AFCON 2025: All you need to know about Burkina Faso
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All original articlesEliminated in the round of 16 in 2023, Burkina Faso will land in Morocco for the AFCON 2025 with clear objectives. They are clearly aiming for the trophy. Led by the local technician Brama Traoré, the Burkinabe selection has individual and collective arguments to go to the end of the competition.
The country
Capital: Ouagadougou
Area: 274 200 million km2
Population: 23,409,000 inhabitants
Official language: Mooré, French
Inhabitants: Burkinabe/ Burkinabè
Motto: "The Fatherland or Death, We Will Prevail"
Team nickname: Les Etalons
Burkina Faso and the AFCON
Title: 0
Final: 1
Participations before AFCON 2025: 13
Host country: 1 (1998)
Course at the AFCON
1978: eliminated in the first round
1996: eliminated in the first round
1998: 4th
2000: eliminated in the first round
2002: eliminated in the first round
2004: eliminated in the first round
2010: eliminated in the first round
2012: eliminated in the first round
2013: finalist
2015: eliminated in the first round
2017: 3rd
2021: 4th
2023: round of sixteen
Assessment at the AFCON
52 matches played
10 victories
17 draws
25 defeats
51 goals scored
78 goals conceded
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Georgi Minoungou, new dynamiter of the Stallions?
He is the new rising star of the Burkinabe selection. Having been talked about since the Club World Cup with the Seattle Sounders in MLS, Georgi Minoungou continues to progress. The 23-year-old right winger has become a regular member of the national team and an offensive reinforcement. He was added to Bertrand Traoré, Dango Ouattara, Lassina Traoré... to have a fierce attack in Morocco.
Despite his one-eyed handicap, Georgi Minoungou ignored everything to show his qualities. He is powerful, technical and adroit in goal. This season with the Seattle Sounders, he scored 3 goals and delivered 10 assists in 34 games in all competitions.
After 6 caps with the Stallions, Minoungou scored his first two goals. It was in a friendly match during the last international break against Benin during the 3-0 victory. For his first African Cup of Nations, the native of Batiebly-Douibly only wants the trophy.
« Our goal is to go win at the AFCON. I am ready and the whole team is ready. The atmosphere of the group is good and this is very important. We are going to go to Morocco to give everything for the nation,"
he said after the friendly match against Benin, in Mohammédia, Morocco.
Brama Traoré aims for the trophy in Morocco
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A few weeks after the elimination of Burkina Faso in the eighth finals at the 2023 AFCON and the dismissal of Frenchman Hubert Velud, the Burkinabe Federation officialized Brama Traoré on March 11, 2024. Since then, the technician has been in charge of the national team with a record of 11 wins, 4 draws and 5 defeats in 20 matches.
Brama Traoré built a strong defensive team based on careful and organized play. The coach advances by being ambitious before the competition. For him, Burkina Faso is ready to go lift the trophy after being a finalist in 2013 and third and 2017. Only the final victory is missing from the Stallions' record.
“We have to go get the cup. We were silver medalists, bronze. We want to write a glorious page of our history and that will go through a victory in the final. That’s our ambition. We are working on this goal,"
he said at the press conference for the publication of the list, last Monday.
The tone is already set. Housed in group E with Algeria, Equatorial Guinea and Sudan, Burkina Faso begins its adventure at the 2025 against the Nzalang Nacional on Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:30 GMT, at the Mohammed-V stadium in Casablanca.