Stade Mohammed V
association football stadium in Casablanca, Morocco
Stade Mohammed V (Arabic: ملعب محمد الخامس, romanized: Malʿab Muḥammad al-Khāmis) is a multi-purpose stadium is situated in the western part of the Maârif neighborhood of central Casablanca, Morocco. The stadium has a seating capacity of 45,000 and it is the oldest football stadium in Morocco.
It was inaugurated on March 6, 1955 under the name of Stade Marcel Cerdan, in homage to the famous Franco-Moroccan world champion boxer, before being renamed Stade d'Honneur ("Stadium of Honor") a year later. It received its current name on the occasion of the 1983 Mediterranean Games organized in Casablanca, after Mohammed V, Sultan of the Cherifian Empire from 1927 to 1957 and King of Morocco from 1957 to 1962.
It primarily hosts association football matches, serving as the home ground of the Morocco national football team and local rival football clubs Wydad AC and Raja CA. In 1997, the stadium set a record of attendance of 110,000 during the Casablanca football derby and a match between the Moroccan and Ghanaian national teams. The same record attendance was repeated during Morocco's match against Argentina in 2004.
History
On March 6, 1955, the stadium was inaugurated under the name Stade Marcel Cerdan in honour of the French boxer, with a capacity of 30,000. The following year, after the independence of Morocco, it took the name of Stade d'Honneur. This stadium witnessed Morocco qualify for the 1970 FIFA World Cup, which was their first ever World Cup.
At the end of the 1970s, in preparation for the 1983 Mediterranean Games which were held in Casablanca, the stadium was closed for a major renovation; with an increase of the seating capacity, installation of an electronic scoreboard and construction of a 12,000-capacity indoor gymnasium and a 3,000-capacity Olympic-sized swimming pool around the stadium.
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