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CD Elá Nguema

Equatorial Guinean association football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ1023181 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sony de Elá Nguema is an Equatorial Guinean football club based in the Malabo neighborhood of Elá Nguema. The club won 8 titles in a row, from 1984 to 1991. Sony de Elá Nguema is the most successful football club from Equatorial Guinea.

Achievements

Equatoguinean Premier League: 16

1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015–16.

Equatoguinean Cup: 7

1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1992, 1997, 2004.

Equatoguinean SuperCup: 1

2011.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “CD Elá Nguema” as equatorial Guinean association football club. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984, 1991, 1985, 1986—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976. The account is most persuasive where Nguema, Equatorial and Guinean can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as equatorial Guinean association football club. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1023181. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984, 1991, 1985 and 1986.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “CD Elá Nguema”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow CD Elá Nguema primary sources, CD Elá Nguema archive and Nguema research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “CD Elá Nguema”?
  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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This entry incorporates text from “CD Elá Nguema” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.