Morocco at the Africa Cup of Nations

Morocco is one of Africa's major force in the Africa Cup of Nations.

Historically, Morocco participated in the AFCON much later than other North African states. However, once Morocco made debut in 1972, Morocco emerged and became a fearsome power of the tournament, becoming the second North African side to win the AFCON at 1976.[1] However, ever since the win, Morocco's best performance was only runners-up in 2004.[2] Morocco therefore, became the underachiever in the AFCON, in spite of their rich, prestigious records.

Morocco was initially scheduled to host the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, but was later ruled out after the fear of Ebola outbreak controversy.[3]

Records

Africa Cup of Nations record										Africa Cup of Nations Qualification record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA		Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1957	Did not enter									Did not enter
1959
1962	Withdrew									Withdrew
1963	Did not qualify									2	1	0	1	5	6
1965	Did not enter									Did not enter
1968
1970	Did not qualify									2	1	0	1	1	2
1972	Group Stage	5th	3	0	3	0	3	3		4	2	0	2	9	6
1974	Did not enter									Did not enter
1976	Champions	1st	6	4	2	0	11	6		6	4	0	2	13	4
1978	Group Stage	6th	3	1	1	1	2	4		Qualified as defending champions
1980	Third Place	3rd	5	2	1	2	4	3		4	2	1	1	14	5
1982	Did not qualify									4	3	0	1	8	4
1984										4	1	2	1	4	2
1986	Fourth Place	4th	5	1	2	2	4	5		2	1	1	0	1	0
1988	Fourth Place	4th	5	1	3	1	3	3		Qualified as hosts
1990	Did not qualify									2	0	2	0	1	1
1992	Group Stage	9th	2	0	1	1	1	2		6	4	0	2	11	4
1994	Did not qualify									6	2	2	2	5	4
1996										4	1	1	2	2	4
1998	Quarter-finals	6th	4	2	1	1	6	3		6	4	2	0	10	1
2000	Group stage	11th	3	1	1	1	1	2		4	2	2	0	6	4
2002		9th	3	1	1	1	3	4		6	3	1	2	5	4
2004	Runners-up	2nd	6	4	1	1	14	4		6	5	1	0	10	0
2006	Group stage	13th	3	0	2	1	0	1		10	5	5	0	17	7
2008		11th	3	1	0	2	7	6		4	3	1	0	6	1
2010	Did not qualify									10	3	3	4	14	13
2012	Group Stage	12th	3	1	0	2	4	5		6	3	2	1	8	2
2013		10th	3	0	3	0	3	3		2	1	0	1	4	2
2015	Disqualified									Originally qualifies as hosts, then disqualified
2017	Quarter-finals	7th	4	2	0	2	4	3		6	5	1	0	10	1
2019	Round of 16	9th	4	3	1	0	4	1		6	3	2	1	8	3
2021	To be determined									To be determined
2023
2025
Total	1 Title	17/32	65	24	23	18	74	58	106	56	27	23	164	77

List of Morocco's performances

AFCON tournament	Date	Location	Opponent	Score	Scorers	Round
1972	25 February 1972	Douala	Congo	1–1	Ahmed Faras	Group stage
	27 February 1972		Sudan	1–1	Ahmed Faras
	29 February 1972		Zaire	1–1	Ahmed Faras
1976	1 March 1976	Dire Dawa	Sudan	1–1	Mustapha Fetoui, Ahmed Abouali	Group stage
	4 March 1976		Zaire	1–0	Abdel Ali Zahraoui
	6 March 1976		Nigeria	3–1	Ahmed Faras, Abdellah Tazi, Larbi Chebbak
	9 March 1976	Addis Ababa	Egypt	2–1	Ahmed Faras, Abdel Ali Zahraoui	Final round
	11 March 1976		Nigeria	2–1	Ahmed Faras, Redouane Guezzar
	14 March 1976		Guinea	1–1	Ahmed Makrouh
1978	6 March 1978	Kumasi	Tunisia	1–1	Hassan Amcharrat	Group stage
	9 March 1978		Congo	1–0	Hassan Amcharrat
	11 March 1978		Uganda	0–3
1980	9 March 1980	Ibadan	Guinea	1–1	Tahir Mustapha	Group stage
	13 March 1980		Algeria	0–1
	16 March 1980		Ghana	1–0	Khalid Labied
	19 March 1980	Lagos	Nigeria	0–1		Semi-finals
	21 March 1980		Egypt	2–0	Khalid Labied (x2)	Third place
1986	8 March 1986	Alexandria	Algeria	0–0		Group stage
	11 March 1986		Cameroon	1–1	Abdelkrim Merry
	14 March 1986		Zambia	1–0	Jones Chilengi (o.g.)
	17 March 1986	Cairo	Egypt	0–1		Semi-finals
	20 March 1986		Ivory Coast	2–3	Abdelfettah Rhiati, Mohammed Sahil	Third place
1988	13 March 1988	Casablanca	Zaire	1–1	Abdelkrim Merry (p)	Group stage
	16 March 1988		Algeria	1–0	Mustafa El Haddaoui
	19 March 1988		Ivory Coast	0–0
	23 March 1988		Cameroon	0–1		Semi-finals
	23 March 1988		Algeria	1–1 (3–4 p)	Hassan Nader	Third place
1992	12 January 1992	Dakar	Cameroon	0–1		Group stage
	14 January 1992		Zaire	1–1	Said Rokbi
1998	9 February 1998	Bobo-Dioulasso	Zambia	1–1	Ahmed Bahja	Group stage
	13 January 1998		Mozambique	3–0	Saïd Chiba, Ali Elkhattabi, Youssef Fertout
	17 January 1998	Ouagadougou	Egypt	1–0	Mustapha Hadji
	22 January 1998		South Africa	1–2	Saïd Chiba	Quarter-finals
2000	25 January 2000	Lagos	Congo	1–0	Salaheddine Bassir	Group stage
	29 January 2000		Tunisia	0–0
	3 February 2000		Nigeria	0–2
2002	21 January 2002	Ségou	Ghana	0–0		Group stage
	26 January 2002		Burkina Faso	2–1	Hicham Zerouali (x2)
	30 January 2002		South Africa	1–3	Rachid Benmahmoud (p)
2004	27 January 2004	Monastir	Nigeria	1–0	Youssouf Hadji	Group stage
	31 January 2004	Sfax	Benin	4–0	Marouane Chamakh, Youssef Mokhtari, Abdeslam Ouaddou, Talal El Karkouri
	4 February 2004	Sousse	South Africa	1–1	Youssef Safri (p)
	8 February 2004	Sfax	Algeria	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Marouane Chamakh, Youssouf Hadji, Jawad Zairi	Quarter-finals
	11 February 2004	Sousse	Mali	4–0	Youssef Mokhtari (x2), Youssouf Hadji, Nabil Baha	Semi-finals
	14 February 2004	Radès	Tunisia	1–2	Youssef Mokhtari	Final
2006	20 January 2006	Cairo	Ivory Coast	0–1		Group stage
	24 January 2006		Egypt	0–0
	28 January 2006		Libya	0–0
2008	21 January 2008	Accra	Namibia	5–1	Soufiane Alloudi (x3), Tarik Sektioui, Monsef Zerka	Group stage
	24 January 2008		Guinea	2–3	Hicham Aboucherouane, Abdeslam Ouaddou
	28 January 2008		Ghana	0–2
2012	23 January 2012	Libreville	Tunisia	1–2	Houssine Kharja	Group stage
	27 January 2012		Gabon	2–3	Houssine Kharja (x2)
	31 January 2012		Niger	1–0	Younès Belhanda
2013	19 January 2013	Johannesburg	Angola	0–0		Group stage
	23 January 2013	Durban	Cape Verde	1–1	Youssef El-Arabi
	27 January 2013		South Africa	2–2	Issam El Adoua, Abdelilah Hafidi
2017	16 January 2017	Oyem	DR Congo	0–1		Group stage
	20 January 2017		Togo	3–1	Aziz Bouhaddouz, Romain Saïss, Youssef En-Nesyri
	24 January 2017		Ivory Coast	1–0	Rachid Alioui
	29 January 2017	Port-Gentil	Egypt	0–1		Quarter-finals
2019	23 June 2019	Cairo	Namibia	1–0	Itamunua Keimuine (o.g.)	Group stage
	28 June 2019		Ivory Coast	1–0	Youssef En-Nesyri
	1 July 2019		South Africa	1–0	Mbark Boussoufa
	5 July 2019		Benin	1–1 (1–4 p)	Youssef En-Nesyri	Round of sixteen

Squads

References

1. "CAN – Historique : 1976, le Maroc sur le toit de l'Afrique". December 19, 2014.
2. "Tunisia win Cup of Nations". February 14, 2004 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
3. Kingsley, Patrick (November 11, 2014). "Morocco disqualified from next year's Africa Cup of Nations" – via www.theguardian.com.

External links

• Africa Cup of Nations – Archives competitions – cafonline.com