FUS Rabat (basketball)

FUS Rabat
FUS Rabat
2023–24 FUS Rabat basketball season
League	Division Excellence ; BAL
Founded	10 April 1946; 78 years ago
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
Home	Away

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[edit]

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[edit]

National[edit]

Division Excellence^[4]

Champions (18): 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2023

Moroccan Throne Cup^[4]

Champions (9): 1972, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1991, 2002, 2004

Continental[edit]

Basketball Africa League

Kalahari Conference winners (1): 2024

Players[edit]

Current roster[edit]

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

FUS Rabat roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Age
G	1	Jordan, Devante	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	31 – (1992-10-07)7 October 1992
G	3	Nouhi, Ayoub	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	25 – (1999-01-07)7 January 1999
G	5	El Haoua, Abdelkarim	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	26 – (1997-08-28)28 August 1997
PG	6	Darib, Jaouad	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)	26 – (1997-06-28)28 June 1997
PF	7	Zeghloul, Mohamed Anas	1.99 m (6 ft 6 in)	19 – (2004-08-04)4 August 2004
G	8	Benhmine, Soufiane	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)	32 – (1992-04-08)8 April 1992
PF	11	Zouita, Abdelhakim	2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)	37 – (1986-08-12)12 August 1986
C	15	Diarra, Aliou	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	22 – (2001-12-31)31 December 2001
C	17	Orizu, Prince	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	29 – (1994-08-10)10 August 1994
PF	24	Shepard, Winston	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	30 – (1993-09-22)22 September 1993
PF	32	Azouga, Badr Eddine	2.04 m (6 ft 8 in)	29 – (1995-02-07)7 February 1995
SF	55	Baeri, Yacine	2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)	35 – (1989-04-10)10 April 1989