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The Morocco national football team (French: Équipe du Maroc de football)(Arabic: منتخب المغرب لكرة القدم), nicknamed "the Atlas Lions", represents Morocco in men´s international football competitions. It is controlled by the Royal Moroccan Football Federation, also known as FRMF. The team´s colours are red and green. The team is a member of both FIFA and the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
Internationally, Morocco won the African Nations Cup in 1976 and have participated in the FIFA World Cup five times. Their best result came in 1986, when they were the first and the only African national team to finish top of a group at the FIFA World Cup. In that 1986 FIFA World Cup Group F, Morocco finished ahead of England, Portugal and Poland after holding both Poland and England to goalless draws, and beating Portugal 3–1. Thus they became the first African and first Arab national football team, and only the second national football teams from outside Europe and the Americas (after North Korea in 1966 World Cup), to reach the second round at the World Cup. In the subsequent round of 16 knockout, they narrowly lost to eventual runners-up West Germany 1–0.
The Atlas Lions were considered the best African national football team when they ranked 10th in the FIFA World Rankings in April 1998, as the first African national team in history to be ranked by FIFA in the top ten national football teams in the World. They are also the only African national team in history to have been at the top of the FIFA World Rankings for three consecutive years, by FIFA from 1997 to 1999.
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