The Moroccan national team meets its French counterpart this Thursday evening as part of the quarter-final matches of the 2026 World Cup in Boston.
The qualifier from the Morocco-France match faces the winner of the Belgium-Spain match in the semi-final of the 2026 World Cup.
Facts and figures before the Morocco-France confrontation
1 - The semi-final match in Qatar was the first official meeting between France and Morocco; on that occasion, goals from Theo Hernandez and Randal Kolo Muani ended the Atlas Lions' remarkable run.
2 – The French national team faced its Moroccan counterpart in 5 other matches, but none of them ended in defeat for the Roosters, as France won three matches and drew the other two.
3 - Half of France's defeats in the World Cup this century were at the hands of African teams (3 out of 6, excluding penalty shootouts).
The Moroccan national team had defeated its Canadian counterpart three goals to nil in the round of 16, while the French national team defeated Paraguay one goal to nil.
