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Full name | Asmara Brewery FC | ||
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Ground | Cicero Stadium Asmara, Eritrea | ||
Capacity | 6,000 | ||
League | Eritrean Premier League | ||
Asmara Brewery FC or Asmara Birra is an Eritrean football club based in Asmara and founded in 1944 (with the original 1936 name GS Melotti [1] ). It is linked and economically maintained by the Asmara Brewery.
The Asmara Birra plays in the Eritrean Premier League since the 1990s. [2]
The team was initially founded in 1944 with the name Asmara Birra by the engineer Melotti, who founded the "Asmara Brewery" under the name of GS Hamasien [3] (he had already founded in 1936 the GS Melotti, an amateur football team in Italian Asmara [4] ).
In 2008, the club won the Eritrea championship. [5]