Issoufou Dayo
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File:Dayo Burkina Faso (cropped).jpg Dayo with Burkina Faso in 2022 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Issoufou Sellsavon Dayo | ||
| Date of birth | 6 August 1991 | ||
| Place of birth | Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso | ||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Position | Centre-back[1] | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Umm Salal | ||
| Number | 26 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2011–2013 | RC Bobo Dioulasso | ||
| 2013–2014 | Étoile Filante de Ouagadougou | ||
| 2014–2016 | AS Vita Club | ||
| 2016–2025 | RS Berkane | 209 | (29) |
| 2025– | Umm Salal | 1 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2012– | Burkina Faso | 70 | (9) |
Medal record | |||
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 25 May 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 10 October 2024 | |||
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Issoufou Sellsavon Dayo (born 6 August 1991) is a Burkinabé professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Umm Salal and the Burkina Faso national team.[1][2] Issoufou Dayo featured in the AFCON 2021 third place match against Cameroon.[3]
Club career
[edit | edit source]Dayo played for RC Bobo Dioulasso and Étoile Filante de Ouagadougou in Benin, then for AS Vita Club in Congo DR, before joining RS Berkane in Morocco. On 25 October 2020, he scored the winning goal for RS Berkane in a 1–0 victory over Egyptian club Pyramids FC in the 2020 CAF Confederation Cup Final.[4]
International career
[edit | edit source]In January 2014, coach Brama Traore, invited him to be a part of the Burkina Faso squad for the 2014 African Nations Championship.[5][6] The team was eliminated in the group stages after losing to Uganda and Zimbabwe and then drawing with Morocco. He was part of the squad in the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations which is his first African cup. In the team's first game he scored a 75th-minute equalizer to gain a point for his nation. This is to date his only goal for his country.[7][8]
Career statistics
[edit | edit source]- Scores and results list Burkina Faso's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Dayo goal.
Honours
[edit | edit source]Étoile Filante de Ouagadougou
AS Vita Club
RS Berkane
- Botola Pro: 2024–25
- Moroccan Throne Cup: 2017–18, 2020–21, 2021–22; runner-up: 2024–25
- CAF Confederation Cup: 2019–20, 2021–22, 2024–25; runner-up: 2018–19, 2023–24
- CAF Super Cup: 2022
Burkina Faso
- Africa Cup of Nations third place: 2017
Individual
- Botola Pro Best Foreign Player of the Season: 2021–22[10]
- Burkina Faso Player of the Year: 2022–23, 2024–25
Records
- RS Berkane all-time top scorer: 49 goals.
References
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External links
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- 1991 births
- Living people
- Burkinabe men's footballers
- Footballers from Bobo-Dioulasso
- 21st-century Burkinabe sportsmen
- Burkina Faso men's international footballers
- Men's association football central defenders
- Burkina Faso men's A' international footballers
- 2014 African Nations Championship players
- 2017 Africa Cup of Nations players
- 2021 Africa Cup of Nations players
- 2023 Africa Cup of Nations players
- RC Bobo Dioulasso players
- Étoile Filante de Ouagadougou players
- AS Vita Club players
- RS Berkane players
- Umm Salal SC players
- Burkinabe Premier League players
- Linafoot players
- Botola players
- Qatar Stars League players
- Burkinabe expatriate men's footballers
- Burkinabe expatriate sportspeople in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Expatriate men's footballers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Burkinabe expatriate sportspeople in Morocco
- Expatriate men's footballers in Morocco
- Burkinabe expatriate sportspeople in Qatar
- Expatriate men's footballers in Qatar
- Burkinabe football biography stubs