At a glance
- Roles
- athlete
- Region
- Maghreb
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
Life in time
Place in the story
Unknown (unknown)
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Summary
Career
Hadji came through at AS Nancy in France and went on to play for Sporting CP in Portugal, Deportivo La Coruña in Spain, Coventry City and Aston Villa in England, Espanyol, Emirates Club in the United Arab Emirates, Saarbrücken in Germany and Fola Esch in Luxembourg, totalling 418 league appearances and 91 goals. He was discovered for the national team at a Morocco training camp in France in 1993, having played for French youth teams, and he chose Morocco at senior level. 1 2
For Morocco he won 63 caps and scored 12 goals. At the 1994 World Cup he played in all three group games, and with his first touch as a substitute against the Netherlands he set up the equaliser for Hassan Nader. At the 1998 World Cup he scored a celebrated goal in the 2–2 draw with Norway, and after the tournament in France he was named African Footballer of the Year. After retiring he worked as an assistant manager at Umm Salal in Qatar (2012–13) and with the Morocco national team (2014–2022). 1
On the record
Sources
- Mustapha Hadji — English Wikipedia
- Mustapha Hadji — Arabic Wikipedia
- Mustapha Hadji — French Wikipedia
- Mustapha Hadji — Wikidata Q311344
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Mustapha Hadji”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/mustapha-hadji/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-26.