G.D. Interclube

GD Interclube

Full name	Grupo Desportivo Interclube
Nickname(s)	Os Polícias
Founded	February 28, 1976 (1976-02-28)
Ground	Estádio 22 de Junho, Luanda, Angola
Ground Capacity	8,000[1]
Chairman	Alves Simões
Manager	Paulo Torres
League	2× Girabola 3× Angola Cup 3× Angola Super Cup
2015	5th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Grupo Desportivo Interclube, usually known as Interclube or Inter de Luanda, is an Angolan football club based in Luanda. The club is attached to the Angolan police force. Interclube is the only club based in Luanda with a stadium of its own as all the remaining clubs in the capital play their home matches at the state-owned 11 de Novembro, Cidadela and Coqueiros. The stadium, built in 2004, has an 8,000-seat capacity.^[2]

History

Founded on February 28, 1976 by the then Ministry of the Interior Santana André Pitra aka Petroff as Inter de Luanda, it won its first title, the Angolan Cup, in 1986.

In 2005, the club finished 9th in the Angolan first division.^[3] In that year, it also reached the domestic cup final, but was defeated 1–0 by ASA.^[4]

Two players from Inter represented the Angola national team in its first FIFA World Cup tournament, in 2006 in Germany: Miloy and Mário.

Stadium

Interclube is one of the few clubs in Angola to play their home games in their own stadium, the Estádio 22 de Junho.

Honours

• Angolan League: 2^[5][6]

Winner: 2007, 2010

• Angolan Cup: 3^[7][8]

Winner: 1986, 2003, 2011

Runners-up: (5) 1985, 1989, 2000, 2005, 2010.

• Angolan SuperCup: 4^[9][10]

Winner: 1986, 2001, 2008, 2012

Runners-up: (1) 2011

Recent seasons

Interclube's season-by-season performance since 2011:

League positions

4	6	2	2	2	4	6	11	7	10	15	x	x	x	x	x	x	3	5	5	5	7	3	7	3	1	10	8	1	4	5	7	9	5	7
82	83	84	85	86	87	88	89	90	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Girabola

Performance in CAF competitions

• CAF Champions League: 2 appearances

2008 – Third Round

2011 – Second Round

• CAF Confederation Cup: 7 appearances

2004 – First Round

2005 – First Round

2006 – Group Stage

2008 – Group Stage

2011 – Semi-finals

2012 – Group Stage

• CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 2 appearances

1987 – First Round

2001 – Finalist

Players and staff

Players

Main article: List of G.D. Interclube players

Squad

Updated February 2017 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Jotabé 3 DF Chonene 4 DF Fabrício (c) 5 DF Baca 6 MF Ady 7 MF Dasfaa 8 Caleby 9 Roland 10 MF Baby 11 MF Caranga 12 GK Nelson 14 MF Paty 15 MF Mano 16 MF Tó Carneiro 17 DF Filipe 18 MF Lindala

No. Position Player 19 FW Moco 20 DF Valdez 21 DF Miguel 22 GK Neblú 24 MF Vander 25 MF Pirolito 26 MF Kiloy 27 MF Duarte 30 FW Richard

Staff

Name	Nat	Pos
Technical staff
Paulo Torres		Head Coach
José de Carvalho Corolla		Assistant Coach
		Goalkeeper Coach
Medical
Martinho da Costa		Physician
Luís Borges		Physical trainer
Ricardo Silva		Physio
Management
Alves Simões		Chairman
Alexandre Canelas		Vice-Chairman
Nuno Martins		Head of Foot Dept

Manager history

João Gonçalves da Silva (1981–84) Severino Cardoso Smica (1984–85) Joka Santinho (1986–89) Severino Cardoso Smica (1989–91) Carlos Alves (1991–92) João Machado (1992–95) Raúl Kinanga (1995–97) João António André Cuca (1997–99) Arnaldo Chaves (1999)

Raúl Kinanga (2000) Oliveira Gonçalves (2000 – Dec 2000) Veselin Vesko (Jan 2001 – Apr 2001) Oliveira Gonçalves (May 2001 – Dec 2001) Itamar Amorim (Jan 2002 – Apr 2002) Raúl Kinanga (May 2002 – May 2003) Zoran Pešić (Jun 2003 – Apr 2004) Raúl Kinanga (Apr 2004 – Dec 2004) Georg Tripp (Jan 2005 – Nov 2005)

Romeu Silva (Feb 2006 – Sep 2006) Raúl Kinanga (Sep 2006 – Nov 2006) Carlos Mozer (Nov 2006 – Mar 2008) Augusto Inácio (May 2008 – Aug 2009) João Arsénio Túbia (Aug 2009 – Nov 2009) Álvaro Magalhães (Nov 2009 – Mar 2011) António Caldas (Jul 2011 – Apr 2012) Bernardino Pedroto (Apr 2012 – Nov 2013) Mirsad Omerhodžić (Jan 2014 – Apr 2014)

Ilian Iliev (May 2014 – May 2015) Veselin Vesko (Jun 2015) Filipe Moreira (Dec 2015 – Feb 2016) Paulo Torres (Feb 2016)

Other Sports

• Interclube Basketball
• Interclube Handball

External links

• Official club site
• Girabola.com profile
• Zerozero.pt profile
• Facebook profile

References

1. ↑ http://www.girabola.com/?p=estadio&id=2
2. ↑ Stadiums in Angola; at World Stadiums
3. ↑ Angola 2005; at RSSSF
4. ↑ Angola Cup 2005; at RSSSF
5. ↑ "Football: Interclube Wins National Senior Championship". ANGOP.com. 21 Oct 2007. Retrieved 5 Dec 2014. 
6. ↑ "Interclube win national first division football championship". ANGOP.com. 1 Nov 2010. Retrieved 5 Dec 2014. 
7. ↑ "The football team Interclube is the winner of the Angola Cup". ANGOP.com. 11 Nov 2003. Retrieved 23 Nov 2014. 
8. ↑ "Interclube win 30th edition of Angola football cup". ANGOP.com. 11 Nov 2011. Retrieved 23 Nov 2014. 
9. ↑ "Football: Interclube Win Angola Super Cup". ANGOP.com. 25 Feb 2008. Retrieved 22 Nov 2014. 
10. ↑ "Interclube win Angola Super Cup". ANGOP.com. 26 Feb 2012. Retrieved 22 Nov 2014.