- Address: Route Nationale, Marrakesh
- Country: Morocco
- Capacity: 45,000
- Opened: 5 January 2011
- Main use: Football
- Tenants: KACM (football)
Extra stadium info – Grand stade de Marrakech
The construction of the Grand stade de Marrakech, which is also used for athletics, lasted seven years. It is among the main sports venues in Morocco. The first two football matches at the stadium took place on 5 January 2011. The first one was a game between Wydad and Paris Saint-Germain. The second one was a game between KAMC and Olympique lyonnais. Both matches ended in a draw.
The FIFA Club World Cup final in 2013
The Grand stade de Casablanca hosted the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup final. The world championship game was won by the German side FC Bayern München after defeating Raja, the first Moroccan sports club with 1 million followers on its main social media page. 37,000 people attended the football match. Dante Bonfim Costa Santos, David Olatukunbo Alaba, Franck Henry Pierre Ribéry, Jérôme Agyenim Boateng, Manuel Peter Neuer, Márcio Rafael Ferreira de Souza, Philipp Lahm, Thomas Müller, Thiago Alcântara do Nascimento, Toni Kroos and Xherdan Shaqiri started for Bayern in the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup final. Dante Bonfim Costa Santos and Thiago Alcântara do Nascimento both scored once for Bayern in the final.
The FIFA Club World Cup final in 2014
The Grand stade de Marrakech hosted its second FIFA World Cup final in 2014. The game was won by the Spanish side Real Madrid after defeating the Argentine side San Lorenzo. Real Madrid began the final with Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, Daniel Carvajal Ramos, Francisco Román Alarcón Suárez, Gareth Frank Bale, Iker Casillas Fernández, James David Rodríguez Rubio, Karim Mostafa Benzema, Kepler Laveran de Lima Ferreira, Marcelo Vieira da Silva Júnior, Sergio Ramos García and Toni Kroos. Sergio Ramos García scored the first goal of the match. He won the FIFA World Cup with the national football team of Spain after beating the Netherlands. Gareth Frank Bale scored the second goal of the match. He scored 41 goals for the national football team of Wales.
KACM
KACM use the Grand stade de Marrakech for home games. The football club was founded in 1947 and it became the most popular sports club from the city of Marrakesh. They were crowned Moroccan football champions in 1958 for the first time in their history. It was the second edition of the Moroccan top-flight football league. The first edition of the Moroccan top division was won by Wydad. KACM finished second place in the first edition. In 1963, they won the Moroccan cup tournament for football clubs for the first time in their history after beating HUSA.
