Ahmed Faras

**Ahmed Faras** (; 7 December 1946 – 16 July 2025) was a Moroccan footballer. He played as a striker for Chabab Mohammédia between 1965 and 1982, and won two Moroccan Throne Cups and the 1979–80 Botola league title, finishing as the league's top goalscorer in 1969 and 1973.

He was capped 94 times for Morocco, scoring 36 goals. He is the top goalscorer of the Moroccan national team. He also played for Morocco at the 1970 FIFA World Cup, the 1972 Summer Olympics, and the 1976 African Cup of Nations. Faras was named African Footballer of the Year in 1975, and in 2006, he was chosen by the CAF as one of the 200 best African footballers of the last 50 years.

Faras died on 16 July 2025, at the age of 78, after a long illness.

## Career statistics

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="15"|Morocco|||
|1966|2|0||
|1967|6|1||
|1968|4|2||
|1969|7|1||
|1970|3|2||
|1971|9|4||
|1972|16|9||
|1973|8|5||
|1974|11|3||
|1975|7|4||
|1976|11|5||
|1977|1|0||
|1978|3|0||
|1979|6|6||

|No.|Date|Venue|Opponent|Score|Result|Competition||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="center"|1||rowspan=2|Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca, Morocco||align="center"|1–1|align="center"|1–1|rowspan=3|1968 Summer Olympic qualification|||
|align="center"|2||rowspan=2||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|1–1||||||
|align="center"|3||Accra Sports Stadium, Accra, Ghana|align="center"|2–1|align="center"|2–1|||||||
|align="center"|4||rowspan=3|Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca, Morocco||align="center"|2–1|align="center"|2–1|1970 FIFA World Cup qualification||||
|align="center"|5|rowspan=2||rowspan=3||align="center"|1–0|align="center" rowspan=2|5–2|rowspan=3|1972 Summer Olympic qualification|||
|align="center"|6|align="center"|4–2|||||||||||
|align="center"|7||Stade du 29 Juillet, Niamey, Niger|align="center"|1–0|align="center"|3–1|||||||
|align="center"|8||İzmir Atatürk Stadium, İzmir, Turkey||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|1–0|1971 Mediterranean Games|||||
|align="center"|9||Stade Demba Diop, Dakar, Senegal||align="center"|3–1|align="center"|3–1|Friendly|||||
|align="center"|10||rowspan=3|Stade de la Réunification, Douala, Cameroon||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|1–1|rowspan=3|1972 African Cup of Nations|||
|align="center"|11|||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|1–1|||||||
|align="center"|12|||align="center"|1–1|align="center"|1–1|||||||
|align="center"|13||Stade El Menzah, Tunis, Tunisia||align="center"|2–1|align="center"|3–3|rowspan=3|1972 Summer Olympic qualification||||
|align="center"|14||Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca, Morocco|rowspan=2||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|2–1|||||
|align="center"|15||Stade Modibo Kéïta, Bamako, Mali|align="center"|1–0|align="center"|2–1|||||||
|align="center"|16|rowspan=3||rowspan=3|Tuja-Stadion, Ingolstadt, Germany|rowspan=3||align="center"|2–0|align="center" rowspan=3|6–0|rowspan=3|1972 Summer Olympics|
|align="center"|17|align="center"|3–0|||||||||||
|align="center"|18|align="center"|4–0|||||||||||
|align="center"|19|rowspan=2||rowspan=5|Stade Saniat Rmel, Tétouan, Morocco|rowspan=2||align="center"|1–0|align="center" rowspan=2|2–0|rowspan=5|1974 FIFA World Cup qualification|
|align="center"|20|align="center"|2–0|||||||||||
|align="center"|21|rowspan=2||rowspan=2||align="center"|1–0|align="center" rowspan=2|4–1|||||
|align="center"|22|align="center"|2–0|||||||||||
|align="center"|23|||align="center"|2–0|align="center"|2–0|||||||
|align="center"|24||rowspan=3|Abbasiyyin Stadium, Damascus, Syria||align="center"|2–1|align="center"|2–1|rowspan=3|1974 Kuneitra Cup|||
|align="center"|25|||align="center"|2–0|align="center"|2–0|||||||
|align="center"|26|||align="center"|1–1|align="center"|1–1|||||||
|align="center"|27||Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca, Morocco||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|2–1|1976 Summer Olympic qualification|||||
|align="center"|28||Stade Hassan-II, Fez, Morocco|rowspan=2||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|4–0|rowspan=2|1976 African Cup of Nations qualification|||
|align="center"|29||Kaolack, Senegal|align="center"|1–2|align="center"|1–2|||||||
|align="center"|30||Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca, Morocco||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|1–0|1976 Summer Olympic qualification|||||
|align="center"|31||Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia||align="center"|2–0|align="center"|2–0|Friendly|||||
|align="center"|32||Dire Dawa Stadium, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|3–1|rowspan=3|1976 African Cup of Nations||||
|align="center"|33||rowspan=2|Addis Ababa Stadium, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|2–1|||||
|align="center"|34|||align="center"|1–1|align="center"|2–1|||||||
|align="center"|35||Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca, Morocco||align="center"|4–1|align="center"|4–1|rowspan=2|1980 African Cup of Nations qualification||||
|align="center"|36||Stade El Bachir, Mohammedia, Morocco||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|7–0||||||

## Honours

**Chabab Mohammédia**
- Botola Pro: 1980
- Moroccan Throne Cup: 1972, 1975
- Moroccan Super Cup: 1975
- Maghreb Cup Winners Cup: 1973
- Maghreb Cup Winners Cup runner-up: 1975

**Morocco**
- African Cup of Nations: 1976
- Kuneitra Cup: 1974
- Pan Arab Games: 1976

**Individual**
- African Footballer of the Year: 1975
- Botola Pro Top Goalscorer: 1969 (16 goals), 1973 (16 goals)
- African Cup of Nations Player of the Tournament: 1976
- African Cup of Nations Team of the Tournament: 1976
- Kuneitra Cup Top Goalscorer: 1974
- IFFHS All-time Morocco Men's Dream Team

**Records**
- Morocco all-time top goalscorer (36 goals)
- Chabab Mohammédia all-time top goalscorer

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Ahmed Faras
- **image**: Ahmed Faras México 70.png
- **caption**: Faras in 1970 FIFA World Cup
- **birth place**: Mohammedia, Morocco
- **height**: 1.72 m
- **position**: Striker (association football), Striker
- **years1**: 1965–1982
- **clubs1**: SCC Mohammédia, Chabab Mohammédia
- **goals1**: 127
- **nationalyears1**: 1966–1979
- **nationalteam1**: Morocco national football team, Morocco
- **nationalcaps1**: 94
- **nationalgoals1**: 36