Moroccan football defender Mouhcine Bouhlal began his senior career with FAR Rabat in the 1988–89 season, staying with the club until he retired in 1999. With the team Bouhlal won the Moroccan championship in 1989 and the Moroccan Throne Cup in 1999, and reached the final in the latter in 1990, 1996, and 1998. In the early 1990s he made his début with the Morocco national football team, winning bronze at the 1991 Mediterranean Games and competing at the Barcelona Olympics one year later. Bouhlal went on to play 20 international matches from 1990 to 1996, including playing in qualification matches for the 1994 FIFA World Cup. More than 20 years after retiring as a player, he returned to FAR Rabat in 2020 where he had a brief spell as the club’s caretaker manager.