Union Sportive Ouakam (estimate Wolof form: ''Wakaam''), abbreviation: USO is a
Senegal
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ese
football
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club based in
Dakar
Dakar ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Senegal, largest city of Senegal. The Departments of Senegal, department of Dakar has a population of 1,278,469, and the population of the Dakar metropolitan area was at 4.0 mill ...
in the subdivision of
Ouakam
Ouakam is a commune d'arrondissement in the city of Dakar, Senegal. The commune is the birthplace of French politicians Ségolène Royal and Rama Yade and Senegalese writer and politician Birago Diop. Ouakam is one of the four original Lebou ...
in the west of the city close to
Cap Vert
Cap-Vert, or the Cape Verde Peninsula, and Kap Weert or Bopp bu Nëtëx (in Wolof), is a peninsula in Senegal and the westernmost point of the continent of Africa and of the Afro-Eurasia mainland. Portuguese explorers called it Cabo Verde or ...
.
They play in the top division in Senegalese football. Their home stadium is
Stade de Ngor
Stade de Ngor is a multi-use stadium in Ngor in the west of Dakar, Senegal. It is currently used mostly for football (soccer), football matches and serves as a home ground of Olympique de Ngor, also Almadies plays at the stadium. The stadium hold ...
.
History
The club was founded in the 1951 by el Hadji Moussa Diagne in the last decade of French rule in Senegal.
After independence, Ouakam was becoming one of the top clubs in Senegal in the 1960s. Ouakam was suspended in the 1962–63 season and played in the second-tier competition for some time which was the lowest level in Senegal before returning to top flight competition again. The last time Ouakam played in second tier competitions was in 2003.
Ouakam win their first cup title in 1964, their second in 1989 and their recent in 2006. Ouakam won their only championship title in 2011.
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In the 2017 season, Ouakam started 6th for the 2016-17 season, they climbed to 7th at the 7th round and dropped to 13th at the 12th round and remained for four weeks, slowly, their positions risen to 12th at the 16th round, 11th at the 18th round, 10th a round later and would finish 8th place with 32 points, the club had 7 wins which was the same as Stade Mbour, Ouakam had 11 draws, more than that club. Together with Stade Mbour, they scored 22 goals which was the 12th least ahead of US Gorée
Union Sportive Gorée is a Senegalese football club based in Dakar. They play in the top division in Senegalese football. Their home stadium is Stade Demba Diop.
Achievements
*Senegal Premier League: 3
::1978, 1981, 1984.
* Senegal FA Cup: 4
::19 ...
and conceded 24 goals which was the third least, that was also the same as Niarry Tally.
Ouakam appeared at the continentals after winning their second cup title in 1990 at the Winners' Cup and advanced up to the quarterfinals where they lost to Nigeria's BCC Lions
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. They came back for the second and last time in 2007 and lost to Burkina Faso's Étoile Filante. After winning their only championship title, they made their only appearance at the 2012 CAF Champions League
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and challenged Brikama United and lost the Senegambian match in the preliminaries.
Logo
Its logo color has a crested shield with a wave below the middle of the shield, on top is coloured red and white on the bottom. On top has a shark and on the bottom right the club's name in its acronym and year of its foundation.
Its other logo has a white circle with a thin red rim with a shark on top and the club name's acronym on the bottom.
Honours
*Senegal Premier League
Ligue 1 is the top division of the Senegal Football Association, it was founded in 1960. The league also hosts a domestic cup, the Coupe de la Ligue. Football clubs from the Senegal Premier League also compete for the Senegal FA Cup. In the 2023 ...
: 1
::2011.
*: 3
::1964, 1989, 2006.
League and cup history
Performance in CAF competitions
National level
References
External links
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Football clubs in Senegal
Football clubs in Dakar
Ligue 1 (Senegal) clubs
Sports clubs and teams in Dakar
1951 establishments in Senegal
Ouakam