CF Os Balantas

Earlier club

The earlier Os Balanta was created on 16 September 1946 and is an affiliate of the Portuguese club CF Os Belenenses and is its 13th affiliate.^[1]

They played their first match in the 1960 Portuguese Guinea Provincial Championships and played until 1974, the club won all championship titles (from 1973, also as the Guinea-Bissau Championships).^[2]

The club took part in the upper rounds of the Portuguese Cup before independence, they participated in five matches including Lusitano de Évora, SC Braga, Fabril, Académica de Coimbra and Beja. They had three colonial titles for what was Portuguese Guinea.

Modern club

The club was founded in 1974 in Mansôa, the year that the country became independent. It is the first club founded in Mansoa. The team was the first Guinean champion after the independence from Portugal and played in the preliminary round of the African Cup of Champions Clubs 1976, their first team they faced was Senegal's ASC Diaraf and lost all two matches. Their next appearances was 31 years later at the CAF Champions League 2007 and faced Algeria's JS Kabylie and again lost all two matches. Os Balantas nearly played in every continental competition after winning their championship title in 2010, next was Morocco's Difaa el Jadida. They missed the 2014 competition against Séwé Sports as Balantas withdrew. Balantas are one of several clubs that never made a win at the continental championships. They also won their only super cup title in 2006 after winning their second championship title.

In 2010, they headed to the Guinea-Bissauan Cup final, the club lost 2-1 to Sport Bissau e Benfica.

Performance in CAF competitions

• CAF Champions League: 2 appearances

2007 - Preliminary Round

Os Balantas's results in CAF competition

Season	Competition	Qualification method	Round	Opposition	Home	Away	Aggregate
1976	African Cup of Champions Clubs	Bissau Guinean champions	Preliminary Round	ASC Diaraf	1–4	6–1	2–10
2007	CAF Champions League	Bissau Guinean champions	Preliminary Round	JS Kabylie	1–2	3–1	2–5
2010	CAF Champions League	Bissau Guinean champions	Preliminary Round	Difaa El Jadida	0–0	3–0	0–3
2014	CAF Champions League	Bissau Guinean champions	Preliminary Round	Séwé Sports	canc.	canc.	1

¹Balantas withdrew from the tournament

National level

2012 and 2014

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Salif 3 DF Aruma 4 DF Bruma 5 DF Manuel Carlos 6 MF Ba Wa Djaló 7 MF Papa 8 MF Du 10 MF Sá Pinto

No. Position Player 11 FW Rasid Forbes 12 FW Amidu 13 FW Barri 14 MF Pansau Nhasse 15 DF Person Luís Có 22 GK Fode