Étoile Filante du Togo
{{Short description|Togolese football club}}
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| founded = 1932
| ground = Stade Oscar Anthony,
Lomé, Togo
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| league = Togolese Championnat National
| season = 2009
| position = 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.{{cite web|publisher=CAFoot|title=Profile of Teams: Togo|url=http://www.cafonline.com/userfiles/file/CAF_2010_master_eng(web).pdf|date=January 2010}}
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.{{cite news|title=Togo top footballers killed in bus crash|date=27 November 2011 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15907804|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=27 November 2011}}
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
- 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
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no=6|nat=Togo|name=Blaise Kouma|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=15|nat=Togo|name=Ayao Akpah Foly|pos=DF}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player|no=17|nat=Togo|name=Tchibiakou Doevi|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=-|nat=Togo|name=Kodjo Doumassesse|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=-|nat=Togo|name=Abibou Mouhamadou|pos=FW}}
{{Fs end}}
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
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External links
- {{official website|http://etoilefilantetg.org/histoire.php}}. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222043713/http://etoilefilantetg.org/histoire.php |date=22 February 2014 }}.
{{Togolese Championnat National}}
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Category:Football clubs in Togo
Category:Football clubs in Lomé
Category:Association football clubs established in 1932
Category:1932 establishments in French Togoland
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