Captains Ziyech and Salah were not included in the 2025 AFCONQ teams
The last two rounds of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers will not have their leaders. These are the games between Morocco and Egypt.
The Atlas Lions of Morocco will play Gabon on November 15 and then Lesotho three days later. Galatasaray playmaker Hakim Ziyech was left out of the squad because his captain is still recovering from an injury and coach Walid Regragui didn’t think he was ready for international duty.
Egypt, on the other hand, won’t have their leader, Mohamed Salah, because coach Hossam Hassan has decided to rest the Liverpool FC winger. The Pharaohs are scheduled to play Cape Verde away on November 15 and then host Botswana on November 19.
The Atlas Lions and the Pharaohs are both going to the AFCON finals, which will be held in Morocco from December 21, 2025, to January 18, 2026.
The Moroccan team:
Yassine Bounou, Munir Mohamedi, Salaheddine Chihab, and Ayoub El Khayati are the goalkeepers.
Captain Achraf Hakimi leads the defense, which includes Noussair Mazraoui, Nayef Aguerd, Abdelkabir Abqar, Jamal Harkass, Adam Masina, Adam Aznou, and Yahya Attiat Allah.
Ismael Saibari, Sofyan Amrabat, Oussama Targhalline, Eliesse ben Seghir, and Azzedine Ounahi are the midfielders. Bilal El Khannouss is the forward.
Ilias Akhomach, Brahim Diaz, Soufiane Rahimi, Ayoub El Kaabi, Youssef En-Nesyri, Osame Sahraoui, and Abde Ezzalzouli are the forwards.
The Egypt team:
Four goalkeepers have been named: Mohamed El Shenawy, Mostafa Shobier, El Mahdy Soliman, and Mohamed Awad.
The people who defended him are Ahmed Ramada, Hossam Abdelmaguid, Mohamed Rabia, Mohamed Hamdy, Ahmed Eid, and Omar Kamal.
Hamdi Fathi, Ahmed Nabil Kouka, Marwan Ateya, Mohamed Shehata, Nabil Emad, Nasser Maher, and Mahmoud Saber are all midfielders.
Mostafa Fathi, Ibrahim Adel, Mahmoud Abdel Hafiz Zalaka, Taher Mohamed Taher, Omar Marmoush, Mostafa Mohamed, and Osama Faisal are the forwards.
