Clube Ferroviário de Maputo is a

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club based in

Maputo Maputo (), formerly named Lourenço Marques until 1976, is the capital, and largest city of Mozambique. Located near the southern end of the country, it is within of the borders with Eswatini and South Africa. The city has a population of 1,0 ...

, Mozambique. The team competes in the Mozambican League. In the Mozambican League, Maputo has won eleven national titles. Ferroviário played in the 2021 season of the

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(BAL).

History

The parent club found in October 1924 as Clube Ferroviário de Loruenço Marques, as the city of

was named Loruenço Marques until 1976. The club was only active in football, until the basketball section was founded in the 1960s. In 1962, the basketball club won its first national championship. In 1975, the team won two national championship as well. Then, it took 30 years for Ferroviário to return at the top of Mozambican basketball, as the team won its next national championship in 2005. In December 2019, Maputo qualified for the first season of the

(BAL). In the inaugural BAL season, Ferroviário finished second in Group C and as such clinched a playoff spot behind star players Álvaro Masa and

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. In the quarter-finals, the team narrowly lost to Rwandan hosts Patriots (71–73), and was eliminated from the tournament. In the following years, Ferroviário would lose the national league play-offs to their arch-rivals Ferroviário da Beira.

Honours

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*Winners (11): 1962, 1975, 1975a, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

Personnel

Current roster

Notable players

Individual awards

Mozambican League MVP * Álvaro Calvo – 2018, 2019

References

External links

Basketball Africa League presentation

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