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FC MK Etanchéité
Football Club MK Étanchéité is a football club from DR Congo founded in 1995 in Kinshasa. Honours Coupe du Congo * Winners (2): 2013, 2014 Performance in CAF competitions * CAF Confederation Cup: 2 appearances ::2014 – First Round :: 2015 – First Round of 16 Notables players * Chancel Mbemba * Junior Kabananga Junior Kabananga Kalonji (born 4 April 1989) is a Congolese professional footballer who plays as a striker. He was a member of DR Congo national team. Club career Born in Kinshasa, Kabananga began his early career with FC MK Etanchéité. ... * Patrick Etshimi References External linksTeam profile – ''The Biggest Football Archive of the World'' Football clubs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Football clubs in Kinshasa Association football clubs established in 1995 1995 establishments in Zaire {{DRCongo-footyclub-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stade Des Martyrs
The Stade des Martyrs de la Pentecôte (Martyrs of Pentecost Stadium), also known as simply the Stade des Martyrs and formerly known as Stade Kamanyola, is a national stadium located in the town of Lingwala in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is mainly used for football matches and has organised many concerts and athletics competitions. It is the home stadium of the National Team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the AS Vita Club and DC Motema Pembe of Championship Democratic Republic of the Congo football. The stadium has a capacity of 80,000 for international matches and 100,000 for national matches. History The Stade des Martyrs was originally called Stade Kamanyola. Construction began on October 14, 1988 and ended on October 14, 1993. It replaced the former National Stadium, the Stade Tata Raphaël. In 1997, the stadium was renamed in memory of four ministers purged by Mobutu Sese Seko and hanged at the site on 2 June 1966: Éva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linafoot
The Vodacom Ligue 1 is the top division of the Congolese Association Football Federation, the governing body of football (soccer), football in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was created in 1958. In 2013, the highest attendance was set in the match DC Motema Pembe - AS Vita Club, which saw an attendance of 80,000 football fans at Stade des Martyrs. TP Mazembe is the most successful club with 19 titles. In 2010 the competition was renamed the ''Vodacom Super League'' following the signing of a five-year sponsorship deal with communications company Vodacom. Qualification for African competitions Association ranking for 2020–21 CAF competitions Association ranking for 2020–21 CAF Champions League and 2020–21 CAF Confederation Cup will be based on results from each CAF tournament (Champions League and Confederation Cup) from 2016 to 2019–20. ;Legend * CL: CAF Champions League * CC: CAF Confederation Cup * 2021−22 clubs *Académic Club Rangers, AC Rangers (Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DR Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in Central Africa. It is bordered to the northwest by the Republic of the Congo, to the north by the Central African Republic, to the northeast by South Sudan, to the east by Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi, and by Tanzania (across Lake Tanganyika), to the south and southeast by Zambia, to the southwest by Angola, and to the west by the South Atlantic Ocean and the Cabinda exclave of Angola. By area, it is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world. With a population of around 108 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most populous officially Francophone country in the world. The national capital and largest city is Kinshasa, which is also the nation's economic center. Centered on the Congo Bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinshasa
Kinshasa (; ; ln, Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville ( nl, Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one of the world's fastest growing megacities. The city of Kinshasa is also one of the DRC's 26 provinces. Because the administrative boundaries of the city-province cover a vast area, over 90 percent of the city-province's land is rural in nature, and the urban area occupies a small but expanding section on the western side. Kinshasa is Africa's third-largest metropolitan area after Cairo and Lagos. It is also the world's largest nominally Francophone urban area, with French being the language of government, education, media, public services and high-end commerce in the city, while Lingala is used as a ''lingua franca'' in the street. Kinshasa hosted the 14th Francophonie Summit in October 2012. Residents of Kinshasa are known as ''Kinoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coupe Du Congo (DR Congo)
The Coupe du Congo is the top knockout tournament of the Congolese (DR Congo) football. It was created in 1961. Winners *1961: FC Saint Eloi Lupopo (Lubumbashi) 5–1 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) *1962–63: Not Played *1964: CS Imana (Kinshasa) 3–1 FC Saint-Éloi Lupopo (Lubumbashi) *1965: AS Dragons (Kinshasa) *1966: TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi) *1967: TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi) *1968: FC Saint Eloi Lupopo (Lubumbashi) *1971: AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) *1972: AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) *1973: AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) *1974: CS Imana (Kinshasa) *1975:: AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) *1976: TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi) *1977: AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) *1978: CS Imana (Kinshasa) *1979: TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi) *1980: Lubumbashi Sport *1981: AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) *1982: AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) *1983: AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) *1984: CS Imana (Kinshasa) 1–2 1–0 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) *1985: DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) *1986: AS Kalamu (Kinshasa) *1987: AS Kalamu (Kinshasa) *1988: AS Kalamu (Kinshasa) *1989: AS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CAF Confederation Cup
The CAF Confederation Cup, known as the TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup for sponsorship purposes, is an annual association football club competition established in 2004 from a merger of the CAF Cup and the African Cup Winners' Cup and organized by CAF. Clubs qualify for the competition based on their performance in their national leagues and cup competitions. It is the second-tier competition of African club football, ranking below the CAF Champions League. The winner of the tournament faces the winner of the aforementioned competition in the following season's CAF Super Cup. Moroccan clubs have the highest number of victories (7 titles), followed by Tunisia with 5. Morocco have the largest number of winning teams, with five clubs from each having won the title. The competition has been won by 13 clubs, 5 of which have won it more than once. CS Sfaxien is the most successful club in the competition's history, having won the tournament a record 3 times. RS Berkane are the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CAF Confederation Cup 2014
The 2014 CAF Confederation Cup (also known as the 2014 Orange CAF Confederation Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 11th edition of the CAF Confederation Cup, Africa's secondary club football competition organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The defending champions CS Sfaxien did not enter the tournament as they qualified for the 2014 CAF Champions League and reached the group stage. In the final, Al-Ahly of Egypt defeated Séwé Sport of Côte d'Ivoire on the away goals rule after drawing 2–2 on aggregate, to win their first title, and a record-extending 19th overall African title (having already won eight African Champions Cup/CAF Champions League titles, six CAF Super Cup titles and four African Cup Winners' Cup titles). They earned the right to play in the 2015 CAF Super Cup. Association team allocation All 56 CAF member associations may enter the CAF Confederation Cup, with the 12 highest ranked associations according to their CAF 5-Year Ranking eligi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CAF Confederation Cup 2015
The 2015 CAF Confederation Cup (officially the 2015 Orange CAF Confederation Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 12th edition of the CAF Confederation Cup, Africa's secondary club football competition organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The winner earned the right to play in the 2016 CAF Super Cup. Étoile du Sahel of Tunisia won the competition for the second time in their history after a 2–1 aggregate victory over Orlando Pirates of South Africa in the final. Al-Ahly were the defending champions, and after qualifying for the 2015 CAF Champions League, they entered the 2015 CAF Confederation Cup after they lost in the Champions League second round, but they were eliminated in the semi-finals. Association team allocation All 56 CAF member associations may enter the CAF Confederation Cup, with the 12 highest ranked associations according to their CAF 5-Year Ranking eligible to enter two teams in the competition. The title holders can also enter if they hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chancel Mbemba
Chancel Mangulu Mbemba (born 8 August 1994) is a Congolese professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for club Marseille and serves as captain for the DR Congo national team. Mbemba began his professional career Anderlecht, where he won the Belgian Pro League in his debut season of 2013–14. A year later, he moved to Newcastle United, where he played in the Premier League and won the Championship in 2017. In four years at Porto, he won the Primeira Liga and Taça de Portugal double in 2020 and 2022. A full international for DR Congo since 2012, Mbemba has earned over 70 caps and represented the country at five Africa Cup of Nations tournaments, coming third in 2015. Early life Mbemba grew up in Kinshasa in a family of nine children. His mother, Antoinette, is a former basketball player who represented DR Congo. A 2013 report by CNN found that documents support four different dates of birth for Mbemba from 1988 to 1994, with the player saying himself that he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junior Kabananga
Junior Kabananga Kalonji (born 4 April 1989) is a Congolese professional association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), striker. He was a member of DR Congo national football team, DR Congo national team. Club career Born in Kinshasa, Kabananga began his early career with FC MK Etanchéité. Anderlecht He made his senior debut for Belgian club R.S.C. Anderlecht, Anderlecht in the 2010–11 season, although Anderlecht later admitted negligence when transferring the player from Democratic Republic of the Congo after a forged document was used. Loans to Beerschot and Roeselare He moved on loan to K.F.C. Germinal Beerschot, Germinal Beerschot in January 2011, and also spent the 2012–13 season on loan at K.S.V. Roeselare, Roeselare. Cercle Brugge He signed a permanent two-year contract with Cercle Brugge K.S.V., Cercle Brugge in July 2013. Astana In June 2015 he signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with Kazakhstan Premier League side FC Astana. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Etshimi
Patrick Etshimi Kindenge (born 26 February 1989), commonly known as Patrick Etshimi, is a Congolese professional footballer, who plays for Championnat National 2 side Aubervilliers. Career Etshimi was under contract at FC MK Etanchéité. Before 2009 he played for AS Dragons, and in 2009 for Vita Club (probably, on loan). In August 2009, he was on trial with Charleroi in Belgium. He made his Russian Premier League debut on 13 March 2010 for PFC Spartak Nalchik in a game against FC Anzhi Makhachkala. His loan was terminated during the 2010 summer transfer window. In July 2017, Etshimi joined French club Paris FC on a contract that would run until 2018. In July 2019, he signed with French club SC Bastia on a contract that would run until 2022. In June 2020, Etshimi agreed a move to US Lusitanos Saint-Maur. Honours Individual * Championnat de France Amateur The Championnat National 2, commonly known as National 2 and formerly known as Championnat de France Amateur (CFA) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
