African Nations Final .. The dreams of the second title meet with Morocco and Senegal

Since the start of the competition on 21 December, the two teams have been preparing to reach the finals which will be held at the Moulay Abdallah Stadium in… RabatThey hoped to win the second title for each of them, but they had to play 6 matches to reach the seventh match, which would bring the last minute.

All these teams, which are at the top of the list of African teams in the latest list of national teams… International Federation of Association Football “FIFA“Last month, they made it to the finals, thanks to the good numbers their players gave in the various competitions.

Both teams are aiming to equal the number of national team titles Algeria The Democratic Republic of the Congo is among the 15 teams that have won the title, led by Egypt with 7 titles.

Morocco’s trip to the finish line

And he started The Moroccan national teamwho played all of his matches in the tournament at the Moulay Abdullah Stadium, his career in the tournament, which he crowned in 1976 in Ethiopia, with a 2-0 victory over Comoros in the opening game, before drawing 1-1 with Mali in the second round, and returning to winning power with a 3-0 victory over Zambia in the third round, raising 7 points from Group A.

And he went The Moroccan national team He met his Tanzanian counterpart in a tough match in the round of 16, beating him 1-0, and was threatened with losing his lead in the final minutes, when the referee of the match refused to give the decision that the visitors wanted in stoppage time instead of stoppage time, in a decision that caused controversy among the fans of the tournament.

In the quarterfinals, the national coach’s team won Walid Al-Rakraki 2/zero on Cameroon national teamIn the victory, the first in the history of the Moroccan national team, on the “untamed lions” group in Africa Cup of Nations.

It is a selective booking Black atlas His place in the final of the African Nations for the third time after the 1976 and 2004 editions, following his 4-2 victory over the Nigerian national team on penalties, which the two teams decided after the end of the first and extra time in a goalless game in the semi-finals.

The Moroccan fans are investing a lot in Brahim Diaz, who played in the tournament, after scoring 5 goals, leading the list of players in the current format, with a difference of goals in front of his most followers, Egyptian Mohamed Salah and Victor Osimhen of Nigeria.

In his trip to the current tournament, Morocco conceded one goal, while the team came out with a clean sheet in 5 matches so far, which is its highest number in the tournament, while Yassine Bounou is considered the first Moroccan goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet in many matches of African nations.

If the Moroccan team wins the title, this will be the 13th time that Arab teams have won the African Cup of Nations, and the first since the edition of Egypt in 2019, where the Algerian team won.

In addition to Egypt’s seven titles in the tournament, the first edition of which began 69 years ago, Algeria has also won two titles, compared to the one title held by Sudan, Tunisia and Morocco so far.

Senegal’s journey to the final

For his part, he started The national team of Senegalwhich is ranked 19th in the world and second among African teams in the latest FIFA rankings, continues its current campaign in the tournament, which it ended in 2021 in Cameroon, with a 3-0 victory over the national team of Botswana, then drawing 1-1 in the second group stage with the national team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Senegalese team, which played all its matches in the city of Tangier, came back and won the tournament again, after its great victory of 3-0 in Benin, despite having a numerical problem, following the dismissal of the veteran defender Khalidou Koulibaly, who will miss the final due to suspension due to the number of cards and injuries that have 7 points of the Group and the fourth group.

And he managed to get elected Take the lions I’m going Sudan national team In the round of 16, after winning a 3-1 victory, they met the Malian national team in the quarterfinals, and won 1-0, taking advantage of the lack of numbers in the teams of their opponent, who played with ten players after one of their players was released before the first half, in a controversial decision.

In the semi-finals, the team of the national coach Pape Thiaw ended their ambitions The Egyptian teamafter beating him 1-0, to record his fourth appearance in the finals of the African Cup of Nations, after 2002, 2019 and 2021.

In his work in the current edition, the national team of Senegal, which is participating in the tournament for the 18th time, has kept a clean sheet in 4 matches, as it hopes to match its five-time winning streak in one edition, noting that it has not allowed a single goal in one match in the competition since the 2017 edition in Gabon.

The national team of Senegal, which will be without Habib Diarra in addition to Khalidou Koulibaly at the end due to suspension due to accumulation of cards, scored 12 goals in the current edition, which is the best in one group of the African Cup of Nations.

The national team of Senegal wants to maintain its unbeaten record in 18 consecutive games in the Nations of Africa, especially since the end of the tournament in 2019, when it lost 0-1 to Algeria, where it won 12 compared to 5 draws, in its last 17 meetings in the tournament, which in the final stage of the competition against C16. The national team of d’Ivoire, which continued its journey until it was awarded the honor of the tournament. Bible.

Morocco and Senegal.. Fight 32

Although the game is the 32nd in the history of the meetings between the two teams, which began in November 1968, it is the first between them. African Cup of Nationswhich is currently publishing its 35th edition.

In the last 31 clashes, which took place between them in official and friendly groups, the Moroccan national team has a chance to win, 18 wins, compared to 7 wins in Senegal, where the same draw was placed in 6 games.

The two teams have met before Qualifying games for the World Cup And the finalists of the African Cup of Nations for local teams, who saw the final confrontation between them on August 26, 2025, when the Moroccan national team won instead of penalties, in the semi-finals, to go to the finals and become the champion of the game for the third time.

The Moroccan national team also has an advantage in their last encounter, as they have won 5 of the last 6 matches between the two teams, while the Senegal national team has won only once in the same series, with a score of 1-0 in a friendly match on May 25, 2012.

This will be the ninth final between the West and North African teams, with each side winning four more times than the other.

And never History of African countriesThe last 12 matches went to extra time, with 9 of them being decided by riots, the last of which was in the 2021 edition, which Senegal won after defeating Egypt in the final.

The final of the first edition in 1957 witnessed the biggest victory in the history of the final match in African Nations, when Egypt defeated Ethiopia 4-0, while the biggest victory for the host of the final tournament was 3-0 (Ghana over Sudan in 1963, and Nigeria over Algeria in 1980).