Association Sportive SONABEL
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Association Sportive SONABEL is a Burkinabé
football
club based in Ouagadougou
and founded in 1990. They play their home games at the Stade de la SONABEL
. The club and its stadium take their names from the Société Nationale d'électricité du Burkina Faso
(SONABEL; the National Electricity Company of Burkina Faso).
The club's colors are violet and white.
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated...
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...
club based in Ouagadougou
Ouagadougou
Ouagadougou is the capital of Burkina Faso and the administrative, communications, cultural and economic center of the nation. It is also the country's largest city, with a population of 1,475,223 . The city's name is often shortened to Ouaga. The inhabitants are called ouagalais...
and founded in 1990. They play their home games at the Stade de la SONABEL
Stade de la SONABEL
Stade de la SONABEL is a multi-use stadium in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Association Sportive SONABEL. The stadium holds 5,000 people....
. The club and its stadium take their names from the Société Nationale d'électricité du Burkina Faso
Société Nationale d'électricité du Burkina Faso
Société Nationale d'électricité du Burkina Faso is the national electricity company of Burkina Faso. The company represents Burkina Faso in the West African Power Pool.-External links:*...
(SONABEL; the National Electricity Company of Burkina Faso).
The club's colors are violet and white.