FUS Rabat
Wikipedia - FUS Rabat (basketball)
Fath Union Sport (Arabic: اتحاد الفتح الرياضي) commonly called FUS or FUS Rabat, is a Moroccan basketball club based in Rabat. The team currently plays in the Division Excellence and the Basketball Africa League (BAL). The team is the basketball section of the multi-sports club with the same name. FUS is the most successful club in Moroccan history, having won a record 18 national titles.
Home games are played in the Salle Abderrahmane Bouânane, where there is capacity for 1,500 people.
History
The club was founded on 10 April 1946. The basketball team's first championship came 22 years later, in 1968. In 2001 and 2004, FUS won its sixteenth and seventeenth national titles.
In the 2022–23 season, FUS won its record extending 18th Division Excellence title, ending a 19-year drought. The team was led by French head coach Stéphane Dumas.
As the national champions, FUS played in the 2024 tournament of the Road to BAL. On 4 November 2023, FUS clinched their first-ever spot in the Basketball Africa League (BAL), following a 78-60 win over FAP in the semi-finals. In the Kalahari Conference, FUS went 3–1 against Petro de Luanda and Cape Town Tigers and was the winner of the inaugural edition of the conference.
L'AS FAR Rabat ha vinto il campionato marocchino per 12 volte, la Coppa del Marocco per 10 volte e la Supercoppa del Marocco per 3 volte. Ha anche vinto la Coppa delle Coppe CAF nel 2005 e la Supercoppa CAF nel 2006.
La squadra di basket dell'AS FAR Rabat è stata fondata nel 1958 e gioca nella massima serie del campionato marocchino. Ha vinto il campionato marocchino per 11 volte, la Coppa del Marocco per 14 volte e la Supercoppa del Marocco per 4 volte.
L'AS FAR Rabat ha partecipato anche alla FIBA Africa Basketball League, vincendola nel 2016.
I colori sociali dell'AS FAR Rabat sono il rosso e il nero.