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Wydad Athletic Club
Full name	Wydad de Casablanca
Nickname(s)	Wydad Nation[citation needed], Wydad Al Oumma وداد الأمة
Founded	8 May 1937
Ground	Stade Mohamed V,; Casablanca, Morocco; (Capacity: 67,000)
Chairman	Abdelillah Akram
Head Coach	Badou Zaki
League	Botola
2008-2009	4th

Wydad Athletic Club (WAC) (Arabic: نادي الوداد الرياضي‎) is a Moroccan athletics club based in Casablanca, Morocco, best known for its football team.

[edit] History

The swimming section was the first section of the Wydad Athletic Club "WAC" to be created and this was on May 8, 1937 . The members of the first management committee of Wydad were Haj Mohamed Benjelloun (President), Maitre Mohamed Zarouk, Mohamed Ben Lahsan, Haj Mohamed Ben Mohamed Ben Lahsan Benjelloun, Ralph Botbol and Charles Benchetrit.

Other sections were created for the club as time went by, like the tennis in 1938 and football in 1939, section which Haj Tounsi alias Père Jégo created, to reach today 14 sections including Basketball, Handball, Boxing, Wrestling, Cycling, Badminton, Track and field, Waterpolo, Hockey...

Several versions circulate according to the origin of the naming of the club. In Arabic, Wydad means Love. Each historian brings his explanation. But that brought back by Ahmed Lahrizi in his book on Wydad volume 1, is the most widespread and the most plausible. According to the book, during the frequent meetings which intervened before the creation of the club, one of the founder members arrived late, the reason was that he watched the latest film of the actress and Egyptian singer legend Oum Kaltoum, whose title is "Wydad". Thus came the idea to the founders to give the name to the club. In Summer 2009 was member of the Zayton-Cup 2009 in Wattenscheid, who played against Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Al Ahly and Galatasaray^[2].

[edit] Honours

Moroccan League (16)
- Champion : 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1966, 1969, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1993, 2006
- Runner-up : 1958, 1959, 1972, 1980, 1982, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2002

Moroccan Cup (9)
- Winner : 1970, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1989, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2001
- Runner-up : 1957, 1958, 1961, 1964, 2003, 2004

CAF Champions League (1)
- Winner : 1992

CAF Cup (1)
- Runner-up : 1999

CAF Cup Winners' Cup (1)
- Winner : 2002

CAF Super Cup
- Runner-up : 1992, 2002

Afro-Asian Club Championship (1)
- Winner : 1994

Arab Champions League (1)
- Winner : 1989
- Runner-up : 2008, 2009

Arab Super Cup (1)
- Winner : 1990

Mohamed V Cup (1)
- Winner : 1979

North African Championship (3)
- Winner : 1948, 1949, 1950

North African Cup (1)
- Winner : 1949

[edit] Performance in CAF competitions

CAF Champions League:

2007 - Second Round

African Cup of Champions Clubs: 5 appearances

1987: Second Round

1991: Quarter-Final

1992: Champion

1993: Second Round

1994: Second Round

CAF Confederation Cup: 2 appearances

2004 - Intermediate Round

2007 - Intermediate Round

CAF Cup: 3 appearances

1999 - Finalist

2000 - Second Round

2001 - Quarter-Final

CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 3 appearances

1998 - Semi-Final

2002 - Champion

2003 - Semi-Final

[edit] Current squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Nadir Lamyaghri
2	MF	Ayoub Skouma
3	DF	Mourad Elmsen
4	DF	Youssef Tourabi
5	DF	Mahamadou Ndiaye
6	DF	Mourad Rafai
7	MF	Faouzi Abdelghni
8	MF	Khalid Lebhij
9	FW	Farid El Allagui
10	MF	Ahmed Ajeddou
11	MF	Boubacar Coulibaly
12	GK	Karim Fegrouch
13	MF	Abdelhaq Ait Laarif
14	FW	Mustapha Bidoudane
15	DF	Hicham Louissi

No.	Position	Player
16	MF	Houcine Zaidoune
17	DF	Said Zaidi
18	FW	Abdelghani Mouaoui
19	DF	Ahmed Alami Elouali
20	MF	Tarik Ajouadi
21	FW	Lys Mouithys
22	GK	Mohamed El Baz
23	DF	Abderrahim Ibn Kajjane
24	MF	Mohammed Berrabeh
25	FW	Farid Talhaoui
26	DF	Mohamed Barakat
27	MF	Pascal Angan
28	FW	Mohamed Armoumen
29	GK	Rafik Maatouf
30	DF	Khalid Sekkat