Early years (1958–1965) , founder of AS FAR with prince
Mohammed AS FAR was founded on 1 September 1958, by the initiative of the Crown Prince
Moulay El Hassan, who was an avid football fan himself, by signing a decree as High Commander of the Moroccan Royal Army. The club scouts and players work with the Royal Armed Forces to develop players in multiple aspects (technical level, fitness management, sportsmanship). One year after its creation, the football team, while still in the second division, won their first Throne Cup. That same year, the club finished first in the division of the Moroccan Championship. In the
Moroccan Throne Cup, they managed to hide in eighths of final and then face the
Wydad Casablanca. The latter was beaten by a score of 1–0. During the quarter-finals, the military defeated the
Fath Union Sport Rabat at the first Rabat derby, where AS FAR won the match 3–1. The final took place on December 14, 1959, face
Mouloudia Oujda won the first two editions of the throne cup and prepares to make a triple while the military, for their first season, a cut of the throne would be the ideal. Finally the AS FAR win this match on the 1–0 score that is stuck at
Stade Mohammed V. celebrating AS FAR's 1958–59 Moroccan Throne Cup win The Royal Army's won its second title in less than two years, after it squandered the championship title in a play-off against the
KAC Kénitra. The 1964–65 season was known for repeated arbitration mistakes, and the meeting with
Maghreb de Fès was the point that overflowed the cup with a disastrous arbitration that directly affected the outcome of the meeting and the fate of the championship title by virtue of the fact that the defeat ended 3-0 and in Rabat, the match with a quarrel between the players and the referee. After the incident, the
Royal Moroccan Football Federation took an unfair decision to suspend the club for a full season and thus not participate in the championship and cup for the following season 1965–66. The military team spent a white season away from local stadiums, but it did not stop competing, as it preferred to play international matches against international teams and teams to maintain competitiveness. They played nearly 50 international matches in one season against international teams in various European countries such as Spain, France and Russia, including
Cádiz CF,
Recreativo de Huelva and
Gibraltar, most notably against
Barcelona at the
Camp Nou on December 25, 1966, which ended with four goals to zero in favor of the Spaniards, while they succeeded in snatching a tie against
Atlético Madrid in a match on the occasion of the inauguration of the
Vicente Calderón Stadium, ended with a score of 2-2, before the team visited the
Soviet Union in two trips, the team drew 1–1 against
Dinamo Moscow.
Domination of Moroccan football (1965–1984) The Royal Army returned to the atmosphere of competition in the championship, after the banned season. AS FAR was crowned with two other titles immediately after resuming its activity in the championship in 1967 and 1968 and 1970. In the same period, at the beginning of the sixties, Al-Asaker also took control of the
Moroccan Super Cup winning it in four out of six times. Then the Royal Army, led by its French coach Clezo, began to dominate the
league competition by winning four titles, and the team's first meeting with the championship title was in the 1960–61 season, and control of the championship title continued for four consecutive seasons until 1964 as a new record. Internationally and in the same era, the Royal Army team had the honor of participating in the first edition of the
Mohammed V Cup in 1962, after winning the league title the same year, the Royal Army was ranked third, after a 5–0 defeat against French club
Stade Reims. They were set to face
Real Madrid for the third-place position, the match ended in 4–3 victory, thus becoming the first Arab and African team to beat the 20th Century Club. In their fifth participation, the military team was able to reach the final of the
Mohammed V Cup for the first time in 1967, when it eliminated in the semi-finals the
Dukla Prague with a score of 1–0, to face the Bulgarian
CSKA Sofia in the final, which won the title at the expense of the military team with great difficulty by a score of 1- 0. The Royal Army team entered the African competition, after winning the championship title, by participating in the
1985 African Cup of Champions Clubs. It entered history as the first Moroccan team to win a continental title. the Royal Army team reached the semi-finals of the African Champions League for the second time in its history, where it faced the Egyptian team
Zamalek, and the first leg ended with a score of 1-0 from a penalty kick in favor of the Egyptians in
Cairo, and the same result was recorded in
Rabat from A penalty kick by Shesha before the match was settled by penalty kicks (4–3), which saw the brilliance of goalkeeper Salah El-Din Hamid, who gave the team qualification for the final round by blocking two penalties, and the joy was not yet complete. In the final, the FAR team faced
AS Bilima, the champions of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, and despite the injury of
Timoumi and
Abdeslam Laghrissi, the first leg match in Rabat ended with a great victory for the military team, 5–2. The away game ended in a 1–1 draw which gifted the Royal Army their first
CAF Champions League title. After this historical achievement,
Hassan II of Morocco insisted on receiving the military team at his residence in the suburbs of the French capital,
Paris, after this first African coronation of its kind. The team is an exceptional congratulations from King Hassan II. The team went on to win three
Throne Cup in a row. The Royal Army became the second team to have the honor of keeping the cup in its treasury after
Kawkab Marrakech, because the law of the competition grants the winner of the title three times in a row the honor of keeping the Silver Cup permanently. In the
1986 Afro-Asian Club Championship, the first edition of its kind, which was held in
Riyadh in January 1987, between the Royal Army, the African champions, and the South Korean club,
Busan IPark, the Asian champion, noticed the defeat of AS FAR by a score of 2–0. Then the Royal Army team embraced the championship title for the second time with Faria in 1987, and in 1989 with Argentine
Angelillo, making the military team the first team to reach 10 championships. This generation continued its continental tour by reaching the semi-finals of the
1988 African Cup of Champions Clubs for the third time in the team's history. To the penalty shootout that defined the Nigerian team's superiority, the Royal Army missed another opportunity to cross into the final.
The Return (2004–) The Royal Army won two successive titles for the
Moroccan Throne Cup in two Clasico matches at the expense of rival
Wydad Casablanca, in 2003 with a goal of zero from a header by Hafeez Abdel-Sadiq with a pass from Ahmed, and in the
2004 final, the match ended in a goalless draw, which continued into overtime as well, to decide the penalty shootout, which marked the brilliance of goalkeeper Tariq Al-Jarmouni, and the match ended with the army winning 3–0 on penalties.After a long absence from the championship title that lasted 15 seasons, the military team returned to win its 11th league title in 2005, in a historic match drawing the 30th and last round of the league, in the Mohammed V compound in front of
Raja Casablanca, leaders by two points, which needed a draw only to crown the title, but it was The soldiers have another opinion, and the
Mohamed Fakhir battalion was able to overthrow Raja and win a clean double signed by
Mohamed Armoumen, who also won the top scorer title. The army took the championship title from the city of
Casablanca amid a great public astonishment for the opponent and the great joy of the soldiers, where the meeting was titled in the 21st century match in the Moroccan championship. After 20 years of winning its first African title, the FAR team won the CAF Confederation Cup in 2005 after defeating the Nigerian
Dolphins F.C 3–1 in aggregate. AS FAR later went on to lose the
2006 CAF Super Cup against
Al Ahly SC on penalties. On 2 December 2006, AS FAR lost the
2006 CAF Confederation Cup final after losing to
Étoile Sportive du Sahel on an away goal. In 2007, AS FAR won the
Throne Cup after defeating
Rachad Bernoussi on penalties. Next season, they managed to clinch both domestic titles, the
2008 Botola and the
Throne Cup. IN 2009, As far won the
Throne Cup after defeating
Fath Union Sport on penalties. After 11 trophyless seasons, AS FAR clinched the
2020 Throne Cup after defeating
Moghreb Tétouan 3–0. They qualified to the
2023 CAF Confederation Cup, after a 15-year continental drought. In their return to continental competition, AS FAR topped their group stage, qualifying to the knock out stages. Later to be knocked out in the quarter-finals against
USM Alger. After 15 years, AS FAR won its 13th league title in 2023 after topping the table with 67 points. ==Grounds==