��toile Filante du Togo
Full name | Étoile Filante du Togo | ||
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Founded | 1932 | ||
Ground | Stade Oscar Anthony, Lomé, Togo | ||
Capacity | 2,000 | ||
League | Togolese Championnat National | ||
2009 | 7th | ||
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Étoile Filante du Togo is a professional Togolese football club based in Lomé. Their home stadium is Stade Oscar Anthony. 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.[1]
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.[2]
History[]
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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 and merged with Modèle de Lomé and Dynamic Togolais to form the club Lomé I 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[]
- 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1992
- 1956, 1958, 1961, 1994
- Finalists: 1996
- African Champions League: 0
- Finalists: 1968
- 1960
Performance in CAF competitions[]
- African Cup of Champions Clubs: 3 appearances
- 1966: First Round
- 1968: Finalist
- 1969: Quarter-Finals
- 1993: Preliminary Round
- CAF Cup: 2 appearances
- 1996 – First Round
- 1998 – First Round
- CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 1 appearance
- 1995 – First Round
Current squad[]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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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[]
- ^ "Profile of Teams: Togo" (PDF). CAFoot. January 2010.
- ^ "Togo top footballers killed in bus crash". BBC News. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
External links[]
- Football clubs in Togo
- Football clubs in Lomé
- Association football clubs established in 1932
- 1932 establishments in French Togoland
- Togolese sport stubs
- West African football club stubs