Moroccan media confirmed that the Royal Football League will announce Mohamed Wehbe, coach of the Atlas Cubs team (U-20 World Cup champion), as the successor to Walid Regragui. The university office will hold a crucial meeting on Thursday afternoon. The "Atlas Lions" team was on the verge of winning the African Cup of Nations title for the first time since 1976, but it fell in the decisive final confrontation against Senegal (0-1).
Published on: 02/26/2026 - 09:42 Last updated: 02/26/2026 - 09:53
Local media sources reported on Thursday that Moroccan coach Mohamed Wehbe, the U-20 World Cup champion, will succeed Walid Regragui as head of the Moroccan national team’s technical staff, confirming that he will be the one who will lead it in the two friendly matches against Ecuador and Paraguay and then in the 2026 World Cup.
The Royal University Football Office will hold a crucial meeting Thursday afternoon to announce the new coach. There have been reports over the past few days regarding Regragui's resignation, but the university issued two statements refuting this.
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The Moroccan national team failed to win the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, which the Kingdom hosted a few weeks ago, after losing in a stormy final to Senegal with a clean goal after extra time.
Morocco is preparing to participate in the World Cup, which will be held in North America next summer, seeking to repeat its achievement in 2022, when Regragui led it to achieve fourth place in the Qatar finals.
Regragui (50 years old), the former Al-Duhail Qatari and Wydad coach, took over as coach of Morocco in August 2022, about three months before the World Cup, which was held in Qatar. Morocco became the first African team to reach the semi-finals in the history of the finals.
Walid Regragui led the Moroccan national team in 49 matches, winning 36, drawing eight times, and losing only five matches.
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