Pape Thiaw

Pape Bouna Thiaw 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

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 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.

Thiaw was the manager of the Senegal A' national team that won the 2022 African Nations Championship. 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.
In October 2025, he led Senegal to qualify to the 2026 FIFA World Cup. In January 2026, Thiaw coached Senegal to win the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, defeating Morocco 1–0 in extra time. 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. 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.

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1		Nakivubo Stadium, Kampala, Uganda		1–0	1–1	2002 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
2		Independence Stadium, Windhoek, Namibia		1–0	5–0	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
3		Independence Stadium, Windhoek, Namibia		3–0	5–0	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
4		Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens, France		2–0	2–0	Friendly
5		Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor, Dakar, Senegal		1–1	2–4	Friendly

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