SOE Antananarivo
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Stade Olympique de l'Emyrne Antananarivo is the football section of a Malagasy sports club based in Antananarivo
Antananarivo
Antananarivo , formerly Tananarive , is the capital and largest city in Madagascar. It is also known by its French colonial shorthand form Tana....

, Madagascar
Madagascar
The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...

. They won the THB Champions League
THB Champions League
The THB Champions League is premier football league in Madagascar. The competition is played in a round-robin format between the 32 qualifying clubs from the 22 regional leagues in the country. In each of the four rounds, the teams are divided into groups of four teams, with each team playing the...

 in 2001 and were runners-up in the Coupe de Madagascar
Coupe de Madagascar
The Coupe de Madagascar is the top knockout tournament in Malagasy football. It was created in 1974.- Winners :*1974: Fortior Club de la Côte Ouest*1975: Fortior Club de la Côte Ouest*1976: Fortior Club de la Côte Ouest*1977: Fortior Club de la Côte Ouest...

 in 2003.

SOE's 2006 results were forfeited after the team scored 149 own goal
Own goal
An own net occurs in goal-scoring games when a player scores a goal that is registered against his or her own team. It is usually accidental, and may be a result of an attempt at defensive play that failed or was spoiled by opponents....

s in a match against AS Adema
AS Adema
AS ADEMA Analamanga is a Malagasy football club based in Ivato, Madagascar near Antananarivo. They have won the THB Champions League championship on two occasions, in 2002 and 2006...

 (see AS Adema 149–0 SO l'Emyrne
AS Adema 149–0 SO l'Emyrne
The world record for the highest scoreline in football , recognised by The Guinness Book of Records, is 149-0, set on 31 October 2002. AS Adema, of Toamasina in Madagascar, beat their arch-rivals Stade Olympique de L'Emyrne as the result of a pre-determined protest by SOE over refereeing...

) in protest of a refereeing decision.

SOE remained in the history books for all the wrong reasons, shown in the Guinness world records
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

 as the biggest scoreline ever, after they were thumped 149–0 by the champions AS Adema. They repeatedly were hitting the ball towards their own goal in a protest of an earlier referring decision we sparked an argument between coach and referee. The previous record was when Australia 31–0 American Samoa in a World Cup qualifying match.
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