C.D. Primeiro de Agosto
Angolan sports club
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Clube Desportivo 1º de Agosto is a multisports club from Luanda, Angola. The club, founded 1 August 1977, is attached to the Angolan Armed Forces, which is its sponsor. Its main team competes in men's football, and 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.[1] and in basketball in 1980. Handball and Volleyball have also won many titles to the club.
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Os Rubro e Negros
Os Militares
O Glorioso
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| Full name | Clube Desportivo Primeiro de Agosto | |||
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| Nicknames | D'Agosto Os Rubro e Negros Os Militares O Glorioso | |||
| Founded | 1 August 1977 | |||
| Ground | Estádio França Ndalu, Luanda, Angola | |||
| Capacity | 20,000 | |||
| President | Gen. Carlos Hendrick | |||
| Manager | Filipe Nzanza | |||
| League | Girabola | |||
| 2025–26 | 3rd | |||
| Website | www | |||
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The Primeiro de Agosto Sports Club has its football team competing at the local level, in the events organized by the Angolan Football Federation, namely the Angolan National Football Championship a.k.a. Girabola, the Angola Cup and the Angola Super Cup as well as at continental level, at the annual competitions organized by the African Football Confederation (CAF), including the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup.[2]
History
The founding of 1º de Agosto stemmed from a sports development strategy defined by the People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) through the National Military Sports Committee (CODENM).[3] It was the first club created in the post-independence period.[4]
The club's predominant colors are red and black, but it also features yellow and blue.[5]
Achievements
- Runner-up: (2) 1993, 2007
Recent seasons
C.D. Primeiro de Agosto's season-by-season performance since 2011:
As of 22 May 2019[update]
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- PR = Preliminary round, 1R = First round, GS = Group stage, R32 = Round of 32, R16 = Round of 16, QF = Quarter-finals, SF = Semi-finals, RU = Runner-Up, W = Winner
Stadium
Primeiro de Agosto is in the process of building its own football stadium. Named after Gen. França Ndalu, the 20,000-seat stadium whose works began in 2012 and are scheduled to be completed in 2019, is part of a sports complex - Cidade Desportiva 1º de Agosto - that includes a youth academy with boarding facilities and two football courts for training purposes, a secondary school, a university, a tennis court, office buildings, an Olympic swimming pool and a 2,500-seat indoor sports arena. The complex and the stadium are located at the Cassequel neighborhood in Luanda.[15]
Starting from the 2020–21 season, the club announced that they will be playing their home games at the França Ndalu.
League and cup positions
Performance in CAF competitions
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Players and staff
Players
Squad
- As of 26 January 2024
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Staff
| Name | Nat | Position(s) |
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| Technical staff | ||
| Felipe Nzanza |  |
Head Coach |
| Filipe Nzanza | |
Assistant Coach |
| Napoleão Brandão | |
Goalkeeper Coach |
| Medical | ||
| Abel Sanz |  |
Physician |
| Leonilde Ferreira | |
Psychotherapist |
| Jorge Nabais | |
Fitness Coach |
| Feliciano Madalena | |
Physio |
| Andrade Mendes | |
Physio |
| Management | ||
| Gen. Carlos Hendrick | |
Chairman |
| Paulo Magueijo | |
Vice-chairman |
| José Marcelino | |
Head of Foot Dept |
| Carlos Alves | |
Spokesman |
Manager history
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* Ivo Traça won the 2017 Super Cup as a caretaker manager
Chairman history
| Santana André Pitra Petroff | 1977 | – | 1979 |
| Pedro de Castro Van-Dúnem Loy | 1979 | – | 1982 |
| Iko Carreira | 1982 | – | 1988 |
| Justino Fernandes | 1988 | – | 1993 |
| Mello Xavier | 1993 | – | 1997 |
| Gen. Pedro Neto * | 1997 | – | Dec 2006 |
| Gen. Raúl Hendrick | Dec 2006 | – | Aug 2011 |
| Gen. Carlos Hendrick * | Aug 2011 | – | present |
* Served two consecutive terms
Sponsors
- Banco de Fomento Angola (BFA)
- Banco Português do Atlântico (BPA)
See also
Trivia
On 4 April 1981, before a capacity crowd of 70,000 in Kaduna, Primeiro de Agosto played against then CAN title holders The Green Eagles. In that match that ended in a scoreless draw, D'Agosto put up such a superb performance that the Nigerian supporters and media mistook the club for the Angola national team.[16]