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2016–17 Ethiopian Premier League
The 2016–17 Ethiopian Premier League is the 70th season of top-tier football in Ethiopia as well as the 19th season of the Premier League. The season began play on 12 November 2016. Saint George SC are the defending champions, having won their 25th championship. The top flight has been expanded to 16-teams up from 14, and is expected to be more competitive and exciting with more matches to play. The bottom three finishers will be relegated to the Ethiopian Super League for 2017-18. Teams A total of 16 teams will contest the league, including 12 sides from the 2015–16 season and four promoted from the Ethiopian Higher League. The four newcomers are Fasil Kenema F.C. Jimma Aba Buna F.C., Addis Ababa City F.C. and Woldia City. Dashen Beer FC and Hadiya Hossana FC were the last two teams of the 2015–16 season and play in the Ethiopian Super League for the 2016-17 season. Saint George SC are the defending champions from the 2015–16 season League table References ...
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Ethiopian Premier League
The Ethiopian Premier League ( Amharic:የኢትዮጵያ ፕሪምየር ሊግ), known as the BetKing Ethiopian Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is the top tier association football league of Ethiopia run by the Ethiopian Premier League Share Company (formerly the Ethiopian Football Federation from 1997 to 2020). Established in 1997 (1990 E.C.), it replaced the former first division (est. 1944). Contested by sixteen clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the other secondary and tertiary leagues in Ethiopia. The league has been an annual competition since the 1997–98 season with Saint George S.C. emerging as the country's leading club in this era with 15 titles (30 first division titles overall). History Beginnings The first officially recognized version of an Ethiopian football league was established in 1944. Originally five teams representing the various communities of Addis Ababa and The British Military Mission in Ethiopia (BMME) contes ...
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Dashen Beer FC
Dashen Beer Football Club (Amharic: ዳሽን ቢራ) was a professional Ethiopian football club based in Gondar. They were a member of the Ethiopian Football Federation until the club was dissolved in 2016. History The club was founded and run by Dashen Brewery. The club played in the Ethiopian Premier League until being relegated after the 2015-16 season. The club folded after its relegation from the top division. Stadium Their home stadium Was Gondar Stadium. Former Players * Dereje Alemu * Aynalem Hailu * Asrat Megersa Asrat Megersa (born 20 June 1987) ( am, አስራት መገርሳ) is an Ethiopian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ethiopian Premier League The Ethiopian Premier League (Amharic:የኢትዮጵያ ፕሪምየር ሊግ), ... * Yonathan Kebede * Ephrem Wondwesen * Tewdros Gitsadik * Suleman Ahmed * Muluneh Getahun * Mesfin Wendemu * Yared Zewdeneh * Faysei Mohammed * Jilalo Shafi * Dereje Hailu * Yetesha Gizaw * ...
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2017 In Ethiopian Sport
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2016 In Ethiopian Sport
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Ethio Electric Sport Club (Amharic: ኢትዮ ኤሌክትሪክ ስፖርት ክለብ), also known as EEPCO or Mebrat Hail, is an Ethiopian football club based in Addis Ababa. The club currently plays in the Ethiopian Higher League, the second division of Ethiopian football. History Beginnings Ethio-Electric was found as Ethiopian Electric Power Sport Club in 1960 (1953 EC.) by the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation. It's one of the most historic clubs in Ethiopian football In September 2018 the club announced sweeping changes at all levels of the club including hiring former Ethio-Electric star player Anwar Yasin as the club's manager. Ethiopian Premier League Ethio-Electric won the inaugural Ethiopian Premier League during the 1997–98 Season, known as Mebrat Hail at the time it was the club's second overall title. The club also enjoyed a great 2000–01 premier league campaign as their star striker Yordanos Abay scored a record 24 goals during the season helping ...
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Arba Minch FC
Arba Minch City Football Club (Amharic: አርባምንጭ ከተማ), also known as Arba Minch Kenema, is a professional Ethiopian football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ... club based in Arba Minch. They play in the Ethiopian Premier League, the top division of professional football in Ethiopia. History Arba Minch was most recently promoted to the Premier League in 2011–12 season. After a relative smooth first three seasons in the top league, frequent changes in coaches and administrative problems led them to be struggles over the next 4 seasons. Arba Minch narrowly avoided relegation in both the 2015–16 and 2016–17 seasons. Arba Minch signed manager Tsegaye K/Mariam to a two-year contract before the 2017–18 campaign. Only to later sack the manager j ...
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Dire Dawa City
Dire Dawa City Sport Club ( Amharic: ድሬዳዋ ከተማ ስፖርት ክለብ), also known as Dire Dawa Kenema, is a professional Ethiopian football club based in Dire Dawa. They play in the top division of Ethiopian football, the Ethiopian Premier League. History Foundation (1982-2003) Dire Dawa Kenema was originally founded in 1982 (1975 E.C.) until the club went defunct. New Beginning (2003-Present) The club was reestablished in 2003 (1996 EC) with the hopes of restoring Dire Dawa's historic place in Ethiopian football. The following year (2004–05) the club played in a regional league (then considered the third tier of Ethiopian football). In 2005–06 the club entered the second tier of Ethiopian football called the Ethiopian National League (now called the Ethiopian Higher League). The club entered the Ethiopian Premier League for the first time in 2007–08 season. Dire Dawa Kenema spent the first few season in the top division battling relegation. The clu ...
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Awassa City F
Hawassa ( am, አዋሳ; ʾäwasa, also spelled Awassa or Awasa) known historically as Adare is a city in Ethiopia, on the shores of Lake Awassa in the Great Rift Valley. It is south of Addis Ababa via Bishoftu, east of Sodo, and north of Dilla. The town serves as the capital of the Sidama Region. It lies on the Trans-African Highway 4 Cairo-Cape Town and has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of above sea level. Its name comes from a Sidamic word meaning "wide body of water". The city is home to Hawassa University a major university in the country (which includes Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources, an Agricultural College, the Main Campus, and a Health Sciences College), Awasa Adventist College, and a major market. The city is served by Awasa Airport (ICAO code HALA, IATA AWA), opened in 1988. Postal service is provided by the main branch; electricity and telephone service are also available. Important local attractions include the St. Gabrie ...
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Welayta Dicha
Wolaita Dicha Sport Club (Amharic: ወላይታ ድቻ ስፖርት ክለብ) is a professional football club based in Sodo, Ethiopia. They play in the Ethiopian Premier League, the top division of Ethiopian football. History Establishment The club was established in 2009 by the Welayta Development Association. The club is partly funded by local government. They are the champions of the 2017 Ethiopian Cup. After being established by the Wolaitta Development Association in 2009, the club was promoted several times until they finally entered the top division in the 2013–14 season Domestic and African Success (2013-present) The club has enjoyed moderate success in the top division avoiding relegation in each of the last 4 seasons. In the 2016–2017 season the club had its most successful run in the Ethiopian Cup, winning the trophy for the first time in its short history. The current coach Zenebe Fisseha was hired in November 2017. By virtue of winning its first domes ...
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Defence Force SC
Defense or defence may refer to: Tactical, martial, and political acts or groups * Defense (military), forces primarily intended for warfare * Civil defense, the organizing of civilians to deal with emergencies or enemy attacks * Defense industry, industry which manufactures and sells weapons and military technology * Self-defense, the use of force to defend oneself * Haganah (Hebrew for "The Defence"), a paramilitary organization in British Palestine * National security, security of a nation state, its citizens, economy, and institutions, as a duty of government ** Defence diplomacy, pursuit of foreign policy objectives through the peaceful employment of defence resources ** Ministry of defence or department of defense, a part of government which regulates the armed forces ** Defence minister, a cabinet position in charge of a ministry of defense * International security, measures taken by states and international organizations to ensure mutual survival and safety Sports * Defe ...
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Ethiopian Coffee F
Ethiopians are the native inhabitants of Ethiopia, as well as the global diaspora of Ethiopia. Ethiopians constitute #Ethnicity, several component ethnic groups, many of which are closely related to ethnic groups in neighboring Eritrea and other parts of the Horn of Africa. The first documented use of the name "Ethiopia" from Greek name "Αἰθίοψ" (Ethiopian) was in the 4th century during the reign of Aksumite king Ezana of Axum, Ezana. There were three ethnolinguistic groups in the Kingdom of Aksum; Semitic, Cushitic, and Nilo-Saharan (ancestors of the modern-day Kunama people, Kunama and Nara people, Nara). The Kingdom of Aksum remained a geopolitically influential entity until the Sack of Aksum, pillage of its capital — also named Axum — in the 10th century by Gudit, Queen Gudit. Nevertheless, the core Aksumite civilization was preserved and continued into the successive Zagwe dynasty. By this time, new ethnic groups emerged – the Tigrayans and Amhara people, Amha ...
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