Boavista Futebol Clube Timor-Leste

Football club
Boavista TL
Full nameBoavista Futebol Clube Timor Leste
Nickname(s)Youth From Where The Sun Rises
Short nameBFC-TL
Founded1986; 38 years ago (1986)
as Kumpulan Anak Remaja Lorosae[1]
2018; 6 years ago (2018)
as Boavista Futebol Clube Timor Leste[2]
GroundMunicipal Stadium, Dili
Capacity5,000
OwnerPedro Carrascalão
ManagerJoao Pedro Dos S. S. Da C. Ribeiro
LeagueLiga Futebol Amadora
Home colours
Away colours

Boavista Futebol Clube Timor Leste or Boavista Timor Leste also abbreviated as BFC-TL, is a professional football club of East Timor based in Dili.[3] The team plays in the Liga Futebol Amadora. The club have won 1 league titles and 1 LFA Super Taça.

History

Kumpulan Anak Remaja Lorosae

Originally the club formed in 1986 when Pedro Carrascalão was a high school student during the period when East Timor was still under Indonesian occupation.[4] But he closed it just after the incident at Santa Cruz, which refer to as the 12 November massacre. Originally the name of the club was based on a cultural expression, Kumpulan Anak Remaja Lorosae, which in Indonesian means the youth from where the sun rises. But he had trouble when he used that name as some of players were active in the clandestine movement and were being chased by Indonesian intelligence forces, so he decided to simplify things and base the new name off an abbreviation of my surname. His father was working as a governor at the time and it was the only way for him to protect his friends and keep the Indonesian military off.

It would be almost two-and-a-half decades before the chance arose for Carrascalao to revive the club and, despite some reservations with how football was being run in the country, he decided it was the right time to try to give young Timorese footballers a stage on which to display their talents. He decided to open the club again in 2015 when there was a clear sign that there was going to be a national league in place for the very first time. In less than four months the club was reassembled, staff was hired and players were recruited to participate in the top flight of the new government-funded Liga Futebol Amadora or LFA the first official league in the nation's history. The club's goal for the next three years is to become the biggest club in East Timor just as we were when the club was first founded from 1986 to 1991; then we started with football, then volleyball, then basketball for both men and women and we were pretty much number one year after year.

The maiden season of the LFA began in late February with eight teams scheduled to play each other in a home and away format, all matches held at the centralised Dili Municipal Stadium. Carsae made a winning start by defeating D.I.T 1–0. With another division below the top flight there will also be a cup competition, aptly named the 12th November Cup, and then a Super Taça which will pit both the league and cup champions against each other. The hope is this can be a new dawn for the sport, which is easily the most popular throughout the nation.

Boavista Timor Leste

In 2018, the club changed it name to Boavista Futebol Clube Timor Leste and in its maiden season, it won the league title and cup double.

Squad (2020)

[5] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
3 DF East Timor TLS Orcelio Silva
6 DF East Timor TLS Anggisu Barbosa
7 MF East Timor TLS Rivaldo Correia (captain)
8 DF East Timor TLS Nataniel Reis
9 FW East Timor TLS Edit Savio
10 MF Portugal POR Francyatma Kefi
11 DF East Timor TLS Abrão Mendonca
12 GK East Timor TLS Aderito Fernandes
14 FW East Timor TLS Danilson Aroújo
19 MF East Timor TLS Olegario Boavida
No. Pos. Nation Player
20 FW East Timor TLS Gaudencio Monteiro
21 MF East Timor TLS Nidio Neto
22 FW East Timor TLS Nelson Viegas
25 DF East Timor TLS Jose Pereira
27 DF East Timor TLS Aldo Amaral
31 GK East Timor TLS Georgino Silva]
66 MF East Timor TLS Eusebio Almeida
77 FW Ghana GHA Boateng Appiah
96 DF East Timor TLS Jose Silva

Honours

League

Cup

Competition records

Liga Futebol Amadora

Taça 12 de Novembro

Former coaches

  • Hugo da Silva
  • Chile Eladio Rojas

Links

  • Facebook

References

  1. ^ Untold Stories, Southeast Asian Clubs: Carsae FC, Timor Leste Archived 1 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine published by fourfourtwo.com on 7 June 2016
  2. ^ "CARSAE FC MUDA NARAN BA BOAVISTA FUTEBOL CLUBE TIMOR LESTE". 29 January 2018.
  3. ^ Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Carsae FC (2016)". www.national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  4. ^ Untold Stories, Southeast Asian Clubs: Carsae FC, Timor Leste Archived 1 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine at fourfourtwo.com by Scott McIntyre on 7 June 2016.
  5. ^ "COPA FFTL 2020 : BOAVISTA FC VS AD. SLB 2 - 3 ALL GOALS & HIGHLIGHTS I VIP TV - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  6. ^ "East Timor 2015/16". RSSSF. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  7. ^ "East Timor 2015/16". RSSSF. Retrieved 18 February 2019.