Asmara Brewery FC

Asmara Brewery
Full nameAsmara Brewery
GroundCicero Stadium
Asmara, Eritrea
Capacity10,000
LeagueEritrean 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 maintained by the Asmara Brewery.

History

The Asmara Birra played in the Eritrean Premier League since the 1990s.[2] The team was initially founded in 1944 by the engineer Melotti, who founded the "Asmara Brewery" under the name of GS Hamasien.[3] He had already founded the GS Melotti, an amateur football team in Italian Asmara in 1936.[4] In 2008, the club won the Eritrea championship.[5]

Achievements

1955, 1957, 1972, 1973
2008[6]
1970

Performance in CAF competitions

1998 – Preliminary round[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Eritrea 1936". RSSSF. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  2. ↑ "Asmara Brewery FC". National-football-teams.com.
  3. ↑ "Eritrea - List of Foundation Dates Clubs". RSSSF. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  4. ↑ "Il_Chichingiolo_Cassetto_34". www.ilchichingiolo.it. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  5. ↑ "Eritrea 2008". RSSSF. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  6. ↑ "Eritrea – List of Champions". Retrieved 19 March 2012.
  7. ↑ "CAF Cup 1998". Archived from the original on 24 February 2012. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
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