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Burundi Premier League
The Burundi Ligue A, also called Primus Ligue for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division in football in Burundi. The league was formed in 1972 and has 16 teams. They play 30 rounds home and away during a season. Current clubs The following sixteen clubs are competing in the Primus Ligue during the 2022–23 season. Previous champions * 1963: Stella Matutina FC (Bujumbura) * 1964: Stella Matutina FC (Bujumbura) * 1965: Maniema Fantastique (Bujumbura) * 1966: Maniema Fantastique (Bujumbura) * 1967: Maniema Fantastique (Bujumbura) * 1968: Maniema Fantastique (Bujumbura) * 1969: Espoir FC (Bujumbura) * 1970: Inter FC (Bujumbura) ''**'' * 1971: TP Bata (Bujumbura) ''***'' * 1972: Sports Dynamic (Bujumbura) ''**'' * 1973: ''not held, due to civil war late in the year 1972 when massacres occurred to disrupt the start of the league that was meant to end in 1973'' * 1974: Inter FC (Bujumbura) ''**'' * 1975: Inter FC (Bujumbura) * 1976: Prince Louis FC (Bujumbura) ''**'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burundi
Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili language, Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French language, French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and East Africa. It is bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and southeast, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west; Lake Tanganyika lies along its southwestern border. The capital cities are Gitega and Bujumbura, the latter being the country's largest city. The Great Lakes Twa, Twa, Hutu and Tutsi peoples have lived in Burundi for at least 500 years. For more than 200 of those years, Burundi was an independent Kingdom of Burundi, kingdom, until the beginning of the 20th century, when it became a German colony. After the First World War and German Revolution of 1918–19, Germany's defeat, the League of Nations "mandated" the territory to Belgium. After the Secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gitega
Gitega (), formerly Kitega, is the political capital of Burundi. Located in the centre of the country, in the Burundian central plateau roughly east of Bujumbura (the largest city and former political capital), Gitega (the second largest city) was the seat of the Kingdom of Burundi until its abolition in 1966.From 1922 on, Usumbura (now Bujumbura) acted as a second, colonial, administrative and economic capital of the country; it effectively became its only political capital between the abolition of the monarchy in 1966 and January 2019. In late December 2018, Burundian president Pierre Nkurunziza announced that he would follow on a 2007 promise to return Gitega its former political capital status, with Bujumbura remaining as economic capital and centre of commerce. A vote in the Parliament of Burundi made the change official on 16 January 2019, with all branches of government expected to move in over three years. Geography Gitega is also the capital of Gitega Province, one of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AS Inter Star
Association Sportif Inter Star, is a football (soccer) club from Bujumbura, Burundi. Squad Management and staff Honours *Burundi Premier League: 4 ::1991, 1992, 2005, 2008 *Burundian Cup: 1 ::1990 *Burundi Super Cup: 1 ::2011 Performance in CAF competitions *CAF Champions League: 2 appearances ::2006 – First Round ::2009 – Preliminary Round *CAF Confederation Cup: 2 appearances ::2008 – Preliminary Round ::2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ... – Preliminary Round References Football clubs in Burundi 1977 establishments in Burundi {{Burundi-footyclub-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rukinzo FC
Rukinzo Football Club is a football club based in Bujumbura, Burundi. The club currently plays in the first division, Burundi Ligue A The Burundi Ligue A, also called Primus Ligue for sponsor (commercial), sponsorship reasons, is the highest division in Association football, football in Burundi. The league was formed in 1972 and has 16 teams. They play 30 rounds home and away dur .... History It was founded in the capital Bujumbura as the representative team of the national police, so the majority of its payroll is made up of serving officers. In the 2017/18 season, they were promoted to the Burundi First Division for the first time after winning their group in the second category. In their first season in the first division, they finished in sixth place and reached the final of the Burundi Cup for the first time, which they lost against Aigle Noir Makamba FC, a team that ultimately won the league and cup that season. Being a finalist in the Burundi Cup, Rukinzo qualified f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stade Umuco
Stade (), officially the Hanseatic City of Stade (german: Hansestadt Stade, nds, Hansestadt Stood) is a city in Lower Saxony in northern Germany. First mentioned in records in 934, it is the seat of the district () which bears its name. It is located roughly to the west of Hamburg and belongs to that city's wider metropolitan region. Within the area of the city are the urban districts of Bützfleth, Hagen, Haddorf and Wiepenkathen, each of which have a council () of their own with some autonomous decision-making rights. Stade is located in the lower regions of the river Elbe. It is also on the German Timber-Frame Road. History The first human settlers came to the Stade area in 30,000 BC. Since 1180 Stade belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. In early 1208 King Valdemar II of Denmark and his troops conquered Stade. In August Valdemar II's cousin being in enmity with the king, the then Prince-Archbishop Valdemar reconquered the city only to lose it soon after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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