Wydad Casablanca

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Wydad Casablanca

Full name

Wydad Athletic Club

Nickname(s)

Les Rouges (Reds)

Founded

1937

Ground

Stade Mohamed V,
Casablanca, Morocco

Capacity

67,000

Chairman

2005-2006

GNF 1, 1st





Home colours





Away colours

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

1 History
2 Honours
3 2005/2006 Roster
4 Former notable players
5 External links

[edit] History

The first section of the Wydad Athletic Club was created on May 8, 1937, it was the swimming section. 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, thus appeared the tennis in 1938 and football in 1939, section which Haj Tounsi alias Père Jégo created.

Several versions circulate according to the origin of the name 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 last film of the actress and Egyptian singer Oum Kaltoum, whose title is "Wydad". Thus came the idea to the founders to give the name to the club.

[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