| Football in Guinea-Bissau | |
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| Governing body | Football Federation of Guinea-Bissau |
| National team(s) | Men's national team |
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CAF Champions League CAF Confederation Cup CAF Super Cup FIFA Club World Cup FIFA World Cup (national team) Africa Cup of Nations (national team) | |
The sport of football in the country of Guinea-Bissau is run by the Football Federation of Guinea-Bissau. The association administers the national football team, as well as the national league. [1] Association football (soccer) is the most popular sport in the country. Since the Portuguese navigator Nuno Tristão reached the local coast in 1446, but at the latest since the official foundation of the colony Bissau in 1753, the country was a Portuguese colony, and became officially independent only in 1975. To this day, football in Guinea-Bissau is therefore characterized by its Portuguese origins and relationships, for example through a number of affiliates of the Portuguese clubs Sporting CP and Benfica. Also, many Guinea-Bissau footballers play in Portugal.
Since 1975 the FFGB organizes the national championship, the Campeonato Nacional da Guiné-Bissau. Record champion is with 13 titles founded in 1936 Sporting Clube de Bissau, the 89th affiliate of the Portuguese club Sporting Lisbon. In 2014, the title went to the first Nuno Tristão FC from Bula in the Cacheu region.
The national trophy of the FFGB, the Taça Nacional da Guiné-Bissau has been played since 1977. The first winner was União Desportiva Internacional from Bissau, who won the cup six times (as of December 2014). The club is thus record winner of the cup competition, on par with Sport Bissau e Benfica, a subsidiary of the Portuguese club Benfica Lisbon. In 2014 won the second-class Futebol Clube de Canchungo from Canchungo surprisingly. In the following Supertaça, the Supercup against champions Nuno Tristão FC, the club was defeated on 27 December 2014 only on penalties with 2: 3.
So far, no club from Guinea Bissau for the CAF Champions League or the CAF Confederation Cup could qualify.
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| 1 | Primeira Divisão 10 clubs | |||||||||||
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| 2 | Segunda Divisão 12 clubs divided in 2 series of 6 | |||||||||||
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| 3 | Terceira Divisão 14 clubs divided in 2 series of 7 | |||||||||||
The Guinea-Bissau national football team has been participating in FIFA tournaments since 1986. So far, they have qualified for the World Cup finals. Guinea-Bissau qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time in 2017.
Guinea-Bissau has participated several times in the West African Amílcar Cabral Cup, hosting it in 1979, 1988 and 2007 but failed to win any.
In December 2014, Guinea-Bissau finished 133rd in the FIFA World Ranking, their highest FIFA ranking was in July 1994 when they were ranked 115 while their lowest was in February 2010 when they were placed 195.
Since 2017, Baciro Candé have been coaching the national team of Guinea-Bissau.
The women's Guinea-Bissau national football team has been on two occasions for qualifying for the Women's Africa Cup of Nations in 2002 and 2014, but the FFGB withdrew both times.
| Stadium | City | Tenants | Capacity | Image |
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| Estádio 24 de Setembro | Bissau | Guinea-Bissau national football team, Benfica Bissau, Sporting Bissau, Inter Bissau and Portos de Bissau. | 15,000 |  |
| Estádio Lino Correia | Bissau | Estrela Negra de Bissau | 5,000 |
Nuno Tristão was a 15th-century Portuguese explorer and slave trader, active in the early 1440s, traditionally thought to be the first European to reach the region of Guinea. Legend has it that he sailed as far as Guinea-Bissau, however, more recent historians believe he did not go beyond the Gambia River.
Carlos Manuel Correia dos Santos, known as Carlos Manuel, is a Portuguese retired professional footballer who played as a central midfielder, and a manager.
Clube de Desportos do Maxaquene, usually known simply as Maxaquene, is a sports club based in Maputo, Mozambique. The club is nicknamed Maxaca. Currently, besides football (soccer) there are two indoor sports, namely, basketball and handball. In such sports Maxaquene is the club with the most national titles after independence. Maxaquene won its first post-independence title in football, the Taça de Moçambique, in 1978. Prior to Mozambique's independence from Portugal in 1975, CD Maxaquene were known as Sporting Clube de Lourenço Marques or simply Sporting de Lourenço Marques, and was the branch number 6 of Lisbon-based Sporting Clube de Portugal. Under this name, both the legendary Eusébio and Hilário, played for the club.
The Campeonato Nacional da Guiné-Bissau is the highest division in football in Guinea-Bissau. The league was formed in 1975.
Sport Bissau e Benfica, commonly known as Benfica de Bissau, is a football club from Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, that plays in the Campeonato Nacional da Guiné-Bissau, the top flight of Bissau-Guinean football.
Association football, the most popular sport in Portugal, has a long and storied history in the country, following its introduction in 1875 in cities such as Funchal, Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra by English merchants and Portuguese students arriving back home from studying in England. This led to the establishment of local clubs dedicated to the practice of the sport.
Sporting Clube de Bissau, usually known as Sporting de Bissau, is a professional football club from Bissau, Guinea-Bissau.
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Baciro Candé is a Bissau-Guinean professional football player and manager.
Futebol Clube de Canchungo is a Guinea-Bissauan football club based in Canchungo. They currently play in the top domestic Campeonato Nacional da Guiné-Bissau. They are also well known for the excellence of their Academy and the number of players that they form that go to Europe.
Lagartos Futebol Clube is a Guinea-Bissau football club based in Bambadinca. They currently play in the top domestic Campeonato Nacional da Guiné-Bissau.
The 2017–18 Campeonato Nacional da Guiné-Bissau season is the 41st edition of the top level of football competition in Guinea-Bissau. It began on 25 November 2017 and ended on 18 June 2018.
The 2018 Taça Nacional da Guiné Bissau is the 34th edition of the Taça Nacional da Guiné Bissau since independence, the knockout football competition of Guinea-Bissau.
The 2018–19 Campeonato Nacional da Guiné-Bissau is the 42nd season of the Campeonato Nacional da Guiné-Bissau, the top-tier football league in Guinea-Bissau. The season started on 22 December 2018. Several clubs play home games at the 20,000-capacity Estádio 24 de Setembro.
Romão António dos Santos was a Bissau-Guinean football manager and footballer.
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