CD Costa do Sol

Costa do Sol
Full nameClube de Desportos da Costa do Sol
Nickname(s)Canarinhos
Short nameCosta do Sol
Founded15 of October 1955 (65 years ago) as Sport Lourenço Marques e Benfica
GroundEstádio do Costa do Sol
Capacity10,000[1]
PresidentAlberto Banze
Head CoachhPortugal Horácio Gonçalves
LeagueMoçambola
2023Moçambola, 4.
Websitewww.costadosol.co.mz
Current season

Clube de Desportos da Costa do Sol, commonly known as Costa do Sol, is a Mozambican sports club based in Maputo. It is best known for the professional football team playing in Moçambola, the top division in Mozambican football.

Founded in 15 of October 1955, Costa do Sol won its first title in 1979, the Mozambican league, and today is the club with the most titles won since national independence. They are nicknamed canarinhos (little canaries[2]) for their equipment colour.

The club is sponsored by Meridianbet.[3]

  1. ^ "Estádio - O nosso clube" (in Portuguese). CD Costa do Sol.
  2. ^ "Maputo.co.mz". Archived from the original on March 14, 2007. Retrieved January 5, 2006.
  3. ^ "ZA MERIDIAN NEMA GRANICA: Domaća kompanija podržala i Biatlon savez Srbije - da olimpijski sport više ne bude na začelju!". TVM News. June 20, 2022. Retrieved May 29, 2024.