South Sudan Premier League champions Jamus FC Juba beat two Ethiopian top division winners Al-Bunn Club also known as Ethiopian Coffee Sport Club to win the Golden Cup at Addis Ababa International Stadium.
The Liberian duo Sebastian Teclar and Jegbay Konneh signed during the mid season transfer period in January this year were on target for the Jamus to clinch their first silverware in 2026 and the first South Sudanese club to secure a title abroad.
Teclar was signed from four times Liberian Premier League champions Liberian International Shipping & Corporate Registry Football Club (LISCR FC) while Konneh joined the South Sudanese outfit from Football Club Garouis, a Liberian third-division football team focused on elite youth development.
Ethiopian Coffee Sport Club was formed in 1976, when the employees of Kefa Coffee Processing decided to establish a football club. After gathering the required number of players, the club was registered as Coffee Board Sport Club on the kebele level in order to take part in local tournaments.
The club then moved to playing in the AEWA Factory workers Association level, the third division of Ethiopian football at the time. Funded largely by the Kefa factory workers at the time, the club offered its players employment at the factory as an incentive to keep them at the club.
As a result, players would work the morning shift at the factory and then play football in the evenings. Thus, the first official name of the club became, “Yenegat Kokebe” (lit. ’Morning Star’) in reference to early raising factory workers who were also part-time footballers.
The club won the first division title for the first time in its history in the 1996–97 season represented Ethiopia in the 1998 CAF Champions League.
Ethiopian Coffee were triumphant in their 2010–11 campaign, winning the Ethiopian Premier League Title. The club had to defeat Muger Cement F.C. on the last match day to secure its second top tier league trophy.
