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Hawassa City Sport Club (Amharic: ሀዋሳ ከተማ ስፖርት ክለብ), also known as Hawassa Kenema, is a professional Ethiopian football and basketball club based in Hawassa. The football team plays in the Ethiopian Premier League, the top division in Ethiopian football.
History
Hawassa lifted the trophy in the 2003–04 season beating Lideta Nyala SC, and picked up the Ethiopian cup in the following season. Zelalem Shiferaw was the manager of the team. The club delivered its second Premier League title in the 2006–07 Season.
Hawassa Kenema participated in the 2005 and 2008 CAF Champions League, getting knocked out at the preliminary round each time. They made one appearance in the CAF Confederations Cup (2006), another tournament which they also exited in the preliminary round.
Ghanaian defender Lawrence Lartey joined Hawassa Kenema SC on a one-year contract in October 2017.
In November 2016, at beginning of the 2016–17 season, goalkeeper Kibreab Dawit along with his two children died due to an accident at his home in Hawassa. Kibreab Dawit was the second choice goalkeeper at the time and managed 6 starts since the start of the 2014–15 season.
During the 2017–18 season the team fired its head coach Wubetu Abate, his assistant Zelalem Shiferaw served as interim coach until the end of the season.
On August 5, 2018, the club announced that had agreed to a two-year contract with Addise Kassa, formerly the manager of Welkite City FC, to become the next head coach of the club.
Hawassa City FC hat in seiner kurzen Geschichte einige Erfolge erzielt, darunter den Gewinn des äthiopischen Pokals im Jahr 2014 und die Teilnahme an der CAF Confederation Cup in den Jahren 2015 und 2017.
Der Verein trägt seine Heimspiele im Hawassa Stadium aus, das eine Kapazität von 10.000 Plätzen hat. Die Vereinsfarben sind rot und blau.
Zu den bekanntesten Spielern, die für Hawassa City FC gespielt haben, gehören Girma Bekele, Saladin Said und Yared Aweke.
Der derzeitige Trainer des Vereins ist Yared Kassaye.