Ligue d'AOF de Football

The Ligue d'AOF de Football was a football association in the French colonial federation of French West Africa , to which the colonies Senegal , French Sudan (today Mali ), Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso ), Niger , Mauritania , Guinea , Dahome (today Benin ) , Ivory Coast and the non-federation mandate French Togoland (today's Togo ).

In the interwar period, football, among other sports, was organized by the Commission Permanente du Sport under Captain Tricoire, but it was limited to the area of Dakar , the then capital of the Federation. During the Second World War, at the time of the Vichy regime , the Comité Fédéral des Sports was created, which now encompassed the entire territory of French West Africa. Due to internal disagreements, the football officials founded their own organization, the Ligue d'AOF de Football .

The inaugural meeting took place on March 31, 1946 in the city hall of Dakar under the chairmanship of the native arbitrator Barat. The club representatives Marcouf (Yoff), Huart ( ASC Jeanne d'Arc ), Sherer (US Bata), Alpha Touré (US Africaine), Joseph Gomis ( Foyer France Sénégal ), Lothaire ( US Gorée ), Moctar Sabara (Espérance) were also present Rufisque), Amadou Gueye (USI Dakar), Kaba Almamy (Étoile du Sud), Correa, Leconte (Club Nautique Dakar), Durand (UST Dakar), Fournier, Strebler, William and Clanet.

After the new association was recognized by the local authorities, the program for the 1946/47 season was set; the Dakar city championship and the Coupe Croix Rouge . After the federation of the mother country, the Fédération Française de Football , had donated a cup, a new cup competition was created in the spring, which was initially conceived as Coupe du Sénégal , but was renamed a competition for the entire colonial federation; Coupe d'AOF .

From 1948 until its dissolution in 1960, the year of independence for most of the colonies, Joseph Gomis was president of the association. In the early 1950s, the association became a member of the Fédération Française de Football .

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Bocar Ly: Foot-ball. Histoire de la Coupe d'AOF NEAS, Dakar 1990, ISBN 2-7236-1072-1 , p. 6f