Raja CA Under-21s and Academy

Raja CA Under-21s and Academy are the youth teams of Raja CA. The U21 team (or reserve team) mainly consists of Under-21 players and some senior players that occasionally join them, for instance when they are recovering from injury. The Academy refers to the other development teams below under-21, that complete Raja's youth system: Juniors "A" and "B"; Cadets "A", "B" and  C  ; Minimes "A", "B" and "C".

Raja CA is considered to have the best football academy in Morocco, the first team has historically relied heavily on academy players and its youth teams are generally very competitive in the different leagues that they compete in at the regional, inter-regional and national levels. It has produced many successful players such as Houmane Jarir, Saïd Ghandi, Petchou, Abdelmajid Dolmy, Mustapha El Haddaoui, Redouane Hajry, Mustapha Khalif, Mustapha Moustawdae, Salaheddine Bassir, Omar Nejjary, Abdelilah Fahmi, Talal El Karkouri, Marouane Zemmama, Amin Erbati, Hicham Aboucherouane, Mouhcine Iajour, Mohsine Moutaouali, Abdelilah Hafidi, Badr Benoun and Soufiane Rahimi, among many others.

The youth teams play their home games at Oasis Sports Complex or at the Raja CA Academy. Up until 2011, the U-21 team sometimes played the Derby against Wydad AC in Stade Mohammed-V before the first team Derby kick-off.

Academy
Raja's academy in the Oasis Sports Complex was one of the first football centres to comply with international standards in Africa, and the first to adopt the "sport-study" system that combine both football and education in Morocco. In 2021, it was chosen by the technical direction of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation as the best player development center.

The club's development strategies have long been run by, a former Raja player and its main head of player development between 1950 and 1989, retiring only after an accident that occurred in 23 May and cost him his left hand. After the opening of the development centre in 1999, the management was given to experienced coaches who were also former Raja players like Fathi Jamal, Mhamed Fakhir and Mohamed Madih. Raja was the first Moroccan club to offer to its young players a sporting and educational program that was provided by the. The first generation consisted of 26 selected players, aged between 16 and 17 with the exception of goalscorer Tarik Bendamou and the goalkeeper Yassine El Had who are respectively 13 and 14 years old. In general, the club relies on its former players to coach youth teams to conserve the club's football style.

In September 2022, Raja CA Academy finally opened its doors after a year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the first team facilities, it houses the club's academy structure that offers to its young footballers, in association with the Oasis Complex, accommodation, education and a high-level football development. The facilities were built for the first team and the youth teams competing in their respective championships (U17, U19, U21). The younger teams are trained in Oasis. The academy is equipped with a natural grass pitch, a new generation synthetic turf and four mini-football. The sports center has also a gym, a rehabilitation room, a medical center and a restaurant.

Raja CA's youth teams are generally dominant in their national championships like in the 2014–15 season, when both U17 and U19 teams won th national league. Since 2019, the U21 team no longer compete with their peers since their promotion to senior football at the D5 Championship. They finished second twice in a row, in 2019-20 and 2020–21 and came close to promotion to D4 under the management of Bouchaib El Moubarki.

In November 2023, club's president Mohamed Boudrika stated that the Academy, apart from the first teams, host twelve football teams, three futsal teams and three women teams.

U-21s team
Due to the high number of players in the Academy, each age category have two or three teams (for example: Juniors A, Juniors B...) that compete in regional or inter-regional competitions, in addition to the main teams that respectively play in the U-15, U-17 and U-19 national leagues. After their promotion to senior football in 2019, the U-21 category has one single team that directly give players to the first team.

Season by season
In 19 May 2019, Raja played the U-21 national league play-offs final and gained promotion for the first time to a senior league, which is Amateurs 3 (North West Group), the fifth level of Moroccan football, despite losing to Kawkab Marrakech on penalties after a 0–0 draw.

International youth graduates
This is a list of former Raja CA youth graduates who have gone on to represent their country at full senior international level.

Honours
This list only includes U-21s honours in national leagues:


 * Championnat du Maroc Espoirs / GNF (until 2018–19)
 * Winners: 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91,1991–92, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14.
 * Runners-up: 2010–11, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2018–19.


 * Championnat du Maroc de football de cinquième division
 * Runners-up: 2019–20, 2020–21, 2022–23.