Stade Abdoulaye Nakoro Cissoko
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Stade Abdoulaye Nakoro Cissoko is a multi-use stadium
in Kayes
, Mali
. It is currently used mostly for football
matches. It serves as a home ground of AS Sigui
. It also hosted some matches for the 2002 African Cup of Nations. The stadium holds 15,000 people and was opened in 2001.
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 Kayes
Kayes
Kayes is a city in western Mali on the Sénégal River, with a population of roughly 100,000 people. Kayes is the capital of the administrative region of the same name. The name "Kayes" comes from the Soninké word "karré", which describes a low humid place that floods in rainy season...
, 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...
. 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. It serves as a home ground of AS Sigui
AS Sigui
AS Sigui is a Malian football club based in Kayes. At the end of the 2006/7 season they were relegated from the Malien Premiere Division to the in the D1 in Malian football. Their home stadium is Stade Abdoulaye Nakoro Cissoko....
. It also hosted some matches for the 2002 African Cup of Nations. The stadium holds 15,000 people and was opened in 2001.