Étoile Filante de Lomé
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Étoile Filante de Lomé is a professional Togo
Togo
Togo, officially the Togolese Republic , is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lomé is located. Togo covers an area of approximately with a population of approximately...

lese football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club based in Lomé
Lomé
Lomé, with an estimated population of 737,751, is the capital and largest city of Togo. Located on the Gulf of Guinea, Lomé is the country's administrative and industrial center and its chief port. The city exports coffee, cocoa, copra, and palm kernels...

. Their home stadium is Stade Oscar Anthony
Stade Oscar Anthony
Stade Oscar Anthony is a multi-use stadium in Lomé, Togo. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Étoile Filante de Lomé and AC Merland. The stadium holds 10,000 people....

. The club name translates as "Shooting Star of Lomé" and are known locally as "The Meteors".

Étoile Filante has won the national league championship seven times and were defeated finalists in the 1968 African Cup of Champions Clubs.

On 26 November 2011, some of the team's players were killed or injured in a bus crash near the Togolese city of Atakpame
Atakpamé
Founded by the Yoruba people, Atakpamé, the fifth largest city in Togo by population , is a city in the Plateaux Region of Togo. It is an industrial centre and lies on the main north-south highway, 161 km north of the capital Lomé...

 whilst travelling to a match.

Honours

  • Togolese Championnat National
    Togolese Championnat National
    The Championnat National de Premiere Division is a football league featuring clubs from Togo, and is the primary competition of Togolese football. Founded in 1961, it is administered by the Fédération Togolaise de Football...

    : 7
1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1992

  • Coupe du Togo
    Coupe du Togo
    The Coupe du Togo is the top knockout tournament of the Togolese football.-before independence:*1955 : Essor *1956 : Etoile Filante de Lomé*1958 : Etoile Filante de Lomé-since independence:*1961 : Etoile Filante de Lomé...

    : 4
1956, 1958, 1961, 1994
Finalists: 1996

  • African Champions League: 0
Finalists: 1968

  • French West African Cup
    French West African Cup
    The French West African Cup or Coupe d'Afrique Occidentale Française was a football tournament between clubs of the former French Western African territories....

    : 1
1960

Performance in CAF competitions

  • African Cup of Champions Clubs: 3 appearances
1966
African Cup of Champions Clubs 1966
The African Cup of Champions Clubs 1966 was the 2nd edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CAF region , the African Cup of Champions Clubs. It determined that year's club champion of association football in Africa....

: First Round
1968
African Cup of Champions Clubs 1968
The African Cup of Champions Clubs 1968 was the 4th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CAF region , the African Cup of Champions Clubs...

: Finalist
1969
African Cup of Champions Clubs 1969
The African Cup of Champions Clubs 1969 was the 5th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CAF region , the African Cup of Champions Clubs...

: Quarter-Finals
1993
African Cup of Champions Clubs 1993
The African Cup of Champions Clubs 1993 was the 28th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CAF region , the African Cup of Champions Clubs...

: Preliminary Round

  • CAF Cup
    CAF Cup
    The CAF Cup was an annual competition organised by the CAF for domestic leagues runner-ups of member associations who haven't qualified to one of the two pre-existing CAF international club competitions the African Cup of Champions Clubs or the African Cup Winners' Cup.-Format:Only runner-ups of...

    : 2 appearances
1996 - First Round
1998 - First Round

  • CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 1 appearance
1995 - First Round

Current squad

Former players

Comlanvi Akakpo
Comlanvi Akakpo
Comlanvi Akakpo is a Beninese football player who currently plays in Benin for Tonnerre d'Abomey FC.- Career :He began his career in his native Togo for Etoile Filante de Lomé and signed in January 2007 for Tonnerre d'Abomey FC....

Marcelão #17 Christian Chukwu Idika Okoro Uche Uwaekwe Sadat Ouro Akoriko Sadat Djaledjete Belbate
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