2015–16 Botola

Botola
Season	2015–16
Champions	FUS Rabat
Relegated	MC Oujda MAS Fez
Champions League	FUS Rabat Wydad Casablanca
Confederation Cup	IR Tanger
Matches played	240
Goals scored	501 (2.09 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mahdi Naghmi (12 Goals)
Biggest home win	HUSA 5–1 KAC RCA 5–1 HUSA
Biggest away win	MAT 2–5 RCA RCA 1–4 FAR HUSA 2–5 MAS
Highest scoring	FAR 5–2 MAT MAT 2–5 RCA KAC 3–4 MAT HUSA 2–5 MAS
Highest attendance	80,000 (Raja vs Wydad)
← 2014–15 2016–17 →

The 2015–16 Botola, also known as Botola Maroc Telecom for sponsorship reasons, is the 59th season of the Premier League, the top Moroccan professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1915. The fixtures were announced on 22 July 2015. The season started on 5 September 2015 and is scheduled to conclude on 15 April 2016.

Wydad came into the season as defending champions of the 2014–15 season. Ittihad Tanja and MC Oujda entered as the two promoted teams from the 2014–15 GNF 2.

On June 5th 2015, FUS Rabat won the football championship after a 4-2 victory against Mouloudia D'Oujda. The FUS Rabat club won the championship for the first time after being runner-up to the title for 5 previous times.^[1]

Teams

Locations of the 2015–16 Botola teams

A total of 16 teams compete in the league, including 14 sides from the 2014–15 season and two promoted from the 2014–15 GNF 2. On 25 April 2015, Tanger became the first Championship side to be promoted following their 1–0 win over AS Salé. On the final day of the season, MC Oujda got promoted to the top flight.

The two promoted clubs replaced Chabab Atlas Khenifra and Ittihad Khemisset.

Stadium and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Chabab Rif Al Hoceima	Al Hoceima	Stade Mimoun Al Arsi	12,000
Difaâ El Jadidi	El Jadida	Stade El Abdi	15,000
AS FAR Club	Rabat	Stade Moulay Abdellah	65,000
Fath Union Sport	Rabat	Stade de FUS	15,000
Hassania Agadir	Agadir	Stade Adrar	45,480
IR Tanger	Tanger	Grand Stade de Tanger	45,000
KAC Kénitra	Kenitra	Stade Municipal (Kenitra)	15,000
Kawkab Marrakech	Marrakech	Stade de Marrakech	45,240
MAS Fez	Fes	Fez Stadium	45,000
Moghreb Tétouan	Tétouan	Saniat Rmel	15,000
MC Oujda	Oujda	Honneur Stadium	30,000
Olympic Safi	Safi	Stade El Massira	10,000
Olympique Khouribga	Khouribga	Complexe OCP	10,000
Raja Casablanca	Casablanca	Stade Mohamed V	67,000
RSB Berkane	Berkane	Stade Municipal	15,000
Wydad Casablanca	Casablanca	Stade Mohamed V	67,000

Personnel and kits


Teams	Managers¹	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Chabab Rif Al Hoceima	Fouad Sahabi		Al Omrane, Koutoubia
Difaâ El Jadidi	Abderrahim Taleb	Uhlsport	OCP, Alitkan
AS FAR Club	Abdelmalek El Aziz	Joma
FUS Rabat	Walid Regragui	Nike
Hassania Agadir	Abdelhadi Sektioui	Umbro	Ifriquiya
IR Tanger	Abdelhak Benchikha	Bang Sports	Moroccan Airports Authority
KAC Kénitra	Samir Yaich	Sarsons Sports	Koutoubia
Kawkab Marrakesh	Hassan Benabicha	Adidas	Koutoubia
MAS Fez	Mohammed El Achhabi	M Sport	Ingelec
MC Oujda	Azzedine Aït Djoudi	Joma
Moghreb Tétouan	Sergio Lobera	King Sports Maroc	Abroun
OC Khouribga	Youssef El Mrini	Nike
Olympic Safi	Hicham Dmii
Raja Casablanca	Rachid Taoussi	Adidas	Hyundai
RSB Berkane	Bertrand Marchand	Nike
Wydad Casablanca	John Toshack	Adidas	Ingelec

¹ According to current revision of List of Moroccan Football League managers
Additionally, referee kits are made by Adidas.
Maroc Telecom is a sponsor for all the league's teams.

Managerial changes


Teams	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Olympic Safi	Youssef Fertout	Sacked	29 May 2015	Aziz El Amri	29 May 2015
IR Tanger	Mohamed Amine Benhachem	Sacked	2 June 2015	Abdelhak Benchikha	2 June 2015
CR Al Hoceima	Aziz El Amri	Sacked	5 June 2015	Kamal Zouaghi	5 June 2015
Maghreb Fès	Rachid Taoussi	Sacked	5 November 2015	Denis Lavagne	14 November 2015
Raja Casablanca	Ruud Krol	Sacked	5 November 2015	Rachid Taoussi	5 November 2015
CR Al Hoceima	Kamal Zouaghi	Sacked	28 December 2015	Fouad Sahabi	30 December 2015
Kawkab Marrakesh	Hicham Dmii	Sacked	8 January 2016	Hassan Benabicha	9 January 2016
Difaâ El Jadidi	Jamal Sellami	Sacked	15 February 2016	Abderrahim Taleb	22 February 2016
OC Khouribga	Ahmad Al-Ajlani	Resigned	9 March 2016	Karim Zouaghi	9 March 2016
Maghreb Fès	Denis Lavagne	Sacked	28 March 2016	Mohammed El Achhabi	28 March 2016
AS FAR Club	José Romão	Resigned	1 April 2016	Abdelmalek El Aziz	3 April 2016
Olympic Safi	Aziz El Amri	Sacked	3 April 2016	Hicham Dmii	6 April 2016
OC Khouribga	Karim Zouaghi	Sacked	19 April 2016	Youssef El Mrini	21 April 2016

Results

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	FUS Rabat	30	16	10	4	40	21	+19	58	Qualification to the 2017 CAF Champions League and the 2016–17 Arab Club Championship
2	Wydad Casablanca	30	16	8	6	34	19	+15	56	Qualification to the 2017 CAF Champions League
3	IR Tanger	30	14	8	8	36	23	+13	50	Qualification to the 2017 CAF Confederation Cup
4	FAR Rabat	30	13	8	9	40	35	+5	47
5	Raja Casablanca	30	13	8	9	48	30	+18	47
6	Moghreb Tétouan	30	12	7	11	34	43	−9	43
7	RSB Berkane	30	10	13	7	24	19	+5	43
8	Hassania Agadir	30	11	8	11	44	46	−2	41
9	Olympic Safi	30	9	10	11	23	27	−4	37
10	Chabab Rif Hoceima	30	10	6	14	27	34	−7	36
11	KAC Kénitra	30	10	5	15	26	37	−11	35
12	Olympique Khouribga	30	9	7	14	26	35	−9	34
13	Difaâ El Jadidi	30	7	13	10	26	30	−4	34
14	Kawkab Marrakech	30	7	9	14	23	30	−7	30
15	MC Oujda	30	7	8	15	26	41	−15	29	Relegation to Botola 2
16	Maghreb Fès	30	5	14	11	24	31	−7	29	Relegation to Botola 2

Updated to games played on 4 June 2016.
Source: Botola Pro
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Result table

Home \ Away^[1]	CRA	DHJ	FAR	FUS	HUSA	IRT	KAC	KACM	MAS	MAT	MCO	OCS	OCK	RCA	RSB	WAC
CR Hoceima		0–0	1–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–2	1–0	3–2	1–0	0–2	1–2	0–1
Difaâ El Jadidi	3–0		2–3	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	1–2	3–2	0–0	1–3	1–1	0–1	0–0
FAR Rabat	2–2	3–0		1–1	1–4	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–0	5–2	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–2
FUS Rabat	1–1	0–0	2–3		2–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	4–2	3–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	1–0
Hassania Agadir	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–1		1–3	5–1	1–1	2–5	0–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	0–1
IR Tanger	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	3–1		1–0	0–0	2–0	2–2	3–0	0–1	2–1	3–0	1–0	3–0
KAC Kénitra	1–0	0–0	0–2	2–1	3–1	0–0		0–0	1–0	3–4	0–1	2–1	2–2	0–3	1–2	0–1
Kawkab Marrakech	2–0	1–3	3–0	0–1	3–2	0–1	1–2		0–0	2–1	2–0	1–2	1–0	0–2	0–0	1–0
Maghreb Fès	1–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–1		2–0	1–2	0–0	1–1	0–3	2–2	0–0
Moghreb Tétouan	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–3	2–4	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0		1–1	0–0	1–2	2–5	1–0	0–0
MC Oujda	2–3	1–0	0–0	2–1	2–3	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–2		1–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–1
OC Safi	1–0	0–1	2–1	0–1	2–4	2–0	1–2	1–0	2–2	1–0	0–0		0–1	1–0	1–0	0–1
OC Khouribga	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–3	0–1	1–2	0–0		1–3	2–2	1–3
Raja	2–1	0–1	1–4	1–1	5–1	2–2	0–1	1–1	3–0	2–3	4–0	0–0	1–2		1–0	3–0
RSB Berkane	0–1	3–1	2–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–1		0–0
Wydad	0–0	2–1	4–2	0–1	1–2	2–2	2–0	2–0	3–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–0

Updated to games played on 4 June 2016.
Source: Botola Pro
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of 4 June 2016.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Mahdi Naghmi	FAR Rabat	12
2	Murad Batna	FUS Rabat	11
2	Abdelilah Hafidi	Raja Casablanca	11
4	Reda Hajhouj	Wydad Casablanca	9
4	Achraf Bencharki	Maghreb Fès	9
6	Zakaria Hadraf	Difaâ El Jadidi	8
7	Hervé Guy	IR Tanger	7
	Abdessamad El Moubarki	Chabab Rif Al Hoceima
	Badi Aouk	Hassania Agadir
	Yassin Zahabi	MC Oujda

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Noureddine El Gourch	Hassania Agadir	Moghreb Tétouan	2–4 (A)	22 September 2015
Abdelilah Hafidi	Raja Casablanca	Hassania Agadir	5–1 (H)	29 May 2016
Achraf Bencharki	Maghreb Fès	Hassania Agadir	2–5 (A)	4 June 2016

⁴ Player scored four goals
⁵ Player scored five goals
(H) - Home ; (A) - Away

References

Notes

External links

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