Asmara Brewery FC

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Asmara Brewery FC
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Full nameAsmara Brewery FC
Ground Cicero Stadium
Asmara, Eritrea
Capacity6,000
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.

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History

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]

Achievements

2008 [6]

Performance in CAF competitions

1998 – Preliminary Round [7]

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.Pos.NationPlayer
GK Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI machew
GK Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI adi gaba
DF Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI adi blien
DF Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI denjen
DF Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI mlad manta
DF Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI tikul
DF Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI debreshina
DF Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI adi nifas
DF Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI xada adi
DF Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI debre slasie
MF Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI tukul
No.Pos.NationPlayer
MF Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI {{{name}}}
MF Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI ashorakay
MF Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI gobo araki
MF Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI adaga hamus
MF Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI Jusi Michael
MF Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI maydima
FW Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI midriwediweresa
FW Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI hirisha
FW Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI diga giberula
FW Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI bet timhrti midriwediwersa
FW Flag of Eritrea.svg  ERI keshi dimotros

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