{"id":236076,"date":"2026-06-12T05:31:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-fc-cabinda-thrashes-maritimo-de-benguela-returns-to-top-division\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T05:31:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:31:53","slug":"angola-fc-cabinda-thrashes-maritimo-de-benguela-returns-to-top-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-fc-cabinda-thrashes-maritimo-de-benguela-returns-to-top-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: FC Cabinda Thrashes Mar\u00edtimo De Benguela, Returns to Top Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Cabinda \u2014 FC Cabinda thrashed Maritimo Futebol Clube de Benguela 5-1 on Saturday and secured a spot in the national first division football championship, 14 years after being relegated to the second division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">With this victory in the 18th and final round, the home team finished the competition with 36 points, compared to 32 for Sporting de Luanda and 30 for Nacional de Benguela, who finished in second and third positions, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Speaking in a post match press conference, FC Cabinda&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606080569.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinda \u2014 FC Cabinda thrashed Maritimo Futebol Clube de Benguela 5-1 on Saturday and secured a spot in the national first division football championship, 14 years after being relegated to the second division. With this victory in the 18th and final round, the home team finished the competition with 36 points, compared to 32 for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":236077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,9623,12354,13653,54601,257,5068,254,23766,7319],"class_list":["post-236076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-benguela","tag-cabinda","tag-division","tag-maritimo","tag-news","tag-returns","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thrashes","tag-top"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}