Union Sportive Tshinkunku commonly known as US Tshinkunku, is a
Congolese football
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club based in
Kananga
Kananga, formerly known as Luluabourg or Luluaburg, is the capital city of the Kasai-Central, Kasai-Central Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was the capital of the former Kasaï-Occidental , Kasaï-Occidental Province. It is ...
,
Kasaï-Central
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province, currently playing in the
Linafoot
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, the first level of the
Congolese football and their home games are played at
Stade des Jeunes
Stade des Jeunes is a stadium located in Kananga, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It has a seating capacity of 10,000 spectators. It serves as the home of US Tshinkunku and AS Saint-Luc of the Linafoot and Linafoot Ligue 2
Linafoot Ligue ...
.
History
The club was founded in 1954 as Union St-Gilloise.
US Tshinkunku had their first major success in 1985, when they won the National Championship Cup called Cup of Zaire (Coupe du Zaire) when Georges Mwanza Mande, alias Tshikem was the club president.
In 2011, Trésor Kapuku, then the governor of Kasai Occidental brought second title back to the province when he was the president of ''US Tshinkunku'' club.
In January 2014 the governor of then Kasai Occidental, Alex Kande Mupompa,
Alex Kande élu président de l’US Tshinkunku
nbsp;– ''radiookapi.net'' was elected as the new club president, two years later, the club performed badly in the league and many fans were not happy with the management committee performance. Alexy Kayembe De Bampende, a long-time fan and a US based businessman who lives in Texas invited Georges Mwanza Tshikem to come to rebuild the team. Tshikem went to Kananga where he organized the team and the election for management committee.
On 4 December 2016, club fans and players elected Georges Mwanza Mande, alias Tshikem as club president and Alexy Kayembe De Bampende was elected vice president of ''Union Sportive Tshinkunku''.
Tshikem-Kayembe's vision is to make ''Tshinkunku'' a competitive club in national and international level. So far they managed to recruit Congolese qualified coaches to manage the team, Eric Tshibasu, the under-20 DR Congo national team, was hired as a team coach, but was fired three months later. Kayembe approached Jean-Claude Mukanya
Jean-Claude Mukanya (born 1 May 1968) is a retired football player from the DR Congo who played as a defender in Belgium for KFC Eeklo, KFC Lommel and Eendracht Aalst, in the Netherlands for NAC Breda and in Israel for Hapoel Be'er Sheva
...
, the former DR Congo national football team
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captain to become ''US Tshinkunku'' manager. Mukanya signed a three year contract in Kinshasa on 3 July 2017 in front of hundreds of Kinshasa based ''US Tshinkunku'' fans.
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Honours
Linafoot
The Vodacom Ligue 1 is the top division of the Congolese Association Football Federation, the governing body of football (soccer), football in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was created in 1958. In 2013, the highest attendance was set i ...
* Winners (1): 1985
Coupe du Congo
* Winners (1): 2011
Kasaï-Occidental Provincial League
* Winners (2): 2006, 2007
Performance in CAF competitions
* African Cup of Champions Clubs
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: 1 appearance
::1986
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– First round
* CAF Confederation Cup
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: 1 appearance
::2012
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– First round
References
External links
Club logo
Kananga
Football clubs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Sports clubs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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