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Doumbia Seydou
Seydou Doumbia (; born 31 December 1987) is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a forward. After beginning his career in the Ivory Coast and Japan, he arrived in Europe in 2008 to play for Swiss club Young Boys, where he was the top scorer and player of the year in the Swiss Super League in both of his seasons. In 2010, he signed for CSKA Moscow for a reported fee of €15 million, where he won six domestic honours and was twice the Russian Premier League's top scorer. He was transferred to Roma in 2015, and spent much of his tenure out on loan, including the 2016–17 season at Basel, where he won the league, Swiss Cup and was top scorer for a third time. Doumbia made his international debut for the Ivory Coast in 2008. He was part of their squads at the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the Africa Cup of Nations in 2012 and 2015, winning the latter tournament. Club career Early career Doumbia started his career at the Inter FC youth academy and started playing at s ...
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FC Basel
Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss professional Association football, football club based in Basel, in the Basel-Stadt, Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been List of Swiss football champions, Swiss national champions 21 times, Swiss Cup winners 14 times, and Swiss League Cup winners once. Basel competed in UEFA competitions for 25 consecutive seasons between 1999–2000 and 2023–2024. They have qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League, Champions League more times than any other Swiss club – a total of seven times – and are the only Swiss club to have ever qualified to the said phase directly. In 2021, they set the new record for a Swiss team with the most successful international group stage campaign by reaching 14 points in their Europa Conference League group. Since 2001, the club has played its home games at St. Jakob-Park, built on the site of their previous home, St. Jakob St ...
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Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ...
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Athletic Bilbao
Athletic Club (; ), commonly known as Athletic Bilbao (), or simply Athletic, is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in the city of Bilbao in the Southern Basque Country, Basque Country, Spain. They are known as ''Lehoiak'' (The Lions) because their stadium was built near a church called ''San Mamés'', which was named after Saint Mammes of Caesarea, Saint Mammes, an early Christian thrown to the lions by the Roman Empire, Romans. Mammes pacified the lions and was later made a saint. The team plays its home matches at the San Mamés Stadium. Its home colours are red and white striped shirts with black shorts. Athletic are the fourth most successful club in ''La Liga'' with eight titles to their name. In the table of titles, Athletic is second only to Barcelona, having won it 24 times. It is also the most successful Basque football club in both league and cup titles won. The club also has one of the most successful Athletic Club Femenino, wom ...
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Gorka Iraizoz
Gorka Iraizoz Moreno (born 6 March 1981) is a Spanish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper, currently manager of Gernika Club. He spent most of his professional career with Athletic Bilbao, appearing in 392 official games. In La Liga he also represented Espanyol and Girona, winning the 2006 Copa del Rey with the first club. Club career Early career and Espanyol Iraizoz was born in Pamplona, Navarre and raised in nearby Ansoáin. After beginning his football career with local club UDC Chantrea, he moved to the Basque Country with Athletic Bilbao, serving stints with affiliates CD Basconia and Bilbao Athletic. Arriving at RCD Espanyol in July 2002, Iraizoz spent two seasons with its B side, also having a loan spell at SD Eibar in the Segunda División. He made his La Liga debut on 21 December 2005, in a 2–1 away win against Deportivo de La Coruña. He was second choice behind Carlos Kameni for the 2006–07 season, but was the regular in the team's run to the fi ...
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2008–09 Swiss Super League
The 2008–09 Swiss Super League was the 112th season of top-tier football in Switzerland. The competition was officially named ''AXPO Super League'' due to sponsoring purposes. It began on 18 July 2008 with a match between Young Boys Bern and reigning champions FC Basel, which the latter won by 2–1. The last matches were played in May 2009. Teams FC Thun were relegated after finishing in 10th and last place in 2007–08 Swiss Super League. They were replaced by Challenge League 2007–08 champions FC Vaduz, who are the first team from Liechtenstein participating in Switzerland's top football league. 9th placed FC St. Gallen and Challenge League runners-up AC Bellinzona competed in a two-legged relegation play-off after the end of last season. Bellinzona won 5–2 on aggregate and thus earned promotion, while St. Gallen were relegated. League table Results Teams play each other four times in this league. In the first half of the season each team played every other t ...
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FC Rapid București
Fotbal Club Rapid 1923, commonly known as Rapid București () or simply as Rapid, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in Bucharest, that competes in the Liga I. It was founded in 1923 by employees of the Grivița workshops as the ''Asociația Culturală și Sportivă Căile Ferate Române, CFR'' (). Domestically, Rapid București is one of the most successful clubs in the country, having won three national titles, 13 Cupa României, and four Supercupa României. Internationally, its highest achievements are reaching the quarter-finals of the 1972–73 European Cup Winners' Cup, 1972–73 Cup Winners' Cup and the 2005–06 UEFA Cup, and the final of the 1940 Mitropa Cup—the latter not being played because of World War II. Recently, the club was declared bankrupt in 2016, but was refounded and managed to return to the top flight in 2021. From 1939, Rapid played its home matches in burgundy and white Kit (association football), kits at the Stadi ...
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Côte D'Ivoire Premier Division
The Ivory Coast Ligue 1 LONACI is the top division of the Ivorian Football Federation. It was created in 1960. 2024−25 Ligue 1 clubs * AF Amadou Diallo * ASEC Mimosas * Bouaké FC * CO Korhogo * Denguélé * Mouna * FC San Pédro * LYS FC * RC Abidjan * SOA FC * SOL FC * Stade d'Abidjan * SC d'Adjamé Champions *1956: Africa Sports (Before Independence) *1960: Onze Frères de Bassam (1) *1961: Onze Frères de Bassam (2) *1962: Stade d'Abidjan (1) *1963: ASEC Mimosas (1) *1964: Stade d'Abidjan (2) *1965: Stade d'Abidjan (3) *1966: Stade d'Abidjan (4) *1967: Africa Sports (1) *1968: Africa Sports (2) *1969: Stade d'Abidjan (5) *1970: ASEC Mimosas (2) *1971: Africa Sports (3) *1972: ASEC Mimosas (3) *1973: ASEC Mimosas (4) *1974: ASEC Mimosas (5) *1975: ASEC Mimosas (6) *1976: SC Gagnoa (1) *1977: Africa Sports (4) *1978: Africa Sports (5) *1979: Stella Club d'Adjamé (1) *1980: ASEC Mimosas (7) *1981: Stella Club d'Adjamé (2) *1982: Africa Sports (6) *1983: Africa ...
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2010 FIFA World Cup
The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's national Association football, football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010. The FIFA World Cup hosts#2010 FIFA World Cup, bidding process for hosting the tournament finals was open only to African nations. In 2004, the international football federation, FIFA, selected South Africa over Egypt and Morocco to become the first African nation to host the finals. The matches were played in #Venues, 10 stadiums in nine host cities around the country, with the opening and final played at the Soccer City stadium in South Africa's largest city, Johannesburg. Thirty-two teams were selected for participation via a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification, worldwide qualification tournament that began in August 2007. In the #Group stage, first round of the tournament finals, the teams competed in Round-robin tournament, round-robin ...
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Swiss Cup
The Swiss Cup (; ; ; ) is a football cup competition that has been organised annually since 1925–26 season by the Swiss Football Association. The Swiss Cup final is usually the most important game of the year with a high attendance. The competition is also shaped by games in the first rounds when villages celebrate the tie of their club with a professional team leading to infrastructure improvements and often thousands of spectators at the local football pitch. Since 1999 the cup winners earns the chance to qualify for the UEFA Europa League or the UEFA Conference League in accordance with the rankings of Switzerland in the UEFA coefficient. History Forerunners Before the foundation of the Swiss Cup, there were two attempts at creating a Swiss football cup competition: the Anglo Cup (1909-1913) and the Och Cup (1920-1922). Anglo Cup and winners The Anglo Cup was played from 1909–1910 to 1912–1913. Och Cup and winners The Och Cup (named after the sporting goods ...
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Russian Premier League
The Russian Premier League (RPL; , ''Rossiyskaya premyer-liga''; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is a professional association football league in Russia and the highest level of the Russian football league system. It was established at the end of 2001 as the Russian Football Premier League (RFPL; ; РФПЛ) and was rebranded with its current name in 2018. From 1992 through 2001, the top level of the Russian league system was the Russian Football Championship (, ''Chempionat Rossii po Futbolu''). There are 16 teams in the competition. As of the 2021/22 season, the league had two Champions League qualifying spots for the league winners and league runners-up, and two spots in the UEFA Conference League were allocated to the third- and fourth-placed teams. However, those have all been suspended due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, along with the national team's participation in international competitions. The last two teams are relegated to the Russian First Leag ...
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Swiss Super League
The Super League (also known as the Credit Suisse Super League for sponsorship reasons) is a professional association football league in Switzerland and the highest level of the Swiss football league system. It has been played in its current format since the 2003–04 season. As of March 2024, the Swiss Super League is ranked 21st in Europe according to UEFA's ranking of league coefficients, which is based upon Swiss team performances in European competitions. The 2024–25 Swiss Super League, 2024–25 season was the 128th season of the Swiss top-flight, making it the List_of_oldest_football_competitions#Association_football, longest continuously running top-flight national league. Overview The Super League is played over 33 rounds from the end of July to May, with a winter break from mid-December to the first week of February. Each team plays each other three times, twice at home and once away, in a Round-robin tournament, round-robin. After 33 rounds, the league split i ...
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