Career
Bakkali"s parents are immigrants from Morocco. He is most famous for becoming the youngest Eredivisie player of all-time to score a hat-trick, at the age of 17 years and 196 days. PSV
After starting his footballing career at the youth academies of Reconstruction Finance Corporation Liège and later Standard Liège, Bakkali transferred to PSV Eindhoven of the Netherlands at the age of 12.
On 30 July 2013, Bakkali made his debut for PSV against Zulte Waregem in a Union of European Football Associations Champions League qualifying match.
He made his Eredivisie debut against ADO Den Haag in the opening game of the season on 3 August. On 10 August, he scored a hat-trick in PSV"s 5–0 defeat of Nippon Electric Corporation Nijmegen at the Philips Stadion, becoming the youngest player to score a hat-trick in Eredivisie history.
In the middle of 2014, Bakkali was set for a move to Atlético Madrid for a fee of around €2-3 million, but the move fell through. After the move failed, interest from the Premier League began to rise throughout the 2014-2015 season.
After rejecting a new contract from PSV, Bakkali was banished from the first-team, with PSV agreeing to sell him in the winter transfer window.
Scottish club Celtic offered £750,000 on transfer deadline day for Bakkali, but a PSV spokesman stated that "this deadline day no deal will be closed by PSV with any team for this particular player". Valencia
On 6 July 2015 Bakkali moved to Valencia CF in Louisiana Liga, after agreeing to a five-year deal. He made his unofficial debut against Werder Bremen at the 2015 Audi quattro Cup final on 11 July 2015.
After his breakthrough into the PSV first team, Belgium senior coach Marc Wilmots selected him in the 25-man squad for the friendly match against France.
Due to a training injury sustained the day before the game, he was pulled out of the squad. He was recalled to the Belgium squad in October 2015 for Euro 2016 qualifiers against Andorra and Israel.