Académie d'Or des Archers

AOA
AOA logo
NicknameArchers
LeagueBurkinabé Men's Basketball Championship
LocationOuagadougou, Burkina Faso
Championships1 (2021)
Websiteaoa-sports.com

Académie d'Or des Archers (in English: Golden Academy of Archers), shortly AOA or Archers, is a Burkinabé basketball club based in Ouagadougou.[1] The club is an academy with several teams in the boys and girls junior level. Its men's team plays in the highest national championship.

On August 21, 2021, the Archers won the Burkinabé national championship after defeating AS Sonabhy in the final.[2][3] As a result, the team qualified to play in the 2022 qualifying tournaments of the Basketball Africa League (BAL).[4]

Honours

Burkinabé Men's Basketball Championship

Champions: 2021

Burkinabé SuperCup[5]

Winners: 2021

References

  1. ^ "Accueil". AOA Sports (in French). Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Les Archers, Champions en seniors hommes également". AOA Sports (in French). 28 August 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  3. ^ "Championnat national de basket-ball (Burkina Faso) : l'Académie d'or des archers (AOA) sacrée vainqueur de la saison 2020-2021". LeKaloum Guinée News. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Draw results for second edition of Basketball Africa League Qualifiers confirmed". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  5. ^ "Basketball-Burkina : L'Académie d'or des archers remporte la super coupe des énergies renouvelables - leFaso.net". lefaso.net (in French). Retrieved 14 October 2021.