Amine Harit
Moroccan footballer (born 1997)
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Amine Harit (Arabic: أمين حارث; born 18 June 1997) is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Süper Lig club İstanbul Başakşehir, on loan from Marseille. Born in France, he plays for the Morocco national team.
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Harit playing for Morocco in a friendly against Burkina Faso in 2023 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Amine Harit[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 18 June 1997[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Pontoise, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Attacking midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | İstanbul Başakşehir (on loan from Marseille) | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 25 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Argenteuil C.O. | ||||||||||||||||
| 2004–2007 | Espérance Paris 19ème | ||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Paris Saint-Germain | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2011 | Espérance Paris 19ème | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Red Star | ||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2016 | Nantes | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Nantes B | 15 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Nantes | 30 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2023 | Schalke 04 | 102 | (12) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2023 | → Marseille (loan) | 33 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Marseille | 41 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025– | → İstanbul Başakşehir (loan) | 24 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | France U18 | 2 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | France U19 | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | France U20 | 9 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017 | France U21 | 2 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017– | Morocco | 23 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 19 May 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 30 January 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
Early life
Born and raised in Pontoise, France to Moroccan parents, Harit acquired French nationality on 27 August 2003, through the collective effect of his parents' naturalization.[3]
Club career
Nantes
Harit made his debut for the Ligue 1 side on 13 August 2016 against Dijon. He played the whole match in a 1–0 away win.[4]
Schalke 04
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On 10 July 2017, Schalke 04 announced the signing of Harit on a four-year contract. The transfer fee paid to Nantes was reported as €8 million, which could rise to €10 million with bonuses.[5] He made his debut for the German club on 14 August in a DFB-Pokal against BFC Dynamo. He started the match and came off at halftime of a 2–0 away win.[6]
On 25 November 2017, Harit scored his first ever Bundesliga goal against Ruhr rivals Borussia Dortmund as Schalke overturned a 4–0 deficit to a 4–4 draw in a historic Revierderby match.[citation needed] He was named Bundesliga 'Rookie of the Month' for December 2017,[7] going on to take the 'Bundesliga Rookie of the Year' award for the 2017–18 season.
On 11 December 2019, Harit extended his contract with Schalke for a further three years, until 2024.[8]
Marseille
On 2 September 2021, it was announced that Harit was loaned out to Ligue 1 club Marseille for the 2021–22 Ligue 1 season.[9] He made his debut for the club in a 2–0 Ligue 1 away win over Monaco, delivering an assist for the second goal.[10] In the following match, against Rennes, Harit came on in the 59th minute and scored 12 minutes later, his first goal with OM.[11] On 20 April 2022, he scored the winning goal in a 3–2 home win over his former club Nantes.[12]
On 1 September 2022, Harit joined Marseille again for a season-long loan, this time with an option to make the move permanent.[13] On 7 November, his transfer to OM was made permanent for a fee in the region of €5 million.[14] After having made his 15th appearance of the season, an obligation-to-buy clause in his contract was triggered.[15]
Loan to Başakşehir
On 12 September 2025, Harit joined Süper Lig club Başakşehir on a loan. [16]
International career
Harit played for the France national youth teams starting from the France U18s until the France U21s. He is Moroccan by descent, and refused a call up to the Morocco U19s in October 2015.[17] He even went to play for France again. However, on 12 September 2017, Harit decided to switch his allegiance to the Morocco national team.[18]
On 7 October 2017, Harit made his international debut for Morocco in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Gabon at the Stade Mohammed V in Casablanca, replacing Nordin Amrabat in the 90th minute of the 3–0 victory.[19]
In May 2018, he was named in Morocco's 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.[20]
On 10 November 2022, he was named in Morocco's 26-man squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.[21][22] On 13 November, he sustained a knee injury which ruled him out of the World Cup.[23]
On 17 October 2023, Harit scored his first goal for the national team in a 3–0 victory against Liberia.[24][25]
Personal life
In June 2018, Harit was behind the wheel in a fatal road traffic accident in Marrakesh which resulted in the death of a 28 year old pedestrian. Less than three weeks after the accident, Harit returned to training with Schalke. The Moroccan international was later sentenced to a four-month suspended sentence and a fine of approximately 8,600 dirhams (Euros 780).[26]
On March 20, 2020, during the early stages of COVID-19, Harit visited a shisha bar while disregarding the club's isolation mandate.[27] It was later reported that Harit was fined 100,000 euros by Schalke.[28]
Career statistics
Club
- As of match played 16 May 2026[29]
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | League cup[b] | Europe | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Nantes B | 2015–16 | CFA 2 | 15 | 0 | — | — | — | 15 | 0 | |||
| Nantes | 2016–17 | Ligue 1 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 34 | 1 | |
| Schalke 04 | 2017–18 | Bundesliga | 31 | 3 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 35 | 3 | ||
| 2018–19 | Bundesliga | 18 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | 5[c] | 0 | 25 | 1 | ||
| 2019–20 | Bundesliga | 25 | 6 | 3 | 1 | — | — | 28 | 7 | |||
| 2020–21 | Bundesliga | 28 | 2 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 31 | 2 | |||
| Total | 102 | 12 | 12 | 1 | — | 5 | 0 | 119 | 13 | |||
| Marseille (loan) | 2021–22 | Ligue 1 | 23 | 4 | 2 | 1 | — | 9[d] | 0 | 34 | 5 | |
| 2022–23 | Ligue 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 6[c] | 1 | 16 | 1 | ||
| Marseille | 2023–24 | Ligue 1 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 16[e] | 1 | 44 | 2 | |
| 2024–25 | Ligue 1 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 13 | 2 | |||
| Total | 74 | 7 | 2 | 1 | — | 31 | 2 | 107 | 10 | |||
| İstanbul Başakşehir (loan) | 2025–26 | Süper Lig | 24 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 26 | 2 | ||
| Career total | 245 | 22 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 36 | 2 | 301 | 26 | ||
- Includes Coupe de France, DFB-Pokal
- Includes Coupe de la Ligue
- Appearances in UEFA Champions League
- Three appearances in UEFA Europa League, six appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League
- Two appearances in UEFA Champions League, fourteen appearances and one goal in UEFA Europa League
International
- As of match played 30 January 2024[30]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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| Morocco | 2017 | 2 | 0 |
| 2018 | 5 | 0 | |
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2022 | 5 | 0 | |
| 2023 | 4 | 1 | |
| 2024 | 4 | 0 | |
| Total | 24 | 1 | |
Scores and results list Morocco's goal tally first.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | 17 October 2023 | Adrar Stadium, Agadir, Morocco |  Liberia | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
Honours
France U19
Individual
- UEFA European Under-19 Championship Team of the Tournament: 2016[31]
- Bundesliga Rookie of the Year: 2017–18[26]
- Mars d'Or (Moroccan Youth Player of the Year): 2018[32]
- Bundesliga Player of the Month: September 2019[33]
- UEFA Europa League top assist provider: 2023–24[34]
