Association Sportive de la Commune Urbaine de Toamasina, commonly known as ASCUT, is a Malagasy

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team from

Toamasina Toamasina (), meaning "like salt" or "salty", unofficially and in French Tamatave, is the capital of the Atsinanana region on the east coast of Madagascar on the Indian Ocean. The city is the chief seaport of the country, situated northeast of it ...

. The team plays in the

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, the highest national level and has won the national championship 6 times.

History

The club was established in 2004 by Narson Rafidimanana, at the time the vice-president of the urban community of

. One year after the club's creation it won the national second division N1B. In 2006, ASCUT entered the N1A, the country's highest level, for the first time. The team won its first national championship in 2008 and later had a fourpeat with consecutive championships from 2011 to 2014. In 2021, ASCUT won its sixth

title after defeating GNBC in the final. Pierre Rabearison was the team's head coach. The team was originally scheduled to play in the

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but withdrew.

Honours

:Champions (6): 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2020–21 *Malagasy N1B :Champions (1): 2005 *Indian Ocean Champions Cup :Champions (2): 2009, 2013

References

External links

Official Facebook
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