Botola

The Botola Pro (Arabic: البطولة المغربية), literally "The Moroccan Championship" 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.

The Premier League is a corporation in which the 16 member clubs act as shareholders. Seasons run from August to May, with teams playing 30 matches each (playing each team in the league twice, home and away) 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 currently sponsored by Maroc Télécom and thus officially known as the Botola-Ittisalat. Outside England, it is commonly referred to as the Moroccan Premier League (MPL).

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 was originally founded in 1911, and take advantage of a lucrative television rights deal. This deal is worth MAD 55 millions-a-year domestically as of 2015–16, with Ařyadia and securing the domestic rights to broadcast 116 and 38 games respectively. The league generates MAD 123 million-per-year in domestic and international television rights.