Atlético Sport Aviação, usually known simply as Aviação (or by the acronym ASA), is a football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club from Luanda

Luanda

Luanda, formerly named São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda, is the capital and largest city of Angola. Located on Angola's coast with the Atlantic Ocean, Luanda is both Angola's chief seaport and its administrative center. It has a population of at least 5 million...

, Angola

Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...

, founded in 1953. The club won its first title, the Angolan Cup, in 1995.

Before Angola's independence, the club was known as Atlético de Luanda .

Two players from Aviação represented Angola at their first World Cup

FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...

 in 2006

2006 FIFA World Cup

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: Jamba

João Pereira Jamba

João Pereira , is an Angolan footballer, who currently plays for AS Aviacao.-Career:Jamba is an archetype of old fashioned defending. He is often very reliable and consistent.-International career:...

 and Love

Arsenio Cabungula

Arsénio Sebastião Cabúngula or Love is an Angolan footballer. He has been Angolan top scorer twice in 2004 and 2005. He plays as a forward for Primeiro de Agosto in his home country. He has won 3 Girabola titles with AS Aviação....

.

Achievements

• Angolan League
  Girabola
  Girabola is the top division of Angolan football, and it is organized by the Angolan Football Federation.The league winner and runner-up qualify for the CAF Champions League.- History :...
  
  : 3

2002, 2003, 2004.

1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 (colonial champions)

• Angolan Cup
  Angolan Cup
  The Angolan football Cup is the main "knockout" cup competition in Angolan football.The competition was established in 1982 following an unofficial cup competition won by Nacional in 1980 and by TAAG in 1981...
  
  : 3

1995, 2005, 2010.

• Angolan SuperCup
  Angolan SuperCup
  The Angolan football SuperCup is a two matches competition in Angolan football, played between the Girabola champions and the Angolan Cup winners.-Finals:*1988 : Petro Atlético bt Ferroviário da Huíla...
  
  : 6

1996, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011.

Performance in CAF competitions

• CAF Champions League
  CAF Champions League
  The CAF Champions League is an annual international club football competition run by the Confederation of African Football . The top club sides from Africa's football leagues are invited to participate in this competition, which is the premier club football competition on the continent and the...
  
  : 4 appearances

2003 - Group Stage

2004 - Second Round

2005

CAF Champions League 2005

The CAF Champions League 2005 started on 29 January 2005 with a preliminary round. The two legs of the final were played on 28 October and 12 November, with Egypt's Al-Ahly coming out as 3-0 aggregate winners.-Preliminary Round:...

 - Second Round

2006

CAF Champions League 2006

The CAF Champions League 2006 started on 17 February 2006 with a preliminary round. The second leg of the final was played in Tunisia on the 11th of November. Al-Ahly won the tournament for the second time in a row with a late winner by Mohamed Aboutreika....

 - Preliminary Round

• CAF Confederation Cup
  CAF Confederation Cup
  The CAF Confederation Cup is an international club association football competition run by the Confederation of African Football.-Qualification:...
  
  : 2 appearances

2005

CAF Confederation Cup 2005

The CAF Confederation Cup 2005 started with the preliminary round that was played in January and February 2005. FAR Rabat of Morocco beat Dolphins F.C. of Nigeria in the final.-Preliminary round:1st legs played 30 January 2005....

 - Intermediate Round

2011

2011 CAF Confederation Cup

The 2011 CAF Confederation Cup is the 8th edition of the Confederation Cup organized by the Confederation of African Football . The winners will play in the 2012 CAF Super Cup.-Association team allocation:...

 - Preliminary Round

• CAF Cup
  CAF Cup
  The CAF Cup was an annual competition organised by the CAF for domestic leagues runner-ups of member associations who haven't qualified to one of the two pre-existing CAF international club competitions the African Cup of Champions Clubs or the African Cup Winners' Cup.-Format:Only runner-ups of...
  
  : 3 appearances

1993 - Semi-Finals

2001

2001 CAF Cup

The 2001 CAF Cup was the 10th edition of the CAF Cup, the African continental club competition for runners up of the respective domestic leagues. It was won by Algerian team JS Kabylie who beat Étoile Sportive du Sahel of Tunisia on the away goals rule in the final, after the two teams finished...

 - Second Round

2002

2002 CAF Cup

The 2002 CAF Cup was the 11th edition of the CAF Cup, the African continental club competition for runners up of the respective domestic leagues. It was won by Algerian team JS Kabylie who beat Tonnerre Yaoundé of Cameroon 4-1 over two legs in the final...

 - First Round

• CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 3 appearances

1982 - First Round

1994 - First Round

1996 - First Round

Stadium

The club plays their home matches at Estádio Joaquim Dinis

Estádio Joaquim Dinis

Estádio Joaquim Dinis is a multi-use stadium in Luanda, Angola. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Atlético Sport Aviação. The stadium holds 10,000 people and was built in 2003....

, which has a maximum capacity of 10,000 people.

Current squad 2010/11

Former notable players

Jacinto Pereira Love Yamba Asha

Yamba Asha

Yamba Asha João is an Angolan footballer. He currently plays for Atlético Petróleos Luanda in Angola.-Career:A defender, Asha used to play for AS Aviação in his homeland and is a member of the Angola national football team, collecting 49 caps by the end of 2005.However, the left-back was excluded...

 Rehan Ali