League Principe Island League | ||
Full name Grupo Desportivo Os Operários Manager Nestor Marimun Lopes Umbelina | ||
Grupo Desportivo Os Operários, sometimes as Sport Operários e Benfica is a football club that plays in the Principe Island League in São Tomé and Príncipe. The team is based in the island of Príncipe. The team has won four titles and is the only team in the national division to win the most titles as well as being the sixth team ever to win their first title in 1989. Their recent title was won in 2004, no titles were claimed in the 2005 and the 2006 season due to arbitrarily reasons which relegated teams into the second division, the next title would be claimed by UDAPB in 2007. The club also won two cup titles and was a finalist in 1999.
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Its club was once affiliated to Portugal's SL Benfica.
Its logo has a near-circle thick rim with blue on the left, purple in the middle and red on right. It has the club name and the club's location inside with a football (soccer ball) inside.
The club finished second in the 2011 season behind Sporting Clube do Principe