FAR de Rabat

Full name	Forces Armées Royales Rabat
Nickname(s)	3asskar
Founded	1958
Ground	Stade Moulay Abdellah Rabat, Morocco (Capacity: 60,000)
Chairman	Hosni Ben Siliman
Manager	Walter Meeuws
League	Botola
2008-2009	3rd
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
  • Champions : 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, 2008, 2009
  • 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

2009 - First 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 Mustapha Chadili GK Khalid Askri GK Hamza Hamoudi GK Ismail El Ainani DF Abdessamad Chahiri DF Abderrahmane Mssassi DF Abderrahmane Ellaabi DF Atik Chihab DF Mohammed Moussamih DF Redouane Errihani DF Hassan Bouizgar DF Noureddine Kacemi DF Khalid El Ouahhabi DF Ibrahim Nakach DF Jawad Bouâouda DF Mourad Falah

No. Position Player DF Noureddine Kacemi MF Abderrazak Lmnasfi MF Mehdi Lbassel MF Mohammed Boutahar MF Issam Erraki MF Mohammed Amine Kabli MF Yassine Naoum MF Mehdi Azim MF Youssef Elbassri FW Jawad Ouaddouch FW Mohamed Madihi FW Tarik Marzouk FW Mohamed Jawad FW Jalal El Kindi FW Mehdi Neghmi

[edit] Sport equipment

• Uhlsport

[edit] References

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