ASC Diaraf

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ASC Diaraf
ASC Diaraf.gif
Full name Association Sportive et Culturelle Diaraf
Founded 9 May 1933
Ground Stade de Diaraf
Dakar, Senegal
Ground Capacity 10,000
Manager Abdoulaye Sarr
League Senegal Premier League
2014/15 12th

Association Sportive et Culturelle Diaraf is a Senegalese football club based in Dakar. They play in the top division in Senegalese football. Their home stadium is Stade de Diaraf. The club name is sometimes spelt ASC Jaraaf. The word Diaraf (French spelling in Senegal) or Jaraaf (Serer and English spelling in the Gambia) comes from the Serer language - Jaraaf, variation :Jaraff. The Jaraffs were the head of the Serer noble council of electors responsible for electing the Serer kings in pre-colonial times.[1]

Its current manager is Abdoulaye Sarr in the 2014/15 season.

Logo and uniform

Its team colors are blue and white.

Its home uniform color is white with green stripes and green shorts and green t-shirt with white stripes and white shorts for away games.

Uniform history
Home uniform 2010
Away uniform 2010

History

The club was founded on 9 May 1933 in the then-colonial capital Dakar. Till 1968 or 1969 the club was called Foyer France Sénégal.

Their first title was a cup title won in 1967 and won two straight. Their first championship title was won in 1968 and later had their first appearance in the African Cup of Champions Clubs in 1968 and lost to FAR Rabat. Before the end of the 1960s, the club changed its name to ASC Diaraf. Diaraf won three consecutive titles between 1975 and 1977, in cup titles, Diaraf won two (1982 and 1983) and then three consecutive (1993-1995) in the club. Diaraf became the second and most recent to win their tenth title in the long 2003-04 season with a record-breaking 72 points, the club won their eleventh and recent title in 2010. Since 1976, Diaraf has the most number of national championships won, first with six titles which would be shared with ASC Jeanne d'Arc in 1986, later with seven the following season, eight in 1995, nine in 2000 which was shared by the same club in 2002 and was ranked second as Jeanne d'Arc had the totals until it was shared in 2004, now Diaraf has the most with eleven titles, one ahead of ASC Jeanne d'Arc. In cup titles, the club won two consecutive between 1982 and 1983, three consecutive between 1993 and 1995 and again two consecutive between 2008 and 2009. Their recent title win is the Senegal FA Cup in 2013 and their total is fifteen, the most number in Senegal. The other cup win, the Assemblée Nationale totals three.

African competitions

Diaraf later appeared in African competitions and lost to Stade Malien in the 1971 African Cup of Champions Clubs, in 1976, they defeated Os Balantas with a total of 10 goals and later Togo's Lomé I, Diaraf lost to Guinea's Hafia FC in the semis, a year later, they challenged ASC Garde Nationale from Mauritania and Hearts of Oak from Guinea. Five years later, Diaraf started in the preliminaries of the 1983 African Cup of Champions Clubs and headed up to the semis where they lost to Asante Kotoko FC. Diaraf challenged with three clubs up to CS Sfaxien in 1996 African Cup of Champions Clubs. In 2001 and under the new name CAF Champions League, Diaraf challenged Real de Banjul from the neighbouring Gambia and then lost to ASEC Mimosas by the away goals rule of one point. Three years later, Diaraf challenged with ASFAG and Enyimba in the 2004 CAF Champions League.

Diaraf's appearance in the African cup competitions was in 1984 where they challenged with the Mighty Blackpool and Al-Ahly Tripoli. In 1986, they challenged with Starlight FC from the neighboring Gambia and won 4-3 in penalties and CS Hammam-Lif from Tunisia and lost under the away goals rule of two points. Their third competition in 1992 faced with ASFAG and lost with two points. The next competition was the CAF Cup in 1999 and faced FC Man and WAC Casablanca. A decade later, Diaraf returned and this time under the CAF Confederation Cup in 2009 and lost to ASF Bobo-Dioulasso in the preliminaries, their recent competition was in 2014 where they lost to Ebusua Dwarfs by a total of one goal.

Achievements

1968, 1970, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1982, 1989, 1995, 2000, 2004, 2010.
1967, 1968, 1970, 1973, 1975, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2008, 2009, 2013.
1987, 1991, 2003.
1948.

League and cup history

Performance in CAF competitions

1999 – Second Round
Ivory Coast FC Man
Morocco WAC Casablanca
1984 – Second Round
1986 – Second Round
The Gambia Starlight FC
CS Hammam-Lif
1992 – First Round
Lost to Guinea ASFAG

National level

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA GD P Cup AN Cup Notes Final Phase
1981 1 9 26 8 8 10 34 32 +2 24 Finalist
1982 1 1 26 - - - - - - - Winner
1984 1 5 26 - - - - - - 28
1990-91 1 4 30 12 12 6 36 20 +16 36 Winner Winner
1991-92 1 5 30 11 13 6 31 17 +14 35 Finalist
1992-93 1 2 28 - - - - - - 52 Winner
1995 1A 1 16 8 5 3 23 12 +11 29 Winner Advanced into playoffs Champion
1997 1 8 26 - - - - - - 31
1998 1 2 26 - - - - - - 46
1999 1 6 26 7 14 5 22 18 +4 35
2000 1 1 22 9 10 3 20 9 +11 37
2000-01 1 4 26 10 11 5 22 12 +10 41
2001-02 1 6 26 8 9 8 16 20 -4 33
2002-03 1 2 26 12 11 3 28 11 +17 47 Winner
2003-04 1 1 38 20 12 6 54 22 +32 72 Finalist
2005 1 2 34 13 15 6 26 12 +14 54
2006 1A 2 16 7 7 2 16 8 +8 28 Advanced into the Second phase
2 6 4 2 0 12 4 +8 14 2nd place
2007 1B 5 16 5 3 8 10 18 -8 18 Did not advance Did not participated
2008 1B 4 18 7 8 3 16 11 +5 29 Winner Did not advance Did not participated
2009 1A 2 16 6 6 4 15 10 +5 24 Winner Advanced to the finals second place
2010 1B 1 16 8 7 1 22 3 +19 31 Advanced to the finals Champion
2010-11 1 2 30 11 14 5 31 23 +8 47
2011-12 1B 3 14 7 4 3 17 8 +9 25 Did not advance Did not participate
2013 1 4 30 11 13 6 29 20 +9 46 Winner
2013-14 1 2 26 13 9 4 36 22 +14 49
2014-15 1 11 26 7 8 11 27 31 -4 29

Statistics

  • Best position: Semi-finals (continental)
  • Highest number of wins in a season: 20 (national)
  • Highest number of goals in a season: 54 - national record
  • Highest number of points in a season: 72 - national record

Squad

As of February 2014. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Senegal GK Cheikh Bamba Thioub
2 Senegal MF Ibrahima Sory Soumah
3 Senegal FW Assane Diop
4 Senegal DF Matar Kanté
5 Senegal MF Hassane Fall
6 Senegal MF Lamine Bara Ndong
7 Senegal FW Baba Kebe
8 Senegal MF Alioune Badara Tendeng
9 Senegal FW Ibrahima Diop
10 Senegal FW Ibou Diouf
11 Senegal FW Boubacar Bâ
12 Senegal DF Babacar Seck
13 Senegal DF Khalifa M'Bengue
No. Position Player
14 Senegal MF Idrissa Niang
15 Senegal MF Fidel Gomis
16 Senegal GK Oumar Ba
17 Senegal DF Mame Moussa Ndoye
18 Senegal FW Pape Ciré Dia
19 Senegal FW Pape Faye
20 Senegal MF Yamadou Bathily
21 Senegal MF Mademba Diaw
22 Senegal DF Pape Sène
24 Senegal FW El Hadji Tafsir Samba
25 Senegal DF Alioune Fall
26 Senegal MF Pape Mor Diop

Famous players

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Managers

References

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External links

  1. ↑ Sarr, Alioune, "Histoire du Sine-Saloum", Introduction, bibliographie et Notes par Charles Becker, Bulletin de l'IFAN, Tome 46, Serie B, n° 3-4, 1986–1987, pp 21-30
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