Musongati Football Club, commonly known as Musongati FC or simply Musongati, is an Burundian professional football club based in

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, the political capital of

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. The club competes in Ligue A, the top level of Burundi's football league system, and plays its home matches at 7,000 capacity

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. Musongati's colours are green and yellow and represent the rich Burundi vegetation.

History

The club was founded in 1976 in the city of

. Musongati promoted to top-flight of the Burundian football at the end of 2015–16 season winning the Group B of the Burundi Second Division. Musongati achieved a fifth-place finish in the 2016–17 season, the 7th place at the end of the 2017–18 season and reached the quarter-finals of

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in 2018, losing 0–2 against BS Dynamik. The yellow-greens finished as runners-up in the 2018–19 season, as well in the 2019–20 season and won their first major trophy in 2020, the Coupe du Président de la République, beating in the final Rukinzo 1–1 (5–4) at

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. Musongati consequently made its debut in the

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the following season, losing in the preliminary round to Zambian club Green Eagles 2–2 at Stade Intwari in

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and 1–2 at

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. Over the following two seasons, the yellow-greens returned to mid-table, ending the 2020–21 season in fifth position and ninth in the 2021–22 season. Also, managed to qualify to the semi-finals in 2021 and in the quarter-finals in 2022 of Coupe du President de la Republique, losing each time to city rivals, Flambeau du Centre.

Honours

Burundi Ligue A The Burundi Ligue A, also called Primus Ligue for sponsor (commercial), sponsorship reasons, is the highest division in Association football, football in Burundi. The league was formed in 1972 and has 16 teams. They play 30 rounds home and away dur ...

* Runners-up (2): 2018–19, 2019–20 Burundi Ligue B *Winners (1): 2015–16

*Winners (1): 2020

Performance in CAF competitions

Squad

Management and staff

References

External links

* Football clubs in Burundi Association football clubs established in 1982 Gitega {{Burundi-footyclub-stub