Al Farouk de Tombouctou is a Mali

Mali

Mali , officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with...

an football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 and Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 club based in the city of Timbuktu

Timbuktu

Timbuktu , formerly also spelled Timbuctoo, is a town in the West African nation of Mali situated north of the River Niger on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. The town is the capital of the Timbuktu Region, one of the eight administrative regions of Mali...

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Football

Al Farouk were promoted for the first time to the Malien Premiere Division

Malien Première Division

Malian Première Division is the top division of football in Mali. Having been created in 1966, it is governed by the Fédération Malienne de Football. The league has been professional since 2004....

 in September 2008, after winning the Division 2, group A tournament, based in their home city of Timbuktu. They had never previously played in the nations top division, although they have competed in the promotion championship in the 2003-2006 seasons.

Achievements

• Malien second division: Group A champions

2008

• Malien Cup
  Malien Cup
  The Malien Cup is the top knockout tournament of the Malien football.-Winners:*1961 : Stade Malien 3-3 2-1 Djoliba AC *1962 : AS Real 7-1 Sonni AC *1963 : Stade Malien 6-3 Avenir...
  
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• Mali SuperCup:

Basketball

Al Farouk also field successful Men's and Women's Basketball teams, with their Men's team having been invited to the Top Eight Malian championship in 2008.