National football team Maroc

After nearly 70 years of establishment, the Moroccan team has participated in many international tournaments. They won the Africa Cup of Nations in 1976, won the Arab Cup once and won the African Nations Championship twice. They had six World Cup appearances and their best result was the first African nation to top the group at the FIFA World Cup in the 1986 World Cup. That year, Morocco was in Group F, they beat defeated England, Poland and Portugal to rise to the top of the table. Morocco became the first and only African national football team to reach the second round at the World Cup. The Atlas Lions are considered the best African football team when they achieved 10th on the FIFA Rankings in April 1998. This is also the first African country in history to be ranked by FIFA in the top 10 national football teams in the world. For three consecutive years since 1997, they are the first African national team to have topped the FIFA world rankings. As of February 2022, Morocco is ranked 24th in the world national team rankings.