Djoliba Ac

The team is based in the capital city of Bamako. It has its headquarters and three training stadia at Complex Sportif Hérémakono, in the Heremakono Quartier. The President of Djoliba AC, re-elected in 2009 to a four-year term, is Karounga Keita a Vice President of the Malian Football Federation, former trainer at the club, who was a player at the founding of the club in 1960. Djoliba or Joliba is the name of the Niger River in the Bamana language. Not only a football club, Djoliba AC is an Omnisports club which fields teams in many sports, and is operated as a membership organisation with an elected board.

Djoliba AC

Full name	Djoliba Athletic Club
Founded	1960
Ground	Stade 26 Mars, Bamako
Capacity	50,000
President	Oumarou Diabaté
Manager	Sékou Seck
League	Malien Première Division
2022–23	2nd
Home colours Away colours
Current season

The club was created in 1960 by a fusion of "Africa Sport" Bamako and "Foyer du Soudan", two successful teams during French Colonial rule.

The team was helped a lot during the 1970s by officer Tiécoro Bagayoko, a prominent member of the ruling military dictatorship of president Moussa Traoré. Many critics of Djoliba AC, especially coming from the rival Stade Malien, claim that the strength of the club was built during that period.

However, Bagayoko was gone in 1978 after his arrest, yet Djoliba kept winning titles and cups. Today, it is reputed to be the biggest and the most organized soccer club in Mali.

Malien Première Division 2007/08

2008 was a year of great success for Djoliba, having finished the year before in second place to their cross-town rivals, Djoliba handily took the cup and league double in 2008. Reigning champions from the 2007 Malien Première Division, Stade and Djoliba sat atop the standings the entire season, with Djoliba leading by a small but consistent margin in the run up to the final games. Their 7 July derby match was postponed to August, and although they lost this match their rivals, Stade faltered where Djoliba were consistent, finishing the season 9 points ahead of Stade. The only Cup meeting between the two rivals in the season was in the Semi-finals of the Malien Cup, where Stade faced the humiliation of a 5–0 drubbing by Djoliba.

Bamako District Mayor's Cup

Djoliba's one failure came at the end of the season, losing the "Coupe du Maire du District": the Bamako District Mayor's Cup to arch rivals Stade Malien. But while Stade made it to the final, its victory over Djoliba came from legal, rather than on the field factors. In the 44th minute of the match, Djoliba supporters rioted, attacking officials, other fans, and journalists. The match was called off, and several days later, awarded to Stade. Djoliba were fined 500.000 F cfa, all payments for previous matches were withdrawn, and they were excluded form the 2009 competition. Stade received the trophy and a 750,000 F Cfa award from the Mayor of Bamako Adama Sangaré on 23 September.

2008/09 Season

Djoliba competed in 2008–09 Malian Première Division, beginning in December 2008. They began the season successfully, taking the Super Coupe National du Mali on 6 December against Club Olympique de Bamako 5–2. The Super Coupe launches the regular schedule by pitting the previous years' League and Cup winners. As Djoliba won both, they faced last years' Coupe du Mali runner up, COB.

Djoliba AC today

In 2010, Djoliba celebrated its 50th anniversary of the merger and foundation of the club.

Their last championship win was in 2012 and their last super cup win was in 2013.

Djoliba appeared at group stage in the 2012 CAF Confederation Cup, they challenged with AC Léopards of the Republic of the Congo, Morocco's WAC Casablanca and brought Mali's largest rivalry to the cup competition, Stade Malien, Djoliba defeat that club in two matches. Djoliba advanced to the semis and defeated a Sudanese club and challenged with AC Léopard's in the finals and lost to that club, there, they made the greatest position in the continental competitions for Djoliba.

In the 2017 season, Djoliba was 8th place and had two wins and a draw and had seven points before the abandonment as FEMAFOOT was dissolved by the government mainly by an undetermined reason on 9 March, over a week later, FIFA suspended the Malian Football Federation on 17 March which meant all Malian clubs competing at the continental level were banned until 7 May. The reason was that money that the Ministry of Sport gave to the clubs. The least problem of the

Djoliba appeared in the 2017 CAF Confederation Cup and faced Egypt's al-Masry. Djoliba defeated that club 2–0, as a result of the March 2017 dissolution by the government, al-Masry was awarded against Djoliba 0–3 in the away match somewhere on 18 March. The season was halted and in early May, the Federation was restored, their next challenge would be with Kita, that 6th round match is on hold. Their first challenge since the restoration was on 8 May, a 7th round match where the club defeated Black Stars 0–5 in Badalabougou.

Djoliba plays at Stade 26 Mars. The club trains at Complex Sportif Hérémakono, in the Heremakono Quartier.

Its rivalry is with Stade Malien forming the nation's largest rivalry known as the Grand Derby. Real Bamako is Djoliba's other rivalry being called the Bamako Derby and the nation's second largest.

League

• Malien Première Division
  • Champions (23): 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2022.

Cup

• Malien Cup
  • Winners (20): 1965, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2022.
• Super Coupe National du Mali
  • Winners (7): 1993, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2008, 2012, 2013.

Performance in CAF competitions

Djoliba's results in CAF competition

Season	Competition	Qualification method	Round	Opposition	Home	Away	Aggregate
1967	African Cup of Champions Clubs	Malian champions	Second Round	Invincible Eleven			w/o1
			Quarterfinals	Hafia FC	2–1	0–0	2–1
			Semifinals	Hearts of Oak	1–1	2–1	2–1
1972	African Cup of Champions Clubs	Malian champions	First Round	ASFA Ouagadougou	1–0	1–3	4–1
			Second Round	ASFA Dakar	2–0	2–0	2–2 2
			Quarterfinals	Hafia FC	2–1	3–0	2–4
1974	African Cup of Champions Clubs	Malian champions	Second Round	Bendel Insurance	2–0	1–0	2–1
			Quarterfinals	CARA Brazzaville	0–0	3–0	2–1
1975	African Cup of Champions Clubs	Malian champions	Second Round	Mighty Blackpool	2–0	0–1	3–0
			Quarterfinals	Lomé	1–1	3–2	3–4
1976	African Cup of Champions Clubs	Malian champions	First Round	Real de Banjul	2–0	0–2	4–0
			Second Round	Hafia FC	2–1	2–0	2–3
1977	African Cup of Champions Clubs	Malian champions	First Round	UDIB	5–0	0–1	6–0
			Second Round	SC Gagnoa	1–1	1–3	4–2
			Quarter-Finals	Lomé	2–0	1–0	2–13
1980	African Cup of Champions Clubs	Malian champions	First Round	AS Niamey	2–0	0–1	3–0
			Second Round	Hearts of Oak	1–1	1–0	1–2
1981	CAF Cup Winners' Cup	Malian Cup winners	First Round	RC Daloa	1–0	2–1	2–2 (a)
			Second Round	AC Semassi	3–0	0–1	4–0
			Quarterfinals	Gor Mahia FC	2–0	1–0	2–1
			Semifinals	Stationery Stores	0–0	1–0	0–1
1982	CAF Cup Winners' Cup	Malian Cup winners	First Round	Requins de l'Atlantique FC	1–0	0–0	1–0
			Second Round	Union Douala	3–0	0–1	4–0
			Quarterfinals	AS Vita Club	1–0	0–0	1–0
			Semifinals	Power Dynamos FC	0–0	2–1	1–2
1983	African Cup of Champions Clubs	Malian champions	First Round	Hafia FC	0–0	1–0	0–1
1984	CAF Cup Winners' Cup	Malian Cup winners	First Round	Great Olympics	0–4	0–0	0–4
1985	CAF Cup Winners' Cup	Malian Cup winners	First Round	MP Oran	0–0	2–0	0–2
1989	African Cup of Champions Clubs	Malian champions	First Round	Horoya AC	1–0	0–0	1–0
			Second Round	Mighty Blackpool	0–0	1–2	1–2
1991	African Cup of Champions Clubs	Malian champions	Preliminary Round	ASC Port Autonome	1–0	0–0	1–0
			First Round	Club Africain	0–0	2–0	0–2
1992	CAF Cup		First Round	USC Bobo Dioulasso	2–1	1–0	2–2 (a)
1993	African Cup of Champions Clubs	Malian champions	Preliminary Round	ASC Sonader Ksar	1–0	1–1	2–1
			First Round	ASEC Mimosas	1–1	2–0	1–3
1994	CAF Cup Winners' Cup	Malian Cup winners	First Round	NA Hussein Dey	0–0	2–0	0–2
1995	CAF Cup		First Round	SM Sanga Balende	2–0	1–0	2–1
			Second Round	Shooting Stars	2–0	1–0	2–1
			Quarterfinals	Inter Brazzaville	0–2	1–2	1–3
1997	CAF Champions League	Malian champions	First Round	Club Africain	1–1	3–2	3–4
1998	CAF Champions League	Malian champions	First Round	Hearts of Oak	0–0	1–0	0–1
2000	CAF Champions League	Malian champions	First Round	Cotonsport Garoua	2–0	3–1	3–3 (a)
			Second Round	Raja Casablanca	2–1	2–1	2–1 (2–4 p)
2002	CAF Cup		First Round	NPA FC	3–0	2–1	4–2
			Second Round	Maranatha FC	1–0	2–1	2–2 (a)
			Quarterfinals	JS Kabylie	0–0	2–1	1–2
2003	CAF Cup		First Round	FC 105 Libreville	3–1	3–0	3–4
2005	CAF Champions League	Malian champions	First Round	Douanes (Dakar)	1–1	1–0	1–2
2008	CAF Confederation Cup	Malian Cup winners	First Round	Satellite FC	2–0	1–0	2–1
			Second Round	AS Mangasport	3–1	1–2	5–2
			Third Round	Club Africain	0–0	0–0	0–0 (3–5 p)
2010	CAF Champions League	Malian champions	Preliminary Round	Al-Ahly Benghazi	1–0	0–0	1–0
			First Round	ASC Linguère	1–0	1–0	1–1 (4–3 p)
			Second Round	TP Mazembe	0–1	3–0	0–4
	CAF Confederation Cup	Malian Cup winners	Second Round	CR Belouizdad	0–0	1–1	1–1 (a)
			Group Stage4	Al-Hilal Club	2–0	2–1	3rd
				AS FAN	1–0	0–0
				Al-Ittihad Tripoli	0–1	2–0
2011	CAF Champions League	Malian champions	First Round	East End Lions	2–0	0–2	4–0
			Second Round	ASC Diaraf	1–1	3–0	1–4
2012	CAF Champions League	Premiere Division runner-up	First Round	URA SC	2–0	0–2	4–0
			Second Round	Sunshine Stars	1–1	1–0	1–2
	CAF Confederation Cup	Malian Cup winners	Round of 16	Club Africain	2–0	2–0	2–2 (4–3 p)
			Group Stage4	AC Léopards	1–1	3–0	1st
				Stade Malien	2–1	2–0
				WAC Casablanca	2–1	1–2
			Semifinals	Al-Hilal Club	2–0	2–0	2–2 (7–6 p)
			Finals	AC Léopards	2–2	2–1	3–4
2013	CAF Champions League	Premier Division runner-up	First Round	Saint George SA	1–1	2–1	2–3
2015	CAF Confederation Cup	Malian Cup winners	First Round	Petrojet	2–2	1–2	4–3
			Second Round	Hearts of Oak	1–2	0–1	2–2 (a)
2017	CAF Confederation Cup	Malian Cup winners	Preliminary Round	al-Masry	2–0	3–04	2–3
2018	CAF Confederation Cup	Malian Cup winners	Preliminary Round	ELWA United			w/o5
			First Round	APR F.C.	1–0	2–1	2–2(a)
			Play-off Round	MFM F.C.	0–0	0–1	1–0
			Group Stage	Enyimba F.C.	0–1	2–0	4th
				CARA Brazzaville	2–0	1–0
				Williamsville AC	1–1	0–0
2018–19	CAF Confederation Cup	Malian Cup runners-up	Preliminary Round	Génération Foot	0–1	0–0	0–1
2019–20	CAF Confederation Cup	Malian Cup runners-up	First Round	Maranatha FC	1–1	1–2	3–2
			Play-off Round	Elect-Sport FC	4–0	1–0	5–0
			Group Stage	Horoya	0–0	1–0	3rd
				Al-Nasr	0–1	1–1
				Bidvest Wits	1–0	0–2
2022–23	CAF Champions League	Malian champions	First Round	Deportivo Mongomo	5–0	2–0	5–2
			Second Round	CR Belouizdad	2–1	2–0	2–3

¹Invincible Eleven withdrew
² The match was finished 2-0 in favour of Djoliba, ASFA refused to play the penalty shootout due to arbitration, they were to be banned from CAF competitions for three years, no ban was put as ASFA Dakar participated the following season after winning their second championship title
³Djoliba was disqualified for not paying their debts to the CAF
⁴FIFA suspended the Malian Football Federation on 17 March 2017 which meant all Malian clubs such as Djoliba were banned from participating in African football competitions, in early May, the suspension has been lifted.
⁵Djoliba won on walkover after ELWA United withdrew.

WAFU Club Championship

Djoliba's results at the WAFU Club Championship

Season	Competition	Qualification method	Round	Opposition	Home	Away	Aggregate
1987	WAFU Club Championship		Preliminary Round	Sierra Fisheries	1–0	1–1	2–1
			Quarterfinals	Stella Club d'Adjamé	0–2	1–1	1–3
1990	WAFU Club Championship		Preliminary Round	ETICS Thiès	0–3	3–2	6–3
			Quarterfinals	Okwahu United	N/A	N/A	Qual.
			Semifinals	Sierra Fisheries	1–0	1–1	2–1
			Finals	ASEC Abidjan	0–1	1–1	2–1

National level

• Best position: Semifinals (continental)
• Best position at cup competitions: Finalist (continental)

as of 8 April 2014

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   MLI Cheick Sy 3 MF   CIV Fidelle Ndri 4 DF   MLI Foe 5 DF   MLI Samba Diallo 6 DF   MLI Guimballa Oulé Tounkara 8 MF   MLI Soumaïla Sidibé 9 MF   MLI Amara Mallé 10 MF   MLI Hamidou Sinayoko 12 DF   MLI Idrissa Traoré (Captain) 14 MF   MLI Seydou Diallo 15 FW   MLI Lassana Diarra

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 GK   MLI Cheick Oumar Bathily 17 FW   MLI Drissa Ballo 18 MF   MLI Rato 19 MF   CYP Konstantin Konstantinou 21 MF   GUI Ismaël Camara 22 GK   MLI Adama Kéïta 23 DF   MLI Mahamadou Cisse 24 FW   MLI Seydou Traoré 26 DF   MLI Abedi Traoré 28 FW   MAR Nasser Abbas 30 FW   MLI Aboubacar Traore

Head coach

•   Abderrazak Chlih

Djoliba AC also fields both a men's and women's basketball team that play in the Ligue 1, the top national divisions. The men's team has won two Malian Cups (in 1965 and 1966).