Afrique Football Élite is a

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

club located in

Bamako Bamako is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Mali, with a 2022 population of 4,227,569. It is located on the Niger River, near the rapids that divide the upper and middle Niger valleys in the southwestern part of the country. Bamak ...

, Mali. They currently play in the

Malian Première Division Malian Première Division ( French: ''Première division malienne'') is the top division of football in Mali. Having been created in 1966, it is governed by the Malian Football Federation. The league has been professional since 2004. The official ...

, the top tier of Malian football. In the 2018 Malian Cup, AFE reached the semi-finals of the competition before being eliminated by Djoliba in a 1–0 defeat. In the 2021 season, AFE topped their group in the Bamako district league and qualified for the league play-off, finishing second behind Guidars FC; however, Guidars pulled out of the promotion play-off and were replaced by AFE, before AFE ultimately gained promotion to the

alongside US Bougouba.

Notable players

* Nadjib Cissé * Yaya Fofana *

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* Ange Martial Tia * El Bilal Touré * Moïse Sahi Dion

References

External links

Afrique Football Élite
at WorldFootball.net Football clubs in Mali Sport in Bamako {{Mali-footyclub-stub