Morocco national football team
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| Nickname | Lions de l'Atlas (Atlas Lions) |
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| Association | Fédération Royale Marocaine de Football |
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| Confederation | CAF (Africa) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach | Mohammed Fakhir | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Most caps | Noureddine Naybet (105) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top scorer | Salaheddine Bassir (43) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home stadium | Stade Mohamed V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA code | MAR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA ranking | 44 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest FIFA ranking | 10 (April 1998) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lowest FIFA ranking | 44 (March 2007) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elo ranking | 44 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest Elo ranking | 17 (1999) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lowest Elo ranking | 57 (1983, 1992, 1993) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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First international Morocco 3 - 3 Iraq  (Lebanon; 19 October 1957) |
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Biggest win Morocco 13 - 1 Saudi Arabia  (Morocco; 6 September 1961) |
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Biggest defeat Hungary 6 - 0 Morocco (Tokyo, Japan; 11 October 1964) |
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| Appearances | 4 (First in 1970) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Round 2, 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| African Nations Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 14 (First in 1972) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Winners, 1976an | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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] Current squad
Here the squad against Tunisia in friendly, 7 February 2007.
[edit] Coaches
- 1957 Larbi Ben Barek, Abdelkader Lohkmiri, Mohamed Kadmiri
- 1961-1964 Mohamed Massoun, Kader Firoud.
- 1964-1967 Mohamed Massoun, Belmahjoub.
- 1968
Cluzeau, Abdellah Settati - 1970
Blagoja Vidinić - 1971 Abderrahman Bel-Mahjoub
- 1972
José Barinaga - 1972 Abdallah El-Emmani
- 1976
Gheorghe Mãrdãrescu - 1977 Abdellah "Malaga" Antaki
- 1979 Cluzeau
- 1979-1981 Just Fontaine
- 1980 Jounane & Yabram Hamidouch
- 1981 Yabram Hamidouch
- 1983-1988
José Faria "Mehdi" - 1988-1989 Jaime Valente
- 1989-1990
Antonio Valentín "Angelino Angelillo" - 1990-1992
Olk Werner - 1992 Abdelkhalek Louzani
- 1993 Abdellah Ajri "Blinda"
- 1994 Mohammed Lamari
- 1995 Gilson Nunez
- 1995-2000 Henri Michel
- 2000
Henri Kasperczak - 2001 Mustapha Madih
- 2002
Humberto Coelho - 2002-2005 Badou Zaki
- 2005 Philippe Troussier
- 2005 Mohammed Fakhir
[edit] External links
- Morocco FA official site
- Moroccan National Team (The Atlas Lions) official site
- RSSSF archive of results
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