Raja CA

1989 was the first. Raja reached the final of the African Cup of Champions Clubs and beat Algerian side MC Oran 1-0 on aggregate. The result delivered Morocco's second continental crown after AS FAR's 1985 victory and prefaced a decade of Raja dominance in CAF competition. The squad was built around the long-serving Abdelmajid Dolmy in midfield and Mustapha Chadili in goal.

1997 was the second. Raja beat Ghana's Obuasi Goldfields 1-0 on aggregate in the final, with Salaheddine Bassir and Abdellatif Jrindou central to the squad. Bassir would move to Deportivo La Coruña the following year and score Morocco's World Cup 1998 hat-trick against Scotland; Jrindou captained the squad through both consecutive finals.

1999 was the third — won on penalties. Raja faced Tunisia's Esperance in the final, drew 0-0 over two legs, and converted 4-3 on penalties at Stade Mohammed V. The back-to-back 1997 + 1999 titles put Raja into the small group of clubs to have won consecutive CAF Champions League editions, a feat matched only by TP Mazembe (1967-68), Hafia FC (1975-77), Canon Yaoundé (1978-1980), JS Kabylie (1981-82) and Al Ahly (multiple).

The first match was a 1-0 Raja win at the old Stade Philip on 10 February 1957. Both clubs were under five years old in modern competitive form. Across 157 competitive matches, Wydad now lead 72-46 with 39 draws (per Wikipedia, as of 29 October 2025). Both Casablanca clubs share Stade Mohammed V, both have French Protectorate-era founding stories rooted in Moroccan nationalism, and both have ultras movements among the world's most active.

Sociologically, Raja are 'le club du peuple' — the people's club, with a fanbase historically rooted in working-class neighbourhoods of Casablanca and beyond. Wydad lean towards the city's commercial and middle-class identity, with the 'Club of the Nation' positioning from the 1937 founding. The lines blur in the modern era — both clubs have multi-class supporter bases — but the cultural distinction still shapes derby-day chants and tifo content.

The most-watched derbies in recent years include the 23 November 2019 Arab Club Champions Cup match (Raja 4-4 Wydad — eight combined goals, record tifo) and the 18 February 1996 Throne Cup (Raja 5-1 Wydad — biggest derby win on record). The 2024-26 cycle has produced three consecutive draws: 1-1 (22 Nov 2024), 1-1 (12 Apr 2025), 0-0 (29 Oct 2025).

Before 2005, Moroccan football had supporter songs and informal groupings but no organised ultras culture in the European or Argentinian sense. The 2005 founding of Ultras Green Boys 05 — modelled on Italian and Tunisian ultras blueprints — changed that overnight. Within 12 months, Wydad's Ultras Winners 2005 had founded across the same blueprint; Raja then expanded to multiple groups (Ultras Eagles 06, Ultras Derb Sultan); and AS FAR's Black Army followed in 2006.

Raja's tifo displays at Casablanca Derby and CAF Champions League knockout fixtures routinely cover the entire Curve Nord. The most-photographed Raja tifo in the 2020s is the 'Aigles Verts' eagles-and-Casablanca-skyline composition from the 2019 Arab Champions Cup derby. The group has had run-ins with Moroccan authorities — most prominently around the 2018-2019 stadium-protest episodes over governance and ticketing — with periodic match-day bans imposed.

The cultural reach is wider than the stadium. Raja songs from the Green Boys catalogue have crossed into mainstream Moroccan rap and pop, with multiple chants used in 2022 World Cup celebrations and 2025 AFCON-cycle Atlas Lions fixtures. The 'Fbladi Dalmouni' chant — composed in the Curve Nord in 2017 — became a viral political anthem during the Atlas Lions' 2022 World Cup run.