How Atlas XI works

Who's on this list

Every player here is eligible for Morocco but not yet tied to its senior team. A player with two nationalities can freely choose a country — until he plays one competitive match for a senior national team, which locks him to it for good (that appearance is called a cap).

• eligibleMoroccan by nationality or descent, with 0 senior caps — free to be recruited. Youth caps (U-17 → U-23) don't count, so a player who's featured for a Morocco or another country's youth team is still here.
• reviewMoroccan-eligible but has already played a senior match for another country. Often still switchable (friendlies don't tie a player), so we flag rather than hide them — worth a manual check.
• excludedNot shown: already a Morocco senior international (job done), or committed elsewhere.

The fair score

A raw match rating (like SofaScore's) has two blind spots: it ignores how long a player was on the pitch and how strong his league is. A striker who scores in a 10-minute cameo can post an 8.0; a defender who's solid for 90 minutes gets a 7.0. The cameo isn't better. Our score fixes that in three steps:

1. Weight by minutes. A rating over 90 minutes counts far more than one over 10.
2. Trust the sample. With few minutes played, the score is pulled toward an average baseline — you have to earn the minutes before a big number sticks. This is what stops the cameo from topping the list.
3. Adjust for league strength. The result is multiplied by a league coefficient, so a 7.0 in the Premier League outranks a 7.0 in a weaker division.

Worked example. An 8.0 across 50 minutes all season scores 6.36; a 7.0 across 2700 minutes scores 6.88. The steady starter correctly comes out on top.

Only league matches count (cups and internationals are excluded). A player needs 300+ league minutes to appear in the rankings, and 450+ to make the Best XI — so a handful of cameo appearances can't top the list. Scores sit lower than raw ratings because of the league multiplier and the pull toward baseline — that's expected, and it's what makes them comparable.

League strength

Hand-set starting coefficients (1.00 = strongest). Every match is weighted by its league:

Glossary

Score

Our fair rating: minutes-weighted, sample-adjusted, league-weighted. The number we rank by.

Rating

The raw average match rating, for reference. Score is Rating made comparable across leagues.

Mins / Apps

League minutes played and appearances this season — how large the sample behind the score is.

Positions

GK goalkeeper · CB centre-back · FB full-back · DM/CM/AM midfield · W winger · ST striker.

On each player's page

Click any player for the full picture: how his score was built, his match-by-match log, a season-form chart where each dot's size is the minutes he played, and — for players with enough history — a multi-season career trajectory.