Moroccan national soccer team

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Morocco
al-Mamlaka al-Maghribīya
Royal Morocco football.png
Nickname (s) Lions de l'Atlas
The Lions from Atlas
Association Fédération Royale Marocaine de Football
confederacy CAF
Technical sponsor puma
Head coach Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Vahid Halilhodžić (since 2019)
captain Medhi Benatia
Record scorer Ahmed Faras (29)
Record player Noureddine Naybet (115)
Home stadium Stade Mohammed V
FIFA code MAR
FIFA rank 43rd (1456 points)
(as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey
Second jersey
statistics
First international match Morocco 3-3 Iraq ( Lebanon ; October 19, 1957)
MoroccoMorocco Kingdom of Iraq 1924Kingdom of Iraq
Biggest win Morocco 13-1 Saudi Arabia ( Casablanca , Morocco ; September 6, 1961)
MoroccoMorocco Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia
Biggest defeat Hungary 6-0 Morocco ( Tokyo , Japan ; October 11, 1964)
Hungary 1957Hungary MoroccoMorocco
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals 5 ( first : 1970 )
Best results Round of 16 1986
African Championship
Participation in the finals 17 ( first : 1972 )
Best results African Champion 1976
(As of November 19, 2019)

The Moroccan national soccer team is the national soccer team of the North African state of Morocco .

It is one of the most successful teams on the African continent. The Moroccans won the Africa Cup of Nations in 1976 with Romanian coach Virgil Mărdărescu and were only beaten in the 2004 final by Tunisia . The selection took part in a world championship five times and played twice against the German team . The team achieved their best result in 1986 when they reached the round of 16. The Moroccan national team was the first African team to win the group at a World Cup, ahead of England , Poland and Portugal . The "Lions of the Atlas" also played strong at the World Cup in France in 1998, but failed with a lot of bad luck in the preliminary round. The strongest player of the tournament was Anouar El Moukhantir after multiple votes. They were also the second African team ever to qualify for a World Cup ( 1970 ).

Record player

As of November 19, 2019

Bold players are still active.
Most missions
# player Games Gates Period
1 Noureddine Naybet 115 04th 1990-2006
2 Ahmed Faras 094 36 1966-1979
3 Youssef Safri 079 08th 1999-2009
4th Houssine Kharja 078 12 2004-2015
Zaki 078 00 1979-1992
6th Abdelmajid Dolmy † 076 02 1973-1988
7th Youssef Chippo 073 09 1996-2006
Hamid Hazzaz † 073 00 1969-1979
9 Abdelkrim El Hadrioui 072 04th 1992-2001
10 Mbark Boussoufa 070 08th 2006-
11 Mohamed Timoumi 067 10 1979-1990
12 Medhi Benatia 066 02 2008-
Record goal scorers
# player Gates Games Period
1 Ahmed Faras 029 94 1966-1979
2 Salaheddine Bassir 27 59 1994-2002
3 Camacho 19th 48 1995-2002
4th Hassan Amcharrat 18th 39 1971-1979
Marouane Chamakh 18th 65 2003-2014
6th Abdeslam Laghrissi 17th 35 1984-1995
7th Youssef Hadji 16 64 2003-2012
8th Youssef El-Arabi 15th 42 2010–
9 Abdelaziz Bouderbala 14th 57 1979-1992
Hakim Ziyech 14th 33 2015–
11 Mustapha Hadji 12 63 1993-2002
Houssine Kharja 12 78 2004-2015

Trainer

Source:

Other well-known players

Football at the Olympics

competition cut off
1900 to 1956 not participated
1960 in Rome not qualified
1964 in Tokyo Preliminary round
1968 in Mexico City not qualified
1972 in Munich Intermediate round
1976 in Montreal not qualified
1980 in Moscow not qualified
1984 in Los Angeles Preliminary round
1988 in Seoul not qualified
1992 in Barcelona Preliminary round
1996 in Atlanta not qualified
2000 in Sydney Preliminary round
2004 in Athens Preliminary round
2008 in Beijing not qualified
2012 in London Preliminary round

After 1988, the senior national team no longer took part in the Olympic Games and the qualifying games. The Olympic team took part in 1992 , 2000 , 2004 and 2012 , but were eliminated in the preliminary round.

Football World Cup

In 1970 Morocco was the first African team to take part in a World Cup after World War II and played 98 qualifying games, the most of all African teams.

year Host country Participation until ... Last opponent Result Trainer Comments and special features
1930 Uruguay not participated Not an independent state
1934 Italy not participated Not an independent state
1938 France not participated Not an independent state
1950 Brazil not participated Not an independent state
1954 Switzerland not participated Not an independent state
1958 Sweden not participated
1962 Chile not qualified In qualifying in the play-offs Europe vs. Africa failed because of Spain .
1966 England withdrawn All 15 African teams withdrew from the qualification as FIFA only allowed the teams from Africa, Asia and Oceania one place in the final round.
1970 Mexico Preliminary round Germany , Peru , Bulgaria 14th Blagoja Vidinić Eliminated as last group
1974 Germany not qualified In the qualification in the 4th round of Zaire failed.
1978 Argentina not qualified Tunisia failed in the first round of qualification .
1982 Spain not qualified Failed in the qualification in the 4th round to Cameroon .
1986 Mexico Round of 16 Germany 11. José Faria
1990 Italy not qualified In the qualification in the second round, Tunisia failed again , but they also failed to qualify.
1994 United States Preliminary round Belgium , Saudi Arabia , Netherlands 23. Abdellah Blinda Eliminated as last group without winning points
1998 France Preliminary round Norway , Brazil , Scotland 18th Henri Michel After a draw against Norway, a defeat against Brazil and a win against Scotland, eliminated in third place in the group.
2002 South Korea / Japan not qualified Failed in the qualification in the 2nd round at Senegal .
2006 Germany not qualified In the qualification in the second round, Tunisia failed again.
2010 South Africa not qualified In the third round of qualification , Cameroon failed again.
2014 Brazil not qualified In the qualification , Morocco could not prevail against the Ivory Coast , Gambia and Tanzania and already had no chance to qualify after five games
2018 Russia Preliminary round Spain , Portugal , Iran Hervé Renard After a draw against Spain and defeats against Portugal and Iran, they were eliminated as the bottom of the group.
2022 Qatar

African Cup of Nations

1957 in Sudan not participated
1959 in Egypt not participated
1962 in Ethiopia withdrawn
1963 in Ghana not participated
1965 in Tunisia not participated
1968 in Ethiopia not participated
1970 in Sudan not qualified
1972 in Cameroon Preliminary round
1974 in Egypt not participated
1976 in Ethiopia African champions
1978 in Ghana Preliminary round
1980 in Nigeria 3rd place
1982 in Libya not qualified
1984 in Ivory Coast not qualified
1986 in Egypt 3rd place
1988 in Morocco 4th Place
1990 in Algeria not qualified
1992 in Senegal Preliminary round
1994 in Tunisia not qualified
1996 in South Africa not qualified
1998 in Burkina Faso Quarter finals
2000 in Ghana / Nigeria Preliminary round
2002 in Mali Preliminary round
2004 in Tunisia 2nd place
2006 in Egypt Preliminary round
2008 in Ghana Preliminary round
2010 in Angola not qualified
2012 in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea Preliminary round
2013 in South Africa Preliminary round
2015 in Morocco first named as the host, then disqualified
2017 in Gabon Quarter finals
2019 in Egypt Round of 16

African Nations Championship

  • 2009 : not qualified
  • 2011 : not qualified
  • 2014 : quarter-finals
  • 2016 : preliminary round
  • 2018 : winner
  • 2020 : qualified

Results against German speaking teams

date place Home team result Visiting team
1. 06/21/1960 Erfurt Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR 1: 2 MoroccoMorocco Morocco
2. 12/11/1960 Casablanca MoroccoMorocco Morocco 2: 3 Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR
3. December 10, 1961 Casablanca MoroccoMorocco Morocco 2-0 Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR
4th 01/13/1963 Casablanca MoroccoMorocco Morocco 1-0 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
5. December 29, 1963 Casablanca MoroccoMorocco Morocco 1: 4 Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany FRG
6th 02/22/1967 Karlsruhe Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany FRG 5: 1 MoroccoMorocco Morocco
7th 06/03/1970 Leon ( )MexicoMexico Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany FRG 2: 1 MoroccoMorocco Morocco
8th. 06/17/1986 Monterrey ( )MexicoMexico MoroccoMorocco Morocco 0: 1 Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany FRG
9. 03/02/1988 Mohammedia MoroccoMorocco Morocco 2: 1 Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR
10. 02/18/2004 Rabat MoroccoMorocco Morocco 2: 1 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland

So far there have been no official meetings against Austria, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein.

See also

Web links

Commons : Moroccan National Soccer Team  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Including three goals in the 1972 Olympic Games, 11 goals in qualifying games for the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games and one goal in the 1971 Mediterranean Games
  2. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Morocco - Football History 1970s FIFA.com
  4. ↑ rsssf.com: Morocco - Record International Players (last updated May 7, 2020)
  5. ↑ a b Of which five games at the 1972 Olympic Games, 18 qualifying games for the 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1980 Olympic Games, six games at the Mediterranean Games in 1967 and 1971 and one game against the Swiss B-team
  6. ^ Including 3 games at the 1984 Olympic Games, 9 qualifying games for the 1980, 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games, 6 games at the Mediterranean Games 1979 and 1983 and 2 games at the 1985 Arab Games.
  7. ^ Including 3 games at the 1984 Olympic Games, 9 qualifying games for the 1976, 1980, 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games, 4 games at the Mediterranean Games in 1979 and 1987 and one more game against the Spanish B team.
  8. ↑ Of which 6 games at the 1972 Olympic Games, 11 qualifying games for the 1972, 1976 and 1980 Olympic Games, 5 games at the 1975 Mediterranean Games and 6 games at the 1976 Arab Games.
  9. ↑ Including 3 games at the 1984 Olympic Games, 10 qualifying games for the 1980, 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games, 7 games at the 1979 and 1983 Mediterranean Games, 5 games at the 1985 Arab Games and three games against B teams
  10. ^ Including 2 goals at the 1985 Arab Games and two goals against B teams
  11. ^ Including 4 goals in qualifying games for the 1976 and 1980 Olympic Games and 4 goals in the 1976 Arab Games.
  12. ^ Including 6 qualifying games for the 1976 and 1980 Olympic Games and 3 games for the 1976 Arab Games.
  13. ↑ Including 3 qualifying games for the Olympic Games 1984 and 1988 and 3 games for the Olympic Games 1984.
  14. ↑ Including 4 qualifying games for the Olympic Games 1980, 1984 and 1988 as well as a game against the Spanish B-team
  15. ↑ Morocco National Team Coaches . rsssf.com. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
  16. ↑ FIFA.com: Difficult tickets for Africa's favorites
  17. ↑ The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games. See: All-time FIFA World Cup Ranking 1930-2010 (PDF; 200 kB)
  18. ↑ fifa.com: "Africa Cup 2015 will not take place in Morocco" ( Memento from November 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )