Société Omnisports de l'Armée, commonly known as SOA, is an Ivorian

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

club based in

Yamoussoukro Yamoussoukro (; , locally ) is the ''de jure'' capital of Ivory Coast and an autonomous district. As of the 2014 census, Yamoussoukro is the fifth most populous city in Ivory Coast with a population of 212,670. Located north-west of Abidjan, t ...

. The team competes in the

Ivorian Basketball Championship The Ivorian Basketball Championship is the premier basketball league for clubs in Ivory Coast. The league consist out of ten teams. The most notable team in the league's history is ABC Fighters, who won 21 titles. The champions of the national ch ...

and was founded in 1932. The basketball section is a part of the same-named multi sports club. In 2021, SOA won its first-ever Ivorian championship after defeating

ABC Fighters Abidjan Basket Club Fighters, commonly known as ABC Fighters, is an Ivorian basketball club based in the city of Abidjan. Founded in 1997, the team is the most successful men teams in the country, with 19 national championships won, and one contine ...

in two games. Asshe Kokoun was named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the tournament.

Honours

*Champions (1): 2021

Players

Current roster

The following is the SOA roster in the

2022 BAL Qualifying Tournaments The qualification tournaments for the 2022 BAL season were the qualification rounds for the second season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). The tournaments began on 19 October 2021 and ended 16 December 2021. The competition consisted out of ...

Head coaches

* Franck Sylva * Coulibaly Larry * Sosthène Koné: (2023-present)

References

External links

Official Facebook page
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