Full name | Estrela Clube Primeiro de Maio |
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Nickname(s) | Os Proletários |
Founded | 1 April 1981 |
Ground |
Estádio Municipal Edelfride Palhares da Costa Benguela, Angola |
Capacity | 6,000 |
Chairman | Wilson Faria |
Manager | Agostinho Tramagal |
League | 2× Girabola 3× Angola Cup |
2015 | 1st (Série B) |
Website | Club home page |
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 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.
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EC Primeiro de Maio's season-by-season performance since 2011:
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
* 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