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Issoufou Dayo

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.

Club career

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.

International career

In January 2014, coach Brama Traore, invited him to be a part of the Burkina Faso squad for the 2014 African Nations Championship. 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 was his first Africa Cup with Burkina Faso. In the team's first game he scored a 75th-minute equalizer to gain a point for his nation.

Dayo was part of the Burkina Faso squad at the 2021, 2023 and 2025 Africa Cup of Nations. He featured in the AFCON 2021 third-place match against Cameroon.

Career statistics

Scores and results list Burkina Faso's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Dayo goal.

Honours

Étoile Filante de Ouagadougou

AS Vita Club

RS Berkane

Burkina Faso

Individual

Records

References