Fes · Sports & events
SPORT & SEASON
Fes follows the Botola and its own club, MAS, whose derby noise carries right across the medina.
Maghreb de Fès
MAS play Botola football at the Complexe Sportif de Fès on the city's edge; the season runs roughly August to May and tickets stay cheap.
Botola season, café screens
League and African Champions League nights fill the cafés along Boulevard Mohammed V in the ville nouvelle. Arrive early for a chair facing the screen.
Fantasia and horsemanship
Moussem season in the countryside around Fes brings tbourida — charging lines of horsemen firing muskets in unison — mostly in summer and early autumn.
Running the Merenid hills
The ridge below the Merenid tombs and the pine forest at Aïn Chkef are where locals run and walk, best in spring and autumn.