Excellence Cup

Excellence Cup
كأس التميز

Organising body	Ligue nationale de football professionnel
Founded	2024 (2024)
Region	Morocco
Number of teams	32
Television broadcasters	Arryadia
Website	lnfp.ma
2024–25 Excellence Cup

The Excellence Cup (Arabic: كأس التميز) is a knockout football tournament in Moroccan football, created in 2024 and organized the Ligue nationale de football professionnel. It is open to all professional clubs of the first and second divisions of each season.

Its objectives are the integration and development of young players, the gradual recovery after the breaks and the maintenance of competition rhythm during the suspensions of the league. Participating clubs are required to register at least ten under-23 players on the match squad and to play at least six throughout the match. The competition begins with a group stage consisting of eight groups and continues with a two-legged knockout phase which begins with the round of 16.

History

On 21 June 2024, the president of the Ligue nationale de football professionnel Abdeslam Belkchour, announced during a meeting of the board of directors with the team coaches, the launch of the Excellence Cup. Organized under the aegis of the LNFP, it will be open to clubs competing in the Botola Pro1 and Botola Pro2 of each season.

The LNFP states that the competition has the following objectives:

• The integration of under-23 players into the first team squad.
• The supervision of talented players likely to be called up to the national youth teams.
• The gradual resumption after the summer and winter breaks and during international breaks.
• Increasing the annual number of matches.
• Maintaining the pace of competition during league breaks.

On 3 September, the Excellence Cup was officially launched with a match between Olympique Dcheira and Hassania Agadir at the Ahmed Fana Stadium (2–0).

Regulation

Format

The competition begins with a group stage played in a two-legged format, with the 32 teams divided into eight groups of four teams according to the ranking of the previous season, and the replacement of the D2 clubs relegated to D3 by the clubs newly promoted to D2. The first two teams in each group qualify for the round of 16, which is also played in a two-legged format. The final and the third place play-off are played in a single leg.

The group's distribution system

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5	Group 6	Group 7	Group 8
1st D1	2nd D1	3rd D1	4th D1	5th D1	6th D1	7th D1	8th D1
2nd D3	1st D3	14th D2	13th D2	12th D2	11th D2	10th D2	9th D2
9th D1	10th D1	11th D1	12th D1	13th D1	14th D1	15th D1	16th D1
8th D2	7th D2	6th D2	5th D2	4th D2	3th D2	2nd D2	1st D2

Player registration

This competition has the particularity of requiring participating clubs to register at least ten under-23 players on the match sheet and a mandatory participation of at least six under-23 players throughout the match. Even in the case of an expulsion of an under-23 player during a match, this quota must remain unchanged.

The number of players to be registered on the match sheet is twenty players maximum with a quota of foreigners of five players regardless of their age. Clubs are also required to align the technical staff of their first team.

Results of finals

No.	Season	Winner (Number of titles)	Score	Runner-up	Ref
1	2024–25		–

Performance

Performance by clubs

List of football clubs ranked by total wins and runners-up.

Club	Winners	Runner-up	Winning years	Runner-up years
			2025
				2025

By city

City	Championships	Clubs
–	1

Records

• First goal
  • (Olympique Dcheira vs Hassania Agadir)
• First win

External links

• FRMF Palmarès
• RSSSF competition history