MOROCCO NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM

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. They were also the first African team to make it to second round barely losing to eventual runner-ups West Germany 1-0 in 1986. 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.

Contents

World Cup record

African Nations Cup record

Famous players

Current squad

Coaches

External links

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''

African Nations Cup record

★ 1957 - ''Did not enter'' ★ 1959 - ''Did not enter'' ★ 1962 - ''Withdrew'' ★ 1963 - ''Did not qualify'' ★ 1965 - ''Did not enter'' ★ 1968 - ''Did not qualify'' ★ 1970 - ''Did not qualify'' ★ 1972 - Round 1 ★ 1974 - ''Did not qualify'' ★ 1976 - 'Champions' ★ 1978 - Round 1 ★ 1980 - Third place

★ 1982 - ''Did not qualify'' ★ 1984 - ''Did not qualify'' ★ 1986 - Fourth place ★ 1988 - Fourth place ★ 1990 - ''Did not qualify'' ★ 1992 - Round 1 ★ 1994 - ''Did not qualify'' ★ 1996 - ''Did not qualify'' ★ 1998 - Quarterfinals ★ 2000 - Round 1 ★ 2002 - Round 1 ★ 2004 - Second place ★ 2006 - Round 1 ★ 2008 - ''qualified''

Famous players

★ Salaheddine Bassir

★ Aziz Bouderbala

★ Abdelmjid Dolmi

★ Talal El Karkouri

★ Ahmed Farras

★ Mustapha Hadji

★ Youssef Hadji

★ Noureddine Naybet

★ Mohammed Timoumi

★ Badou Zaki

Current squad

Here the squad against Tunisia in friendly, 7 February, 2007.

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 Henryk Kasperczak

★ 2001 Mustapha Madih

★ 2002 Humberto Coelho

★ 2002-2005 Badou Zaki

★ 2005 Philippe Troussier

★ 2005 Mohammed Fakhir

★ 2007 Henri Michel

External links

★ Morocco FA official site

★ Moroccan National Team (The Atlas Lions) not the official site!

★ RSSSF archive of results