Étoile Filante du Togo is a professional

Togo Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its c ...

lese

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

Lomé Lomé is the capital and largest city of Togo. It has an urban population of 837,437

. Their home stadium is

Stade Oscar Anthony Stade Oscar Anthony is a multi-use stadium in Lomé, Togo. It is currently used mostly for football (soccer), football matches and is the home stadium of Étoile Filante de Lomé and AC Merland. The stadium holds 2,000 people. References

...

. The club name translates as "Shooting Star of Lomé" and are known locally as "The Meteors". Étoile Filante has won the national league championship seven times and were defeated finalists in the

1968 African Cup of Champions Clubs The African Cup of Champions Clubs 1968 was the 4th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CAF region (Africa), the African Cup of Champions Clubs. It determined that year's club champion of association football ...

. On 26 November 2011, some of the team's players were killed or injured in a bus crash near the Togolese city of Atakpame whilst travelling to a match.

History

The club was founded in 1932 under the name of Étoile Filante de Lomé. In 1974 and as part of the sports reform, the club is dissolved by the

Togolese Football Federation The Togolese Football Federation (french: Fédération Togolaise de Football) or FTF is the governing body of football in Togo. In 2006, the Togo national football team participated for first time in the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Staff * Presid ...

and merged with Modèle de Lomé and

Dynamic Togolais Dynamic Togolais (also known as ''Dyto'') is a Togolese football club based in Lomé. Stadium They play at the Stade Agoè-Nyivé and sometimes use 30,000 capacity Stade de Kégué for games. Achievements *Togolese Championnat National: 6 ...

to form the club

Lomé I Lomé I, named later Déma Club de Lomé was a professional Togolese football club based in Lomé. It was founded in 1974 as part of the sports reform of the Togolese Football Federation by merging Étoile Filante de Lomé, Modèle de Lomé and ...

which was later called Déma Club de Lomé. In 1978, Déma Club was dissolved as part of the second sport reform. In the 1990s, the club Étoile Filante is reformed and wins the championship in 1992.

Honours

Togolese Championnat National The Championnat National de Premiere Division is a football league featuring clubs from Togo, and is the primary competition of Togolese football. Founded in 1961, it is administered by the Togolese Football Federation. 2021−22 clubs Group ...

: 7 ::1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1992 * Coupe du Togo: 4 ::1956, 1958, 1961, 1994 ::''Finalists'': 1996 *

African Champions League The CAF Champions League, known for sponsorship purposes as the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League and formerly the African Cup of Champions Clubs, is an annual football club competition organized by the Confederation of African Football and co ...

: 0 ::''Finalists'': 1968 *

French West African Cup The French West African Cup or Coupe d'Afrique Occidentale Française was a football tournament between clubs of the former French Western African territories. This area comprised the current states of Benin (then Dahomey), Burkina Faso (then Ha ...

: 1 ::1960

Performance in CAF competitions

African Cup of Champions Clubs The CAF Champions League, known for sponsorship purposes as the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League and formerly the African Cup of Champions Clubs, is an annual football club competition organized by the Confederation of African Football and cont ...

: 3 appearances ::

1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...

: First Round ::

1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Januar ...

: ''Finalist'' ::

1969 This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...

: Quarter-Finals ::

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

: Preliminary Round *

CAF Cup The CAF Cup was an annual competition organised by the CAF for domestic leagues runners-up of member associations who have not qualified to the pre-existing CAF international club competition the African Cup of Champions Clubs. History The tou ...

: 2 appearances ::1996 – First Round ::1998 – First Round *

CAF Cup Winners' Cup The African Cup Winners' Cup was a football competition that started in 1975 and merged with the CAF Cup in 2004 to form the CAF Confederation Cup. It was a competition between the winning clubs of domestic cups in CAF-affiliated nations and was ...

: 1 appearance ::1995 – First Round

Current squad

Presidents (1933–60)

* Victor Atakpmey (1933–34) * Philipe Nasr (1934–43) * Ernest Sogodzo Kebey (1943–50) * Stanislas Segbeaya (1950–51) * Nicolas Djondjo (1952–55) * Joseph Firmin Abalo (1958–60)

References

External links

Official website
Football clubs in Togo Football clubs in Lomé Association football clubs established in 1932 1932 establishments in French Togoland {{Togo-footyclub-stub