ASFAN Niamey

The Association Sportive des Forces Armées Nigériennes or ASFAN short is a football club based in Niamey in Niger and is the Army Club in Niamey. Play their home games from the club at the Stade du Camp Bagagi Iya. For larger games, the games are also held in the General Seyni - Kountché Stadium.

History

After starting the Nigerien football championship in 1966 managed to get her title ASFAN 1971, four years later, the second championship.

In 1995, she reached the final of the Niger Football Cup and won on Aug. 3 with a 3-1 win against the Liberté FC. By the Cup victory in 1996 they were entitled to the participation of West African Club Championship in short " UFOA Cup". On December 8, 1996, she beat in the final of the East End Lions of Sierra Leone and were the first and so far only team from Niger, who won an international title.

Since 2001, she is always among the best teams in the league. 2004 boycotted ASFAN and thirteen other clubs against the demotion of Zumunta AC. This year, the championship was canceled.

One of the best players of the club, Ouwo Moussa Maazou was sold in January 2008 to Sporting Lokeren in Belgium. A year later signed him CSKA Moscow. ASFAN allegedly got him a transfer fee of 327 million CFA Franc BCEAO (about 490,500 Euros ).

In 2009 they were allowed to participate in the CAF Confederation Cup, as champion and cup winner AS Police Niamey took in the CAF Champions League. Since it has never before been such a situation in the Niger soccer, got runner- ASFAN in preference to Cup finalist Akokana FC. But in the first round was over. Then they won for the second time the Nigerien Cup and were allowed to participate in the CAF Confederation Cup 2010. There you reached the quarterfinals or the group stage, but then said goodbye to two points, and as a group Last of the tournament.

2010 ASFAN won the Double, so took for the first time in club history at the CAF Champions League. But in the first round was after a 0-0 draw in Niamey and a 0-3 away defeat at the Ivorian runner- Jeunesse Club d' Abidjan conclusion.

Achievements

  • Niger Premier League: 1971, 1975, 2010
  • Nigerien Cup: 1995, 2009, 2010
  • WAFU Club Cup: 1996

Performance in CAF competitions

  • CAF Champions League: 1 participation
  • CAF Confederation Cup: 2 appearances

Former Players

  • Ibrahima Sory Bangoura of Guinea ( National Player of Guinea and participants at the African Cup of Nations 2012)
  • Niger Ouwo Moussa Maazou
  • Niger squad Amadou Dodo
  • Niger Issoufou Boubacar
  • Niger William N'Gounou
  • Niger Issiakou Koudizé
  • Niger Jimmy Bulus
East End Lions F.C. West African CFA franc 2010 CAF Confederation Cup 2011 CAF Champions League Issoufou Boubacar Garba
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