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(Redirected from Etoile Filante de Lomé) Togolese football club

Football club
Étoile Filante
Full nameÉtoile Filante du Togo
Founded1932
GroundStade Oscar Anthony,
Lomé, Togo
Capacity2,000
LeagueTogolese Championnat National
20097th
Home colours Away colours

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.

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

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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
Finalists: 1968
1960

Performance in CAF competitions

1966: First Round
1968: Finalist
1969: Quarter-Finals
1993: Preliminary Round
1996 – First Round
1998 – First Round
1995 – First Round

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
6 MF Togo TOG Blaise Kouma
15 DF Togo TOG Ayao Akpah Foly
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 MF Togo TOG Tchibiakou Doevi
- MF Togo TOG Kodjo Doumassesse
- FW Togo TOG Abibou Mouhamadou

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

  1. "Profile of Teams: Togo" (PDF). CAFoot. January 2010.
  2. "Togo top footballers killed in bus crash". BBC News. 27 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.

External links

Togolese Championnat National 2021–22
Group A
Group B


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