| Full name | Fath Union Sport Football Club | |||
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| Founded | 10 April 1946; 79 years ago (1946-04-10) | |||
| Ground | Moulay Hassan Stadium | |||
| Capacity | 22,000 | |||
| President | Mounir Majidi | |||
| Manager | Saïd Chiba | |||
| League | Botola Pro | |||
| 2024–25 | Botola Pro, 4th of 16 | |||
| Website | fus | |||
 Current season | ||||
Fath Union Sport (Arabic:إتحاد الفتح الرياضي), commonly known asFUS Rabat, is aMoroccan professionalfootball club based inRabat and currently playing in theBotola Pro. The club was founded on 10 April 1946. 'Fath Union Sport' is the name of the sports club which encompasses everything fromBasketball to the game ofChess.
Founded on April 10, 1946 by the Marocain Nationalists, the Fath Union Sports is an omnisports club, located in a football section, based on the name of the most ancient clubs in the country. It was the héritier of theUnion Musulmane de Rabat-Salé (USMRS), created in 1932, and was officially announced on 7 October 1932. The USM Rabat-Salé introduced the first Muslim clubs in the country, if this was not the first, and it was a veritable lance of a movement associated with the Marocaine Jeunesse.
The club competes in the Champions League of the 1st Division Amateurs, qualified in the 3rd division of the Maroc Football Association League, which is imported and placed in the Premier Division, and is the elite of the Marocain Football League Division D. 'Honour, and also participate in the North African Cup, on the local local tour.[1]
Prince Moulay Abdallah was one of the biggest fans of FUS de Rabat and also the honorary president of the club, he supported the club financially and helped lead the club to many achievements that are still etched in the memories ofMoroccan football fans.
The late prince used to come to the stadium to see the training session without being recognized and to organize friendly games to harden the club's players and make them more efficient.[2]
Although Fath de Rabat is one of the historical clubs inMorocco, it has only 6 titles won in theMoroccan Throne Cup respectively in 1967, 1973, 1976, 1995, 2010 and 2014. The club won the first cup after defeatingRS Settat by two goals scored by Fettah and Laroussi to one inStade D'honneur. The second one was taken in the city ofAgadir after the team beatIttihad Khemisset (3–1).[1]
In 1976, FUS de Rabat got the third cup by defeatingKAC Kénitra inStade de Marchan, the only goal of the final match was scored by Khalid Labied, who was later the shared top scorer of1980 African Cup of Nations.
The fans ofRabat's team did not rejoice any title only after almost twenty years when they got anotherThrone Cup in 1995 at the expense ofOlympique Khouribga. The final match was finished by the score of 2–0, the goals had been scored byPostnov and Hammou.[1]
On 25 November 2010 FUS de Rabat won their last cup inStade Moulay Abdellah after overthrowing the team of Maghreb Fez by the score of 2–1.Issoufou scored the first goal and the second was made by El Fatihi.[1]
Since 2010, FUS de Rabat became one of fiveMoroccan teams that succeeded to have African titles after winning the2010 CAF Confederation Cup, the club had also participated more than one time in African competitions.
After winningMoroccan Throne Cup in 1995 FUS de Rabat had participated in theAfrican Cup Winners' Cup and succeeded to the quarter-final before being eliminated byArab Contractors SC (0–1 on Aggregate). In that timePhilippe Troussier was the coach of the team.
In 2002, The team participated in theCAF Cup and was eliminated from the second round by Satellite FC ofCôte d'Ivoire. after a draw without goals inMorocco, they lost outside their ground by the score of 1–0.
Although it lost the final match ofMoroccan Throne Cup in 2009 against neighboursAS FAR, the club had the opportunity to participate in the2010 CAF Confederation Cup. FUS de Rabat managed to be the competition's surprise by disqualifying several famous teams and among them the defending championStade Malien after beating them inRabat by the score of 2–0 and going toBamako to have a draw (0–0).Rabat team would after that come in the top of Group B after having several good results againstZanaco,Haras El-Hodood andCS Sfaxien.[2]
On 12 November 2010, FUS de Rabat was qualified for the first time to the final match of the competition although the team was defeated againstAl-Ittihad ofLibya by 1–0, because they did well outside inTripoli by beating the home side by the score of 2–1 inJune 11 Stadium.[3]
The African title came on November 4, after making a draw 0–0 withCS Sfaxien one week before inRabat, the team succeed to create the surprise inSfax by beating the host team by the score of 3–2. DefenderBoukhriss opened the score for FUS de Rabat but the hosts succeed to overturn the game in their favor after scoring two goals. In the 75th minute Mohamed Zouidi equalized the score and added the third goal in 89th minute whileCS Sfaxien players were trying to score to take the title.[4][5]
List of trophies won by the club.[6]
As of 14 January, 2025
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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| Manager |  Saïd Chiba |
| Assistant Manager | Noureddine Benomar |
| First-Team Coach | Hafid Abdessadek |
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Mohamed Jebrane (1973–78)Zaki Badou (1993–95)
Philippe Troussier (1995–97)Saïd El Khider (1997–98)
Ivica Todorov (1998–00)Lucien Herppy (2000–2002)
Nejmeddine Belayachi (September 2002 -April 2003)Noureddine Ben Omar (April 2003 - 2004)Abdellatif Salki (September 2004 - 2005)Jawhar (2005–06)Abderrazak Khairi (September 2006 - June 2007)Abdallah Blinda (June 2007 - August 2007)Rachid Taoussi (August 2007 - November 2007)Hicham Jedrane (November 2007 - January 2008)François Bracci (January 2008 - July 2008)Hussein Amotta (July 2008 – June 2011)Jamal Sellami (June 2011 – May 2014)Walid Regragui (May 2014 – January 2020)Mustapha El Khalfi (January 2020 – April 2021)Mohamed Amine Benhachem (August 2021 – November 2021)Jamal Sellami (November 2021 – present)
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