Ismaël Seone

Ismaël Seone
Personal information
Full name	Libo Ismaël Seone
Date of birth	26 April 2005 (age 19)
Place of birth	Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Centre-forward
Team information
Current team	Haugesund
Number	22
Youth career
0000–2022	Salitas
Senior career*
Years	Team
2022–2023	Salitas
2022–2023	→ Vitesse (loan)
2024–	Haugesund
International career‡
2023–	Burkina Faso
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 3 December 2024; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 June 2023

Ismaël Seone (born 26 April 2005) is a Burkinabé professional footballer who plays as a centre-forward for Haugesund .^[1]

Club career

Having started playing football in Dédougou, Seone is a youth product of the Salitas FC academy, before being loaned to Vitesse FC,^[2] with whom he played in the Burkinabé Premier League.^[3]

Seone ended the 2022-23 season with 13 goals, making him the third-top scorer of the league.^[2]

Ismaël Seone first received a call up to the Burkina Faso senior team in June 2023,^[3]^[4] for a Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers game against Cape Verde. Burkina Faso had already secured qualification for the competition, but they are not yet certain of topping their group.^[5] Seone was an unused substitute during the 3–1 away defeat to Cape Verde.^[2]