Grupo Desportivo Interclube, usually known as Interclube or Inter de Luanda, is an Angolan

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club based in

Luanda Luanda () is the capital and largest city in Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atlantic coast, Luanda is Angola's administrative centre, its chief seaport ...

. The club is attached to the Angolan police force. Interclube is one of the two clubs based in Luanda (the other one is 1º de Agosto) with a stadium of its own as all the remaining clubs in the capital play their home matches at the state-owned 11 de Novembro and Coqueiros. The

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, built in 2004, has an 10,000-seat capacity.

History

Founded on February 28, 1976 by the then Ministry of the Interior Santana André Pitra aka Petroff as Inter de Luanda, it won its first title, the

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, in 1986. In 2005, the club finished 9th in the Angolan first division. In that year, it also reached the domestic cup final, but was defeated 1–0 by

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. Two players from Inter represented the Angola national team in its first

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tournament, in

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and Mário.

Stadium

Interclube is one of two clubs in Angola to play their home games in their own stadium, the

Estádio 22 de Junho The Estádio 22 de Junho (22 June stadium) is an Angolan stadium built and owned by G.D. Interclube and is the venue for the club's home games in all events that it takes part of. The 7,800-seat stadium was inaugurated on February 2, 2005 and is ...

Honours

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: 2 ::Winner:

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: 3 ::Winner: 1986,

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...

::Runners-up: (6) 1985, 1989,

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ...

. *

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: 4 ::Winner: 1986,

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

::Runners-up: (1)

Recent seasons

Interclube's season-by-season performance:

League & Cup Positions

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Performance in CAF competitions

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– Group Stage ::

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: 2 appearances ::1987 – First Round ::2001 – Finalist

Players and staff

Players

Staff

Manager history

* João Gonçalves da Silva (1981) * Severino Cardoso ''Smica'' (1982–83) * Joka Santinho (1984–87) Gold medal world centered-2

* Filipe Dikizeko (1988) * Joka Santinho (1989) * Severino Cardoso ''Smica'' (1989–91) * Carlos Alves (1991–92) * João Machado (1992–95) * Raúl Kinanga (1995–97) * João António André ''Cuca'' (1997–99) * Arnaldo Chaves (1999) * Raúl Kinanga (2000) * Oliveira Gonçalves (2000) *

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(2001) * Oliveira Gonçalves (2001) * Itamar Amorim (2002) Gold medal world centered-2

* Raúl Kinanga (2002–03) * Zoran Pešić (2003–04) Gold medal world centered-2

* Raúl Kinanga (2004) * Georg Tripp (2005) *

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(2006) * Raúl Kinanga (2006) *

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(2006–08)

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(2008–09) * João Arsénio ''Túbia'' (2009) *

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(2009–11)

António Caldas José António Caldas Oliveira (born 1 May 1959), known as Caldas, is a Portuguese retired Association football, footballer who played as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper, and current manager. Playing career Born in Braga, Caldas ...

(2011–12)

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(2012–13) *

Mirsad Omerhodžić Mirsad Omerhodžić (born 22 May 1967) is a Croatian football manager and former player. Playing career As a player, he started his career at Novi Pazar but it was while playing for another Second Yugoslav League club, Sloboda Užice, that he bec ...

(2014) *

Ilian Iliev Ilian Dimov Iliev ( bg, Илиан Димов Илиев; born 2 July 1968) is a Bulgarian professional football manager and former player. He is the head coach at Bulgarian First League club Cherno More. He is best known for having played ...

(2014–15) *

(2015) * Filipe Moreira (2015–16) *

Paulo Torres Paulo Manuel Banha Torres (born 25 November 1971) is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a left back, currently the manager of Angolan club C.R.D. Libolo. Playing career Torres was born in Évora, Alentejo Region. During his career, wh ...

(2016–18) * Rui Garcia (2018-19) *

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(2018-19) * Ivo Campos (2019-20–)

Other Sports

Interclube Basketball Grupo Desportivo Interclube is an Angolan basketball club based in Luanda. It is part of the mutisports club with the same name. The club's basketball teams (men and women) compete at the local level, at the Luanda Provincial Basketball Champions ...

* Interclube Handball

External links

Official club site

Girabola.com profile

Zerozero.pt profile

Facebook profile

References

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