5 of the best football clubs in Africa

#4 Raja Casablanca

FC Bayern Munchen v Raja Casablanca - FIFA Club World Cup Final

North African teams have dominated the African Champions League since the early eighties. Big clubs from the region can count on large and passionate supporter bases and the sort of structural stability that is rarely seen in some of the continent’s other quarters.

Raja Casablanca are not the most successful team in the competitive domestic league in Morocco (that honour goes to local rivals Wydad Casablanca), but on a continental stage, they have been the most impressive of the country’s sides. The Green Eagles have three African Champions League triumphs to their credit from 1989, 1997 and 1999, while they also finished as runners-up in 2002.

Even more impressively, they became only the second African team to reach the final of the Club World Cup when Morocco hosted the tournament in 2013, disposing of Monterrey of Mexico and Brazil’s Atletico Mineiro before going down to a credible 0-2 defeat to Bayern Munich in the final.

The team has always had a reputation for playing stylish football, making them one of the most attractive teams to watch on the continent.