AS Salé (basketball)


Association Sportive Salé, commonly known as AS Salé, is a Morrocan basketball club from Salé. The club competes in the Division Excellence and the Basketball Africa League. Notable players of the team include senior men's Moroccan national basketball team members Abdelhakim Zouita, Abderrahim Najah, Zakaria El Masbahi and Soufiane Kourdou.
Salé has won the Moroccan championship seven times and the Moroccan cup eleven times. The team won one continental title, the FIBA Africa Champions Cup which it won in 2017.

History

The basketball section of multi-sports club AS Salé was established on 1928. The team played in the Division Excellence, Morocco's first tier, for years but did not win its first league title until 2010.
On 20 December 2017, Salé won the 2017 FIBA Africa Champions Cup, Salé's first international title and the first title of a Moroccan team at the event in almost 20 years. It did so by defeating Étoile de Radès in Radès, winning the final 77–69. After the tournament, Salé's Abdelhakim Zouita was named Most Valuable Player of the competition while Abderrahim Najah was honoured with a place in the All-Star Five.
In the following continental season, Salé had another outstanding year. The team reached the final for its second consecutive year but failed to defeat Angolan side Primeiro de Agosto.
As winners of the 2018–19 Moroccan League, Salé qualified for the inaugural season of the Basketball Africa League.

Honours

Players

Current roster

Notable players