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| Full name | Association Sportive des Forces Armées Royales |
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| Nickname(s) | Les FAR The Leader (الزعيم) Black Army Militarians |
| Founded | 1 September 1958 |
| Ground |
Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium Rabat, Morocco |
| Capacity | 52,000 |
| Chairman |
 Hosni Benslimane
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| Manager |
Aziz El Amri
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| League |
 Botola
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| 2015–16 | 4th |
Association Sportive des Forces Armées Royales (Arabic: الجمعية الرياضية للقوات المسلحة الملكية) Also known as the Royal Army Club (Arabic: نادي الجيش الملكي)، referred to as Association Sportive des FAR, known usually as ASFAR is a professional sport club based in Morocco's capital city (Rabat-Sale).
The club was founded in 1958 soon after Morocco had gained their independence, and is one of the most famous football clubs in Morocco. ASFAR stands for French: Association Sportive des Forces Armées Royales, roughly translated to mean Sports Association the Royal Armed Forces. Founded the late Moroccan monarch King Hassan II. AS FAR is the most Successful team in Morocco with 29 titles in total and is also the most popular team in Morocco because of their numerous fans inside and outside the country. As we see in 2017 AS FAR has signed the first Non-Moroccan player Aboubacar Ibrahim Toungara from Mali, and the one of the talented Malian player in the continent.
The AS FAR configuration idea came in the era of independence by the late King Hassan II who was a football fan. In 1958 the idea is applied after it has been difficult during the colonial era by gathering players from the Royal Moroccan armed forces and work with them to develop all levels (technical level, fitness management, sportsmanship.) for an integrated team. AS FAR being a national team, since its inception, officials adopted to bring Moroccan players only, from all over Morocco Moroccan clubs that use reverse other foreign players.
And owns the AS FAR the best athlete center of the composition at the continental level, an area of nearly 40 hectares , contains two stadiums for Trainings and stadium with artificial turf as this center has many facilities including a hotel and a school. Selected red and green colors of the Club, the same colors of the Moroccan flag, reflecting his patriotism, and add the black shirts of the Club. Since then, wearing shirts striped vertically red and green and black pennant included immortal of the Royal armed forces motto "God, fatherland, King" as an expression of the extent of his patriotism, The Royal Moroccan Armed Forces is financier of the team along with other incomes and incomes of pitch, being the far team lkaeath by Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium since it opened 1983, which seats more than 52000 spectators.
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