Morocco at the FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, sometimes called the Football World Cup or the Soccer World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946, due to World War II.
The tournament consists of two parts, the qualification phase and the final phase (officially called the World Cup Finals). The qualification phase, which currently takes place over the three years preceding the Finals, is used to determine which teams qualify for the Finals. The current format of the Finals involves 32 teams competing for the title, at venues within the host nation (or nations) over a period of about a month. The World Cup Finals is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world, with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the 2006 tournament final.
Morocco have qualified for the final stages of the FIFA World Cup on five occasions, which were in 1970, 1986, 1994, 1998 and 2018.[1]. Their best performance was in 1986, where they reached the round of 16.
World Cup record
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| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA |
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Group stage | 14th | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
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Round of 16 | 11th | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
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Group stage | 23rd | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
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Group stage | 18th | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
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Group Stage | 27th | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
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| Total | Round of 16 | 5/22 | 16 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 22 |
By match
| World Cup | Round | Opponent | Score | Result | Scorers |
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| 1970 | Group stage | | 1–2 | L | Jarir |
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.svg.png){kind=small} | 1–1 | D | Ghazouani | ||
| 1986 | Group stage |  | 0–0 | D | & —
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| 0–0 | D | & —
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 | 3–1 | W | Khairi (2), Krimau | ||
| Round of 16 | | 0–1 | L | & —
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| 1994 | Group stage | .svg.png){kind=small} | 0–1 | L | & —
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 | 1–2 | L | Chaouch | ||
 | 1–2 | L | Nader | ||
| 1998 | Group stage |  | 2–2 | D | Hadji, Hadda |
| 0–3 | L | & —
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 | 3–0 | W | Bassir (2), Hadda | ||
| 2018 | Group stage |  | 0–1 | L | & —
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| 0–1 | L | & —
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| 2-2 | D | Boutaïb, En-Nesyri | ||
Squads
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Record Players
| No. | Name | Matches | World Cups |
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| 1 | Mustapha Hadji | 6 | 1994 and 1998 |
| 2 | Rachid Azzouzi | 5 | 1994 and 1998 |
| Abdelkrim El Hadrioui | 5 | 1994 and 1998 | |
| Tahar El Khalej | 5 | 1994 and 1998 | |
| Noureddine Naybet | 5 | 1994 and 1998 | |
| 6 | Aziz Bouderbala | 4 | 1986 |
| Noureddine Bouyahyaoui | 4 | 1986 | |
| Abdelmajid Dolmy | 4 | 1986 | |
| Labid Khalifa | 4 | 1986 | |
| Abderrazak Khairi | 4 | 1986 | |
| Krimau | 4 | 1986 | |
| Abdelmajid Lamriss | 4 | 1986 | |
| Mohammed Timoumi | 4 | 1986 | |
| Badou Zaki | 4 | 1986 | |
| Mustafa El Haddaoui | 4 | 1986 and 1994 | |
| Smahi Triki | 4 | 1994 and 1998 | |
Top goalscorers
| No. | Name | Goals | World Cups |
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| 1 | Abderrazak Khairi | 2 | 1986 |
| Salaheddine Bassir | 2 | 1998 | |
| Abdeljalil Hadda | 2 | 1998 | |
| 4 | Maouhoub Ghazouani | 1 | 1970 |
| Houmane Jarir | 1 | 1970 | |
| Krimau | 1 | 1986 | |
| Mohammed Chaouch | 1 | 1994 | |
| Hassan Nader | 1 | 1994 | |
| Mustapha Hadji | 1 | 1998 | |
| Khalid Boutaïb | 1 | 2018 | |
| Youssef En-Nesyri | 1 | 2018 |
References
- ↑ "World Cup Record". Planet World Cup. Retrieved 19 February 2014.