Youssef El Kachati

Club career Sparta Rotterdam After originally joining Sparta Rotterdam's academy in 2016 from youth club Noordwijk, he signed a one-and-a-half-year professional contract with the club on 16 December 2018.

Noordwijk In 2020, El Kachati returned to Noordwijk to gain playing time in the Tweede Divisie. From in 2021, he moved to Belgium where he represented the under-21 team of Westerlo before joining Quick Boys in the Dutch Tweede Divisie in February 2022.

Quick Boys In the 2022–23 season, El Kachati emerged as a prolific striker and was the top goalscorer of the Tweede Divisie halfway through the season. This sparked interest from clubs in both professional and amateur football. In December 2022, Quick Boys announced that El Kachati, his management, and the club had failed to reach an agreement on a contract extension.

In January 2023, it was announced that El Kachati would be joining IJsselmeervogels for the upcoming season. He signed a contract until mid-2024. However, it later became known that due to an agreement between IJsselmeervogels and Telstar, he would instead be playing for professional Eerste Divisie club Telstar from the 2023–24 season onwards.

Telstar El Kachati made his debut for Telstar on 14 August 2023, starting in a 1–0 league loss on the opening day of the season to Jong PSV. On 2 February 2024, El Kachati scored his first goal for Telstar in a 6–1 loss to MVV. The following week, he scored a brace to help Telstar to a 3–2 victory over Helmond Sport. El Kachati scored six goals in 22 appearances in his debut season for the club. At the end of January 2025, Eddahchouri moved to Deportivo La Coruña, leaving El Kachati to assume primary goalscoring duties. El Kachati scored in both legs of the play-off final against Willem II, once in the 2–2 home draw and again in the 3–1 away victory, which secured promotion for Telstar and relegated Willem II. His contract with Telstar expired at the end of the campaign, making him a free agent. In total, he recorded 31 goals in 67 appearances for the club.

NEC On 11 June 2025, El Kachati signed a three-year contract with Eredivisie club NEC, with a club option for an additional season. On 9 August, El Kachati made his debut for NEC in a 5–0 home win over Excelsior, coming on as a substitute for Kōki Ogawa. In his first involvement, he was fouled by goalkeeper Tijmen Holla to win a penalty, which Tjaronn Chery converted to complete the scoring. He netted his first goal for the club on 13 September, scoring the second in a 5–3 away defeat to PSV.

Reims On 25 June 2026, El Kachati signed a two-year contract with Reims in French Ligue 2.

International career El Kachati debuted for the Morocco U23s in a 2–0 2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations qualification loss to the DR Congo U23s on 20 March 2019.

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