Ferroviario Beira
Wikipedia - Clube Ferroviário da Beira (basketball)
Clube Ferroviário da Beira (in English: Railway Club Beira) is a basketball club from Beira, Mozambique. The team plays in the national Mozambican Basketball League (LMB) and has won the national championship five times.
The team currently plays in the Basketball Africa League (BAL), having qualified for the 2022 and 2023 seasons. During the 2000s and 2010s, they played in the FIBA Africa Club Champions Cup four editions as well.
History
Founded in 1924, Ferroviário da Beira has played in the Mozambican Basketball League (LMB) for most of its existence. From 2012, the team won three consecutive league championships.
Ferroviário team played in the 2018–19 Africa Basketball League.
In June 2021, the Spanish coach Luis Lopez Hernandez was hired as new head coach, his second stint with the club. In the fall of 2021, they played in the qualifiers of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) for the first time. On December 10, 2021, the team qualified for the 2022 BAL season after defeating Cape Town Tigers in the semi-finals. In its debut season in the BAL, Beira finished in the fifth place in the Sahara Conference with a 1–4 record. On 8 March 2022, the team won its first game in the league after defeating hosts DUC 98–92.
In 2022 and 2023, Beira won its fourth and fifth national championship, behind league MVP Will Perry.
Beira returned to the 2023 BAL season and played in the Nile Conference. On 30 April, Will Perry scored 41 points in Beira's 109–97 win over SLAC, which tied the league record for most points in a single game by a player.
El Ferroviário da Beira también ha tenido éxito en el baloncesto internacional, habiendo ganado la Copa Africana de Campeones de Clubes de Baloncesto Masculino en 3 ocasiones, la Copa Africana de Clubes Campeones de Baloncesto Masculino en 2 ocasiones y la Copa de África de Baloncesto Masculino en 1 ocasión.
El equipo está formado por jugadores mozambiqueños y extranjeros. Entre sus jugadores más destacados se encuentran:
* Carlos Matsinhe
* Custódio Muchate
* Edson Mutombo
* Eusébio Filipe
* Fernando Mandlate
* Francisco Manhique
* Ivan Machava
* João Mazive
* Jorge Massingue
* José Costa
* Júlio Massingue
* Leonardo Novela
* Manuel Curio
* Marcos Macuácuá
* Mário Sumbane
* Osvaldo Macuácua
* Paulo Macuácua
* Pedro Macuácua
* Rogério Mandlate
* Rui Massingue
* Sérgio Macuácua
* Telmo Macuácua
* Venâncio Machabane
El Ferroviário da Beira es un equipo muy popular en Mozambique y tiene una gran afición. El equipo juega sus partidos en casa en el Pavilhão do Ferroviário da Beira, que tiene una capacidad de 5.000 espectadores.