Raja Club Athletic (Raja CA or RCA) or known as Raja Casablanca or simply Raja (Arabic: نادي الرجاء الرياضي, romanized: Nadi ar-Rajaʾ ar-Riyaḍi), is a Moroccan football team based in Casablanca (The most successful club in the history of Morocco), that competes in Botola, the top tier of Moroccan football, the club has domestically won twelve League titles, and eight Throne Cups. In competitions, the club has won three CAF Champions Leagues, two Confederation Cup, one CAF Cup, two CAF Super Cups, one Afro-Asian Club Championship, two Arab Club Champions Cups, one North African cup and one silver medal in the FIFA Club World Cup.
Founded on 20 March 1949 by Moroccan nationalists and Syndicalists in the popular district of Derb Sultan, Raja CA is a well known club for the success of its football section, very popular in and outside the country. Raja sits at the Raja-Oasis Sports center for training, and plays matches at Stade Mohammed V since 1955.
Raja CA is one of the biggest football clubs of the continent, it is the only African team, with TP Mazembe, to reach the final of the FIFA Club World Cup in 2013 when the green eagles have faced the champion of Europe FC Bayern Munich.
In 2000, Raja was placed by FIFA in 10th place in the ranking of the best clubs in the world after their performances at the 2000 Clubs World Cup, and was ranked by CAF in the 3rd place of the best African clubs of the 20th century, after Al Ahly SC and Zamalek SC. Raja is also, with 18 trophies, the most successful Moroccan club of the 21st century. Nowadays, Raja is the 4th most crowned club in Africa with 9 titles in official competitions.
Most popular club in the country, and designated by MARCA as the most popular of the continent, Raja has long-standing rivalries with certain teams such as Wydad AC. This intense confrontation between the two teams is known as the Casablanca Derby. The Green Eagles displays superiority over their rivals both in terms of victories and goals.
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