Francis Ambané

Francis Idriss Ambane Moubourou (born 8 November 1984 in Douala) is a Cameroonian professional footballer, who last played for Gokulam Kerala FC in the I-League.

Career Ambane started his professional club career with Elite One outfit Canon Yaoundé, where he appeared in 14 league matches and scored 7 goals. He was in Yaoundé's 2002 Super Coupe Roger Milla Runners-up squad.

He later moved to KSC Lokeren a Belgian association football club in 2003–2004 season. After just one season Ambane returned to Cameroon and joined another MTN Elite one club Union Douala. He spent 3 seasons there before he returned to his youth club Canon Yaoundé. In 2009–2010 Ambane Francis was sold to ES Sétif.

On 14 July 2011 Ambane signed a two-year contract with ASO Chlef, joining them on a free transfer from ES Sétif after terminating his contract with the club. On 19 January 2012 Ambane signed a one-year contract with WA Tlemcen, joining them on a free transfer from ASO Chlef

With ES Sétif, he won the 2009–10 Algerian Cup. He was also in Sétif's Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 and 2009 CAF Confederation Cup Runners-up squad.

On 11 October 2017, newly-formed I-League side Gokulam Kerala FC announced that they have secured services of Ambane for the 2017–18 I-League season. Gokulam finished 7th in the season and Ambané has appeared in only 4 league matches for "the Malabarians". On 14 January, he was released by the club.

International career Ambané has represented Cameroon U23 in 7 matches, scoring 2 goals. He featured with the Cameroon 2004 Olympic team in Athens.

Ambane was the only home base that was selected 3 times for the Cameroon national team games in 2006–2007. He made his senior international debut on 23 December 2012 against Niger in a 1-0 friendly win.

He has also represented Cameroon in the 2016 African Nations Championship, where they lost 3–0 to Ivory Coast in the Quarter-finals.

Honours Club Canon Yaoundé Super Coupe Roger Milla Runners-up (1): 2002 ES Sétif Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 Runners-up (1): 2009–10 Algerian Cup Champions (1): 2009–10 CAF Confederation Cup Runners-up (1): 2009