ZESCO United
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| Full name | Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation United Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | Team Ya Ziko, Zegalacticos, Zega Mambo, Team Zega |
| Founded | 1974 |
| Ground | Levy Mwanawasa stadium, Ndola, Northern Zambia |
| Capacity | 49,800 |
| Chairman |
 Kenneth Muteto |
| Manager |
 Zlatko Krmpotić
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| League | Zambian Super League |
| 2017 | 1st |
Zesco United Football Club is a Zambian professional football club based in Ndola that plays in the Zambian Premier league. Founded on January 1, 1974, the club have spent most of their history in the top tier of Zambian football. The club's home ground is the 49,800-seat Levy Mwanawasa stadium in Ndola, Northern Zambia, where they have played their home games since the ground was opened in 2012.
The club is wholly owned and sponsored by the state-owned electricity supplier ZESCO.
ZESCO United had their first major success in 1980, winning the old Zambian Division One. After a barren trophy-less spell, they added to that success in the late 2000s as they won another Zambian Division One title in 2003, the FAZ Premier League in 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2014, the Barclays Cup in 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2014, the Zambian Charity Shield in 2007 and 2011, the 2006 Mosi Cup, and the 2007 Zambian Coca Cola Cup.
Zesco United was founded in 1974. They became the first Zambian club to qualify for the CAF African Champions League Group stage in 2009. ZESCO United are one of only 3 Zambian clubs including Nkana and Green Buffaloes who hold an all-time unbeaten home record against non-Zambian opposition. ZESCO United also became the first Zambian Club this century to play against European opposition when they played against Zenit Saint Petersburg in Abu Dhabi in 2008.
They reached their first-ever semi-finals of the CAF African Champions League after a 2-2 draw away to Egyptian league champions Al Ahly in Matchday 5 of the Champions' League quarter-final group stage.
They extended their all-time unbeaten home record against non-Zambian teams to 26 games on Saturday, September 17, 2016, after a 2-1 home win against South African league champions Mamelodi Sundowns FC in the CAF African Champions League.
Zesco United are the Zambian club with the largest number of foreign players in the country. In the 2015 season, a Nigerian, Kenyan, and Tanzanian flavor was added to the team with the arrivals of Ayo Oluwafemi and Christopher Chigozie (both from Nigeria), as well as David Owino from Kenya and Juma Luzio from Tanzania. The previous season saw the arrival of Togolese defender Emmanuel Mathias.
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