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. 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 eighteen Division Excellence titles and nine Moroccan Throne Cups. FUS made their debut in the Basketball Africa League (BAL) in 2024.
| FUS Rabat | |||
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| League | Division Excellence BAL | ||
| Founded | 10 April 1946 | ||
| History | FUS Rabat (1946–present) | ||
| Arena | Salle Abderrahmane Bouânane | ||
| Capacity | 1,500 | ||
| Location | Rabat, Morocco | ||
| President | Said El Yamani | ||
| Head coach | Said El Bouzidi | ||
| Website | fus.ma | ||
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Home games are played in the Salle Abderrahmane Bouânane, where there is capacity for 1,500 people.
History
editThe 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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]
Honours
editNational
edit- Champions (19): 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2023, 2024
- Champions (9): 1972, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1991, 2002, 2004
- Runner-up (9): 1957, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1984, 1990, 2022, 2023
Continental
edit- Kalahari Conference winners (1): 2024
International
editMaghreb Club Championship
- Champion (1): 1968
- Runner-up (1): 1971
Players
editCurrent roster
editNote: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
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Head coach
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Outail Aouij: (2018–2019)
Mustapha Chiba: (2021–2022)
Stéphane Dumas: (2022–2023)[5]- Said El Bouzidi: (2023–present)
Season by season
editThe following are FUS Rabat's results in the BAL since their debut in 2024:
| BAL champions | Conference champions | Playoff berth |
| Season | League | Conference | Regular season | Post-season | Head Coach | Captain | Qualifying | |||||||
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| Finish | Wins | Losses | Win % | Finish | W | L | Win % | |||||||
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| 2024 | BAL | Kalahari | 1st | 3 | 1 | .750 | Won seeding game (Al Ahly) 89–78 Lost quarterfinals (Cape Town) 88–91 |
Said El Bouzidi | Abdelhakim Zouita | 2nd | 3 | 2 | .600 | |
| 2025 | BAL | Qualified | Directly qualified | |||||||||||
| Regular season record | 3 | 1 | .750 | 0 BAL championships
1 conference title |
Record | 3 | 2 | .600 | ||||||
| Playoffs record | 1 | 1 | .500 | |||||||||||
References
edit- ^ "Basketball: le FUS sacré champion du Maroc". Le360 Sport (in French). Retrieved 18 August 2023.
- ^ "FUS Rabat clinch BAL ticket". FIBA.basketball. 4 November 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
- ^ "FUS Rabat are the 2024 Kalahari Conference champions". The BAL. 17 March 2024. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
- ^ a b History of FUS Rabat
- ^ "Stéphane Dumas devient coach principal du FUS de Rabat". BeBasket (in French). 16 August 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2023.