The Campeonato Nacional Sénior Feminino (), currently inactive, is the top tier women's clubs competition in Angola. In 1997, a national championship was organized in

Lubango Lubango, formerly known as Sá da Bandeira, is a municipality in Angola, capital of the Huíla Province, with a population of 914,456 in 2022. The city center had a population of 600,751 in 2014 making it the second-most populous city in Angola a ...

, Huíla for the first time and on an experimental basis. Blocos FC, a team from Luanda was the winner. In Luanda, ever since women's football tournaments began in 1993, over 30 clubs went out of business due to lack of support. At present, Progresso is one of the few, if not the only club to maintain a women's football team, even as official competition has halted.

History

The beginning of the 90's is registered as the beginning of the practice of semi-professional women's soccer in Angola, after independence. The first experimental national championship was held in the city of

, province of Huíla, in 1999, with the participation of six teams (three from

Luanda Luanda ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Angola, largest city of Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atlantic coast, Luanda is Ang ...

and three from Huíla), ending up as National Champion by the ''Blocos Futebol Clube'' team. The first provincial championship with an official character was held in Luanda in 1996, with the participation of 12 teams. The ''Grupo Desportivo da Oríon'' team won this edition of the unified Provincial Championship of Luanda. The first attempt to organize women's football came in 1995, with the creation of an installation commission for women's football, which held an experimental championship in Luanda. The following year, official competitions began in Luanda, under the tutelage of the Luanda Provincial Football Association, and later in the other provinces. In Luanda alone, there were more than thirty women's football teams. Due to the large number of teams in Luanda, for some years the competition was played with two divisions, with the first division having 22 teams and the second 23 teams. In the absence of institutional support to the sporting groups that emerged at the time and to national companies, many teams in Luanda ended up disappearing or merged with others.

Champions

1997

2005

2006

2007

9th place match

7th place match

5th place match

Semi-finals

3rd place match

Final

2008

Trivia

* In the 2008 edition, Progresso do Sambizanga thrashed the Moxico Provincial team 30-0.

Irene Gonçalves Irene Maria Duarte Gonçalves (born 11 December 1984) is an Angolan retired footballer who played as a forward. Nicknamed ''Diva Demolidora'' (''Destroyer Diva'') or simply ''Demolidora'' (''Destroyer''), she is the historical top goalscorer of t ...

, a Progresso striker scored 22 goals.

References

External links

Futebol feminino
- ''faf.co.ao'' {{Top level women's association football leagues around the world 1

Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...

Football competitions in Angola

Women A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and women with functional u ...

1997 establishments in Angola Sports leagues established in 1997