Daring Club Motema Pembe

Daring Club Motema Pembe is a Congolese football club from the capital Kinshasa. The multiple national title holder won the 1994 African Cup Winners' Cup.

History

The club was founded on 22 February 1936 under the name Daring Faucon, but was renamed in 1949 in CS Imana '. After the Democratic Republic of the Congo became independent in June 1960, the club took part in the connection to the national championship and in 1963 the first documented champion. In the following years the club was, together with the AS Vita Club and Tout Puissant Mazembe to a championship dominant trio. According put these three teams also the backbone of the Zairian national team and the squad at the 1974 World Cup.

After the two rivals had been successful on a continental scale already in the late 1960s and 1970s, especially by winning the African Cup of Champions Clubs, Imana Kinshasa succeeded in 1994 against Kenya Breweries FC winning the African Cup Winners' Cup. However, the subsequent match for the CAF Super Cup was lost against the Tunisian representative Espérance Sportive de Tunis.

  • Football club based in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Kinshasa
  • Founded in 1936
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