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2016–17 Senegal Premier League
The 2016–17 Ligue 1 was the 52nd season of top-tier football in Senegal and the ninth professional season. The season began on 4 November 2016. Gorée are the defending champions. Génération Foot, a club based in Sangalkam in the east of Metropolitan Dakar (aka the Dakar Urban Area) won their only national championship title for the season and set a new club record of 52 goals and 57 points and will be appearing in the 2018 CAF Champions League in the following season. Overall it is unbeatable to ASC Diaraf's 54 goals scored in a season and their 72 points made in 2003–04 season, Génération Foot's records are one of the highest in Senegalese top flight football competition, but the highest in the professional Ligue 1. Niane was the best scorer for the season scoring a record number of 19 goals. Last two positions were ASC Linguère and US Gorée who was last year's champion, Gorée was relegated. Due to the Demba Diop stadium crush which occurred on 15 June which was not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senegal Premier League
Senegal Premier League is the top division of the Senegal Football Association, it was founded in 1966. 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. As of 2011, the league is one main table. Senegal Premier League Clubs – 2016–17 * Casa-Sports FC (Ziguinchor) * AS Douanes (Dakar) *ASC Diaraf (Dakar) *Diambars FC ( Saly Portudal) *Génération Foot (Rufisque) *US Gorée (Dakar) *Guédiawaye FC (Dakar) *ASC Linguère ( Saint-Louis) * Mbour Petite Côte* * ASC Niarry Tally (Dakar) * ASEC Ndiambour (Louga) *US Ouakam (Dakar) * Stade de Mbour *Teungueth FC Mbour Petite Côte = merger between Touré Kunda and several clubs in Mbour Previous winners *1960 : ASC Jeanne d'Arc (Dakar) *1961–63 : ''unknown champion'' *1964 : Olympique Thiès *1965 : ''unknown champion'' *1966 : Olympique Thiès *1967 : Espoir de Saint-Louis *1968 : Foyer France (Dakar) *1969 : ASC Jeanne d'Arc (Dak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senegal
Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Renndaandi Senegaali); Arabic: جمهورية السنغال ''Jumhuriat As-Sinighal'') is a country in West Africa, on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds the Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country. Senegal also shares a maritime border with Cape Verde. Senegal's economic and political capital is Dakar. Senegal is notably the westernmost country in the mainland of the Old World, or Afro-Eurasia. It owes its name to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dakar
Dakar ( ; ; wo, Ndakaaru) (from daqaar ''tamarind''), is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The city of Dakar proper has a population of 1,030,594, whereas the population of the Dakar metropolitan area is estimated at 3.94 million in 2021. The area around Dakar was settled in the 15th century. The Portuguese established a presence on the island of Gorée off the coast of Cap-Vert and used it as a base for the Atlantic slave trade. France took over the island in 1677. Following the abolition of the slave trade and French annexation of the mainland area in the 19th century, Dakar grew into a major regional port and a major city of the French colonial empire. In 1902, Dakar replaced Saint-Louis as the capital of French West Africa. From 1959 to 1960, Dakar was the capital of the short-lived Mali Federation. In 1960, it became the capital of the independent Republic of Senegal. History The Cap-Vert peninsula was settled no later than the 15th century, by the Lebu peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saly
Saly (also called Sali or Saly Portudal) is a seaside resort area in Thiès Region on the Petite Côte of Senegal, south of Dakar. It is the top tourist destination in all of West Africa and has the status of a commune. History Saly was originally a Portuguese trading post known as ''Porto de Ale'', which became ''Portudal'', and later ''Sali Portudal''. On February 24, 1984, the resort was created on a previously unoccupied tract of land near the former trading post. It was about this time that tourism began to take off in Senegal. Administration Saly is part of M'bour, Thiès. Flora The resort is located on a sandy beach lined with coconut palm trees. Population The population is difficult to quantify because of the constant stream of tourists in and out of the area as well as the number of temporary residents. It has been suggested that an average of 20,000 people live in the area at any given time. The resident population was counted at 29,945 in the 2013 census. Econ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stade Aline Sitoe Diatta
Stade Aline Sitoe Diatta is a multi-use stadium in Ziguinchor, Senegal. It was named after Aline Sitoe Diatta, a Diola woman regarded by many as the only woman who stood against the colonialist push into Casamance. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as a home ground of Casa Sport. The stadium holds 10,000 people, and was built to host the 1992 African Cup of Nations. Located in the northern part of the city of Ziguinchor, it has been plagued by its poor pitch, because the stadium was built on what used to be a rice field, rendering it unusable during the rainy season. However, recent efforts by local authorities to change the pitch into a synthetic turf were successful. During the group stage times, the first leg of the 2009 Ligue 1 finals took place with its first match at the stadium, the club ended in a scoreless draw with ASC Linguère. The first continental competition featuring Casa Sport was held at the stadium was the African Cup of Champions Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ziguinchor
Ziguinchor (; wo, Siggcoor ; ar, زيغينكور) is the capital of the Ziguinchor Region, and the chief town of the Casamance area of Senegal, lying at the mouth of the Casamance River. It has a population of over 230,000 (2007 estimate). It is the seventh largest city of Senegal, but largely separated from the north of the country by The Gambia. Unlike the semi-arid to arid north of Senegal, as it is under the influence of the West African Monsoon, Ziguinchor has a tropical savanna climate, with an average annual accumulated rainfall of approximately . Etymology There are several competing etymologies for Ziguinchor's name. The most well-known comes from the time when Portuguese traders and explorers came to the region to form a trading post, and derives from Portuguese ''Cheguei e choram'', "I came and they cry". The local people, seeing the Europeans, began crying, thinking they were about to be enslaved. The name, however, likely predates the Portuguese arrival, as the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stade ASEC Ndiambour
Louga ( ar, لوجا; Wolof: Luga) is a town in northwestern Senegal. Louga is a cattle market centre, and has road and rail links with the port city of Saint-Louis to the northwest and Dakar to the southwest. The area surrounding Louga is at the northern limits of Senegal's peanut- (groundnut-) growing area and is inhabited by the Fulani, who are generally pastoral nomads, and the Wolof, who are sedentary farmers. Louga is located in what is called the Ndiambour, which used to be part of the Cayor province. In 2013, according to official figures from the (ANSD), Louga had a population of 104,000 inhabitants. Administration Louga is both the capital of the Louga department and of the Louga region. The administrative region of Louga was formed in 1976, divided into 3 departments with 11 districts and 48 communities. There are 7 municipalities. The Louga region is made up of 3 departments: * Louga * Kebemer * Linguere Geography The closest towns are Dagadj, Bayakh, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louga
Louga ( ar, لوجا; Wolof: Luga) is a town in northwestern Senegal. Louga is a cattle market centre, and has road and rail links with the port city of Saint-Louis to the northwest and Dakar to the southwest. The area surrounding Louga is at the northern limits of Senegal's peanut- (groundnut-) growing area and is inhabited by the Fulani, who are generally pastoral nomads, and the Wolof, who are sedentary farmers. Louga is located in what is called the Ndiambour, which used to be part of the Cayor province. In 2013, according to official figures from the (ANSD), Louga had a population of 104,000 inhabitants. Administration Louga is both the capital of the Louga department and of the Louga region. The administrative region of Louga was formed in 1976, divided into 3 departments with 11 districts and 48 communities. There are 7 municipalities. The Louga region is made up of 3 departments: * Louga * Kebemer * Linguere Geography The closest towns are Dagadj, Bayakh, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touré Kunda Foot-Pro
Touré is the French transcription of a West African surname (English transcriptions are '' Turay'' and '' Touray''). The name is probably derived from ''tùùré'', the word for 'elephant' in Soninké, the language of the Ghana Empire. The clan existed as kings of Zaghari on the middle Niger before the Moroccan invasion of Ghana. A theory of their origin holds that the Touré are descended from the "Roum," pre-Arab North African soldiers, and local women.Massing, Andrew W., ''The Wangara, an old Soninke Diaspora in West Africa?'', Cahiers d’Études africaines, 158, XL-2, 2000, pp. 281-308, https://web.archive.org/web/20070628220805/http://etudesafricaines.revues.org/docannexe6104.html, accessed 11/30/2020 People Notable people with the name include: *Touré (born 1971), American novelist and music journalist * Ahmed Touré (born 1987), Ivorian footballer *Ahmed Sékou Touré (1922–1984), Guinean politician, first President of Guinea * Aïda Touré, Gabonese poet, artist and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stade De Mbour
Stade de Mbour is a Senegalese football club based in Mbour. They currently play in the Senegal Premier League. They played the 2010 season in the top division in Senegalese football and were part of the Senegal Ligue 2. Their home stadium is Stade Municipal de Mbour. Achievements *Senegal Premier League: 0 *Senegal FA Cup: 0 *Coupe de la Ligue: 1 :: 2017. *Senegal Assemblée Nationale Cup: 2 :: 2009, 2010. * Trophée des Champions du Sénégal: 0 *Super Coupe du Sénégal Super may refer to: Computing * SUPER (computer program), or Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer, a video converter / player * Super (computer science), a keyword in object-oriented programming languages * Super key (keyboard butto ...: 0 References External linksTeam profile- ''soccerway.com'' Football clubs in Senegal Football clubs in Serer country 1960 establishments in Senegal {{Senegal-footyclub-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympique De Ngor
Olympique de Ngor is a football club from Senegal based in the neighborhood of Ngor in the northwest of Dakar. They are one of the top-flight football clubs. Stade de Ngor is their stadium used for football matches. It has a capacity of 10,000. It is the westernmost football club on the African mainland along with Almadies of Ngor, Cape Verde's Tarrafal FC de Monte Trigo (from 1956 to 2004, Sporting Clube do Porto Novo, from 2009 to 2014, Santo André were the one) is the westernmost football (soccer) club in the whole of Africa since 2014, though it is a lesser and least prominent club. History The club was founded in 1955 in Dakar in the final years of French colonial rule, later it would be based in Ngor. Not long after independence, the club headed to the 1963 cup final and the club lost 3-2 to US Rail along with the title. Olympique Ngor was in the top position of a group in Ligue 2 in 2012. Ngor participated again in Ligue 1 in many years in 2013 and finished second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ASC SUNEOR
ASC SUNEOR is a Senegalese football club based in Diourbel, which is part of the Senegal Second League or Ligue 2 (second tier) since mid 2016 after being relegated as they were 13th in Ligue 1 last season. Djourbel is also sixth in the number of major honours won in Senegal numbering six, shared with AS Police of Dakar and Casa Sports of Ziguinchor, three were won as SEIB and the other three were won as SONACOS. History The club was founded in 1950 in the city of Diourbel. Previously the club was called ''SEIB Diourbel'' (abbreviation of Société Électrique Industrielle du BAOL) until 1991 and SONACOS (abbreviation of Societé Nationale de Commercialisation de Óleagineux) until 2006. Their home stadium is Stade Municipal de Djourbel. Championship history Their first title was won in 1980, their second in 1983. The club relegated from Division 1 in 1991 under the new name of SONACOS as they were very last, they suddenly returned in the following year and continued to par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
