![]() Coulibaly during the 2025 BAL season | |||||||||||||||
JCA Abidjan | |||||||||||||||
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Position | Small forward | ||||||||||||||
League | Road to BAL | ||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
Born | Tombouctou Region, Mali | January 28, 2001||||||||||||||
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.
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.
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]
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 |
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2025 [10] | Stade Malien | 6 | 6 | 28.4 | .459 | .185 | .625 | 3.5 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 14.7 |