
Estádio Sagrada Esperança, formerly Quintalão do Dundo is a football stadium located at the Kamakenzo neighborhood in the city of Dundo, Angola , national_anthem = " Angola Avante"() , image_map = , map_caption = , capital = Luanda , religion = , religion_year = 2020 , religion_ref = , coordina .... The stadium underwent a major rehabilitation in 2003 with the installation of a grass pitch to replace the dirt one. On March 5 2008, the stadium was further renovated. It is owned by and the home ground of Grupo Desportivo Sagrada Esperança. The stadium holds 8,000 people. The stadium includes a gym, over 30 changing rooms, a 235-seat VIP stand, media, referee and athletes rooms and other administrative areas. Located in the Ngacumona neighborhood in Lunda Norte's capital city of Dundo, the stadium further includes a 100-car parking lot and four 12-spotlight lighting towers. A Hot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dundo
Dundo, or Dundo-Chitato, is a former mining town, with a population of 177,604 (2014), now a city and the provincial capital of Lunda Norte in Angola. Established in the early part of the 20th century as a planned diamond mining community, Dundo has continued to grow, has its own airport and is now being superseded by a new city, New Dundo. The city is the home of the football club called Grupo Desportivo Sagrada Esperança, which plays at Estádio Quintalão. The local museum houses objects collected by social anthropologist, Hermann Baumann. History The settlement of Dundo was founded in 1912 after the discovery of diamonds in the Cuango River valley, located in the north-eastern border of Angola where it today adjoins the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Formed as a planned community to support the burgeoning mining operations, Dundo grew after the private investor company, Diamang (formed in 1917) were given the diamond mining concession in the entire region of Lunda, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estádio Municipal Edelfride Palhares Da Costa
Estádio Municipal Edelfride Palhares da Costa, formerly Estádio Municipal de Benguela is a multi-use stadium in Benguela, Angola. The stadium underwent a major rehabilitation in 2010, in the framework of the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations and was used by both the Benguela-based Egypt and Benin national football teams as practice ground. In 2010, the stadium was handed over to Estrela Clube Primeiro de Maio Estrela Clube Primeiro de Maio, usually known simply as Primeiro de Maio or 1º de Maio, is a football (soccer) club from Benguela, Angola. The club was the result of a merger from two clubs: Estrela Vermelha de Benguela and Grupo Desportivo 1º ... for management purposes and tenancy. The stadium holds 5,000. The stadium was renamed after Edelfride Palhares da Costa, a local football legend who played locally before moving to continental Portugal before independence where he played for some local clubs. References Benguela Buildings and structures in Benguela [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benguela
Benguela (; Umbundu: Luombaka) is a city in western Angola, capital of Benguela Province. Benguela is one of Angola's most populous cities with a population of 555,124 in the city and 561,775 in the municipality, at the 2014 census. History Portuguese rule Benguela was founded in 1617 as ''São Felipe de Benguela'' by the Portuguese under Manuel Cerveira Pereira, 8th Governor of Angola (1604–1607). It was long the centre of an important trade, especially in slaves to Brazil and Cuba. Ships anchored about off the shore, in depths of and transferred loads to smaller boats which used five or six jetties in the town. However, the nearby deep-water sheltered harbour of Lobito was a much larger port. Besides the churches of S. Felipe and S. António, the hospital, and the fortress, as of 1911 there were only a few stone-built houses. A short way beyond Benguela is Baía Farta, where salt was manufactured and sulphur was extracted. Close to Baia Farta was the beach of Baia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estádio Dos Kurikutelas
Estádio dos Kuricutelas, inaugurated in 23 October 1947 as Estádio do Ferroviário de Nova Lisboa, is a multi-use stadium in Huambo, Angola. It is owned by C.D. Ferroviário do Huambo, Ferroviário do Huambo and is currently used mostly for football (soccer), football matches, on club level by Jorge Gomes Mangrinha A.S.C. Huambo, J.G.M. of the Girabola. The stadium has a capacity of 10,000 spectators. Kurikutelas has been the venue of several international matches. References External linksPhotosacafe.daum.net/stade Football venues in Angola Huambo {{Angola-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huambo
Huambo, formerly Nova Lisboa (English: ''New Lisbon''), is the third-most populous city in Angola, after the capital city Luanda and Lubango, with a population of 595,304 in the city and a population of 713,134 in the municipality of Huambo (Census 2014). The city is the capital of the province of Huambo and is located about 220 km E from Benguela and 600 km SE from Luanda. Huambo is a main hub on the ''Caminho de Ferro de Benguela (CFB)'' (the Benguela Railway), which runs from the port of Lobito to the Democratic Republic of the Congo's southernmost province, Katanga. Huambo is served by the Albano Machado Airport (formerly Nova Lisboa Airport). History Early history Huambo receives its name from Wambu, one of the 14 old Ovimbundu kingdoms of the central Angolan plateau. The Ovimbundu, an ethnic group that originally arrived from Eastern Africa, had founded their central kingdom of Bailundu as early as the 15th century. Wambu was one of the smaller kingdoms and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estádio Mundunduleno
Estádio Jones Cufune Mundunduleno is a football stadium located at the Mandengwe neighborhood in the city of Luena, Moxico Province, Angola , national_anthem = " Angola Avante"() , image_map = , map_caption = , capital = Luanda , religion = , religion_year = 2020 , religion_ref = , coordina .... It is owned by Futebol Clube Bravos do Maquis and holds 4,300 people. History The Stadium was named after Jones Cufune Mundunduleno, a MPLA commander and guerrilla fighter from eastern Angola. Location Mundunduleno is located at the Mandembwe neighborhood, around 2 km from the city of Luena, in an area surrounded by eucalyptus trees. In 2013, the Stadium underwent a major renovation which forced the home team to play its home games at the neighboring Estádio das Mangueiras in the province of Lunda Sul. References Football venues in Angola Moxico Province Sports venues comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luena, Moxico Province
Luena, formerly known as Luso, is a city and municipality in eastern Angola, administrative capital of Moxico Province. The municipality had a population of 357,413 in 2014. History The Angolan town is best known as the resting place of former UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, who was shot and killed by Angolan government troops on February 22, 2002. Later on January 3, 2008, Savimbi's tomb at Luena Main Cemetery was vandalised and four members of the youth wing of the MPLA were charged and arrested. '''', January 23, 2008. Climate |
Cabinda (city)
Cabinda, also known as Chioua, is a city and a municipality located in the Cabinda Province, an exclave of Angola. Angolan sovereignty over Cabinda is disputed by the secessionist Republic of Cabinda. The city of Cabinda had a population of 550,000 and the municipality a population of 624,646, at the 2014 Census. The residents of the city are known as ''Cabindas'' or ''Fiotes''. Cabinda, due to its proximity to rich oil reserves, serves as one of Angola's main oil ports. History The city was founded by the Portuguese in 1883 after the signing of the Treaty of Simulambuco, in the same period as the Berlin Conference. Cabinda was an embarkation point for slaves to Brazil. There are considerable offshore oil reserves nearby. Geography Cabinda is located on the Atlantic Ocean coast in the south of Cabinda Province, and sits on the right bank of the Bele River. It is north of Moanda (DR Congo), north of Congo River estuary and south of Pointe-Noire ( Rep. Congo). Districts The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
