Clube Desportivo Primeiro de Agosto

Football club infobox
clubname = Primeiro de Agosto


fullname = Clube Desportivo Primeiro de Agosto
nickname =
founded = 1977
ground = Estádio da Cidadela
Luanda, Angola
capacity = 60.000
chairman = Raúl Hendrick
manager =
assistant manager = flagicon|Angola Miller Gomes
league = Girabola
season = 2006
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Clube Desportivo Primeiro de Agosto, usually known simply as Primeiro de Agosto (sometimes spelled 1º de Agosto), is a sports club from Luanda, Angola, founded in 1977. Its main team competes in men's football (soccer), but its professional basketball team is also noteworthy within the club. The club's colors are red and black. The club won its first title in football, the Angolan League, in 1979.

Loco from Primeiro de Agosto represented Angola at their first World Cup in 2006.

Achievements

*Angolan League: 9::1979, 1980, 1981, 1991, 1993, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2006
*Angolan Cup: 4::1984, 1990, 1991, 2006
*Angolan SuperCup: 6::1991, 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000

Performance in CAF competitions

*CAF Champions League: 5 appearances::1997 - Group Stage::1999 - First Round::2000 - Second Round::2007 - Preliminary Round::2008 - First Round
* African Cup of Champions Clubs: 5 appearances::1980: First Round::1981: First Round::1982: First Round::1992: Second Round::1993: First Round

*CAF Cup: 2 appearances::1996 - Second Round::2003 - First Round

*CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 3 appearances::1985 - First Round::1991 - First Round::1998 - "Finalist"

tadium

The club plays their home matches at Estádio da Cidadela, which has a maximum capacity of 60,000 people.

Current squad

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Former notable players

*flagicon|ANG Luís Delgado

References

*Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent French-language Wikipedia article (retrieved January 4, 2006).