Raja Casablanca

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Raja Casablanca
Club crest of the Raja Club Athletic de Casablanca
Basic data
Surname Raja Club Athletic de Casablanca
Seat Casablanca
founding March 20, 1949
Colours green and white
president Jawad Ziyat
Website rajacasablanca.com
First soccer team
Head coach MoroccoMorocco Jamal Sellami
Venue Stade Mohammed V
Places 55,000
league GNF 1
2017/18 6th place
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Raja de Casablanca ( Arabic نادي الرجاء الرياضي, DMG Nādī r-Raǧāʾ ar-riyāḍī ) is a Moroccan sports club from Casablanca , which is best known for its football team, which plays in GNF 1 . It is considered a working class association.

Raja Casablanca, one of the most popular teams in Morocco, has long been one of the top clubs on a continental level. In her own country, Raja has always rivaled Wydad Casablanca .

history

General

The association was founded in 1949 by Moroccan nationalists in the French colony. Therefore, only Moroccan players played for the club back then. Game operations began in the Division d'Honneur , the lowest Moroccan league. They managed to march straight through to the first division, in which they have been playing since 1951. For years, the team was known in the league for their entertaining, albeit unsuccessful, football before the first championship title was won in 1988, which has now been followed by ten more.

Numerous titles

In addition to Wydad Casablanca and FAR Rabat, Raja Casablanca can also refer to an extensive trophy collection. Unlike its two immediate competitors, who won their titles between the 1950s and 1970s and the early 1990s (Wydad Casablanca) and between the 1960s and 1980s (FAR Rabat), Raja's real heyday did not begin until the end of the 80s a. Raja fans had to wait almost 40 years for their team to become Moroccan champions for the first time in 1988 - under their first foreign coach, the Portuguese Fernando Cabrita . That title win ushered in a new era that finally brought the club seven more championship titles within the record time of eight years (1996-2004).

Between 1996 and 2001, Raja was the dominant team in the Moroccan championship and won six titles in a row. A series of successes that no other Moroccan club has so far been able to boast. The team experienced the absolute climax of their triumphal procession in 1999 when Raja became the most successful club team in Africa after winning the CAF Champions League, the African Super Cup and the Afro-Asian Cup competition.

As a result, Raja Casablanca also qualified for the 2000 FIFA Club World Cup, which was held in Brazil. There, the Moroccans were eliminated after three defeats against Corinthians São Paulo (0-2), Al Nassr (3-4) and Real Madrid (2-3).

In addition, Raja Casablanca has won the Moroccan Cup eight times.

And Raja has also won several trophies in Casablanca on the international stage. While the Moroccans have so far won three awards (1989, 1997, 1999) in the most important continental club competition, the CAF Champions League, they have won the CAF Cup (2003), the African Super Cup (2003) and the Afro-Asian Cup (1998) and the Arab Champions League (2006).

In the 2012/13 season, the team won the double . As champions of the host country, they qualified for the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup . After three wins in a row, Raja Casablanca surprisingly reached the final of the tournament, in which they lost 2-0 to the UEFA Champions League winner FC Bayern Munich .

  • Historical logo from 1949 to 2000

successes

National

  • Moroccan Championship (11)
    • Winner: 1988, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2009, 2011, 2013
  • Moroccan Cup (8)
    • Winner: 1974, 1977, 1982, 1996, 2002, 2005, 2012, 2017

International

Stadion

Raja Casablanca plays his home games in the Stade Mohammed V (named after King Mohammed V ), which is located in the middle of a larger area with several sports facilities in the Maarif district. The venue is used jointly with city rival Wydad. The stadium, inaugurated on March 6, 1955, has space for 55,000 spectators and has already been rebuilt and modernized several times. In 2007 the playing field was completely renewed and replaced by a lawn with artificial turf of internationally recognized quality. On this occasion, the seats in the grandstands and side stands were modernized and the track for athletics competitions was renewed.

Well-known players and coaches

player

Name of the player Period
MoroccoMorocco Soufiane Alloudi 2002-2007
MoroccoMorocco Salaheddine Bassir 1990-1995
MoroccoMorocco Mustapha Bidoudane ?
MoroccoMorocco Mohamed Fakhir 1972-1982
MoroccoMorocco Abdellatif Fellaini ?
GambiaGambia Ousman Jallow 2006-2007
Ivory CoastIvory Coast Yssouf Koné 2002-2003
MoroccoMorocco Omar Nejjary 1990-2009
MoroccoMorocco Mohamed Oulhaj 2006 – today
Ivory CoastIvory Coast Abdou Razack Traoré 2005-2006
Ivory CoastIvory Coast Koukou Djédjé Hiler 2008 – today

Trainer

Name of the trainer Period comment
BelgiumBelgium Walter Meeuws 2002-2003
MoroccoMorocco Abdellah Blinda
AlgeriaAlgeria Rabah Saâdane 1989
RussiaRussia Valentin Kosmich Ivanov 1992-1993
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Vahid Halilhodžić 1997-1998 • 1998: Groupement National de Football
BrazilBrazil Valdeir Vieira 2000 • 2000: CAF Super Cup
• 2000: Groupement National de Football
RomaniaRomania Alexandru Moldovan 2001-2002
PortugalPortugal Acácio Casimiro 2003-2004 • 2004: Groupement National de Football
FranceFrance Henri Stambouli 2004-2005
RomaniaRomania Alexandru Moldovan 2005-2006 • 2006: Arab Champions League
ArgentinaArgentina Oscar Fulloné 2005-2006
BrazilBrazil Carlos Mozer 2009
PortugalPortugal José Romão 2009-2010
FranceFrance Henri Michel 2010
RomaniaRomania Ilie Balaci 2011
MoroccoMorocco Mohamed Fakhir 2011-2013
TunisiaTunisia Faouzi Benzarti 2013-2014
AlgeriaAlgeria Abdelhak Benchikha 2014

Web links

Commons : Raja Casablanca  - Collection of images, videos and audio files