Binga

Eighty-six minutes into the 2021 Malian Cup final, Binga FC led Stade Malien 2-0. Stade Malien scored twice in that stretch and then again after the whistle should have come, finishing 3-2. Binga went home with a runners-up medal and nothing else.

Binga won the Championnat D2 Ligue de Bamako in 2022, promotion that put the club into the Malian Première Division for the first time since it was formed in 2009.

It comes from Commune V, the district of Bamako where Binga is based.

Issaka Samaké came through at Binga before his career took him to Stade Malien and then to Horoya in Guinea; he has since won 18 caps for Mali, including appearances at the African Nations Championship. Boua Diarra, a right winger born in 2006.

Across the city, Académie FC provides the fixture Bamako pays most attention to.

Binga plays its home matches at the Stade Mamadou Konaté, a 10,000-seat ground in Bamako carrying the club's red, white, green and blue.