Morocco National Team: Atlas Lions Football Squad, Fixtures and African Kick-Off Times

The Morocco national team, known as the Atlas Lions, is Morocco's men's football side and is run by the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF), founded in 1955. They won the Africa Cup of Nations in 1976 and again on home soil in 2025, and in 2022 they became the first African team to reach a World Cup semi-final, finishing fourth. What follows explains how to read the Morocco squad, the fixtures with kick-off in your own time zone, the honours, the records and the hosting story. It is written for readers who call the game football and for South Africans who might search for it as soccer.

Morocco's fourth place at the 2022 World Cup set an African benchmark. All five are CAF members alongside Morocco, so any of them can draw the Atlas Lions at AFCON or in World Cup qualifying. That is why the squad, fixture and result panels refresh after every match, with the competition shown beside each fixture.

Who Is in the Morocco Squad, and Who Wears the Armband?

The current Moroccan squad is the one listed in the squad panel, grouped by position (goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders and forwards) and by club, with the captain marked beside his name. Use the club column to connect each selected player with his club fixtures.

So, how do you use the panel? Read the club column first, because it tells you which league broadcast will show a Morocco player this season. Use the selected players and their clubs to identify any club teammates when Morocco meet another African national side.

Morocco Next Match: What Time Is Kick-Off Where You Live?

The Morocco next match is the first card in the fixtures panel, showing the date, the opponent, the competition and the kick-off in WAT, EAT, SAST and GMT side by side. If you want to work it out yourself, Ghana runs on GMT, Nigeria is one hour ahead on WAT, South Africa is two hours ahead on SAST, and Kenya and Uganda are three hours ahead on EAT. So, a 19:00 GMT kick-off is 19:00 in Accra, 20:00 in Lagos, 21:00 in Johannesburg and 22:00 in Nairobi and Kampala, which is late enough that East African fans plan their evening around it.

The full list of Morocco fixtures mixes competitive matches with friendlies, and the competition column tells them apart. AFCON matches and World Cup qualifiers are the ones that can bring the Atlas Lions up against the Black Stars, Bafana Bafana, the Harambee Stars, the Cranes or the Super Eagles, so it is worth checking each draw as it is made rather than trusting the last one. Friendlies are useful in their own way, because a coach often tries new names in them, and those names then appear in the squad panel. In a tournament month, Moroccan fixtures can come thick and fast, so keep an eye on the dates as well as the times.

Where Can You Watch the Atlas Lions in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and South Africa?

The channel for each Morocco match is listed on its fixture card, country by country, because broadcast arrangements for AFCON, World Cup qualifying and friendlies can differ between Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and South Africa. That is the straight answer to the question of which channel carries the match, and it is why the listing is data that updates rather than a line written once and left. Check the card on the day of the match, since international broadcast details are often confirmed close to kick-off.

Use the country listing for Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda or South Africa, then check the kick-off in your local time zone.

Who Coaches the Atlas Lions, and How Do Morocco Play?

The head coach is named at the top of the squad panel, which changes the day the FRMF makes an appointment, so the name you read always matches the dugout. Morocco reached the World Cup semi-finals in 2022 and finished fourth.

How Did Morocco Win the 2025 AFCON, and How Do You Read Their Results?

Morocco won the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, a tournament they also hosted, and it was their second AFCON title after 1976. The final against Senegal finished 0 to 0, and on 17 March 2026 the CAF Appeal Board ruled that Senegal had forfeited, so the result stands in the record as a 3 to 0 win for Morocco. The recorded result followed the CAF Appeal Board ruling on 17 March 2026.

Each Morocco result pairs the score with its match date and competition; FT indicates that play has finished. Read the competition column before the score, because a friendly win and an AFCON knockout win do not weigh the same, and an away draw in qualifying can be worth more than it looks. For context, Morocco's national record run of 19 straight wins ended in a draw in December 2025, as recorded in December 2025.

What Is Morocco's World Cup Record, and Why Does 2022 Matter?

Morocco made their World Cup debut in 1970, and the records panel tracks their tournament appearances. Their first landmark came in 1986, when they topped their group and became the first African team to reach the knockout stage, an African World Cup milestone in 1986. The records panel lists each appearance with the stage reached, so you can trace the line from 1970 onwards without relying on memory.

The defining match, in my opinion, is the 2022 semi-final, because it made Morocco the first African side to play in the last four of a World Cup, and they went on to finish fourth, the best result by an African team. Morocco finished fourth in 2022, the best World Cup result by an African team.

What Have the Atlas Lions Won?

Morocco have won the Africa Cup of Nations twice, in 1976 and 2025, and the African Nations Championship (CHAN) three times, in 2018, 2020 and 2024. The CHAN is the CAF tournament for players based in their own domestic leagues, so those three titles say a great deal about the depth of Moroccan club football. It is also part of the reason Moroccan clubs are such familiar opponents in CAF club competitions for sides from South Africa, Nigeria and beyond.

Beyond Africa, Morocco won the Arab Cup in 2012 and in 2025, when the national A′ team beat Jordan 3 to 2 after extra time. They also took the bronze medal in men's football at the Paris 2024 Olympics, which matters for the senior side because Olympic squads are often where the next generation of Atlas Lions comes through. Put together, the honours reach well beyond the senior team, a spread of success that gives Morocco a deep pool of players with tournament experience at every level.

Who Holds the Morocco Records?

In 2026, Noureddine Naybet was listed as Morocco's caps record holder with 115 appearances, and Ahmed Faras as the all time top scorer with 36 goals. Both marks have stood for a long time, so any Moroccan player chasing them needs many years of international football, and the records panel will show it first if anyone gets there. For a Nigerian comparison, think of the way Super Eagles fans talk about their own record holders: the numbers are quoted in every argument, and the names carry a whole generation with them. Read the panel for the leaders among current players, and the dated figures above for historical context.

Where Do Morocco Play at Home, and What Are They Hosting?

Morocco play most home matches at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat, and the squad trains at the Mohammed VI Football Complex in Salé. The country hosted the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations and won it, which turned Rabat into a meeting point for supporters from right across the continent. For fans who travelled from West and East Africa, it was a chance to see the benchmark side of African football in its own home, with the trophy staying there at the end.

Next, Morocco will co-host the 2030 World Cup with Spain and Portugal, which puts part of a World Cup on African soil for only the second time, after South Africa hosted. For Super Eagles, Black Stars, Bafana Bafana, Harambee Stars and Cranes supporters, it could be argued that qualifying for 2030 carries an extra pull, because the tournament will be closer to home than most editions. So, when the qualifying draw is made, the fixtures panel is the place to watch for the matches that decide who makes the trip.

Is It the Morocco or the Moroccan National Team?

Both searches mean the same side: the Moroccan national team is the Morocco national team, the Atlas Lions, run by the FRMF (founded in 1955) and based at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat. If you typed 'Moroccan' and found pages about the country rather than the football, the answer you wanted is the team described here, and the same goes for Moroccan fixtures and the Moroccan squad, which point to the same panels. For the other sides Morocco are likely to meet, from the Super Eagles to the Uganda Cranes, our national teams hub lists every team in the same layout. Start with the fixtures panel, then the squad, and you will know who is playing and when.