Morroca team
After the independence of Morocco, the Royal Moroccan Football University was founded in 1955 after the French protection of Morocco, which began in 1912. The first official meeting of the Moroccan national team took place on 19 October 1957 against Iraq in the context of the Arab Games in Lebanon, where the game ended with three goals per elect.
(1976-1970) First international and continental appearances
It was the first Moroccan football team to participate in the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, and Morocco threatened to withdraw from the tournament if it included Israel in the group that includes Morocco, as it did two years ago.
Failure to reach the 2006 World Cup
After Morocco started the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Group 5. The draw brought Morocco to the side of Tunisia, where they lost the 2004 African Cup of Nations by 2-1, together with Malawi, Kenya, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Botswana. Morocco has won a series of victories and a tie where we recall winning Burkina Faso 4-0.
Kenya by 5.1 and Botswana by 4.1. However, in the last match he faced Tunisia on 8 October 2005, Morocco was ranked 2nd in his group after Tunisia, who needed a tie while Morocco needed to win if they wanted to qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The Black of the Atlas equalled back on their land in front of the Eagles of Carthage, so it was necessary to beat Tunisia, and Tunisia qualified for the Mandal, even though the Moroccan team did not lose a match in the competition under Badu El-Za.
2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
On his way to qualification for Mondial Russia after 20 years of absence, Morocco entered the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in 2016, and he achieved an acceptable result with negative equalizations in front of both Gabon and Ivory Coast.
The World Cup draw placed Morocco in Group II along with Portugal, Spain and Iran, where he began his career in the Mandal by facing Iran, Portugal and finally Spain. Before heading to Russia, the Moroccan team gathered in Switzerland, starting on 22 May, and on 31 May, the national team fought a friendly against Ukraine in the Swiss capital, which ended in a negative tie. He won a second friendly at the expense of Slovakia by 2-1.