Stade Amari Daou
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Stade Amari Daou is a multi-use stadium
in Ségou
, Mali
that seats 15,000 people and was opened in 2001. It is currently used mostly for football
matches and serves as a home ground of AS Biton
. It has also hosted matches for the 2002 African Cup of Nations.
Stadium
A modern stadium is a place or venue for outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.)Pausanias noted that for about half a century the only event...
in Ségou
Ségou
Ségou is a city in south-central Mali, lying northeast of Bamako on the River Niger, in the region of Ségou. It was founded by the Bozo people, on a site about from the present town...
, 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...
that seats 15,000 people and was opened in 2001. It is currently used mostly for 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...
matches and serves as a home ground of AS Biton
AS Biton
AS Biton is a Malian football club based in Ségou. They play in the Malian Second Division, with their last appearance in the Premiere Division coming in the 2006/07 season. Their home stadium is Stade Amari Daou.-References:...
. It has also hosted matches for the 2002 African Cup of Nations.