Raja Club Athletic (Arabic: نادي الرجاء الرياضي, romanized: Nādī ar-Rajāʾ ar-Riyāḍī), commonly referred to as Raja CA, is a professional sports club based in Casablanca, Morocco.
This chronological list comprises all the managers who have held this position in the first team of Raja CA throughout its history since their foundation on 20 March 1949. Each manager's entry includes his dates of tenure and the significant achievements accomplished under his care. Caretaker managers are included, where known, as well as those who have been in permanent charge.
Being one of the founders of Raja CA, Mohamed Naoui was player-manager between 1949 and 1954, and is to date the only one to have held this position. The first coach was Abdelkader Jalal who led Raja between 1951 and 1954. In September 1956, Kacem Kacemi qualified with the team to the first edition of Botola, after three victories in the play-offs. Raja was the first team to do so since their qualifying match was played at 8:30 am on 7 October 1956.
The club's longest-serving manager was Père Jégo, he managed the team three times during 11 years (1957–1965, 1965-1967 and 1968–1969). The most successful manager of the club's history is Oscar Fulloné with six trophies, five won between 1998 and 2000, and one between in 2006.[1]
Père Jégo, Alexandru Moldovan, M'hamed Fakhir and José Romão are the only ones to have coached the team during three spells or more (excluding temporary spells). Mohamed Tibari gained Raja's first trophy in 1974, while Fernando Cabrita earned their first Botola in 1988. Raja then won its first Champions League with Rabah Saâdane in 1989, his second with Vahid Halilhodžić in 1997 and secured his third star with Oscar Fullone in 1999.
.This is a complete list of all the managers in the history of Raja CA since 1949.
| Mohamed Naouip | 20 March 1949 | November 1951 | – | [2] | ||
| Abdelkader Jalal | November 1951 | September 1956 | – | [3] | ||
| Kacem Kacemi | September 1956 | September 1956 | – | |||
| Abdelkader Jalal[C] | September 1956 | January 1957 | – | |||
| Père Jégo | January 1957 | 1965 | – | [4] | ||
| Larbi Ben Barek | 1965 | 1965 | – | |||
| Père Jégo | 1965 | 1967 | – | |||
| Mohamed Jabrane[C] | 1967 | 1967 | – | |||
| Abdelhak El Kadmiri | 1967 | 1968 | – | [5] | ||
| Père Jégo | 1968 | 1969 | – | |||
| Abderrahman Mahjoub | 1969 | 1970 | – | |||
| Abdelkader Lakhmiri | 1970 | 1971 | – | [6] | ||
| Pál Orosz | 1971 | 1973 | – | |||
| Mohamed Roudani | 1973 | 1973 | – | |||
| Mohamed Tibari | 1973 | 1975 | 1973–74 Throne Cup | |||
| Petre Mindru | 1975 | 1976 | – | |||
| Dobromir Tashkov | 1976 | 1978 | 1976–77 Throne Cup | |||
| Houmane Jarir | 1978 | 1979 | – | [7] | ||
| Pál Orosz | 1979 | 1981 | – | [8] | ||
| Mustapha Bettache | 1981 | 1981 | – | |||
| Mohamed Tibari | 1981 | 1982 | 1981-82 Throne Cup | [9] | ||
| Houmane Jarir | 1982 | 1983 | – | |||
| Dobromir Tashkov | 1983 | 1984 | – | |||
| Ion Motroc | 1984 | 1985 | – | |||
| Mohamed Ammari | 1985 | 1986 | – | [10] | ||
| Hassan Hormat Allah | 1986 | 1986 | – | |||
| Mohamed Ammari | 1986 | 1987 | – | |||
| Fernando Cabrita | July 1987 | February 1989 | 1987-88 Botola | |||
| Rabah Saâdane | February 1989 | 6 May 1990 | 1989 African Cup of Champions Clubs | [11] | ||
| M'hamed Fakhir[C] | 7 May 1990 | June 1990 | – | |||
| Fernando Cabrita | June 1990 | February 1991 | – | |||
| Abdellah Settati | February 1991 | March 1991 | – | [12] | ||
| M'hamed Fakhir[C] | March 1991 | April 1991 | – | |||
| Fernando Cabrita | April 1991 | February 1992 | – | |||
| Mohamed Nejmi[C] | February 1992 | March 1992 | – | |||
| Abdellah Blinda | March 1992 | June 1992 | – | [13] | ||
| Valentin Ivanov | June 1992 | March 1993 | – | |||
| M'hamed Fakhir | March 1993 | June 1993 | – | |||
| Meziane Ighil | June 1993 | June 1994 | – | |||
| Jean Thissen | June 1994 | June 1995 | – | [14] | ||
| Evgeni Rogov | June 1995 | February 1996 | – | |||
| M'hamed Fakhir[C] | February 1996 | April 1996 | 1995-96 Throne Cup | [15] | ||
| Evgeni Rogov | April 1996 | June 1996 | 1995-96 Botola | |||
| Victor Razamovski | July 1996 | September 1996 | – | |||
| Rabah Saâdane | September 1996 | October 1996 | – | |||
| Alexandru Moldovan | October 1996 | July 1997 | 1996-97 Botola | |||
| Mohamed Ammari | July 1997 | October 1997 | – | |||
| Hamid Bouchetta[C] | October 1997 | November 1997 | – | |||
| Vahid Halilhodžić | November 1997 | June 1998 | 1997-98 Botola 1997 CAF Champions League | [16] | ||
| Slavoljub Muslin | June 1998 | November 1998 | – | |||
| Oscar Fulloné | November 1998 | January 2000 | 1998-99 Botola 1999 CAF Champions League 1998 Afro-Asian Club Championship | [17] | ||
| Fathi Jamal[C] | January 2000 | February 2000 | – | [18] | ||
| Oscar Fulloné | February 2000 | June 2000 | 1999-2000 Botola 2000 CAF Super Cup | |||
| Fathi Jamal[C] | June 2000 | 14 August 2000 | – | [19] | ||
| Valdeir Vieira | 14 August 2000 | 3 November 2000 | – | |||
| Alexandru Moldovan | 4 November 2000 | 5 March 2001 | – | |||
| Silvester Takač | 5 March 2001 | 28 May 2001 | 2000-01 Botola | [20] | ||
| Mohamed Nejmi[C] | 28 May 2001 | 10 June 2001 | – | |||
| Fathi Jamal[C] | 10 June 2001 | 16 September 2001 | – | |||
| Yuri Sebastienko | 16 September 2001 | 4 October 2001 | – | [21] | ||
| Fathi Jamal[C] | 4 October 2001 | 28 November 2001 | – | |||
| Mohamed Nejmi[C] | 28 November 2001 | 7 January 2002 | – | [22] | ||
| Walter Meeuws | 7 January 2002 | 28 January 2003 | – | [23] | ||
| Henri Michel | 30 January 2003 | 11 March 2004 | 2003 CAF Cup 2001-02 Throne Cup | [24] | ||
| Acácio Casimiro | 11 March 2004 | 2 July 2004 | 2003-04 Botola | [25] | ||
| Alain Fiard | 2 July 2004 | 23 November 2004 | – | [26] | ||
| Mohamed Nejmi[C] | 23 November 2004 | 8 December 2004 | – | [27] | ||
| Henri Stambouli | 8 December 2004 | 15 July 2005 | – | [28] | ||
| Alexandru Moldovan | 15 July 2005 | 18 October 2005 | 2005 Throne Cup | [29] | ||
| Jamal Sellami[C] | 18 October 2005 | 20 December 2005 | – | [30] | ||
| Oscar Fulloné | 20 December 2005 | 16 November 2006 | 2005–06 Arab Champions League | [31] | ||
| Redouane Hajry[C] | 16 November 2006 | 6 December 2006 | – | [32] | ||
| Paco Fortes[33] | -- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --> | 6 December 2006 | 3 April 2007 | – | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohamed Nejmi[C] | 3 April 2007 | 12 June 2007 | – | [34] | ||
| Jean-Yves Chay | 12 June 2007 | 18 May 2008 | – | [35] | ||
| José Romão | 22 May 2008 | 30 June 2009 | 2008-09 Botola | [36] | ||
| Carlos Mozer | 6 July 2009 | 19 October 2009 | – | [37] | ||
| José Romão | 20 October 2009 | 12 June 2010 | – | [38] | ||
| Henri Michel | 13 June 2010 | 6 October 2010 | – | [39] | ||
| M'hamed Fakhir | 11 October 2010 | 8 July 2011 | 2010-11 Botola | [40] | ||
| Ilie Balaci | 14 July 2011 | 15 September 2011 | – | [41] | ||
| Abdellatif Jrindou[C] | 15 September 2011 | 24 September 2011 | – | [42] | ||
| Bertrand Marchand | 24 September 2011 | 8 June 2012 | – | [43] | ||
| M'hamed Fakhir | 10 June 2012 | 28 November 2013 | 2012 Throne Cup 2012-13 Botola | [44] | ||
| Faouzi Benzarti | 6 December 2013 | 28 May 2014 | – | [45] | ||
| Abdelhak Benchikha | 1 June 2014 | 23 September 2014 | – | [46] | ||
| José Romão | 24 September 2014 | 4 May 2015 | – | [47] | ||
| Fathi Jamal[C] | 5 May 2015 | 11 June 2015 | – | [48] | ||
| Ruud Krol | 12 June 2015 | 4 November 2015 | 2015 UNAF Club Cup | [49] | ||
| Rachid Taoussi | 5 November 2015 | 13 July 2016 | – | [50] | ||
| M'hamed Fakhir | 9 August 2016 | 25 May 2017 | – | [51] | ||
| Abdelhak Benchikha | 1 June 2017 | 15 June 2017 | – | [52] | ||
| Juan Carlos Garrido | 20 June 2017 | 28 January 2019 | 2017 Throne Cup 2018 CAF Confederation Cup | [53] | ||
| Youssef Safri[C] | 28 January 2019 | 30 January 2019 | – | [54] | ||
| Patrice Carteron | 30 January 2019 | 10 November 2019 | 2019 CAF Super Cup | [55] | ||
| Jamal Sellami | 11 November 2019 | 6 April 2021 | 2019-20 Botola | [56] | ||
| Mohamed Bekkari[C] | 6 April 2021 | 13 April 2021 | – | [57] | ||
| Lassaad Chabbi | 13 April 2021 | 9 November 2021 | 2021 CAF Confederation Cup 2019–20 Arab Club Champions Cup | [58] | ||
| Marc Wilmots | 11 November 2021 | 20 February 2022 | – | [59] | ||
| Mohamed Bekkari[C] | 20 February 2022 | 28 February 2022 | – | [60] | ||
| Rachid Taoussi | 28 February 2022 | 23 June 2022 | – | |||
| Bouchaib El Moubarki[C] | 23 June 2022 | 7 July 2022 | – | [61] | ||
| Faouzi Benzarti | 7 July 2022 | 21 September 2022 | – | [62] | ||
| Mondher Kebaier | 24 September 2022 | 7 June 2023 | – | [63] | ||
| Josef Zinnbauer | 8 June 2023 | 24 July 2024 | 2023–24 Botola 2023–24 Throne Cup | [64] | ||
| Rusmir Cviko | 25 July 2024 | 27 September 2024 | – | [65] | ||
| Abdelkrim Jinani[C] | 27 September 2024 | 9 October 2024 | – | [66] | ||
| Ricardo Sá Pinto | 10 October 2024 | Present | – | [67] |
| Nationality | Number | |
|---|---|---|
| 28 | ||
| 6 | ||
| 4 | ||
| 4 | ||
| 3 | ||
| 3 | ||
| 3 | ||
| 3 | ||
| 2 | ||
| 2 | ||
| 2 | ||
| 2 | ||
| 1 | ||
| 1 | ||
| 1 | ||
| 1 | ||
| 1 | ||
| 1 | ||
| Total | 67 |
| Name | National | Regional | Continental | Intercontinental | Total | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Botola | TC | ACC | ASC | NAC | CL | CCC | CC | SC | ACWC | FCWC | AACC | |||
| bgcolor=gold |  Oscar Fulloné | 2 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | 6 |
| bgcolor=silver |  M'hamed Fakhir | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
 Josef Zinnbauer | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | |
| Lassaad Chabbi | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | |
| Juan Carlos Garrido | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | |
 Henri Michel | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | |
 Alexandru Moldovan | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | |
 Vahid Halilhodžić | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | |
| Mohamed Tibari | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | |
| Jamal Sellami | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
| Patrice Carteron | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | |
| Ruud Krol | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
| José Romão | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
| Acácio Casimiro | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
 Silvester Takač | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
| Evgeni Rogov | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
| Rabah Saâdane | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
| Fernando Cabrita | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
 Dobromir Tashkov | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
| Total | 13 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 34 | |