RS Berkane Football: Morocco's Orange Boys, Club History and Honours

RS Berkane, the Orange Boys from the city of Berkane in eastern Morocco, won the CAF Confederation Cup in 2020, 2022 and 2025 and became Moroccan champions for the first time in 2024-25. Founded in 1938, they are the club that beat Orlando Pirates on penalties in Uyo, Nigeria, on 20 May 2022, giving football supporters across Africa, including those who call the sport soccer, a direct connection to Berkane through the 2022 final.

Berkane's history explains who they are, how a club from a modest city in the north east of Morocco became a regular in continental finals, and what each of those finals meant for fans in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda. The 2022 final in Nigeria and the 2025 decider against Tanzania's Simba SC connect their honours to opponents and venues across Africa. The fixtures, results, squad and table sit in the live modules, and they update after every match.

Who Are RS Berkane, the Orange Boys of Eastern Morocco?

RS Berkane are the professional football club of Berkane, a city in eastern Morocco, and the letters stand for Renaissance Sportive de Berkane. Their orange shirts give them the nickname Orange Boys. The Confederation Cup finals against Orlando Pirates in 2022 and Simba SC in 2025 give supporters in southern and eastern Africa specific encounters through which to explore the club.

Where Do Berkane Stand in African Football?

Berkane sit among the defining clubs of the CAF Confederation Cup, with titles in 2020, 2022 and 2025 and runners up medals from the finals of 2019 and 2024. That is five finals between 2019 and 2025. They added the CAF Super Cup in 2022, and the 2024-25 season brought their first Botola Pro title, which settled any question about whether their continental form could carry over to a full domestic campaign. So, if you are new to following African club football, Berkane are a good reference point for what a well organised side in the Confederation Cup looks like.

How Did Berkane Beat Orlando Pirates in the 2022 Final?

Berkane beat Orlando Pirates 5-4 on penalties after a 1-1 draw in the 2022 Confederation Cup final, played on 20 May 2022 at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. It was a single match final on neutral ground, and a penalty shootout is about as narrow as a final can be decided. Pirates finished as runners up in 2013, 2015 and 2022. That being said, Berkane fans count Uyo as the night their club became a two time continental champion.

How Did Berkane Beat Simba SC in the 2025 Final?

Berkane beat Simba SC of Tanzania 3-1 on aggregate in the 2025 Confederation Cup final, winning the first leg 2-0 on 17 May 2025 and drawing the second leg 1-1 in Zanzibar on 25 May 2025. The Zanzibar draw needed a late moment, and it came from Soumaila Sidibe, who scored an equaliser in injury time to close out the tie. For readers in Kenya and Uganda, who follow East African clubs closely whenever they reach the latter stages, this was a final played partly on their own side of the continent. Simba carried the hopes of the region all the way to the last week of the competition, and that run deserves its own place in the record.

What Have RS Berkane Won?

Berkane's honours start in the second tier, with the Botola Pro 2 title in 1976-77, and the major domestic silverware followed four decades later. The club won the Moroccan Throne Cup in 2018, then again in 2020-21 and 2021-22, which made the cup the competition that first announced Berkane as a national force. Perhaps the order matters here, because cup runs reward a team that can win single big matches, and that is exactly the skill Berkane later carried into continental finals.

The continental titles came next, starting with the 2019-20 Confederation Cup, won 1-0 against Pyramids in Rabat. The 2022 final against Orlando Pirates in Uyo brought the second, and the 2022 CAF Super Cup followed. Berkane also won their first Botola Pro title in 2024-25. The 2025 final against Simba SC brought their third Confederation Cup title. The honours table traces these domestic achievements alongside finals against Egyptian, South African and Tanzanian opponents.

From 1938 to the Municipal Stadium: The History in Brief

The club was founded on 21 May 1938 as Association Sportive de Berkane, and in 1971 it merged with Chabab Riadhi de Berkane to form Renaissance Sportive de Berkane, the name it carries today. The orange shirts have become the club's identity, so much so that the nickname and the colour are used almost interchangeably in Moroccan reports. Since 2014, Berkane have played their home matches at the Berkane Municipal Stadium.

The honours listed here span 2018 to 2025. Berkane won the Throne Cup in 2018, reached the Confederation Cup final in 2019 and lost it to Zamalek, then returned to win the 2019-20 edition against Pyramids. The Throne Cup followed in 2020-21 and 2021-22, with the Uyo final and the Super Cup arriving in 2022. In 2024, Zamalek beat them again in the final, on away goals, which shows how fine the margins are at that level. Berkane won their first league title in 2024-25 and beat Simba in the 2025 Confederation Cup final.

Berkane and Your Country: Why Five Nations Follow the Orange Boys

Nigeria has a direct stake in the Berkane story, because the 2022 final was played in Uyo, at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Akwa Ibom State. That makes the second continental title in the club's history a Nigerian hosted occasion, and in my opinion it is one of the better nights an Akwa Ibom crowd has seen in club football. As for the question I ask of every club, whether there are Super Eagles players in the side, the honest answer is that Berkane's squads have drawn mainly on Moroccan, West African and North African players, and a Nigerian in orange would only add to the connection.

The 2022 shootout against Orlando Pirates gives South African readers a final to revisit in Berkane's continental history. Kenyan and Ugandan readers come to the club through Simba SC, since the 2025 final brought a Moroccan side to Zanzibar for the second leg, a trip that put Berkane in front of East African viewers who might otherwise have known them only from highlights.

For Ghanaian readers exploring the Confederation Cup, Berkane's finals offer encounters with clubs from several African football traditions: Zamalek in 2019 and 2024, Pyramids in 2020, Orlando Pirates in 2022 and Simba SC in 2025.

Where Do Berkane Sit Next to Wydad, Raja and FAR Rabat?

Berkane are the newer force in a Moroccan game long associated with the big clubs of Casablanca and Rabat, namely Wydad, Raja and FAR Rabat. The 2024-25 Botola Pro title added a club from an eastern city to Morocco's list of top division champions. Leadership is part of the explanation. Fouzi Lekjaa was president from 2009 to August 2019, a decade that took the club from the margins to its first continental final, and Hakim Ben Abdellah took over in August 2019, the start of a period that brought every one of Berkane's major continental and league titles.

How Do You Follow Berkane Fixtures, Results and the Table From Africa?

Use Berkane's fixture schedule to identify the competition and venue for each listed match. Compare the displayed start against WAT, EAT, SAST and GMT together when arranging your viewing. Berkane's domestic programme belongs to the Botola Pro, while their Confederation Cup fixtures form a separate route to African silverware. Distinguishing those competitions helps explain where each result belongs.

Berkane's completed matches appear in the results module with dates and competition labels. Their Botola Pro table (log) places domestic results within the league standings; continental ties must be read within their own competition. To explore the players representing Berkane this season, consult the squad module for positions and nationalities. The competition guides explain how league standings and Confederation Cup ties determine honours.