page_title: Botola
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Botola / History
caption_attribution_description: العربية: 2013 البطولة المغربية الإحترافية
context_page_description: The Botola Pro 1, is a Moroccan professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the Moroccan football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Football League.
  From 2015 to 2019, the league was called Botola Maroc Telecom for sponsorship reasons.
  The Botola Pro 1 is a corporation in which the 16 member clubs act as shareholders, Seasons run from August to May, with teams playing 30 matches each totalling 214 matches in the season. Most games are played in the afternoons of Saturdays and Sundays, the other games during weekday evenings. It is sponsored by Maroc Télécom and thus known as the Botola-Ittisalat. Outside England.
  The competition formed as the FRFM on 20 February 1992 following the decision of clubs in the Botola Pro to break away from the UNAF, which had been founded in 1911, and take advantage of a lucrative television rights deal. This deal is worth MAD 55 million a year domestically as of 2015–16, with Arryadia securing the domestic rights to broadcast games respectively.
context_section_description: The first edition of the Moroccan Football League under the Royal Moroccan Football Federation took place in 1956–57, soon after Morocco became an independent country.
caption: Botola trophy
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