Morocco national football team

The Moroccan national football team is the national football team of the North African country of Morocco.

It is one of the most successful teams on the African continent. The Moroccans won the 1976 African Cup of Nations with the Romanian trainer Virgil Mărdărescu and were beaten only in the finale of Tunisia in 2004. The selection took part in a World Cup four times and played it twice against the German team. Your best result achieved in 1986 with the team reaching the knockout round. The Moroccan national team reached the first African side a group victory in a World Cup, ahead of England, Poland and Portugal. Also at the World Championships in France in 1998, the " lion of the Atlas " played hard, but failed with a lot of bad luck in the first round. They were also the second African team ever to able to qualify for the World Cup finals (1970).

The Moroccan Football Federation Fédération Royale Marocaine de Football was founded in 1955 and in 1959 an official member of FIFA. The Association had applied to host the Football World Cup 2010; However, the award went to South Africa.

Longtime Moroccan International

  • Youssef Mokhtari
  • Noureddine Naybet
  • Tarik Sektioui
  • Jaouad Zairi
  • Mbark Boussoufa

Football at the Olympic Games

After 1988, the A national team no longer participated in the Olympic games and the qualifiers so. The Olympic team took in 1992, 2000, 2004 and 2012, in part, but different from each in the preliminary round.

World Cup

Morocco took 1970 as the first African team after the Second World War in a World Cup finals and played with 98 qualifying matches most of all African teams.

African Cup of Nations

African Nations Cup

  • 2009: not qualified
  • 2011: not qualified
  • 2014: Quarter-finals

Squad

Results from German -speaking teams

So far there has been no official matches against Austria, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein.

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