Djoliba Athletic Club
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| Full name | Djoliba Athletic Club |
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| Founded | 1960 |
| Ground | Stade 26 Mars, Bamako |
| Capacity | 55,000 |
| Manager | Karounga Keita |
| Coach |
 Abderrazak Ahmad Shaheen |
| League | Malien Première Division |
| 2013–14 | 5th |
Djoliba Athletic Club is a Malian football club and one of the two biggest teams in Mali alongside the Stade Malien. 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 FEMIFOOT, 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.
With 22 football championship titles, it may have the most titles of any of the beginner/amateur top/level competitions in the world, overall, it is one of the highest in the world, being around the top twenty.
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 , 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, Tiekoro Bagayoko was gone in 1978 after his arrest, yet Djoliba kept obtaining titles and cups. Today, it is reputed to be the biggest and the most organized soccer club in Mali.
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