AS FAR (women)

The Association's Sports of Forces Armed Royal (Women) (Arabic: الجمعية الرياضية للقوات المسلحة الملكية‎; AS FAR), (Arabic: نادي الجيش الملكي‎), is a Morrocan professional women's football club based in Morocco's capital (Rabat-Salé), that competes in Moroccan Women's Championship, the top tier of Moroccan football.[1][2][3][4]

ASFAR Rabat
Full nameAssociation's Sports of Forces Armed Royal women
Nickname(s)Royal Army Club
Les Militaires (The Militaries)
Short nameASFAR
Founded2007 (2007)
GroundCentre sportif de Maâmora
LeagueMoroccan Women's Championship
2020–21Moroccan Women's Championship, 1st of 14 (champions)

The club has won the Moroccan Women's Championship on a record 8 times.[5][6] The club is affiliated to men's team of AS FAR who have been playing in the Botola since its inception in 1958–1959.[1][2]

The team won the national league in 2021.[2][7][8] Afterwards they won the UNAF zonal qualifier which qualified them to the inaugural 2021 CAF Women's Champions League.[1][2][9][10][11]

Honours

Domestic

League titles

Winners (record) (9): 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Winners (record) (8): 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Continental
  • UNAF-CAF Women's Champions League Qualifiers
Winners (1): 2021
  • Morocco-United Arab Emirates Friendship Cup
Winners (1): 2016
Third place: 2021

See also

References
  1. "Football - Dames : Qualifiée aux finales, l'ASFAR représente l'UNAF à la Women's Champions League de la CAF".
  2. "Football - Dames : Les dames de l'ASFAR couronnées championnes du football national féminin".
  3. "Championnat national féminin de football : Les dames de l AS FAR sacrées pour la première fois". Aujourd'hui le Maroc (in French). Retrieved 2021-10-29.
  4. "Football : L'équipe féminine de l'AS Far détonne !". La Quotidienne (in French). Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
  5. "Morocco - List of Women Champions". rsssf.com. Hans Schöggl. 26 August 2021.
  6. "ASFAR: the radiant face of women's football in Morocco". CAFOnline.com. Confedération Africaine du Football (CAF). 30 October 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-11-02. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  7. Kitabri, A. (2 April 2021). "Football féminin : L'AS FAR représentante du Maroc en Ligue des Champions". L'Opinion Maroc (in French). Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
  8. Babatunde, Oyediji Oluwaseun (15 June 2021). "ASFAR crowned Champions of 2020/21 Moroccan Women's Championship". KICK442. Archived from the original on 2021-07-16. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  9. "Haidamou: Our bet is to rewrite history with our women's team". CAFOnline.com. Confedération Africaine du Football (CAF). Archived from the original on 2021-10-02. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
  10. "AS FAR participates in the 1st Women's Champions League in Egypt". Morocco Latest News. 14 September 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-09-15. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  11. Mazouz, Salah Eddine (15 September 2021). "CAF: Morocco's AS FAR Competes In Inaugural Women's Champions League". Morocco World News. Archived from the original on 2021-09-16. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
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