Ferroviário de Maputo (basketball)

Ferroviário de Maputo
Nickname	Os Locomotivas (The Locomotives)
Leagues	Mozambican League
Founded	1960s
History	Clube Ferroviário de Lourenço Marques (1924–1976) Clube Ferrioviário de Maputo (1976–present)
Arena	Pavilhão do Maxaquene
Capacity	3,500[1]
Location	Maputo, Mozambique
Team colors	Green and white
President	Isidro Amade
Head coach	Milagre Macome
Championships	9 Mozambican League
Website	fermaputo.co.mz
Home Away Third

Clube Ferroviário de Maputo is a basketball club based in Maputo, Mozambique. The team competes in the Mozambican League. In the Mozambican League, Maputo has won eleven national titles.^[2] Ferroviário played in the 2021 season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL).

The parent club found in October 1924 as Clube Ferroviário de Loruenço Marques, as the city of Maputo was named Loruenço Marques until 1976. The club was only active in football, until the basketball section was founded in the 1960s.^[3]

In 1962, the basketball club won its first national championship. In 1975, the team won two national championship as well.^[4]

Then, it took 30 years for Ferroviário to return at the top of Mozambican basketball, as the team won its next national championship in 2005.

In December 2019, Maputo qualified for the first season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL).^[5] In the inaugural BAL season, Ferroviário finished second in Group C and as such clinched a playoff spot behind star players Álvaro Masa and Myck Kabongo.^[6] In the quarter-finals, the team narrowly lost to Rwandan hosts Patriots (71–73), and was eliminated from the tournament.

In the following years, Ferroviário would lose the national league play-offs to their arch-rivals Ferroviário da Beira.

Liga Moçambicana de Basquetebol^[7]

• Winners (11): 1962, 1975, 1975a, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

Ferroviário de Maputo roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Age SG 00 Macuiana, Muhambi 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) 24 – (2000-11-03)3 November 2000 G 1 Chimonzo, Baggio 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) 31 – (1992-12-13)13 December 1992 F 2 Martins, Hugo 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 29 – (1995-03-12)12 March 1995 SF 5 Holland, Demarcus (I) 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 30 – (1994-03-02)2 March 1994 PG 10 Kabongo, Myck (I) 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 32 – (1992-01-12)12 January 1992 PF 15 Calvo Masa, Álvaro (I) 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 41 – (1983-03-27)27 March 1983 F 21 Caifaz, Milton 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 32 – (1992-06-16)16 June 1992 SG 22 Dinis, Stélio 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 30 – (1993-11-25)25 November 1993 PF 23 Biosse, Yuran 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) 31 – (1993-01-02)2 January 1993 PF 24 Muchate, Custódio 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 43 – (1981-05-06)6 May 1981 PF 32 Baru, Adjehi (I) 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 33 – (1991-10-12)12 October 1991 SG 33 Uamusse, Manuel 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 34 – (1990-10-15)15 October 1990 C 34 Chire, Inélcio 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 33 – (1991-06-01)1 June 1991	Head coach Milagre Macome Assistant coach(es) Marti Mas Zamora Legend (C) Team captain (I) Import player Injured Roster Updated: 16 May 2021

Mozambican League MVP

• Álvaro Calvo – 2018, 2019

• Basketball Africa League presentation
• Ferroviário de Maputo at Afrobasket.com