E-sport, or electronic sports, involves competitive video gaming. This sport is rapidly growing in Morocco, attracting an increasingly large audience, particularly among young people.
Morocco has a developing e-sport ecosystem, with a passionate community of players, professional organizations, regular events, tournaments, and leagues, as well as dedicated infrastructures.
E-sport falls under the responsibilities of the Royal Moroccan Federation of Electronic Games.
For video game enthusiasts, several national e-sport tournaments will be organized alongside the second edition of the Morocco Gaming Expo. These will include online qualification rounds to reach a wide audience across the country, followed by a grand final that will take place during the Morocco Gaming Expo in Rabat from July 2 to 6, 2025.
A world-class e-sports arena will be built at Rabat Gaming City, with a capacity of over 1,000 people. This arena will host major national, continental, and international events.
The construction of this e-sport arena represents an opportunity to position Morocco as a leading hub for competitive video games in Africa. It will help invigorate the video game industry, attract talent, develop digital tourism, and enhance Morocco’s image.
The Investment Charter provides a transparent and clear regulatory framework for investors. It establishes the fundamental objectives of the state, introduces various investment support mechanisms, defines the principles of their governance, and outlines the reform areas to be implemented to facilitate investment.
This charter is based on three pillars: financial support for investment, improving the business climate, and coordinating investment policies at the territorial level. It offers four mechanisms for supporting private investments.
The Investment Charter highlights key and priority sectors to attract investments, including industry, outsourcing, tourism, digital, renewable energy, waste transformation and valorization, logistics and transport, aquaculture, and the cultural industry.
In order to strengthen digital skills, Morocco has implemented a training bonus as part of its Morocco Digital 2030 strategy. The goal of this bonus is to develop a pool of digital talent by encouraging training and career transitions to digital professions, thus enabling Moroccan companies to seize the opportunities provided by digital transformation.
A bonus of 3.5% of the taxable gross income will be granted for each sustainable job in outsourcing professions, for a period of 5 years.
Investors working in the gaming industry will be eligible for this bonus upon setting up operations at Rabat Gaming City.
Job creation is one of the main objectives of the national Morocco Digital 2030 strategy, which aims to create 240,000 direct jobs in the digital sector by 2030. As such, a new incentive measure has been introduced through the establishment of an employment bonus, offering 17% of the taxable annual gross income for each sustainable job created.
Investors working in the gaming industry will be eligible for this bonus upon setting up operations at Rabat Gaming City.
The Innovative Incubation Program is designed for video game studios to enhance their skills in game development and business activities while providing opportunities to connect with video game publishers and international investors.
The program relies, on the one hand, on a practical guide that includes conferences on video games, project presentation practices, advisory sessions, and a dedicated project showcase day. On the other hand, it offers real player feedback, providing video game studios the opportunity to test their games globally with professional international testers and consult experts based on the results of the game tests. Additionally, the program provides access to the G.Round game testing platform, which has over 425,000 players and more than 1,000 professional testers.
Application details will be published soon on the platform moroccogamingindustry.ma.
The Video Game Incubation Program is designed for Moroccan startups specializing in video game production and pursuing ambitious projects in the gaming industry. This program provides comprehensive training to enhance entrepreneurial and technical skills, personalized mentoring by industry experts, and a grant to help startups successfully complete their projects.
Additionally, the program offers unique opportunities for collaboration and networking within the international gaming ecosystem, as well as participation in major global industry events. Applications will open on January 20, 2025, on the platform moroccogamingindustry.ma.
The Huawei Cloud Startup program, launched by HUAWEI Morocco, aims to support Moroccan startups operating in the gaming industry as part of the partnership agreement signed during the “Gaming Startups Meeting Day.” The program provides free assistance for cloud migration and offers free access to Huawei Cloud services.
Leveraging Huawei’s leadership in technology and innovation, the program offers technical support, entrepreneurial guidance, and integration with Google Tag Manager (GTM).
Moroccan gaming startups interested in this program can submit their applications via the following link: https://forms.gle/dFrqn9tRKgNWxEQy7 before the deadline.
