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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; 48 years ago (1977-08-01) | |||
| Ground | Estádio França Ndalu,Luanda, Angola | |||
| Capacity | 20,000 | |||
| President | Gen. Carlos Hendrick | |||
| Manager | Filipe Nzanza | |||
| League | Girabola | |||
| 2024–25 | 3rd of 16 | |||
| Website | www | |||
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Clube Desportivo 1º de Agosto is a multisports club fromLuanda, Angola. The club, founded 1 August 1977, is attached to theAngolan Armed Forces, which is its sponsor. Its main team competes in men's football, and its professionalbasketball 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 inbasketball in 1980.Handball andVolleyball have also won many titles to the club.
The Primeiro de Agosto Sports Club has its football team competing at the local level, in the events organized by theAngolan Football Federation, namely the Angolan National Football Championship a.k.a.Girabola, theAngola Cup and theAngola Super Cup as well as at continental level, at the annual competitions organized by theAfrican Football Confederation (CAF), including theCAF Champions League and theCAF Confederation Cup.[2]
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]
C.D. Primeiro de Agosto's season-by-season performance since 2011:
As of 22 May 2019[update]
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Primeiro de Agosto is in the process of building its ownfootball stadium. Named afterGen.FrançaNdalu, 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 the2020–21 season, the club announced that they will be playing their home games at theFrança Ndalu.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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| Name | Nat | Position(s) |
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| Technical staff | ||
| Srđan Vasiljević |  | 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 |
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* Ivo Traça won the2017 Super Cup as a caretaker manager
| Santana André PitraPetroff | 1977 | – | 1979 |
| Pedro de Castro Van-DúnemLoy | 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
On 4 April 1981, before a capacity crowd of 70,000 inKaduna, Primeiro de Agosto played against thenCAN title holdersThe 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]
