TP
MAZEMBE IS OUT OF THE CAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE:
The TP MAZEMBE will get a second chance as
they enter the draw for the play-offs in the second-tier Confederation Cup.For
the first time continental club matches are being played in midweek. Mazembe's
French coach Hubert Velud described the club's players as "incredible
professionals" when he was hired this year.
The clubs also met in a last 16 tie five
years ago with Wydad winning 1-0 at home and losing 2-0 away only to be
reinstated when Mazembe were disqualified for using an ineligible player.
Wydad went on to finish runners-up, the
second best showing by the club from the Moroccan commercial capital after
winning the 1992 competition. Mazembe have been much more successful, winning
the premier African club competition in 1967, 1968, 2009, 2010 and last year. But
their African campaign this year has been less convincing.
Tout Puissant Mazembe, formerly known as Englebert, is a Congolese football club based in Lubumbashi. Their home games are played at Stade TP Mazembe situated in the suburb of Kamalondo. Its nickname is Les corbeaux (the ravens)
despite having a crocodile with a ball in its mouth
on the team crest.[1] TP Mazembe has a revenue of €14 million and
attendances of 18,000. CS Don Bosco serves as a feeder club to
the team. Mazembe are among the major sports clubs in DR Congo and one of the
most successful football teams in Africa ever.
HISTORY OF THE CLUB SO FAR
Tout
Puissant Mazembe was founded in 1939 by Benedictine monks of the order of Sanctimonious Saint that
directed the Holy Institute Boniface of Élisabethville (Lubumbashi). To
diversify the student activities for those that did not consecrate themselves
to the priesthood, the missionaries decided to set up a football team, named
Saint Georges FC, after the patron of the Troop. This team affiliated itself
directly in the first division of the Royal Federation of the Native Athletic
Associations (FRASI for French Fédération
Royale des Associations Sportives Indigènes) founded by the Belgian King.
At the end of the season, Holy Georges placed 3rd.
In 1944 the young scouts went on the road and
FC St. Georges was rechristened Saint Paul F.C. Some years later, the
incorporation of certain foreign elements in the Institute would make the
missionaries abandon the team management. The team took the name of F.C. Englebert after
its sponsor, a tire brand. The qualifier "Tout
Puissant" (Almighty) was added to the club's name after it went undefeated
in winning its first league title in 1966.[1]
After the independence of Congo, (June 30,
1960) Englebert restructured itself. In 1966, they realized the treble (national Championship, Coupe du Congo and Katanga Cup). In 1967 and 1968, it won the
African Cup of Champions. The team would be finalist four times successively in
(1967, 1968, 1969 and 1970). Mazembe was the first team to successfully defend
the African Champions Cup. This feat was finally repeated in 2003 and 2004 by Enyimba.
After 18 years of absence, it returned to the
African scene thanks to 38-year-old governor Moïse Katumbi Chapwe. In
November 2009 the team won the CAF Champions League
against Heartland 2–2 on
aggregate, winning on the away goals rule.
By winning the CAF Champions League, they
qualified for the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup.
In their first match in the quarter-finals they lost 2–1 to Pohang Steelers of South Korea. despite taking the lead in the
first half. Following a 3–2 defeat to Auckland City in the fifth placed match they finished the
tournament in 6th place.
In 2010 they retained the 2010 CAF Champions League,
and in December they became the first African side to contest the final of the FIFA Club World Cup after
defeating both Pachuca of Mexico 1–0 in the quarter-finals and Internacional of Brazil 2–0 in the semi-finals. In the final on 18 December, they
were defeated 3–0 by Internazionale.
In 2015, TP Mazembe secured their fifth title
in the competition after defeating USM Alger of Algeria 4–1 aggregate in the
2015 CAF Champions League Final
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