Wydad Casablanca

Wydad Athletic Club
	Wydad Athletic Club
Basic data
Surname	Wydad Athletic Club
Seat	Casablanca
founding	May 8, 1937
Colours	Red and white
president	Said Naciri
Website	wac.ma
First soccer team
Head coach	Faouzi Banzarti
Venue	Stade Mohammed V
Places	75,000
league	GNF 1
2017/18	2nd place
home	Away

Wydad AthleticClub , often known by the abbreviation WAC ( Arabic نادي الوداد الرياضي, DMG Nādī l-Widād ar-riyāḍī ), is a Moroccan sports club in Casablanca , best known for its soccer team, which plays in GNF 1 .

history

The club was founded on May 8, 1937 as a swimming club. A year later the offer was expanded to include tennis, and in 1939 the football department was created.

There are several versions of the name Wydad . The most common version is based on the meaning of the word in Arabic: There Wydad means 'love'. An anecdote is told in a chronicle about the association: At one of the meetings of the founding committee, one of the members appeared too late because he had previously seen a film by the Egyptian singer and actress Umm Kulthum entitled Wydad in the cinema . This is said to have given the founders the idea of naming.