title: AS FAR (basketball)
text: # AS FAR (basketball)
  
  Association Sportive des Forces Armées Royales (transl. Sports Association of the Royal Armed Forces, Arabic: الجمعية الرياضية للقوات المسلحة الملكية), commonly known as AS FAR (Arabic: نادي الجيش الملكي) or FAR Rabat, is a professional basketball club based in Morocco's capital (Rabat-Salé). It is part of the multi-sports club with the same name, its first team plays in the Division Excellence, the country's first-level league.
  
  The basketball team was founded in 1959 and has won the Moroccan championship three times (in 1964, 1969, 1986).
  
  ## Honours
  
  ### Domestic competitions
  
  Division Excellence
  
  * Champions (3): 1964, 1969, 1986
  
  Moroccan Throne Cup
  
  * Winners (2): 1987, 2021
  * Runners-up (4): 1977, 1978, 1983, 1988
  
  ### International competitions
  
  FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup
  
  * Third place (1): 2015
  