2015–16 Botola

Botola
Season	2015–16
Champions	FUS Rabat; 1st title
Relegated	MC Oujda; MAS Fez
Champions League	FUS Rabat; Wydad Casablanca
Confederation Cup	IR Tanger; MAS Fez
Matches played	240
Goals scored	501 (2.09 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mehdi 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 2016, 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[]

MAT

RCA

WAC

FUS

FAR

RSB

OCS

OCK

MAS

IRT

MCO

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 12 April 2015, Tanger became the first Championship side to be promoted following their 0–0 draw over in week 27. On 4 May 2015 (in week 30), MC Oujda got promoted to the top flight after defeating US Temara 1-0 in their home match.

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		Sacked	2 June 2015	Abdelhak Benchikha	2 June 2015
CR Al Hoceima	Aziz El Amri	Sacked	5 June 2015		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		Sacked	28 December 2015		30 December 2015
Kawkab Marrakesh		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		9 March 2016
Maghreb Fès	Denis Lavagne	Sacked	28 March 2016		28 March 2016
AS FAR Club	José Romão	Resigned	1 April 2016		3 April 2016
Olympic Safi	Aziz El Amri	Sacked	3 April 2016		6 April 2016
OC Khouribga		Sacked	19 April 2016		21 April 2016

Results[]

League table[]

Pos

Team

Pld

W

D

L

GF

GA

GD

Pts

Qualification or relegation

1

FUS Rabat (C)

30

16

10

4

40

21

+19

58

Qualification to the CAF Champions League and the Arab Club Championship

2

Wydad Casablanca

30

16

8

6

34

19

+15

56

Qualification to the CAF Champions League

3

IR Tanger

30

14

8

36

23

+13

50

Qualification to the 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 (R)

30

7

8

15

26

41

−15

29

Relegation to Botola 2

16

Maghreb Fès (R)

30

5

14

11

24

31

−7

29

Qualification to the CAF Confederation Cup^[a]

Relegation to Botola 2

Updated to match(es) played on 4 June 2016. Source: [1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Despite relegation, MAS Fès qualified for the 2017 CAF Confederation Cup as Coupe du Trône winners

Result table[]

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

Updated to match(es) played on 4 June 2016. Source: Botola Pro
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics[]

Scoring[]

Top scorers[]

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

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1		FAR Rabat	12
2	Mourad 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
		Chabab Rif Al Hoceima
	Badie Aouk	Hassania Agadir
		MC Oujda

Hat-tricks[]

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
	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[]

^ "LE FUS DE RABAT CHAMPION POUR LA PREMIÈRE FOIS".
^ "Championnat National Botola Maroc Telecom 2015/2016 Top Scorers". Archived from the original on November 18, 2013. fifa.com
^ "Statistiques Botola Saison:2015/16 Le classement des buteurs". Archived from the original on 2018-09-30. Retrieved 2016-03-24. mountakhab.net
^ "Botola Maroc Telecom 2015/2016:Scorers". goalzz.com

External links[]

Fédération Royale Marocaine de Football

[2] Despite relegation, MAS Fès qualified for the 2017 CAF Confederation Cup as Coupe du Trône winners

[1] "LE FUS DE RABAT CHAMPION POUR LA PREMIÈRE FOIS".

[topscorer-3] "Championnat National Botola Maroc Telecom 2015/2016 Top Scorers". Archived from the original on November 18, 2013. fifa.com

[LE_CLASSEMENT_DES_BUTEURS-4] "Statistiques Botola Saison:2015/16 Le classement des buteurs". Archived from the original on 2018-09-30. Retrieved 2016-03-24. mountakhab.net

[إحصائيات_لاعبي_المسابقة-5] "Botola Maroc Telecom 2015/2016:Scorers". goalzz.com

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