Issoufou Dayo
Burkinabé footballer (born 1991)
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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]
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Dayo with Burkina Faso in 2022 | |||||||||||||||||
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| 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] | ||||||||||||||||
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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 | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2012– | Burkina Faso | 70 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 27 January 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 10 October 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
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.[3]
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.[4][5] 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.[6][7]
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.[8]
Career statistics
- Scores and results list Burkina Faso's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Dayo goal.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | 14 January 2017 | Stade d'Angondjé, Libreville, Gabon |  Cameroon | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2017 Africa Cup of Nations |
| 2 | 18 November 2018 | Estádio 11 de Novembro, Luanda, Angola |  Angola | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
| 3 | 9 October 2020 | Stade El Abdi, El Jadida, Morocco |  DR Congo | 3–0 | 3–0 | Friendly |
| 4 | 11 October 2021 | Stade de Marrakech, Marrakesh, Morocco |  Djibouti | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 5 | 12 November 2021 | Stade de Marrakech, Marrakesh, Morocco |  Niger | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 6 | 16 November 2021 | Mustapha Tchaker Stadium, Blida, Algeria |  Algeria | 2–2 | 2–2 | 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 7 | 27 September 2022 | Père Jégo Stadium, Casablanca, Morocco |  Comoros | 1–0 | 2–1 | Friendly |
| 8 | 18 June 2023 | Estádio Nacional de Cabo Verde, Praia, Cape Verde |  Cape Verde | 1–1 | 1–3 | 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
| 9 | 10 October 2024 | Alassane Ouattara Stadium, Abidjan, Ivory Coast |  Burundi | 4–1 | 4–1 | 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
Honours
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
