Clube Recreativo da Caála, commonly known as just Recreativo da Caála, is an Angolan football club based in Caála, a municipality 23 km to the province's capital city of Huambo.
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| Full name | Clube Recreativo da Caála | ||
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| Founded | 24 June 1944 | ||
| Ground | Estádio Mártires da Canhala Caála, Huambo, Angola | ||
| Capacity | 11,000 | ||
| Chairman | Horácio Mosquito | ||
| Manager | David Dias | ||
| League | Segundona | ||
| 2025–26 | 1th | ||
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History
editCR Caála was founded on 24 June 1944 and competing in Angola's top-level league, the Girabola.[1]
The management of Recreativo da Caála dismissed on Monday [3 May] the Portuguese Victor Manuel as the coach of the football club. Also according to the same source, the team also sacked the assistant coach Jorge Prisca and Fernando Pereira, goalkeepers coach.
Stadium
editRecreativo da Caála is one of the few clubs in Angola's top division to own a football stadium, the Estádio Mártires da Canhala. The former 3,000 capacity stadium has been rehabilitated and expanded to 10,000-seats. It's reinauguration took place on 6 October 2013.[2]
Achievements
edit- Angola Cup
- Runners-up (1): 2012
Recent seasons
editC.R. Caála's season-by-season performance since 2011:
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- PR = Preliminary round, 1R = First round, GS = Group stage, R32 = Round of 32, R16 = Round of 16, QF = Quarter-finals, SF = Semi-finals
League and cup positions
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Performance in CAF competitions
edit- CAF Champions League: 1 appearance
- 2011 – First Round
- CAF Confederation Cup: 1 appearance
- 2013 – Second Round
Players and staff
editPlayers
editStaff
edit| Name | Nat | Pos | |
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| Technical staff | |||
| David Dias |  |
Head coach | |
| Luís Aires |  |
Assistant coach | |
| Yamba Asha | |
Assistant coach | |
| Severino Capessa | |
Goalkeeper coach | |
| Medical | |||
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Physician | ||
| Rui Garcia | |
Physio | |
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Masseur | ||
| Management | |||
| Horácio Mosquito | |
Chairman | |
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Vice-chairman | ||
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Head of Foot Dept | ||
Manager history and performance
edit| Season | Coach | L2 | L1 | C | Coach | L2 | L1 | C | Coach | L2 | L1 | C |
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| 1985 | Arlindo Leitão | |||||||||||
| 1986 | ||||||||||||
| 2005 | António Sayombo † | 3rd | ||||||||||
| 2007 | Mbuisso António | 3rd | ||||||||||
| 2008 | Hélder Teixeira | Jorge Paixão | 1st | DNP | ||||||||
| 2009 | Jorge Paixão | 9th | QF | |||||||||
| 2010 | Rui Gregório | João Kódia | David Dias | 2nd | R16 | |||||||
| 2011 | Vítor Manuel | Luís Aires | 4th | QF | ||||||||
| 2012 | Luís Aires | Fernando Pereira | 10th | RU | ||||||||
| 2013 | Ricardo Formosinho | Vaz Pinto | 11th | SF | ||||||||
| 2014 | Vaz Pinto | Fernando Pereira | 7th | R16 | ||||||||
| 2015 | Bernardino Pedroto | Hélder Teixeira | Luís Aires | 11th | R16 | |||||||
| 2016 | Luís Aires | Alberto Cardeau | 11th | R32 | ||||||||
| 2017 | Alberto Cardeau | David Dias | 8th | R16 | ||||||||
| 2018 | David Dias | 12th | ||||||||||
| 2018-19 | 9th | |||||||||||
| 2019-20 | Hélder Teixeira | David Dias | ||||||||||
See also
editReferences
edit- ↑ "Clube Recreativo da Caála reabilita infra-estruturas sociais". Archived from the original on 2012-02-16. Retrieved 2009-05-26.
- ↑ "Estádio Mártires da Canhala será inaugurado domingo" (in Portuguese). ANGOP.com. 4 Oct 2013. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 21 Mar 2016.