Other personalities are behind the club's creation, such as Tibari, Salah Medkouri, Mustapha Chemseddine, Karim Hajjaj, Si Ahmed Skalli Haddaoui, Choukri, Daoudi, Hachmi Nejjar, Mohamed Charfaoui, Laachfoubi El Bouazzaoui, Abdelkader Jalal, Naoui, and some other Moroccan intellectuals and resistance fighters who met often at a café named Al Watan (The homeland in English), owned at the time by Hmidou El Watani, in Derb Sultan.
[12][13] The ban on entrusting the presidency of the club to a Moroccan is circumvented by leaving the chair for six months to Ben Abadji Hejji, a Muslim of Algerian origin who had the French nationality.
In the 1964–1965 season, the club finished twelfth and almost got relegated, but they still managed to reach the final of the Throne Cup for the first time in its history, where they faced Kawkab Marrakech on 13 June 1965 at the Stade Mohammed V. KACM won the match 3–1.
[16] On 17 July 1977, Raja CA moved to Rabat to face Difaâ Hassani El Jadidi at the Stade du FUS on behalf of the Throne Cup final.
[21] Following this, Raja participates in the 1989 African Cup of Clubs, the Eagles of Rabah Saâdane wrap up this edition by winning in the final against the Algerian side of MC Oran on penalties after a cumulative score of 1–1.
[26] On 14 December 1997, and after losing the first leg against Ashanti Gold S.C. (1–0), the Green Eagles won their second Champions League title, on penalties after winning the match (1–0).
[34] On 21 June, after their victory against JS Massira 4–1, the Eagles set a new record and won their 5th championship in a row with 59 points, ahead of Wydad and Maghreb de Fès.
[36] On 17 November 2002, in a memorable match, the Green Devils overcomes a 2–0 first-leg deficit by beating ASEC Abidjan in the semi-finals at Mohamed V. Raja thus enters its 4th Champions League final to face Zamalek SC.
[37] On 9 November 2003 at Stade Roumdé Adjia, Henri Michel's men won the CAF Cup against the Cameroonian side of Cotonsport (0–0), after their 2–0 first leg victory.
[41][42] In the summer of 2010, the return of ex-president Abdesalam Hanat was highly greeted by supporters and, after a mass signing of players, Raja were crowned Champions of Morocco with 7 points ahead of their runner-up.
[46] On 3 April 2013, the Green Eagles were eliminated from the semi-finals of the Arab Cup against Al-Arabi SC by conceding a draw at Stade Al Abdi 2–2 despite having led the score thanks to a brace from Mouhcine Moutouali.
Adding this to the bad results in the league and a few days before the World Cup, the club decided to dismiss Mohamed Fakhir, and appointed Tunisian Faouzi Benzarti in his place.
Raja is then greeted upon his arrival in Casablanca by King Mohammed VI who pays tribute to them during a ceremony at the royal palace where he decorated the entire team.
[49] In the 2013–2014, after a poor first leg which ended with the departure of Mohamed Fakhir, Faouzi Benzarti relaunched the green machine and Raja garnered 35 points out of a possible 45, scored 30 goals and only conceded 6.
During the penultimate matchday in a packed Mohammed V stadium, the Green Eagles played the title-deciding match against their direct rivals Moghreb Tétouan and won 5–0 and moved on to face Olympic Club de Safi.
[50] After the departure of Mohamed Boudrika at the end of the 2015–2016 season, the new president Said Hasbane declared that Raja suffers from a financial crisis, so they must find solutions by bringing in new sponsors.
[56][57] On 29 March, Raja won their second 2019 CAF Super Cup against Espérance Sportive de Tunis with a 2–1 scoreline in front of 25,000 spectators at the Jassim bin Hamad Stadium in Doha.
On 11 April 2021, Jamal Sellami stepped down following the 3–0 win away to Pyramids, after the fans demanded his departure due to poor style of play and controversial team selection and tactics.
[70] On July 10, Raja CA won the Confederation Cup by beating JS Kabylie 2–1, despite playing the last half hour with ten players after a booking by the ref.
[71] On August 21, the Greens won the 2019–20 Arab Club Champions Cup by defeating Ittihad FC on penalties after a thrilling final that ended in a draw (4-4, goals from Ilias Haddad, Benhalib, El Wardi and Rahimi).
[72] On October 27, after the approval of the moral and financial reports for the 2019-2020 and 2020–2021 seasons, the general assembly appoints Anis Mahfoud as the new president of Raja Club Athletic.
After a seconde place in the Botola and exists in the quarter-finals of the Champions League and the Cup, Raja ended an unstable season marked by the passage of three presidents and four coaches and no titles for the first time in five years.
[90] Raja topped their group made up of Al-Wahda, CR Belouizdad and Kuwait SC with three victories, but exited in the quarter-final against Cristiano Ronaldo's Al Nassr, who opened the scoring in particular, after missing several opportunities (3-1).
In the late 1970s, in order to host the Casablanca 1983 Mediterranean Games, Stade Donor, as the Casablancais like to call it, was closed for a major renovation that increased in its capacity to 80,000.
The club recorded a flawless campaign of six wins in as many games, notably against last season's runners-up Pyramids and Zambia's Nkana whose 2–0 defeat at the hands of the Green Eagles ended their streak of invincibility at home across all African competitions going back to 1976.
[120][121] The masses that stadiums in Morocco have become places of choice for raising slogans and participating in chants with a political edge, while making it look like part of sporting fun and rivalry between fans.
On 10 February 1957 in Stade Philip, Raja won the first-ever Casablanca Derby thanks to a Mohamed Laâchir El Ouejdi late winner.
This fierce duel is accentuated by a social dimension; Wydad is closer to the bourgeoisie class, while Raja is more popular and has always been associated to the Moroccan trade union from which many of its founders and presidents belong.
[134] It began after the controversy of 1959–60 Botola, when the Royal Moroccan Football Federation refused the title to Raja, which was then tied with ASFAR and Kénitra AC in points, but ahead in goal difference.
Things changed in the late 1980s under experienced coaches like Fernando Cabrita and Rabah Saâdane, the team began to focus more on the results while keeping its style.