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.
Klub został założony w 1937 roku pod nazwą FAR Rabat. W 1956 roku klub zmienił nazwę na FUS Rabat.
FUS Rabat jest jednym z najbardziej utytułowanych klubów koszykarskich w Maroku. Klub zdobył 11 tytułów mistrza Maroka, 10 tytułów pucharu Maroka i 4 tytuły superpucharu Maroka.
Klub występuje w lidze marokańskiej.
Trenerem drużyny jest Hiszpan Alberto Lorenzo.
Najbardziej znanymi zawodnikami klubu są: Noureddine Karami, Said Kourdou, Adil El Haddaoui i Mohamed Choua.