Pape Thiaw
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| Full name | Pape Bouna Thiaw | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 5 February 1981 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Dakar, Senegal | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Senegal (manager) | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1998–1999 | Saint-Étienne | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1999 | SR Delémont | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | Istres | 25 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | Lausanne-Sport | 24 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | Strasbourg | 10 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2002 | → Dynamo Moscow (loan) | 6 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Lausanne-Sport | 15 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Metz | 26 | (12) | ||||||||||||||
| 2004–2007 | Deportivo Alavés | 26 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007 | → Lorca (loan) | 8 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | US Créteil | 15 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Atlético Ciudad | 11 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 169 | (69) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2003 | Senegal | 16 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2021 | Niarry Tally | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2024 | Senegal A' | ||||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Senegal | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Pape Bouna Thiaw (born 5 February 1981) is a Senegalese football manager and a former player who played as a forward. He is the manager of the Senegal national football team.
Playing career
[edit]He played for several clubs in France, Switzerland and Spain, as well as Dynamo Moscow in Russia on a six-month loan from Strasbourg.
He played for Senegal national football team and was a participant at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. He scored 5 goals for his country.
In 2008, while playing for US Créteil in France, Thiaw was reported to have been placed under a mandat de dépôt (detention warrant) in connection with a domestic violence case. French media reported that he was tried in absentia and accused of breaking his wife’s nose, facing a potential one year prison sentence. He did not appear at the hearing, resulting in an arrest warrant and a firm one year sentence.[1]
Coaching career
[edit]Thiaw was the manager of the Senegal A' national team that won the 2022 African Nations Championship.[2] African Nations Championship limits the squads to players from the domestic league. The main Senegal squad that participates in the FIFA World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations and includes players from the foreign clubs was managed by Aliou Cissé. Thiaw was appointed coach of the Senegal national football team on 13 December 2024, following the latter dismissal two month before.[3]
In October 2025, he led Senegal to qualify to the 2026 FIFA World Cup.[4] In January 2026, Thiaw coached Senegal to win the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, defeating Morocco 1–0 in extra time.[5] During the AFCON final, he urged his players to leave the field in protest after the referee awarded Morocco a penalty in stoppage time, which prompted disciplinary proceedings against him after the match.[6][7] This led to him being banned for five games and fined $100,000 for "unsporting conduct" and "bringing the game into disrepute" by the Confederation of African Football.[8]
Career statistics
[edit]International
[edit]| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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| Senegal | 2001 | 10 | 5 |
| 2002 | 5 | 0 | |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 16 | 5 | |
- Scores and results list Senegal's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Thiaw goal.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref. |
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| 1 | 13 January 2001 | Nakivubo Stadium, Kampala, Uganda |  Uganda
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1–0 | 1–1 | 2002 Africa Cup of Nations qualification | [10] |
| 2 | 21 July 2001 | Independence Stadium, Windhoek, Namibia |  Namibia
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1–0 | 5–0 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification | [11] |
| 3 | 3–0 | ||||||
| 4 | 4 October 2001 | Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens, France |  Japan
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2–0 | 2–0 | Friendly | [12] |
| 5 | 26 December 2001 | Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor, Dakar, Senegal |  Burkina Faso
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1–1 | 2–4 | Friendly | [13] |
Managerial statistics
[edit]- As of 18 January 2026
| Team | From | To | Record | Ref | |||||||
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| P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | ||||
| Senegal | 2 December 2024 | Present | 21 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 49 | 8 | +41 | 80.95 | |
| Total | 21 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 49 | 8 | +41 | 80.95 | |||
Honours
[edit]Manager
[edit]Senegal
References
[edit]- ^ "Pour violence conjugale : le joueur sénégalais Pape Thiaw placé sous mandat de dépôt" (in French). Seneweb / Ferloo.com. 2008.
- ^ "Senegal gear up for a promising CHAN return". CAFOnline.com. 18 December 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
- ^ "Afrique foot Football: Pape Thiaw choisi pour succèder à Aliou Cissé comme sélectionneur du Sénégal". www.rfi.fr. 13 December 2024. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
- ^ "Senegal Defeats Mauritania and Qualifies for the 2026 World Cup with a Sadio Mané Double". beIN SPORTS. 14 October 2025.
- ^ "Senegal beat Morocco thanks to Gueye strike in extraordinary AFCON 2025 final: Live updates and reaction". The New York Times. 19 January 2026.
- ^ "Senegal Coach Apologizes After AFCON Final Scandal". beIN SPORTS. 19 January 2026.
- ^ "AFCON 2025: CAF could heavily sanction Pape Thiaw". Africa Top Sports. 19 January 2026.
- ^ "Senegal boss Thiaw banned after Afcon final chaos". BBC. 29 January 2026.
- ^ "Pape Thiaw". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
- ^ "Uganda vs. Senegal". National Football Teams. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
- ^ "Namibia vs. Senegal". National Football Teams. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
- ^ "Senegal vs. Japan". National Football Teams. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
- ^ "Senegal vs. Burkina Faso". National Football Teams. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
External links
[edit]
- Pape Thiaw at L'Équipe Football (in French)
- Pape Thiaw at National-Football-Teams.com
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- 1981 births
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- French sportspeople of Senegalese descent
- Footballers from Dakar
- Senegalese men's footballers
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