FAR Rabat

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FAR Rabat
Full name	Forces Armées Royales Rabat
Nickname(s)	3asskar
Founded	1958
Ground	Stade Moulay Abdellah Rabat, Morocco (Capacity 52,000)
Chairman	Hosni Ben Siliman
Manager	Mustapha Madih
League	GNF 1
2007/08	1st
Home colours 　 Away colours

FAR Rabat (Arabic: فريق الجيش الملكي‎) is a Moroccan football club based in Morocco's capital city (Rabat). The club was founded in 1958 soon after Morocco had gained their independence, and is one of the most famous football clubs in Morocco with Raja and Wydad. FAR stands for French: Forces Armées Royales, roughly translated to mean Royal Armed Forces. Founded the late Moroccan monarch King Hassan II. The club went on to the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces.

Contents 1 Honours 2 Performance in CAF competitions 3 Current squad 4 Sport equipment 5 References

[edit] Honours

• Moroccan League First Division
  • Champion : 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1984, 1987, 1989, 2005, 2008
  • Second Place : 1960, 1971, 1991, 2004, 2006, 2007

• Coupe du Trône
  • Winner : 1959, 1971, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2007
  • Runner-Up : 1988, 1990, 1996, 1998

• CAF Champions League
  • Winner : 1985

• CAF Confederation Cup
  • Winner : 2005
  • Runner-Up : 2006

• African Cup Winners' Cup
  • Runner-Up : 1997

• CAF Super Cup
  • Runner-Up : 2005

[edit] Performance in CAF competitions

• CAF Champions League: 4 appearances

2005 - Second Round

2006 - Second Round

2007 - Group Stage

2008 - Preliminary Round

• African Cup of Champions Clubs: 5 appearance

1968: Semi-Final

1985: Champion

1986: Quarter-Final

1988: Semi-Final

1990: Second Round

• CAF Confederation Cup: 3 appearances

2004 - Intermediate Round

2005 - Champion

2006 - Finalist

• CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 5 appearances

1987 - Quarter-Final

1997 - Finalist

1999 - Quarter-Final

2000 - Quarter-Final

2001 - Second Round

[edit] Current squad

No. Position Player GK Tarik El Jarmouni GK Khalid Askri GK Youssef Boutarbouch DF Atik Chihab DF Omar Bendriss DF Noureddine Kacemi DF Imad Omari DF Mohssen Alkhiatti DF Mehdi Kharmaj DF Mourad Falah MF Mohammed El Mrini MF Yassine Naaoum MF Issam Erraki MF Mehdi Azim MF Abderrahmane Mssassi

No. Position Player MF Youssef Kaddioui MF Adil Serraj MF Mohammed Amine Kabli MF Hamid Nater FW Fayçal Daif FW Mehdi Lbassel FW Tarik Merzouk FW Mustapha Allaoui FW Jawad Akaddar FW Jawad Ouaddouch FW Abderazzak M'nasfi

[edit] Sport equipment

• Kappa (company)

[edit] References

• Wikipedia France

Football in Morocco v • d • e
Moroccan Football Federation | National team | National women's team National under-23 team | National under-20 team | GNF 1 | GNF 2 | GNFA 1 | GNFA 2 | Coupe du Trône
GNF 1 2007-08 v • d • e
Agadir | El Jadida | FAR | Fez | FUS | Kenitra | Khemisset | Khouribga | Marrakech | Massira | Meknès | Oujda | Raja | Safi | Tétouan | Wydad