Ethiopian Coffee Sports Club is an Ethiopian football club based in Addis Ababa. They are a member of the Ethiopian Football Federation and play in the top division of Ethiopian Football, the Ethiopian Premier League. Their home stadium is Addis Ababa Stadium. They are number one in the country for the number of fans.
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History
The club was formed in 1975 as Yebuna Negat and started playing at AEWA Factory workers third division. Within the next six years, it had amassed four trophies and one fair play award.
In 1983, its name was changed to Ethiopian Coffee Sports Club under the country's National Coffee Trading Corporation, then a government enterprise.
The club was restructured in 1995. Since then it is supported by the country's coffee exporters and by the fans who are getting stronger through time.
"Though until recently considered arch rival to the nation's oldest, richest and most popular club, Saint George," noted a writer for the Addis Ababa Capital, "Coffee in the past couple of years faced high financial constraints hardly able to sign big name players. The result has been a decade existence never winning the premier league." In December, 2008 The Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) bought Coffee, and Meta Abo Brewery signed a three-year sponsorship contract, both of which were expected to help the struggling football club. In 2010, Ethiopian Coffee FC won their first ever Premier league title beating St. George and Defence Forces Fc. In the same year, Ethiopian Coffee FC signed a worth sponsorship deal with Habesha Beer, their third ever sponsorship deal following worbek and meta Abo Beer.
At the start of the 2017-18 Season the team hired Serbian manager Kostadin Papic to a two year contract. One month into his stay as manager, the club and Papic decided to mutually part ways after it was determined that his health condition wouldn't allow him to cope with the demands of the job. In December 2017 the club hired Frechman Didier Gomes Da Rosa as their new manager, replacing Papic.
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Ultras
Ethiopian Coffee has a large fan base of ultras which are known for their large displays of flags during matches. In recent years their numbers have grown to match the ultras of their bigger and more successful rivals St. George S.C. As a result clashes between these two sets of supporters are very common especially when the two teams go head to head in the "Sheger Derby".
Colors
The Ethiopian Coffee logo has gone through some changes since the club's inception in the mid 70's. While the emphasis on the traditional coffee pot present in previous logos, the vibrant maroon and gold colors in the current logo are what give the club its identity. The club's utlras are known to wave large strips of maroon and gold flags at matches.
Grounds
Ethiopian Coffee play their home games at Yidnekachew Tessema Stadium, also generally known as Addis Ababa Stadium, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The ground is shared with other clubs based in Addis Ababa including Defense FC and Ethiopian Coffee's bitter rivals St. George S.C.
As a result the ground has witness many occasions of violence in recent years between different sets of supporters including that of Ethiopian Coffee. Consequently, the Ethiopian Football Federation has handed down hefty monetary punishments and on some occasions banned supporters from stadiums for a certain amount of matches.
The board of governors of the club have previously announced their intention to build their own grounds in Addis Ababa.
Honors
National Competitions
- Ethiopian Premier League: 2
1997, 2011
- Ethiopian Cup: 5
1988, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2008
- Ethiopian Super Cup: 4
1997, 2000, 2008, 2010
- Ethiopian Run Away League: 1
2007
African Competitions
- CAF Champions League: 2 appearances
- 1998 - Second Round
- 2012 - First Round
- CAF Confederations Cup: 1 appearance
2004 - Preliminary Round
- CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 3 appearances
- 1999 - First Round
- 2000 - Second Round
- 2001 - Second round
Current squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Club Officials
Coaching Staff
- Manager: Didier Gomes Da Rosa
- First Assistant Coach: Mohammed Ibrahim
- Second Assistant Coach: Habtewolde Desta
- First-team goalkeeping coach: Webeshet Desalegn
- Solomon Hailemariam
Former Players
- Thomas Biketi
Former Coaches
- Dragan Popadi?
- Neboj?a Vu?i?evi?
- Kosta Papi?
- Webetu Abate
Notes
External links
- Official site
- Lates Ethiopian Football News
- Club logo
- Official Site
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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