Morocco men's national handball team

Morocco
Information
Nickname	Atlas Lions
Association	Royal Moroccan Handball Federation
Coach	Abdessalam Mesbah
Assistant coach	Hicham Khoufaify
Captain	Alae Laaroussi
Colours
1st 2nd
Results
World Championship
Appearances	8 (First in 1995 )
Best result	17th (1999)
African Championship
Appearances	20 (First in 1987 )
Best result	3rd (2006, 2022)
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Morocco men's national handball team

Medal record
African Championship
	2006 Tunisia
	2022 Egypt
African Games
	2019 Morocco
Arab Games
	1961 Morocco
	1999 Jordania
	1985 Morocco

The Moroccan national handball team is the national handball team of Morocco and is controlled by the Royal Moroccan Handball Federation based in Rabat, Morocco.

Results

World Championship

Edition	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD
1938 Germany	Did not enter
1954 Sweden
1958 East Germany
1961 West Germany
1964 Czechoslovakia
1967 Sweden
1970 France
1974 East Germany
1978 Denmark
1982 West Germany
1986 Switzerland
1990 Czechoslovaki
1993 Sweden	Did not Qualified
1995 Iceland	Preliminary round	22nd of 24	5	0	0	5	93	149	-56
1997 Japan	Preliminary round	23rd of 24	5	0	0	5	90	141	-51
1999 Egypt	Preliminary round	17th of 24	5	0	3	2	100	117	-17
2001 France	Preliminary round	22nd of 24	5	0	0	5	112	162	-40
2003 Portugal	Preliminary round	23rd of 24	5	0	0	5	113	145	−32
2005 Tunisia	Did not Qualified
2007 Germany	President's Cup	20th of 24	6	2	0	4	165	193	−28
2009 Croatia	Did not Qualified
2011 Sweden
2013 Spain
2015 Qatar
2017 France
/ 2019 Denmark/Germany
2021 Egypt	President's Cup	29th of 32	7	1	1	5	167	206	-39
/ 2023 Poland/Sweden	President's Cup	30th of 32	7	1	0	6	178	223	-45
/ / 2025 Croatia/Denmark/Norway	Did not Qualified
2027 Germany	TBD
/ 2029 France/Germany
/ / 2031 Denmark/Iceland/Norway
Total	8/32	0 Titles	45	4	4	37	1018	1336	−318

*Denotes draws include knockout matches decided in a penalty shootout.

African Championship

Edition	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1974 Tunisia	Did not Qualified
1976 Algeria	Did not Qualified
1979 People's Republic of the Congo	Did not Qualified
1981 Tunisia	Did not Qualified
1983 Egypt	Did not Qualified
1985 Angola	Did not Qualified
1987 Morocco	Preliminary round	8th place	4	0	1	3	73	88	-15
1989 Algeria	Preliminary round	5th place	4	1	1	2	72	77	-5
1991 Egypt	Bronze Medal Match	4th place	6	3	1	2			-7
1992 Ivory Coast	Match of 7th place	7th place	3	1	0	2	87	47	+40
1994 Tunisia	Bronze Medal Match	4th place	5	2	0	3	91	75	+15
1996 Benin	Bronze Medal Match	4th place	6	4	0	2	134	128	+6
1998 South Africa	Preliminary round	5th place	5	3	0	2	108	111	+3
2000 Algeria	Bronze Medal Match	4th place	6	3	1	2	136	113	+23
2002 Morocco	Bronze Medal Match	4th place	5	3	0	2	158	102	+56
2004 Egypt	Second round	6th place	6	2	0	4	158	185	-27
2006 Tunisia	Bronze Medal Match	3rd place	7	5	0	2	184	129	+55
2008 Angola	Preliminary round	8th place	5	1	0	4	122	144	-22
2010 Egypt	Main round	6th place	6	2	0	4	148	186	-38
2012 Morocco	Bronze Medal Match	4th place	8	5	0	3	183	196	-13
2014 Algeria	Quarter Finals	6th place	8	4	0	4	222	199	+23
2016 Egypt	Quarter finals	5th place	6	3	0	3	136	147	-11
2018 Gabon	Bronze Medal Match	4th place	7	3	0	5	180	196	+19
2020 Tunisia	Main round	6th place	8	4	0	4	247	223	+24
2022 Egypt	Bronze Medal Match	3rd place	5	3	0	2	130	135	-5
2024 Egypt	Quarter finals	7th place	6	3	0	3	169	171	-2
Total	20/26	0 Titles	117	55	4	59	2767	2731	+36

African Games

Edition	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
2019 Morocco	Semi finals	3rd place	6	4	0	2	190	122	+68
Total	1/13	0 Titles	6	4	0	2	190	122	+68

Mediterranean Games

Edition	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1983 Morocco	Preliminary Round	7th place	5	2	1	2	96	87	+9
1997 Italy	Preliminary Round	11th place	5	1	0	4	97	123	-26
2001 Tunisia	Preliminary Round	10th place	4	1	0	3	118	136	-18
Total	3/11	0 Titles	14	4	1	9	311	346	-35

Islamic Games

Edition	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1961 Morocco	Final	2º place
1985 Morocco	bronze medal match	3º puesto	6	4	1	1
1999 Jordania	Final	2º place
2005 Egypt	final phase	5º place	6	1	0	5	129	163	-34
2011 Katar	group stage	6º place	3	1	0	2	77	83	-6
Total	5/9	0 Títulos	12	6	1	8	206	246	-40

Islamic Solidarity Games

Edition	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
2005 Saudi Arabia	Qualifying round	6th place	5	1	0	4	153	168	-15
2017 Azerbaijan	Preliminary Round	6th place	4	2	0	2	98	99	-1
2021 Turkey	Preliminary Round	6th place	3	0	0	3	45	61	-16
Total	3/3	0 Titles	12	3	0	9	296	328	-32

Other Competitions

Angola international 50 years tournament

Edition	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
2025 Angola	Final round	3rd place	3	1	0	2	72	89	-17
Total	1/1	0 Titles	3	1	0	2	72	89	-17

Competicions (U19)

World Youth Championship

Tunisia in the Youth World Championship record [1]
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA	GD
Qatar 2005	First Round	10th Place	5	0	0	5	103	173	−70
Bahrain 2007	First Round	15th Place	7	1	1	5	181	216	-35
Tunisia 2009	First Round	20th Place	6	0	0	6	111	220	-109
Argentina 2011
Hungary 2013
Russia 2015
Georgia 2017
North Macedonia 2019
Croatia 2023	Frist Round	18th Place	8	3	1	4	238	239	−1
Egypt 2025	Qualified
Total	4/10	0 Titles	26	4	2	20	633	848	−215

African Youth Championship

Tunisia in the African Youth Championship record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA	GD
Ivory Coast 2000	Did not compete
Morocco 2004	Final Round	3rd
Libya 2008	Final Round	5th
Gabon 2010	Final Round	6th	5	0	0	5	90	143	-53
Ivory Coast 2012
Kenya 2014|
Mali 2016	QuarterFinals	5th	6	3	0	3	153	147	+6
Morocco 2018	Final Round	6th	6	1	0	5	108	152	-44
Morocco 2020	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Rwanda 2022	SemiFinals	3rd	5	4	0	1	173	127	+54
Tunisia 2024	Semi Finals	4th	6	3	0	3	115	164	-49
Total	7/11	0 Titles	28	11	0	17	639	733	-96

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2023 World Men's Handball Championship. ^{[2] [3]}

Head coach: Noureddine Bouhaddioui

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 11 RW Ibs Brahimi (2011-06-03) 3 June 2011 (age 14) 1.84 m 33 101 WeR1 Handball 8 CB Mohamed Bentaleb (1992-01-01) 1 January 1992 (age 33) 1.90 m 54 109 AS FAR 9 LB Mohamed Zaher (1994-04-17) 17 April 1994 (age 31) 1.90 m 16 2 AS FAR 12 GK Alae Laaroussi (1983-04-20) 20 April 1983 (age 42) 1.90 m 61 6 Mountada El Fida 13 RB Hicham El Hakimy (1989-12-05) 5 December 1989 (age 35) 1.91 m 48 154 AS FAR 14 CB Adam Arbaa (1999-09-14) 14 September 1999 (age 26) 1.80 m 3 5 Torcy Handball Marne La Vallée 16 GK Jamal Ouaali (1999-11-14) 14 November 1999 (age 25) 1.93 m 10 2 Raja d'Agadir 19 RW Redouane Braout (1991-12-29) 29 December 1991 (age 33) 1.80 m 34 39 Raja d'Agadir 20 LW Ryad Lakbi (1999-05-04) 4 May 1999 (age 26) 1.80 m 56 122 Caen Handball 21 RB Nacym Fougani (2002-01-21) 21 January 2002 (age 23) 1.83 m 29 47 Tremblay-en-France Handball 46 CB Amine Harchaoui (1990-09-27) 27 September 1990 (age 35) 1.87 m 47 137 Al Wehda 89 LB Yassine Belhou (1988-12-26) 26 December 1988 (age 36) 1.81 m 12 25 Raja d'Agadir 92 LB Hassan El-Kachradi (1992-01-29) 29 January 1992 (age 33) 1.80 m 15 18 Raja d'Agadir 94 P Mehdi Ismaïli Alaoui (1992-01-04) 4 January 1992 (age 33) 1.91 m 59 66 HBC Franconville 97 P Saïd El Malki (1997-05-17) 17 May 1997 (age 28) 1.98 m 37 95 Mountada El Fida 99 P Nabil Slassi (1995-09-19) 19 September 1995 (age 30) 1.94 m 38 65 Caen Handball

Famous past players

• Mohamed Berraja (1989-2007)
• Ismail Bouhadioui
• Mohamed Nouri
• Karim Bouhadioui
• Payton Kuhn
• Connor Erdman

notable young people

Player	Date of Birth	Positión	Club	Country	Size
Harchaf Mostafa	(2008-01-28) January 28, 2008 (age 17)	Goalkepper	BM Pedro Alonso Niño Moguer	Spain	1.83
Ibrahim Ezzarfani	(2009-08-18) August 18, 2009 (age 16)	Goalkepper	CH CastellBisbal	Spain	1.81
Soheib Aqqab	(2007-02-27) February 27, 2007 (age 18)	Pivot	Tremblay-en-France Handball	France	1.90
Marouane Misbah	(2008-08-21) August 21, 2008 (age 17)	Center Back	US Forbach	France	1.75
Hatim Rkiaa Kerboub	(2006-01-01) January 1, 2006 (age 19)	Pivot	CH Martorell	Spain	1.84
El Hassan Ragueb	(2008-01-02) January 2, 2008 (age 17)	Center Back	Widad Smara Handball	Morocco	1.78
El Hammoumi Idriss	(2008-08-06) August 6, 2008 (age 17)	Center back	HSG Hanau	Germany	1.82
Oualid Bouchicha	(2008-03-11) March 11, 2008 (age 17)	Center Back	Saint Marcellois	France	1.85
Samuel Ben Aabel	(2008-06-12) June 12, 2008 (age 17)	Left wing	Fusche Berlin	Germany	1.78
Mohamed Emali	(2008-05-22) May 22, 2008 (age 17)	Goalkepper	Tihad Nousseur	Morocco	1.80
Jalil El Muoadar	(2006-09-20) September 20, 2006 (age 19)	Goalkepper	HBC Franconville	France	1.88
Samy Arent-Mansour	(2006-03-13) March 13, 2006 (age 19)	Cente back	PSG Handball	Morocco	1.77
Akram Jbari	(2004-05-23) May 23, 2004 (age 21)	Goalkepper	MAJD CHABAB SOUK SEBT	Morocco	1.75
Mohamed Bouydarne	(2005-01-01) January 1, 2005 (age 20)	Pivot	US Créteil Handball	France	2.05
Chadid El Haddouchi	(2006-02-10) February 10, 2006 (age 19)	Center Back	Talaba Titouan	Morocco	1.85
Saa Amjad	(2005-06-23) June 23, 2005 (age 20)	Right Back	BM Huesca	Spain	1.65

References

1. Men's youth world championship info
2. "Handball : ultimes réglages pour les Lions de l'Atlas avant le Mondial 2023" (in French). lematin.ma. 28 December 2022. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
3. "Team Roster Morocco" (PDF). ihf.info. 13 January 2023. Retrieved 13 January 2023.

External links

• IHF profile