G.D. Sagrada Esperança Explained

Clubname:	Sagrada Esperança
Fullname:	Grupo Desportivo Sagrada Esperança
Ground:	Estádio Sagrada Esperança Dundo, Angola
Capacity:	8,000
Owner:	Pedro Figueiredo Gustavo
Sponsor:	ENDIAMA
Chairman:	José Muacabalo
Manager:	Rui Sapiri
League:	First Division
Season:	2023–24
Position:	2nd
Website:	https://gdse.ao/
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Grupo Desportivo Sagrada Esperança, usually known as Sagrada Esperança, is a football (soccer) club from Dundo, Lunda Norte province, Angola. The club won its first title, the Angolan Cup, in 1988.

The club's name is likely to originate from Angola's first president Agostinho Neto's famous poem Sagrada Esperança (Sacred Hope). The club was founded on December 22, 1976, by then Angola-state owned diamond company Diamang (now Endiama), which remains as its major sponsor.

In 2005, the club, managed by Mário Calado, won the league by having one point ahead ASA. In the same year, the club competed in the 2005 CAF Champions League, but was eliminated in the first round by ASEC Abidjan of Ivory Coast, after a 2–2 draw at home in the first leg and a 1–0 defeat away in the second leg.

Achievements

Angola League
- Champions (2):^[1] 2005, 2021.
Angola Cup
- Winners (2): 1988, 1999.
Angolan SuperCup
- Winners (1): 2021.

Recent seasons

Sagrada Esperança's season-by-season performance since 2011:

Overall match statistics
Season
2016	40	15	11	14	36	34	+2
2015	35	13	10	12	24	31	–7

Top season scorers

						11
Guedes						4

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

CAF Champions League

3 appearances

2005 – First Round

2006 – Preliminary Round

2022 -

CAF Cup

2 appearances

1992 – Second Round

1998 – First Round

CAF Cup Winners' Cup

2 appearances

1989 – Second Round

2000 – Second Round

Stadium

The club plays their home matches at formerly Quintalão do Dundo, now Estádio Sagrada Esperança, which has a maximum capacity of 8,000 people . The stadium underwent a major rehabilitation and was renamed and reinaugurated in 2008.

Players and staff

Players

See main article: List of G.D. Sagrada Esperança players.

Staff

Name	Nat	Pos
Technical staff
Roque Sapiri		Head coach
Rui Oliveira		Assistant coach
		Goalkeeper coach
Management
José Muacabalo ^[2]		Chairman
José Pontes Ramos		Vice-chairman
Jojó Garcia		Head of Foot Dept

Manager history and performance

Season	Coach	Coach
1982		Alferes Carvalho
1984	Artur Santos
1985	Artur Santos
1987	Job Cipriano	Adé
1988	Laurindo	Adé
1989		Adé
1990	João Machado
1991
		Adé
1993	Molosević
1994	Joka Santinho
1995	Napoleão Brandão
1996	Rui Teixeira
1997	João Machado
1998	Nina Serrano	José Luís Borges	6th
1999	João Machado
2000
2001
	Carlos Alves	Agostinho Tramagal
2003	Mário Calado
2004
2005
2006		Frank Moniz

Season	Coach				Coach			Coach
	Albano César				Frank Moniz
	Frank Moniz					12th	SF
2009	Napoleão Brandão	1st		RU
	Napoleão Brandão				Frank Moniz	11th	SF
2011	Mário Calado		7th	R16
2012	Mário Calado		11th	SF
2013			5th	R16
2014			8th	R16
					Frank Moniz			Zoran Manojlović	10th	RU
	Zoran Manojlović				Roque Sapiri		QF	Ekrem Asma	9th
2017	Ekrem Asma		3rd	R16
2018	Ekrem Asma				Roque Sapiri
2018–19	Agostinho Tramagal
					Roque Sapiri
2020–21	Roque Sapiri
2021–22	Roque Sapiri
2022–23	Alexandre Ribeiro				Frank Moniz
2023–24	Roque Sapiri

External links

References

Notes and References

Web site: Soccer: Sagrada Esperança Win Girabola 2005 . ANGOP.com . 24 Oct 2005 . 4 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064648/http://www.portalangop.co.ao/angola/en_us/noticias/desporto/2005/9/43/Soccer-Sagrada-Esperanca-Win-Girabola-2005,16316552-0ceb-42bc-bf77-aa55a6292bc0.html . dead .
Web site: Futebol: Eleito novo presidente do Sagrada Esperança . ANGOP.com . 17 Jan 2020 . pt . 20 January 2020 . 20 January 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200120075848/http://www.angop.ao/angola/pt_pt/noticias/desporto/2020/0/3/Futebol-Eleito-novo-presidente-Sagrada-Esperanca,d7c0b0d9-98dc-43e0-b7bf-c622e17c1071.html . live .