Amine Harit (Arabic: أمين حاريث; born 18 June 1997) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Marseille. Born in France, he plays for the Morocco national team.
![]() Harit in action with Morocco at the 2018 FIFA World Cup | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Amine Harit[1] | ||
Date of birth | (1997-06-18) 18 June 1997 (age 25)[1] | ||
Place of birth | Pontoise, France | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2] | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Marseille | ||
Number | 77 | ||
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) |
2017–2022 | Schalke 04 | 102 | (12) |
2021–2022 | → Marseille (loan) | 32 | (4) |
2022– | Marseille | 1 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2015 | France U18 | 2 | (1) |
2015–2016 | France U19 | 12 | (0) |
2016–2017 | France U20 | 9 | (1) |
2017 | France U21 | 2 | (1) |
2017– | Morocco | 16 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:08, 13 November 2022 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 27 September 2022 |
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.[3]
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.[4] 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.[5]
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,[6] going on to take the 'Bundesliga Rookie of the Year' award for the 2017–18 season.[7]
On 11 December 2019, Harit extended his contract with Schalke for a further three years, until 2024.[8]
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]
Harit represented the France national youth teams starting from the France U18s until the France U21s. He is of Moroccan descent, and refused a call up to the Morocco U19s in October 2015.[16] However, on 12 September 2017, Harit decided to switch his allegiance to the Morocco national team.[17]
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.[18]
In May 2018, he was named in Morocco's 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.[19]
On 10 November 2022, he was named in Morocco's 23-man squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.[20][21] On 13 November, he sustained a knee injury which ruled him out of the World Cup.[22]
Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Nantes | 2016–17 | Ligue 1 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | 3[lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 34 | 1 | |
Schalke 04 | 2017–18 | Bundesliga | 31 | 3 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 35 | 3 | ||
2018–19 | Bundesliga | 18 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5[lower-alpha 2] | 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[lower-alpha 3] | 0 | — | 34 | 5 | |
2022–23 | Ligue 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6[lower-alpha 2] | 1 | — | 16 | 1 | ||
Total | 33 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 1 | — | 50 | 6 | |||
Career total | 165 | 17 | 15 | 2 | 20 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 203 | 20 |
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Morocco | 2017 | 2 | 0 |
2018 | 5 | 0 | |
2019 | 3 | 0 | |
2020 | 1 | 0 | |
2022 | 5 | 0 | |
Total | 16 | 0 |
France U19
Individual
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