Estrela Clube Primeiro de Maio

Angolan football club

Football club

Estrela Clube Primeiro de Maio, usually known simply as Primeiro de Maio or 1º de Maio, is a football (soccer) club from Benguela, Angola. The club was the result of a merger from two clubs: Estrela Vermelha de Benguela and Grupo Desportivo 1º de Maio^[1] being then named África Têxtil 1º de Maio de Benguela due to its then major sponsor, a Benguela-based textile factory called África Têxtil. Shortly afterwards, the name was changed to its present denomination. In its golden years, in the 1980s, the club has won two Angolan leagues (1983 and 1985), three Angolan cups (1982, 1983 and 2007) and one Angolan supercup (1985). Moreover, Primeiro de Maio became in 1994, the first Angolan club to reach the final of a CAF competition and to win the Angola Cup and the Angola Super Cup.

Crest history

• Second logo
• 
  Present logo

Titles

• Angolan League: 2

1983, 1985

• Angola Cup: 3^[2]

1982, 1983, 2007

• Angolan SuperCup: 1

1985

• Angolan 2nd Division: 1^[3]

2015

Recent seasons

EC Primeiro de Maio's season-by-season performance since 2011:

• PR = Preliminary round, 1R = First round, GS = Group stage, R32 = Round of 32, R16 = Round of 16, QF = Quarter-finals, SF = Semi-finals

Performance in CAF competitions

• African Cup of Champions Clubs: 2 appearances

1984: Second Round

1986: First Round

• CAF Confederation Cup: 1 appearance

2008 – First Round

• CAF Cup: 2 appearances

1994 – Finalist

1995 – Second Round

• CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 1 appearance

1983 – First Round

Players and staff

Players

Staff

Manager history and performance

• 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

See also

• Girabola (2016)
• Gira Angola

External links

• Blog
• Facebook profile
• Girabola.com profile
• Zerozero.pt profile

References

1. "1º de Maio de Benguela tem objectivo de vencer Taça de Angola em 2014" (in Portuguese). ANGOP.com. 2013-12-06. Archived from the original on 2014-03-31. Retrieved 2014-03-31.
2. "Football: 1º de Maio de Benguela Wins Cup". ANGOP.com. 12 Nov 2007. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 Nov 2014.
3. "Futebol: 1º de Maio sagra-se campeão do nacional da segunda divisão" (in Portuguese). ANGOP.com. 4 Oct 2015. Retrieved 21 Mar 2016.