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SCC Mohammédia

association football club

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Source revisionJul 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ1058221 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sporting Club Chabab Mohammédia (Arabic: النادي الرياضي شباب المحمدية, Arabic pronunciation: [annaːdiː arrijaːdˤiː ʃabaːbu-lmuħammadi j-jah]), also simply known as Chabab Mohammédia, is a Moroccan professional football club based in the city of Mohammedia, that competes in the Botola Pro 2, the second tier of the Moroccan football league system.

History

The club was founded in 1948, being known as Fedala Sport The club played in the second division before achieving promotion to the first division of the Royal Football Federation in the 1959-60 season.

Chabab Mohammédia had its best period in the 1970s and 1980s. The club provided much of the players of the Moroccan national football team that won the 1976 African Cup of Nations.

The quest for their first championship title was carried out in 1980, after winning two Throne Cup titles, the Moroccan domestic cup in 1972 and 1975.

After playing in the Moroccan First Division in 2008–09, in the 2018–19 season Mohammedia was playing in the third division.

In January 2019 the club announced that Rivaldo was to join the club as technical director once promoted to the professional second league, and would become the club's head coach starting from the 2019–20 season. However, Marco Simone became the club's manager in July 2019, with Rivaldo being appointed as a counsellor.

Stadium

Bachir Stadium, is the historical stadium of the club.

The stadium bore the name "Bachir" after Chabab Mohammedia's player during the 1950s and 1960s, Sir Abdessalam Bachir, a promising player who died in a tragic accident.

Editorial summary

“SCC Mohammédia” enters the record as association football club. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mohammédia, association and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948, 1959, 1976, 1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1948. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mohammédia, association and football.
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Why this record matters

“SCC Mohammédia” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mohammédia, association and football provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1058221. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1948, 1959, 1976 and 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “SCC Mohammédia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.