🇨🇫 Publique Sportive Mouara (Central African Republic)

Publique Sportive Mouara (Central African Republic)

Publique Sportive Mouara (also known as Sporting Mouara or Sporting Moura) was a Central African football club based in Bangui that is now largely defunct or inactive at the higher levels of the domestic game.

Founded in 1972 (initially as Publique Sportive Mourara; the name changed to Sporting Mouara around 1987), the club competed in the Central African Republic League (Ligue de Bangui / Super Ligue). It played home matches at the Barthélemy Boganda Stadium (capacity around 35,000).

They won two Central African Republic League titles in 1981 and 1986 and it also participated in continental competition, reaching the first round of the African Cup of Champions Clubs in 1982 (after advancing past Atlético Malabo of Equatorial Guinea, then eliminated by Saint-Éloi Lupopo of Zaire/DR Congo). It was drawn in the 1987 edition but withdrew.

The club was one of several Bangui-based sides that dominated the early decades of the national championship after independence (alongside Olympic Real de Bangui, AS Tempête Mocaf, Anges de Fatima/ASDR Fatima, SCAF Tocages, and others). It last appeared regularly in the top flight around the late 1990s and has since dropped to lower divisions (third division in some reports from the 2010s) or faded from competitive activity amid the country’s political instability, limited resources, and the concentration of the league almost exclusively in Bangui.

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