Mahamane Coulibaly
.jpg) Coulibaly during the 2025 BAL season | |||||||||||||||
| JCA Abidjan | |||||||||||||||
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| Position | Small forward | ||||||||||||||
| League | Road to BAL | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
| Born | January 28, 2001 Tombouctou Region, Mali | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2023–present | ||||||||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||||||||
| Attar Club | |||||||||||||||
| 2023–present | Stade Malien | ||||||||||||||
| 2025–present | JCA Abidjan | ||||||||||||||
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Mahamane Coulibaly (born January 28, 2001) is a Malian professional basketball player for Stade Malien of the Ligue 1 and Basketball Africa League (BAL). He also plays for the Mali national basketball team and won a silver medal at FIBA AfroBasket 2025.
Club career
[edit]A native of the Tombouctou Region, where he attended the Centre Nialy Bagna de Tombouctou (CNBT). He began his career in the top division Ligue 1 with Attar Club of Kidal.[1] Coulibaly joined Stade Malien for the 2023–24 season. He was named the MVP of the 2023 Super Cup game.[2] He was Stade Malien's best player of the 2023–24 season.[3]
Coulibaly debuted in the Basketball Africa League (BAL) during the 2025 season, and averaged 15.3 points and 4.3 rebounds on 46.6% shooting during the season.[4]
He joined JCA from Ivory Coast in October 2025, to play in the Road to BAL.
National team career
[edit]Coulibaly debuted for the Mali national team during the AfroBasket 2025 qualification games, when he played his first game on February 21, 2025, with 9 points against the DR Congo.[5][6] During the main tournament, Coulibaly had a game-high 23 points in the semifinal win over Senegal, that secured Mali's first-ever AfroBasket final appearance.[7] They fell to hosts Angola in the final, thus finishing as runners-up, the country's best performance in history.[8] Coulibaly was named to the All-Tournament Team, following his averages of 14 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game.[9]
BAL career statistics
[edit]| GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
| FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
| RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
| BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025[10] | Stade Malien | 6 | 6 | 28.4 | .459 | .185 | .625 | 3.5 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 14.7 |
References
[edit]- ↑ Mahamane Coulibaly dit one, natif de Tombouctou. Une révélation qui dit son nom actuellement au Mali. Natif de Tombouctou, il a tiré son épingle du jeu au Centre Nialy Bagna de Tombouctou (CNBT).
- ↑ SOUMARE, par Mohamed (March 11, 2024). "Meilleur joueur de la rencontre des hommes : Mahamane Coulibaly - Stade Malien de Bamako" (in French). Retrieved April 12, 2025.
- ↑ SOUMARE, par Mohamed (January 25, 2025). "Meilleur joueur de la saison 2023-2024 : Mahamane Coulibaly - Stade Malien de Bamako" (in French). Retrieved April 12, 2025.
- ↑ "Mahamane Coulibaly Player Profile, Stade Malien - RealGM". basketball.realgm.com. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
- ↑ "Mahamane COULIBALY - Mali - Player Profile - FIBA AfroBasket 2025 Qualifiers | FIBA Basketball". www.fiba.basketball. Retrieved April 12, 2025.
- ↑ "Mahamane COULIBALY (Mali) - Basketball Stats, Height, Age | FIBA Basketball". www.fiba.basketball. April 12, 2025. Retrieved April 12, 2025.
- ↑ "Mali stun Senegal to reach first AfroBasket Final". www.fiba.basketball. August 23, 2025. Retrieved August 25, 2025.
- ↑ "Angola regain AfroBasket glory with dominant win over Mali". www.fiba.basketball. August 24, 2025. Retrieved August 25, 2025.
- ↑ "MVP Dundao headlines 2025 AfroBasket All-Tournament Team". www.fiba.basketball. August 24, 2025. Retrieved August 25, 2025.
- ↑ "Mahamane Coulibaly Player Profile, Stade Malien - RealGM". basketball.realgm.com. Retrieved May 23, 2025.
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