ASFAN Niamey

ASFAN
	ASFAN
Basic data
Surname	Association Sportive des Forces ; Armées Nigériennes
Seat	Niamey
president	Djibrilla Hima Hamidou
First soccer team
Venue	Stade du Camp Bagagi Iya
Places	5,000
league	Ligue 1
2018/19	4th Place
home	Away

The Association Sportive des Forces Armées Nigériennes (ASFAN) is a football club from Niamey in Niger and is the army club of the Nigerien armed forces in Niamey. The club plays its home games at the Stade du Camp Bagagi Iya . For larger games, the games also take place in the General Seyni Kountché Stadium .

history

In 1971 the club won its first title, followed four years later by the second championship.

In 1995 they reached the final of the Nigerien Football Cup and won 3-1 on August 3 against Liberté FC . By winning the Cup in 1996, they were entitled to participate in the West African Club Championship for short "WAFU Club Cup". On December 8, 1996 they beat the East End Lions from Sierra Leone in the final and were the first and so far only team from Niger that could win an international title.

Since 2001 they have always been one of the best teams in the league. In 2004 ASFAN and thirteen other clubs boycotted against the downgrading of Zumunta AC . That year the championship was canceled.

One of the club's best players, Moussa Maâzou , was “sold” to Sporting Lokeren in Belgium in January 2008 . A year later, CSKA Moscow signed him . ASFAN allegedly received a transfer fee of 327 million CFA francs BCEAO (approx. 490,500 euros ) for him.

In 2009 they were allowed to take part in the CAF Confederation Cup , as champions and cup winners AS Police Niamey competed in the CAF Champions League . As there has never been such a situation in Nigerien football, runner-up ASFAN was preferred to cup finalist Akokana FC . But it was over in the preliminary round. They then won the Nigerien Cup for the second time and were allowed to take part in the 2010 CAF Confederation Cup . There they reached the quarter-finals or the group stage, but then said goodbye to two points and as the bottom of the group from the tournament.

In 2010 ASFAN won the double, which is the first time in the club's history to take part in the CAF Champions League . But already in the preliminary round was over after a 0-0 defeat in Niamey and a 3-0 away defeat at the Ivorian runner-up Jeunesse Club d'Abidjan .

In 2016 and 2017, the club was able to win the championship again, but was eliminated both times in the preliminary round of the following Champions League season.

titles and achievements

Nigerien Master : 1971, 1975, 2010, 2016, 2017
Nigerien Cup: 1995, 2009, 2010
WAFU Club Cup : 1996

Statistics in the CAF competitions

CAF Champions League : 3 participation

2011 - preliminary round

2017 - preliminary round

2018 - preliminary round

CAF Confederation Cup : 2 participations

2009 - preliminary round

2010 - group stage (quarter-finals)

competition	round	opponent	First leg	Return leg

CAF Confederation Cup 2009	Preliminary round	Gabon USM Libreville	2: 1 (A)	0: 0 (H)
CAF Confederation Cup 2010	Preliminary round	Ivory Coast Issia Wazi FC	2: 0 (H)	1: 2 (A)
	1 round	Tunisia Étoile Sportive du Sahel	1: 0 (H)	1: 2 (A)
	1. Round of 16	Congo Democratic Republic Daring Club Motema Pembe	1: 0 (A)	0: 0 (H)
	2nd round of 16	Sudan Al-Merrikh Khartoum	2: 2 (A)	2: 1 (H)
	Group stage	Mali Djoliba AC	0: 0 (H)	0: 1 (A)
		Sudan Al-Hilal Khartoum	2: 4 (A)	0: 0 (H)
		Libya Al-Ittihad Tripoli	0: 1 (H)	0: 4 (A)
CAF Champions League 2011	Preliminary round	Ivory Coast Jeunesse Club d'Abidjan	0: 0 (H)	0: 3 (A)
CAF Champions League 2017	Preliminary round	Ivory Coast AS Tanda	0: 3 (A)	3: 1 (H)
CAF Champions League 2018	Preliminary round	Guinea-a Horoya AC	1: 3 (H)	0: 0 (A)