Stade Mohamed V
Raja Casablanca Wydad Casablanca
- Games of the Raja Casablanca
- Games of Wydad Casablanca
- African Cup of Nations 1988
- King Hassan II Tournament in 1996, 1998 and 2000
- Concerts
The Stade Mohammed V is a stadium with facilities for athletics in the Moroccan city of Casablanca. It can accommodate 55,000 spectators and serves the clubs Raja Casablanca and Wydad Casablanca as homestead.
History
The Stade Mohammed V in Casablanca, the largest city in Morocco, was built in 1955 and opened on March 6 of the same year. Since that day, it is used by the two top clubs Moroccan Raja Casablanca and Wydad Casablanca as the venue for home games. Raja was today nine times Moroccan football champion and won the trophy six times the country in North Africa. In addition, the club was able to secure the win three times CAF Champions League. The other users of the stadium, however, Wydad Casablanca, with twelve national championships even more successful than the rival city. Also in the number of Cup wins with Wydad has nine wins in the lead. However, the African Champions League could win only once Wydad.
As today's Stade Mohammed V was opened in 1955, they gave him the name Stade Marcel Cerdan. Marcel Cerdan (1916-1949) was a French boxer who was born in the French colony of Algeria. Just one year later, in 1956, the name of the stadium was then changed again and it was from then on Stade d' honneur, which translates Stadium independence. This designation is due to the fact that Morocco gained independence from France and Spain in the same year. First king of the new country was Mohammed V.. However, this died in 1961. As a souvenir of the first king of independent Morocco named one time the largest stadium in the country in 1981 in Stade Mohammed V to, as it is still called today.
The capacity of the stadium is 54,500 seats nowadays. Once the capacity of the stadium was more than 80,000 spectators. In 2000, however, this extensive renovations took place, since Morocco competed for hosting the football World Cup in 2010. The capacity of the Stade Mohammed V was reduced to 55,000 seats and tightened a few safety precautions. However, the alignment of the world tournament Morocco could not secure because South Africa won the race. Nevertheless, the Stade Mohammed V has already experienced a major event. So here was the African Nations Cup in football in 1988 instead, in which Cameroon with a 1-0 win in this stadium took the title in the final against Nigeria. The home team from Morocco was eliminated in the semifinals to eventual champion Africa. In Stade Mohammed V but not just football games take place, but also concerts. At the concert, the U.S. singer Rihanna came in 2008 as part of its Good Girl Gone Bad tour over 110,000 people in the stadium and thus set a record attendance at the stadium since the reduction of the capacity figures on. The absolute attendance record dates from 1997, when 115,000 spectators came to the stadium to see the international match between Morocco and Ghana in football.