Clube de Futebol Os Balantas is a
Guinea-Bissauan
football
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club based in
Mansôa
Mansôa is a town located in the Oio Region of Guinea-Bissau. Population 7,376 (2008 est). . They play in the top division in Guinean football, the
Campeonato Nacional da Guiné-Bissau. The club is named after the
Balanta people (or Southern Balanta), the club location where the people inhabit. Mansoa is the main city of the Balantas in Guinea-Bissau. It is being the most popular club of the Oio Region.
History
Earlier club
The earlier Os Balanta was created on 16 September 1946 and is an affiliate of the Portuguese club
CF Os Belenenses and is its 13th affiliate.
They played their first match in the 1960 Portuguese Guinea Provincial Championships and played until 1974, the club won all championship titles (from 1973, also as the Guinea-Bissau Championships).
The club took part in the upper rounds of the
Portuguese Cup
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before independence, they participated in five matches including
Lusitano de Évora
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,
SC Braga
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,
Fabril,
Académica de Coimbra and
Beja. They had three colonial titles for what was Portuguese Guinea.
Modern club
The club was founded in 1974 in Mansôa, the year that the country became independent. It is the first club founded in Mansoa. The team was the first Guinean champion after the independence from
Portugal and played in the preliminary round of the
African Cup of Champions Clubs 1976, their first team they faced was Senegal's
ASC Diaraf and lost all two matches.
Their next appearances was 31 years later at the
CAF Champions League 2007
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and faced Algeria's
JS Kabylie and again lost all two matches. Os Balantas nearly played in every continental competition after winning their championship title in 2010, next was Morocco's
Difaa El Jadida. They missed the 2014 competition against
Séwé Sports as Balantas withdrew. Balantas are one of several clubs that never made a win at the continental championships. They also won their only super cup title in 2006 after winning their second championship title.
In 2010, they headed to the
Guinea-Bissauan Cup final, the club lost 2–1 to
Sport Bissau e Benfica
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Benfica Bissau is considered to the t ...
.
Logo
Its logo is blue and features the acronym CFB.
Achievements
*
Campeonato Nacional da Guiné-Bissau: 4
::1975, 2006, 2009, 2013
*
SuperTaça Nacional da Guiné-Bissau: 1
::2006
League and cup history
Performance in CAF competitions
*
CAF Champions League
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: 2 appearances
::
2007
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– Preliminary Round
:
1Balantas withdrew from the tournament
National level
Statistics
*Best position: First Round (continental)
*Best position at cup competitions: Finalist (national)
*Total goals scored at the continental championship competitions: 4
*Total matches played at the CAF Champions League: 6
**Total matches played at home: 3
**Total matches played away: 3
*Total number of goals scored at the CAF Champions League: 4
Managers
* Bacri Sanha (until 2014)
*
Soo
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(in 2015)
* Idrrissa Mwhinni (current)
References
External links
Team profile– ''mondedufoot.fr''
CF Os Balantasat the Final Ball
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Campeonato Nacional da Guiné-Bissau clubs
Balantas
The Balanta (Guinea-Bissau Creole and Portuguese: ''balanta''; ; lit. “those who resist” in Mandinka) are an ethnic group found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Senegal, Cape Verde and The Gambia. They are the largest ethnic group of Guinea-Bissau, ...
1974 establishments in Guinea-Bissau
Oio Region