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Union Sportive du Foyer de la Régie Abidjan-Niger (US FRAN) is a Burkinabé football club based in Bobo Dioulasso. They play their home games at the Stade Wobi Bobo-Dioulasso. The club plays in orange, white and red. It was founded in 1959, renamed USCB in 1989 and returned to the original name in 1998. Performance in CAF competitions * African Cup of Champions Clubs: 1 appearance ::1969 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the ...: First Round Association football clubs established in 1959 Football clubs in Burkina Faso 1959 establishments in Upper Volta {{BurkinaFaso-footyclub-stub ...
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Stade Wobi Bobo-Dioulasso
Stade Wobi Bobo-Dioulasso is a multi-use stadium in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Union Sportive du Foyer de la Régie Abidjan-Niger Union Sportive du Foyer de la Régie Abidjan-Niger (US FRAN) is a Burkinabé football club based in Bobo Dioulasso. They play their home games at the Stade Wobi Bobo-Dioulasso. The club plays in orange, white and red. It was founded in 1959, re .... The stadium holds 10,000 people. References Wobi Bobo {{BurkinaFaso-sports-venue-stub ...
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Bobo Dioulasso
Bobo-Dioulasso ( , ) is a city in Burkina Faso with a population of 1,129,000 (); it is the second-largest city in the country, after Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital. The name means "home of the Bobo- Dioula". The local Bobo-speaking population (related to the Mande) refers to the city simply as ''Sia''. There are two distinct dialects of Jula spoken, based on the origins of different groups of speakers. The city is situated in the southwest of the country, in the Houet Province, some 350 km (220 mi) from Ouagadougou. Bobo-Dioulasso is significant both economically (agricultural trade, textile industry) and culturally, as it is a major center of culture and music. History Early History According to local tradition, Bobo-Dioulasso was founded as Sia in the 15th century. Populated by the Oule and Dioula subgroups of the Bobo people, it became an important market center, particularly in the export of horses southwards. Sia was therefore an important link i ...
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Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km2 (105,878 sq mi). In 2024, the country had an estimated population of approximately 23,286,000. Previously called the Republic of Upper Volta (1958–1984), it was Geographical renaming, renamed Burkina Faso by then-List of heads of state of Burkina Faso, president Thomas Sankara. Its citizens are known as Burkinabes, and its Capital city, capital and largest city is Ouagadougou. The largest ethnic group in Burkina Faso is the Mossi people, who settled the area in the 11th and 13th centuries. They established powerful Mossi Kingdoms, kingdoms such as Ouagadougou, Tenkodogo, and Yatenga. In 1896, it was Colonization, colonized by the French colonial empire, French as part of French West Africa; in 1958, Upper Volta became a self-governing colony wi ...
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Burkinabé Premier League
The Fasofoot D1 is the top division of the Burkinabé Football Federation. It was created in 1961. Burkinabé Premier League clubs (2021–22) * AS Koupéla ( Koupéla) * AS Douanes (Ouagadougou) * ASEC Koudougou ( Koudougou) * ASFA Yennenga (Ouagadougou) * ASF Bobo (Bobo-Dioulasso) * AS SONABEL (Ouagadougou) * Étoile Filante (Ouagadougou) * Kiko FC (Bobo-Dioulasso) * Majestic ( Pô) * RC Bobo (Bobo-Dioulasso) * RC Kadiogo ( Kadiogo) * Royal FC (Bobo-Dioulasso) * Salitas FC (Ouagadougou) * Vitesse FC (Bobo-Dioulasso) * US Forces Armées (Ouagadougou) Previous winners Previous winners are: * 1960-61: ASF Bobo *1962: Étoile Filante *1963: USFR Abidjan-Niger * 1963-64: USFR Abidjan-Niger *1965: Étoile Filante *1966: ASF Bobo *1967: US Ouagadougou *1968: USFR Abidjan-Niger * 1969: ASFAN *1970: ASFAN *1971: ASFAN *1972: RC Bobo *1973: Jeanne d'Arc * 1974: Silures *1975: Silures *1976: Silures *1977: Silures *1978: Silures *1979: Silures *1980: Silures *1981–82 : ''No co ...
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Football (soccer)
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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African Cup Of Champions Clubs
The CAF Champions League, known for sponsorship purposes as the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League and formerly the African Cup of Champions Clubs, is an annual club football competition organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and contested by top-division African clubs, deciding the competition winners through a round robin group stage to qualify for a double-legged knockout stage, and then a home and away final. It is the most prestigious club competition in African football. The winner of the each season of the competition earns a berth for the FIFA Club World Cup, a tournament contested between the champion clubs from all six continental confederations, faces the winner of the CAF Confederation Cup in the following season's CAF Super Cup and from 2024 onwards, along with the next 4 best teams, a place in the new FIFA Intercontinental Cup. Clubs that finish as runners-up their national leagues, having not qualified for the Champions League, are eligible for t ...
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African Cup Of Champions Clubs 1969
The African Cup of Champions Clubs 1969 was the 5th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CAF region (Africa), the African Cup of Champions Clubs. It determined that year's club champion of association football in Africa. The tournament was played by 20 teams and used a knock-out format with ties played home and away. Ismaily SC from United Arab Republic won the final, and became CAF club champion for the first time, beating Congo-Kinshasa's TP Englebert, who made their third final in a row. Preliminary round 1 US Cattin withdrew. First round 1 US FRAN withdrew after the first leg. Quarter-finals 1 Asante Kotoko won after drawing of lots. Semi-finals Final Champion Top scorers The top scorers from the 1969 African Cup of Champions Clubs are as follows: External linksAfrican Cup of Champions resultsat Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (''RSSSF'') is an ...
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Association Football Clubs Established In 1959
Association may refer to: *Club (organization), an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal *Trade association, an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry *Voluntary association, a body formed by individuals to accomplish a purpose, usually as volunteers * Non profit association, a body formed by individuals to accomplish a purpose without any profit interest *Collaboration, the act of working together Association in various fields of study *Association (archaeology), the close relationship between objects or contexts. * Association (astronomy), combined or co-added group of astronomical exposures *Association (chemistry) *Association (ecology), a type of ecological community *Genetic association, when one or more genotypes within a population co-occur *Association (object-oriented programming), defines a relationship between classes of objects *Association (psychology), a connection between two or more concep ...
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Football Clubs In Burkina Faso
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' generally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called ''football'' include association football (known as ''soccer'' in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States, and sometimes in Ireland and New Zealand); Australian rules football; Gaelic football; gridiron football (specifically American football, arena football, or Canadian football); International rules football; rugby league football; and rugby union football. These various forms of football share, to varying degrees, common origins and are known as "football codes". There are a number of references to traditional, ancient, or prehistoric ball games played in many different parts of the world. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools during the 19th c ...
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