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| Full name | Football Club Saint-Éloi Lupopo | ||
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| Nickname | Les Cheminots (The Railmen) | ||
| Founded | 1939; 87 years ago (1939)[1] | ||
| Ground | Stade Frederic Kibassa Maliba | ||
| Capacity | 20,000 | ||
| Chairman | Jacques Kyabula Katwe | ||
| Manager | Christian Bracconi | ||
| League | Linafoot | ||
| 2024–25 | Linafoot, 2nd of 20 | ||
| Website | fc-lupopo | ||
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Football Club Saint-Éloi Lupopo is a Congolese professionalfootball club based inLubumbashi. Their home games are played atStade Kibassa Maliba. FC Saint-Éloi Lupopo drew an average home attendance of 4,369 in the 2018-19 Linafoot season.
During a match withTP Mazembe in 2011, 14 people were killed during a stampede after spectators invaded the pitch as TP Mazembe equalized the score.[3]
Most famous player:Pierre Mwana Kasongo who also played for Daring Faucons (Motema Pembe), was the first African player to become the top scorer in Belgium as he played for CS vervietois in 1962–63. He also played for ARA La Gantoise in Belgium. Mwana Kasongo successfully managed St Eloi Lupopo, TP Mazembe, Ruwenzori Natioanal, Makiso, Nika, Bilombe, and Sanga Balende, as well as the Leopards du Zaire. He was the first Congolese to be qualified as a Manager from the Académie Française de Football in France. He died on 13 January 1986 as he was managing St Eloi Lupopo.
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