AS Arta/Solar7

Association Sportive d'Arta (currently known as Arta Solar 7 for sponsorship reasons) is a football club from Arta, Djibouti which plays in the Djibouti Premier League, the highest level of Djiboutian football. Their home stadium, like all Djiboutian teams, is the 20,000-capacity El Hadj Hassan Gouled Aptidon Stadium.^[1]

Arta Solar 7

Full name	Association Sportive d'Arta
Founded	1980; 45 years ago (1980)
Ground	El Hadj Hassan Gouled Aptidon Stadium
Capacity	20,000
Chairman	Tommy Tayoro Nyckoss
Manager	Mohamed Meraneh Hassan
League	Djibouti Premier League
2024–25	Djibouti Premier League, 3rd of 10
Home colours Away colours Third colours

History

The club was founded as AS Compagnie Djibouti-Ethiopie in 1980.^[2] From 2007 to 2014, they were known as AS CDE-Colas.^[3] They have since been known as AS CDE/Arta The Fairy Mountaineers when sponsored by Ethio-Djibouti Railways (French: Chemin de Fer Djibouto-Éthiopien (C.D.E.),^[4] and Arta/SIHD when sponsored by the International Hydrocarbon Society (French: Société internationale des hydrocarbures de Djibouti).^[5]

As of 2018, the club is known as Arta Solar 7, due to sponsorship with Djibouti-based Solar power company Solar 7.

In November 2020, the Djiboutian club surprised world football by signing midfielder Alex Song, formerly of Arsenal and Barcelona. In addition to playing for the core team as captain, Song oversees the development of youngsters at Solar throughout this contract period.

In the 2020/21 season, Arta Solar 7 won its first Djibouti Premier League title with 46 points out of 18 games. In the following season, 2021/22, the team won his two-time champion in the local league, this time adding 45 points.

Performance in CAF competitions

• CAF Champions League: 2 appearances

2022 – First Round

2023 – First Round

• CAF Confederation Cup: 3 appearances

2019 – Preliminary Round

2020 – Preliminary Round

2021 – Preliminary Round

Results

• PR = Preliminary round
• FR = First round

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2018–19	CAF Confederation Cup	PR	Kenya	Kariobangi Sharks	0–3	1–6	1–9
2019–20	CAF Confederation Cup	PR	Sudan	Al-Khartoum	1–1	0–3	1–4
2020–21	CAF Confederation Cup	PR	Egypt	Al Mokawloon Al Arab	0–1	1–9	1–10
2021–22	CAF Champions League	FR	Kenya	Tusker	1–1	0–4	1–5
2022–23	CAF Champions League	FR	Sudan	Al-Merrikh	1–2	0–0	1–2

Performance in UAFA competitions

• Arab Champions League 3 appearances

2023 – Preliminary Round

2008 – Round of 32

2006 – Round of 32

Performance in CECAFA competitions

• Kagame Interclub Cup 4 appearances

2019 - Group Stage

2018 - Quarter-finals

2006 - Group Stage

2001 - Group Stage

Players

Current squad

As of 20 December 2023

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  TOG Djehani N'Guissan 2 DF  DJI Ibrahim Ali 4 DF  DJI Idriss Houmed Bilha 5 DF  DJI Moussa Fahmi 6 MF  DJI Ahmed Aden 7 FW  DJI Mourad Abdoulkader 8 FW  CIV Salomon Kalou 9 FW  DJI Mahamoud Fouad 10 FW  BFA Yacouba Songné 11 MF  DJI Doualeh Elabeh 12 DF  DJI Yabe Siad 13 DF  CIV Gilles N'Guessan 14 FW  BFA Alain Traoré

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF  DJI Said Abdallah 16 MF  DJI Sadik Djama 18 FW  DJI Samuel Akinbinu 19 MF  MLI Moussa Coulibaly 20 MF  DJI Warsama Hassan 21 FW  DJI Abdoulrazack Kenedid 22 GK  DJI Sulait Luyima 23 FW  DJI Gabriel Dadzie 24 DF  FRA Raphaël Diarra 28 GK  GAB Jean-Noël Amonome 29 MF  COM Haslane Ahmed 30 FW  DJI Mahdi Houssein Mahabeh — MF  DJI Mogueh Idriss

Players with multiple nationalities

• Samuel Akinbinu
• Gabriel Dadzie
• Raphaël Diarra
• Warsama Hassan
• Sulait Luyima
• Alain Traoré