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.
Clubul a fost fondat în 1946 și a câștigat de cinci ori campionatul marocan de baschet, în 1978, 1992, 1993, 1994 și 1996. A câștigat, de asemenea, Cupa Marocului de două ori, în 1973 și 1993.
FUS Rabat participă la competițiile internaționale de cluburi, cum ar fi Cupa Campionilor Africii. Cea mai bună performanță a clubului în această competiție a fost locul trei în sezonul 1993.
Echipa are o arenă proprie, Sala Ibn Yassine, cu o capacitate de 1.200 de locuri.