Flameau du Centre is a professional
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
club based in
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) ...
,
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 ...
. The team currently plays in the
Burundi Ligue A
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, the top division of
Burundi football.
History
The club comes from the Le Messager FC academy, like the Le Messager Football Club Ngozi, it evolved at the beginning under the name Académie Le Messager FC Gitega before taking the name of Flambeau du Center . The Messenger Gitega was able to access the 2nd national division after three years of negotiations for name change reasons. The leaders of the federation could not accept two teams with the same name of Messenger .
Since the 2017–2018 season, the club has played in the first division of Burundi. In 2022 the club won its first league title.
Honors
National competitions
; Burundi Championship (1):
:: Champions: 2021–22
; Burundi Cup (0):
:: Winner: —
:: Finalist: 2021, 2022
Current team
References
External links
Soccerway
Football clubs in Burundi
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