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TP Mazembe : Bounces Back

10-27-2009

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Among the clubs which made the history of African football in the years past, is Tout Puissant(TP) Mazembe of Lubumbashi. The club which was first known as Tout Puissant Englebert falls within the category of clubs among which are Al Ahly, Zamalek, Canon Yaoundé, Hafia of Conakry and Ashanti Kotoko of Kumasi who have all dominated football on the African continent. Their prestige transcended national frontiers and have taken the African game to another level. TP Mazembe was the first club to feature in four succesive African champions cup finals. Al Ahly had to wait for some 35 years before achieving that feat. At the time the Congolese won two and lost two of the finals. Since then the club from Katanga province and the country’s second largets city has played and won only one final, the 1980 African cup winners cup.

As one of the great teams on the continent Tout Puissant Mazembe just celebrated its 70th anniversary. The club was created in 1939 by Benedicti monks of the former Saint Boniface Institute of Elisabethville (today Lubumbashi). To diversify its activities at the time students were permitted to play in the newly created football club known as Saint Georges. The team was affiliated to the local league and in its first season emerged third.

In 1944, FC St. Georges was rebaptised Saint Paul F.C and several yeras later it became F.C. Englebert named after the main sponsor of the club. At the end of that season the team came out first and did not suffer any losses. In order to immortalize their first triumph the team was later named "Tout Puissant" Englebert. After the independence of Congo, on June 30, 1960, Englebert was restructured and in 1966 won a treble (The national championship, Katanga Cup and the Congo Cup), before moving to the summit of African.

RECORD ·

National championship titles : 10 – 1966, 1967, 1969, 1976, 1987, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2007
National Cup titles : 5 – 1966, 1967, 1976, 1979, 2000
African Champions Cup titles : 1967, 1968,
African Cup winners Cup titles: 1980

Record of TP Mazembe in 2009

16^th final
TP Mazembe - Petro Atletico     3-0 2-1

8th de finale
TP Mazembe - Ittihad Zemmouri   1-0 0-0

Group phase
TP Mazembe - Heartland FC      2-0 0-2
Etoile Sahel   - TP Mazembe   2-1 0-1
TP Mazembe - Monomotapa     5-0 2-0

Semi-finals
El Hilal - TP Mazembe    2-5 2-0

Exempted from the preliminary rounds TP Mazembe played 12 matches before reaching the finals. In the course of the process the team won five home games, three times away recorded a draw and three defeats (including the return leg semi final defeat against El Hilal of Omdurman.. In 12 games, the club scored 22 goals and conceded just 9.

RESULTS

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