Mohamed Ihattaren

PSV Eindhoven

2018–19 season

A youth product of PSV Eindhoven since 2010, Ihattaren signed his first professional contract with PSV on 28 March 2018. Ihattaren made his professional debut for PSV in a 2–1 Eredivisie win over FC Groningen on 26 January 2019, coming on as a late substitute for Gastón Pereiro. He became the fourth-youngest player to make his debut for PSV, behind Stanley Bish, Wilfred Bouma and Willy Janssen. Ihattaren made four appearances for the first team before making his debut for reserve team Jong PSV in the second-tier Eerste Divisie on 22 February 2019, in a 2–2 home draw against Roda JC Kerkrade. In that game, he scored his first senior goal. Ihattaren had made eight appearances for the first team when head coach Mark van Bommel definitively promoted him to the first-team squad in March 2019. There, he went on to compete for a spot as an attacking midfielder with Gastón Pereiro and Érick Gutiérrez.

2019–20 season

Ihattaren scored his first goal for PSV's first team on 18 August 2019, netting to close the game with a 2–0 final score Heracles Almelo. His first European goal followed four days after, when he scored the opener in a 3–0 win in the UEFA Europa League qualifier against Apollon Limassol. Ihattaren scored his second goal in the Eredivisie on 7 December 2019, in a 5–0 win over Fortuna Sittard. He scored from a penalty in the 52nd minute and dedicated the goal to his father, who had died two months earlier. By…

Born in Utrecht, Netherlands, Ihattaren is a youth international for the Netherlands, and was a member of the Netherlands U17s who won the 2018 UEFA European Under-17 Championship. In November 2019 he committed his international future to the Netherlands national team. Ihattaren was called up to the senior Netherlands squad for the UEFA Nations League matches against Poland and Italy in September 2020. On 3 October 2025, FIFA approved Ihattaren's request to change his sporting nationality from Dutch to Moroccan, making him eligible to play for the Morocco national team.

A quick and skilful midfielder, Ihattaren is mainly as a playmaker but can play most attacking positions. Instinctive and skilled in passing, he has been compared to fellow countryman Memphis Depay.

Ihattaren was born in Utrecht and grew up in the Kanaleneiland district with around 16,000 inhabitants, mainly with Moroccan background. Many international footballers are also from there, including Ibrahim Afellay and Ismaïl Aissati. Being born in the Netherlands to Moroccan parents, he possesses both Dutch and Moroccan passports. He has four brothers and a sister. His father, Mostapha Ihattaren (died in October 2019), arrived in Utrecht in the 1980s from Rouadi, a city located close to Al Hoceima in the Rif region of northern Morocco. Ihattaren was enrolled by his father at the local football club SV Houten club in Utrecht in 2009. Under the coaching of Henry Vermeulen, he appeared in all matches during his year at SV Houten. Vermeulen stated in 2018: "His ball handling, his dribbling and his vision were impressive. He was nicknamed "Ibi" due to his playing style resembling that of Ibrahim Afellay".