S.H. Benfica (Huambo)
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| Full name | Sport Huambo e Benfica | |
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| Founded | 29 September 1931 | |
| Ground | Estádio das Cacilhas Huambo, Angola |
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| Capacity | 12.000 | |
| Chairman | Amílcar Kandimba | |
| Manager | Afonso Libuengue | |
| League | Gira Angola | |
| 2012 | 9th (Série B) | |
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Sport Huambo e Benfica, originally Sport Nova Lisboa e Benfica and best known as Benfica do Huambo or Mambroa, is a football club from Huambo, Angola. The club was established as the then Nova Lisboa affiliate of S.L. Benfica of Portugal, and shares the same colours. The logo is also very similar to the Portuguese one.[1]
In 1972, the club won the Angolan provincial football championship.
Following the country's independence in 1975 and in an attempt by the communist regime to erase all traces of colonial rule, the club which has been created as an affiliate to S.L. Benfica was ordered to change its name and therefore became known as Estrela Vermelha do Huambo (Huambo Red Star) as it participated in the first edition of the country's post-independence premier league and later on to Mambroa. It wasn't until the mid 1990s that the club's name was reverted to its original denomination, and since shortly after independence, the Portuguese-named city of Nova Lisboa had changed to Huambo, so did the club's name.
Contents
Achievements
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- 1972
Performance in Girabola and Gira Angola
Gira Angola
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Girabola
Rankings in the red mean the club has been relegated |
Stadium
The club is the owner of the 15,000-seat Estádio das Cacilhas stadium. At present, the stadium has been demolished, awaiting government funding for the construction of a new stadium on the same site, with the capacity of 15,000 seats.
Current squad
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Manager history
 Zé do Pau |
(1997) | - | |
| Napoleão Brandão |
(Feb 2005) | - | |
| António Sayombo |
(Jul 2007) | - | (Sep 2008) |
| Hélder Teixeira |
(Feb 2009) | - | (Oct 2009) |
 António Caldas |
(Nov 2009) | - | (Nov 2010) |
| Alberto Cardeau |
(Feb 2011) | - | |
| Horácio Libengué |
(2012) | - |
See also
External links
References
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