Asmara Brewery FC
Association football club in Eritrea
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Asmara Brewery FC or Asmara Birra is an Eritrean football club based in Asmara and founded in 1944 (with the original 1936 name GS Melotti[1]). It is linked and economically maintained by the Asmara Brewery.
Full nameAsmara Brewery FC
GroundCicero Stadium
Asmara, Eritrea
Asmara, Eritrea
Capacity10,000
LeagueEritrean Premier League
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| Full name | Asmara Brewery FC | ||
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| Ground | Cicero Stadium Asmara, Eritrea | ||
| Capacity | 10,000 | ||
| League | Eritrean Premier League | ||
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History
The Asmara Birra plays in the Eritrean Premier League since the 1990s.[2]
The team was initially founded in 1944 with the name Asmara Birra by the engineer Melotti, who founded the "Asmara Brewery" under the name of GS Hamasien[3] (he had already founded in 1936 the GS Melotti, an amateur football team in Italian Asmara[4]).
In 2008, the club won the Eritrea championship.[5]