Morocco

Missing image Morocco_FA.gif Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname	Lions de l'Atlas (Atlas Lions)
Association	Fédération Royale Marocaine de Football
Coach	Zaki Badou
Most caps	Noureddine Naybet (105)
Top scorer	?
Home colours 　 Away colours
First International Morocco 3 - 3 Iraq (Lebanon; 19 October, 1957)
Largest win Morocco 13 - 1 Saudi Arabia (Morocco; 6 September, 1961)
Worst defeat Hungary 6 - 0 Morocco (Tokyo, Japan; 11 October, 1964)
World Cup
Appearances	4 (First in 1970)
Best result	Round 2, 1986
African Nations Cup
Appearances	11 (First in 1972)
Best result	Winners, 1976

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 1986, finishing ahead of Portugal, Poland, and England. Morocco fell to eventual runner-ups West Germany on penalties in the second round.

Morocco won the African Nations Cup once, in 1976.

Contents

1 World Cup record 2 African Nations Cup record 3 Famous players 4 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

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

Famous players

• Mustapha Hadji

External links

• RSSSF archive of results (http://www.rsssf.com/tablesm/maro-intres.html)

National football teams of Africa (CAF)

Algeria | Angola | Benin | Botswana | Burkina Faso | Burundi | Cameroon | Cape Verde | Central African Republic | Chad | Congo | Congo DR | Côte d'Ivoire | Djibouti | Egypt | Equatorial Guinea | Eritrea | Ethiopia | Gabon | Gambia | Ghana | Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Kenya | Lesotho | Liberia | Libya | Madagascar | Malawi | Mali | Mauritania | Mauritius | Morocco | Mozambique | Namibia | Niger | Nigeria | Rwanda | São Tomé and Príncipe | Senegal | Seychelles | Sierra Leone | Somalia | South Africa | Sudan | Swaziland | Tanzania | Togo | Tunisia | Uganda | Zambia | Zimbabwe

International Football

FIFA - World Cup - Women's World Cup - World Rankings - Player of the Year Asia: AFC - Asian Cup | Africa: CAF - African Nations Cup South America: CONMEBOL - Copa América | North America: CONCACAF - Gold Cup Oceania: OFC - OFC Nations Cup | Europe: UEFA - European Championship