Just 14 Players Account for 56.6% of Morocco’s Ranked Football Market Value

Fourteen Moroccan footballers account for €512 million of the €904.5 million combined estimated market value recorded in Atlas Lions Insider’s November 2026 ranking.

That represents 56.6% of the entire valuation held by just 25.9% of the 54 players included in the November 1 snapshot.

Every player in this leading group is valued at €20 million or more. The other 40 players share the remaining €392.5 million.

The latest Atlas Lions Market Value Tracker therefore reveals a substantial concentration of value among Morocco’s highest-ranked footballers, even though the broader player pool is distributed across numerous clubs and positions.

How Morocco’s €904.5m valuation is distributed

The November ranking contains 54 players because five are tied at the €5 million cutoff.

Dividing the group into four valuation brackets shows the difference between Morocco’s leading players and the remainder of the ranking.

The top group holds more value than the other 40 players combined.

Its average valuation is approximately €36.6 million, compared with €9.8 million for the remaining players.

The gap becomes particularly clear at the lower end. Twenty-two players valued between €5 million and €8 million have a combined estimate of €144.5 million, less than the €170 million attached to Morocco’s two most valuable footballers.

These figures describe the distribution within the ranking. They do not suggest the lower-valued players are unimportant to the national team.

Bouaddi and Hakimi account for €170m

Ayyoub Bouaddi and Achraf Hakimi lead Morocco’s player-market rankings at €90 million and €80 million respectively.

Together they represent 18.8% of the complete €904.5 million valuation.

The gap between them has emerged since the October comparison, when both players were valued at €80 million. Bouaddi’s increase to €90 million was subsequently incorporated into the November market-value update.

Behind them, Ismael Saibari is valued at €55 million, Abde Ezzalzouli at €40 million, and Bilal El Khannouss and Brahim Díaz at €35 million each.

Neil El Aynaoui completes the leading seven with a €30 million estimate.

Combined, those seven players are worth €365 million, representing 40.4% of the entire ranked pool.

The remaining seven players in the €20 million-plus bracket add another €147 million, taking the leading group to €512 million.

Morocco’s market-value concentration is therefore not explained by Bouaddi and Hakimi alone. A broader group of highly valued midfielders, attackers and defenders contributes to the imbalance.

Five players share tenth place

An important feature of the November ranking is the number of players sitting on €20 million.

Abdelhamid Aït Boudlal, Amine Adli, Eliesse Ben Seghir, Gessime Yassine and Yassir Zabiri share tenth place.

Together, those five players account for €100 million.

Their inclusion means the €20 million threshold produces a group of 14 players rather than a conventional top ten.

Zabiri’s movement into this bracket is particularly notable. The Racing Santander centre-forward was valued at €9 million in the October 2 comparison, before rising to €20 million.

That change makes him one of the players contributing to the expansion of Morocco’s highest-value group.

It also changes the representation of centre-forwards near the top of the ranking, which had previously been dominated by midfielders, wide attackers and defenders.

The top 14 are spread across 13 clubs

The concentration of market value among players does not mean those players are clustered at the same clubs.

The 14 highest-valued Moroccans are spread across 13 teams.

Strasbourg is the only club represented twice, through Samir El Mourabet and Gessime Yassine.

The remaining players are individually distributed among Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern Munich, Real Betis, Stuttgart, Real Madrid, RB Leipzig, Sunderland, Rennes, Bournemouth, Bayer Leverkusen and Racing Santander.

All 14 play in four domestic leagues: England’s Premier League, Germany’s Bundesliga, France’s Ligue 1 and Spain’s La Liga.

This continues a distinction identified in Atlas Lions Insider’s September analysis of Morocco’s club distribution.

Morocco’s most valuable footballers are concentrated in a small segment of the player ranking, but they are not concentrated at one or two clubs.

The November top tier illustrates both patterns at once.

Eight of the 14 highest-valued players are 22 or younger

The age profile of the leading group is another important feature.

Eight of the 14 players valued at €20 million or more are aged 22 or younger in the November snapshot.

They are Bouaddi, El Khannouss, Chemsdine Talbi, El Mourabet, Aït Boudlal, Ben Seghir, Gessime and Zabiri.

Together, those eight players are worth €252 million.

That represents nearly half of the €512 million held by the highest-value group.

Morocco’s player-market concentration is therefore not simply a reflection of established senior internationals commanding high valuations. Younger footballers already account for a substantial portion of the leading bracket.

Their estimated values, however, incorporate expectations about future development and transfer-market demand. They cannot establish whether a young player is currently more effective internationally than an experienced teammate with a lower valuation.

What concentration tells us about Morocco’s player pool

A heavily concentrated ranking has several implications for interpreting the numbers.

First, a relatively small number of valuation changes can have a substantial effect on the total. Bouaddi’s €10 million increase and Zabiri’s €11 million increase illustrate how movements among highly valued players can shift the overall figure.

Second, the ranking does not fully describe Morocco’s available playing depth.

A €20 million midfielder is not automatically more valuable to the national team’s tactical structure than a €5 million defender or an experienced goalkeeper valued below the ranking cutoff.

Selection depends on the roles required, player availability, form and how individuals perform together.

That distinction is particularly relevant to Morocco, where experienced players such as Yassine Bounou fall outside the €5 million threshold despite their substantial international experience.

Finally, the concentration figures provide a baseline for future comparison.

The next monthly snapshots can establish whether the share held by the highest-value players continues to rise, whether new entrants strengthen the middle of the ranking, or whether valuations become more evenly distributed.

For November 2026, the central finding is clear: 14 players valued at €20 million or more account for over half of Morocco’s ranked football market value.

Methodology

This analysis uses the Atlas Lions Insider Market Value Tracker snapshot dated November 1, 2026.

The ranking covers Morocco’s 50 highest-valued players plus ties at the cutoff, giving 54 players with a combined estimated value of €904.5 million.

Market values are Transfermarkt-based reference estimates, not actual transfer fees, asking prices or measures of international performance.

Atlas Lions Insider calculated the valuation brackets, group totals, averages, percentages, club distribution and age-group shares from the November snapshot.

The figures cover the ranked player pool only, not every Moroccan professional footballer or the confirmed national-team squad.