Касабланка В.А.К. / Casablanca Wydad Athletic Club

Full name Wydad Athletic Club

Nickname(s) Les Rouges (Reds)
Founded 1937
Ground Stade Mohamed V, Casablanca, Morocco
Capacity 67,000
League GNF 1
2005-2006 GNF 1, 1st

Wydad Athletic Club (WAC) is a Moroccan athletics club based in Casablanca, Morocco, best known for its football team.

The first section of the Wydad Athletic Club was created on May 8, 1937, it was the swimming section. The members of the first management committee of Wydad were Haj Mohamed Benjelloun (President), Maitre Mohamed Zarouk, Mohamed Ben Lahsan, Haj Mohamed Ben Mohamed Ben Lahsan Benjelloun, Ralph Botbol and Charles Benchetrit.
Other sections were created for the club, thus appeared the tennis in 1938 and football in 1939, section which Haj Tounsi alias Pere Jego created.
Several versions circulate according to the origin of the name of the club. In Arabic, Wydad means Love. Each historian brings his explanation. But that brought back by Ahmed Lahrizi in his book on Wydad volume 1, is the most widespread and the most plausible. According to the book, during the frequent meetings which intervened before the creation of the club, one of the founder members arrived late, the reason was that he watched the last film of the actress and Egyptian singer Oum Kaltoum, whose title is "Wydad". Thus came the idea to the founders to give the name to the club.