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 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 eliminating them.

Morocco have won the African Nations Cup once, in 1976.

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 enter
• 1970 - Did not qualify
• 1972 - Round 1
• 1974 - Did not enter
• 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

Famous players

• Salaheddine Bassir
• Aziz Bouderbala
• Abdelmjid Dolmi
• Mustapha Haddaoui
• Mustapha Hadji
• Noureddine Naybet
• Youssef Safri
• Mohammed Timoumi
• Badou Zaki
• Yousseff Chippo
• Jawad Zairi
• Mohammed El Yaagoubi
• Karim Zaza
• Marouane Chamakh

External links

• Morocco FA official site
• Moroccan National Team (The Atlas Lions) official site
• RSSSF archive of results

African national football teams | Football in Morocco

Marokkanische Fußballnationalmannschaft | Selección nacional de fútbol de Marruecos | Équipe du Maroc de football | Nazionale di calcio del Marocco | נבחרת מרוקו בכדורגל | Marokkaans voetbalelftal | サッカーモロッコ代表 | Reprezentacja Maroka w piłce nożnej | Seleção Marroquina de Futebol | Marockos fotbollslandslag