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Moroccan Football League (LMFA)

football league

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ3240521 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Moroccan Football-Association League also called Moroccan Football League or simply LMFA was an organization of soccer in Morocco during the French protectate.

Affiliated to the Union of North African Leagues (ULNA) with four other leagues in North Africa that are leagues: the Constantine of Oran of Tunisia and Algiers. They were very structured and very hierarchical and organized competitions for all age categories in addition to a so-called "corporate" (or category Championship "corporate" or company), the highest level was called Division of Honor.

Club competitions

Championship

Super cup

The Gil/Djebbari Cup is an annual men's super cup competition in Morocco. Held between the winner of the Moroccan League against the winner of the Moroccan Cup or the Moroccan League runner-up. The competition was formerly called the "Gil Cup" from 1933 in honor of Mr. Gil, later becoming the "Djebbari Cup" from 1950 in honor of Mr. hadj Ahmed Djebbari.

1933 : ASPTT Casablanca

1934 : USM Casablanca

1935 : USM Casablanca

1936 : USM Casablanca

1937 : SA Marrakech

1938 : USM Casablanca

1939 : USM Casablanca

1940 : Wydad AC

1941 : USM Casablanca

1942 : USM Casablanca

1943 : USM Casablanca

1944 : Stade MC

1945 : USM Casablanca

1946 : Wydad AC

1947 : USA Casablanca

1948 : Wydad AC & USA Casablanca

1949 : Wydad AC

1950 : Wydad AC

1951 : Wydad AC

1952 : Wydad AC

1953 : USM Casablanca

1954 : Racing AC

1955 : Not-held (Wydad AC vs.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Moroccan Football League (LMFA)” is football league. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Moroccan, Football and League, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1933, 1950, 1934, 1935—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1915. For this dossier, Moroccan, Football and League is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Moroccan Football League (LMFA)” 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.