Morocco national football team
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| Nickname | Lions de l'Atlas (Atlas Lions) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Association | Fédération Royale Marocaine de Football | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach | Mohammed Fakhir | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Most caps | Noureddine Naybet (105) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top scorer | Salaheddine Bassir (43) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA code | MAR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA ranking | 39 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest FIFA ranking | 10 (April 1998) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lowest FIFA ranking | 41 (August 2002) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elo ranking | 47 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| First international Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco 3 - 3 Iraq Image:Flag of Iraq 1924.svg (Lebanon; 19 October, 1957) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Largest win Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco 13 - 1 Saudi Arabia Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg (Morocco; 6 September, 1961) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Worst defeat Image:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary 6 - 0 Morocco Image:Flag of Morocco.svg (Tokyo, Japan; 11 October, 1964) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 4 (First in 1970) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Round 2, 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| African Nations Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 12 (First in 1972) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Winners, 1976,2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Morocco national football team, nicknamed Lions de l'Atlas (Atlas Lions), is the national team of Morocco and is controlled by the Fédération Royale Marocaine de Football. They were the first African team to qualify directly to the World Cup finals, as they did in 1970. They were the first African team to win a group at the World Cup, which they did in 1986, finishing ahead of Portugal, Poland, and England. Morocco fell to eventual runner-ups West Germany 1-0 in the second round. They also came within two minutes of moving out of the group stage of the the 1998 World Cup, Kjetil Rekdal's late winning goal for Norway against Brazil eliminating them.
Morocco won the African Nations Cup once, in 1976.
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[edit] World Cup record
- 1930 to 1958 - Did not enter
- 1962 - Did not qualify
- 1966 - Withdrew
- 1970 - Round 1
- 1974 to 1982 - Did not qualify
- 1986 - Round 2
- 1990 - Did not qualify
- 1994 - Round 1
- 1998 - Round 1
- 2002 - Did not qualify
- 2006 - Did not qualify
[edit] African Nations Cup record
[edit] Famous players
- Farras Ahmed
- Salaheddine Bassir
- Aziz Bouderbala
- Abdelmjid Dolmi
- Assila SCCM
- Mustapha Hadji
- Noureddine Naybet
- Mohammed Timoumi
- Badou Zaki
[edit] Coaches
- 1957 Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Larbi Ben Barek, Abdelkader Lohkmiri, Mohamed Kadmiri
- 1961-1964 Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Mohamed Massoun, Kader Firoud.
- 1964-1967 Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Mohamed Massoun, Belmahjoub.
- 1968 Image:Flag of France.svg Cluzeau, Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Abdellah Settati
- 1970
Blagoje Vidinic
- 1971 Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Abderrahman Bel-Mahjoub
- 1972 Image:Flag of Spain.svg José Barinaga
- 1972 Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Abdallah El-Emmani
- 1976
Gheorge Mãrdãrescu
- 1977 Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Abdellah "Malaga" Antaki
- 1979 Image:Flag of France.svg Cluzeau
- 1979-1981 Image:Flag of France.svg Just Fontaine
- 1980 Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Jounane & Yabram Hamidouch
- 1981 Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Yabram Hamidouch
- 1983-1988 Image:Flag of Brazil.svg José Faria "Mehdi"
- 1988-1989 Image:Flag of Brazil.svg Jaime Valente
- 1989-1990 Image:Flag of Argentina.svg Antonio Valentín "Angelino Angelillo"
- 1990-1992 Image:Flag of Germany.svg Olk Werner
- 1992 Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Abdelkhalek Louzani
- 1993 Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Abdellah Ajri "Blinda"
- 1994 Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Mohammed Lamari
- 1995 Image:Flag of Brazil.svg Gilson Nunez
- 1995-2000 Image:Flag of France.svg Henri Michel
- 2000 Image:Flag of Poland (bordered).svg Henri Kasperczak
- 2001 Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Mustapha Madih
- 2002 Image:Flag of Portugal.svg Humberto Coelho
- 2002-2005 Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Zaki Badou
- 2005 Image:Flag of France.svg Philippe Troussier
- 2005 Image:Flag of Morocco.svg Mhamed Fakhir
[edit] External links
- Morocco FA official site
- Moroccan National Team (The Atlas Lions) official site
- RSSSF archive of results
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