Stade de Mbouda is a multi-use
stadium
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in
Mbouda,
Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ...
. It is currently used mostly for
football
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matches. It serves as a home ground of
Bamboutos FC
Bamboutos FC is a Cameroonian football club based in Mbouda and founded in 1966. They are a member of the Cameroonian Football Federation. Their home stadium is Stade de Mbouda.
The club was founded in 1966.
Honours
* Cameroon Première Divis ...
. The stadium holds 12,000 people.
Mbouda was selected as first of a series of ten Cameroonian cities to be part of a program to upgrade football facilities in Cameroon. Consequently, Stade de Mbouda was renovated, extended and can be ranked second stadium in the Cameroonian western province, which hosts five of overall fourteen first division teams in Cameroon. After this face lifting, that was jointly financed by the Cameroonian Football Association (FECAFOOT) and MTN (as part of social engagement), the (re)inauguration of Stade de Mbouda was scheduled on Saturday, January 31.
Football venues in Cameroon
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