Ayoub El Kaabi: Football Profile, Olympiacos, Morocco and Net Worth

Ayoub El Kaabi is a Moroccan striker born in Casablanca on 25 June 1993 who joined Olympiacos in August 2023. He represents Morocco, and his football career, also searched as soccer by South African readers, includes the winning goal in the 2024 Conference League final.

Ayoub El Kaabi’s net worth cannot be established from reported wages alone, including the annual salary estimate published after his March 2026 Olympiacos renewal. His career offers something more useful than an unexplained wealth estimate: reported wages, identifiable transfers and performances that show how a Casablanca forward reached a European final.

Who Is Ayoub El Kaabi?

El Kaabi is a centre forward whose career has taken him from Morocco to China and Greece. Readers searching for El Kaabi, Ayoub Al Kaabi or El Kaâbi are looking for the same Moroccan player. Those spelling variations should lead to one career record, with dates attached to each club and tournament achievement.

He joined Olympiacos in August 2023, and Morocco World News reported that his renewal was announced on 12 March 2026. The agreement covered two additional seasons with an option for another year. Alongside that dated agreement, the player record displays his club details as they change. For readers comparing African footballers, his distinction is the combination of success in African domestic football and decisive goals in European competition.

The Road From Casablanca: Clubs and Reported Fees

El Kaabi progressed from Racing de Casablanca to RS Berkane in 2017, then moved abroad after his international breakthrough. Africafoot’s June 2024 profile put the fee for his 2017 Berkane move at approximately €1.88 million. That is a reported transfer figure rather than a published transaction statement, a distinction worth retaining when comparing the cost of his early moves.

What Does El Kaabi Do on the Pitch?

El Kaabi plays as a central striker, with his defining performances illustrating the value of movement near goal. Watch where he positions himself before a delivery rather than following only the ball. The useful questions are whether he has moved across a defender, created a passing angle or reached the space where a cross will arrive. His most famous European goal rewards that kind of viewing, because the finish makes more sense when you notice the movement preceding it.

On 29 May 2024, he scored in extra time as Olympiacos beat Fiorentina 1 to 0 in the Conference League final. That is the match to start with when explaining his standing in Greece. A final can turn on a brief opening after a long evening of patient work, and El Kaabi supplied the decisive touch. For an African audience, the lasting image is a Moroccan striker settling a European final rather than merely appearing in one.

His wider scoring record gives that moment context. He finished the 2023/24 Conference League as top scorer with 11 goals, then shared the 2024/25 Europa League scoring lead with seven. These are completed tournament totals, not a running assessment of this season. His Olympiacos honours also include the Greek league and Greek Cup in 2024/25. Together, those achievements show that the final winner belonged to a sustained contribution across different competitions.

El Kaabi’s decisive header against Fiorentina in 2024 offers supporters from Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya a memorable example of Moroccan finishing. Study his approach to the cross, using his scoring appearances during the 2023/24 Conference League campaign and the 2024/25 Europa League campaign for comparison. Discussion of his European contribution can then centre on a striker’s timing, positioning and execution at the moment a chance develops.

El Kaabi and Morocco: Debut, Tournaments and the Caps Record

El Kaabi made his Morocco debut against Mauritania on 13 January 2018, scoring twice at the African Nations Championship. He finished that CHAN with nine goals in five appearances and received the tournament’s best player award. CHAN’s focus on players based in their national domestic leagues is essential context: this was a platform for his Moroccan club career to reach a wider audience.

He subsequently earned selection in Morocco’s squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. A record can treat CHAN appearances differently from another provider’s senior international count. Readers should therefore check the competition coverage and update date before using a caps figure to compare El Kaabi with another Atlas Lions forward.

The live Morocco record carries his appearance count alongside its update date. Its competition coverage indicates whether CHAN fixtures contribute to the total. Read that information with the goals column when comparing his international contribution with another forward’s record.

Morocco were declared winners of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations edition after CAF upheld their appeal. That title needs its procedural context whenever it appears in his honours. El Kaabi was also named in Morocco’s 2026 World Cup squad, with FourFourTwo recording four goals in qualifying. These dated achievements describe his tournament pathway; the squad and appearance modules establish his involvement in subsequent internationals.

Ayoub El Kaabi net worth

No verified net worth figure for Ayoub El Kaabi has been reported by an eligible informational outlet in the available reporting. There is therefore no defensible personal wealth total to present as established fact. A useful estimate would need evidence about assets, liabilities and retained earnings, not simply accumulated wages. Public reporting supplies some earnings indicators, but it does not provide the personal accounts needed to calculate what he owns after what he owes.

Africafoot reported in March 2026 that his renewed Olympiacos agreement carried pay of about €3 million a year. Its June 2024 profile had estimated his 2023/24 annual salary at €1,025,440. The earlier figure is dated and should not be presented as the renewed wage. Olympiacos did not disclose the financial terms in the reporting cited here, so both amounts require their outlet, year and estimate status whenever they are repeated.

Readers searching for salary per week should first check which annual report a weekly conversion uses. Dividing reported annual pay into weeks creates an arithmetic comparison, not confirmation of a payment schedule or take home earnings. Conversions into naira, Kenyan or Ugandan shillings, rand and cedis also need a dated exchange rate. Without that date, a locally familiar currency can make an uncertain estimate appear more precise than the underlying evidence allows.

No endorsement agreement, endorsement income or separate image rights figure was identified in the eligible news reporting. No supported market valuation is supplied here either. Transfer fees belong to a different category: the reported Berkane and Hebei payments concern transactions between clubs, not money deposited into the player’s personal account. Published wage estimates help explain his earning potential, but they cannot establish net worth without evidence about the rest of his finances.

How to Watch El Kaabi From Five African Countries

To watch El Kaabi from Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana or Uganda, start with the fixture and country viewing modules. Identify whether the match belongs to Greek domestic football, a European competition or Morocco’s international programme. The available coverage can differ by competition and territory, so one viewing arrangement should not be assumed to cover every appearance. Check the confirmed team sheet as well, because a club fixture alone does not establish that he will play.

Read the kick off listing in WAT for Nigeria, EAT for Kenya and Uganda, SAST for South Africa, and GMT for Ghana. Those labels make a shared fixture useful across all five countries without asking readers to work backwards from Greek or Central European time. European clock changes can alter the relationship with African time zones. Use the converted fixture entry for the actual date rather than carrying an old conversion into another month.

Moroccan viewers following El Kaabi at Olympiacos can trace his European achievements through the 2023/24 Conference League and 2024/25 Europa League. For Nigerian, Kenyan, South African, Ghanaian and Ugandan readers exploring African performances in Europe, those campaigns offer a clear starting point: a Moroccan striker’s winning goal in a final and scoring honours in two competitions. Before arranging your viewing, select the correct country, confirm the competition and read the local kick off time beside the match.