Five people were reportedly killed after the 45.000 capacity crowd match on Saturday 15 September, at the Estádio 11 de Novembro, including two children who were trampled and/or suffocated to death while exiting the stadium.

The Angolan Ministry of Youth and Sports in a statement regretted the incident, expressed condolences to the relatives and vowed to launch an investigation.

[1][2][3] In 2018, they reached the semi-finals of the champions league where they were unfairly eliminated in a second-leg 4–2 defeat to Espérance Tunis with a heavily biased, shameful performance by referee Janny Sikazwe.

Source: [2] The heavily biased performance of Zambian referee Janny Sikazwe positively prevented D'Agosto from reaching the finals.

The renowned referee had a disgraceful performance during the entire match, completely ignoring the rules of the game and clearly siding with the home team.