practiced with Excelsior, he began a trial at his former club AZ on 13 September 2015. There, he signed a contract for the remainder of the season on 20 October 2015. However, he left AZ again in January. In January 2016, El Hamdaoui signed with Qatari club Umm Salal. Seven months later he joined Al-Taawoun FC, the number four of the Saudi Professional League in the previous season. After El Hamdaoui became a free agent in May 2017, he practiced at AZ to stay in shape. He practiced with Jong FC Twente in January 2018. He played a friendly match with Twente on 14 January and signed a six-month contract with the club three days later. He suffered relegation with the Eredivisie club at the end of the season. In September 2018, El Hamdaoui signed a contract with Excelsior until the end of the 2018–19 season. With that club, he was also relegated. In August 2019, El Hamdaoui continued his career with Al-Kharaitiyat, who played in the second-tier of Qatar. In October 2020, he joined DHSC, competing in the Dutch fifth tier Hoofdklasse, after Wesley Sneijder who was involved in the club, asked him to join. He made his debut for the club on 13 October in a 5–5 draw in the KNVB District Cup to VV Jonathan from Zeist, also scoring a goal in the 49th minute. DHSC subsequently lost the penalty shootout. Ahead of the match, the amateur divisions had been suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, making the match his first and last appearance for the club for a while. On 2 October 2021, he scored his first goal in the Hoofdklasse in a 3–1 loss to ARC. El Hamdaoui left DHSC in June 2022, and initially joined SteDoCo, before cancelling his contract in August 2022 to pursue a career as a football agent for youth players of AZ Alkmaar. International career Although being born in the Netherlands and having played for their under-21 side, El Hamdaoui pledged his international future to the Morocco national team. El Hamdaoui played his only game with Morocco B in 2005 against Saudi Arabia. On 6 November 2006, El Hamdaoui stated in an interview to Dutch football magazine Voetbal International that he, at one point, wanted to play senior international football for the Morocco national team. A few months before he had said to the same magazine that he would choose