FUS Rabat (basketball)

FUS Rabat
2023–24 FUS Rabat basketball season
FUS Rabat logo
LeagueDivision Excellence
BAL
Founded10 April 1946; 78 years ago (1946-04-10)
HistoryFUS Rabat
(1946–present)
ArenaSalle Abderrahmane Bouânane
Capacity1,500
LocationRabat, Morocco
PresidentSaid El Yamani
Head coachSaid El Bouzidi
Websitefus.ma

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.

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.[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

National

Division Excellence[4]

  • Champions (19): 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2023, 2024

Moroccan Throne Cup[4]

  • Champions (9): 1972, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1991, 2002, 2004
  • Runner-up (9): 1957, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1984, 1990, 2022, 2023

Continental

Basketball Africa League

International

Maghreb Club Championship

  • Champion (1): 1968
  • Runner-up (1): 1971

Players

Main category: FUS Rabat basketball players

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

FUS Rabat roster
Players Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Age
G 1 United States Jordan, Devante 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 32 – (1992-10-07)7 October 1992
G 3 Morocco Nouhi, Ayoub 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 25 – (1999-01-07)7 January 1999
G 5 Morocco El Haoua, Abdelkarim 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) 27 – (1997-08-28)28 August 1997
PG 6 Morocco Darib, Jaouad 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 27 – (1997-06-28)28 June 1997
PF 7 Morocco Zeghloul, Mohamed Anas 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) 20 – (2004-08-04)4 August 2004
G 8 Morocco Benhmine, Soufiane 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 32 – (1992-04-08)8 April 1992
PF 11 Morocco Zouita, Abdelhakim 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 38 – (1986-08-12)12 August 1986
C 15 Mali Diarra, Aliou 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 22 – (2001-12-31)31 December 2001
C 17 Nigeria Orizu, Prince 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 30 – (1994-08-10)10 August 1994
PF 24 United States Shepard, Winston 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 31 – (1993-09-22)22 September 1993
PF 32 Morocco Azouga, Badr Eddine 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 29 – (1995-02-07)7 February 1995
SF 55 Belgium Baeri, Yacine 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 35 – (1989-04-10)10 April 1989
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured Injured
Updated: 2 November 2023

Head coach

Season by season

The 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
Finish Wins Losses Win % Finish W L Win %
FUS Rabat
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

  1. ^ "Basketball: le FUS sacré champion du Maroc". Le360 Sport (in French). Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  2. ^ "FUS Rabat clinch BAL ticket". FIBA.basketball. 4 November 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
  3. ^ "FUS Rabat are the 2024 Kalahari Conference champions". The BAL. 17 March 2024. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
  4. ^ a b History of FUS Rabat
  5. ^ "Stéphane Dumas devient coach principal du FUS de Rabat". BeBasket (in French). 16 August 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2023.