Union Sportive de la Médina d’Alger (kwa Kiarabu: الإتحاد الرياضي لمدينة الجزائر); inayojulikana kama USM Alger au USMA kwa kifupi ni klabu ya Mpira wa Miguu yenye makazi yake katika vitongoji vya vya Algiers.
Klabu hiyo ilianzishwa mnamo 1937 na rangi zake ni nyekundu na nyeusi, Uwanja wao wa nyumbani ni Omar Hamadi, ambao una uwezo wa kubeba watazamaji 17,500.
Klabu hiyo kwa sasa inacheza Ligi ya Algeria Professionnelle 1, ambapo imetwaa ubingwa wa Ligi Kuu ya Algeria mara 8, Algerian Cup mara 8 na Algerian Super Cup mara 2, Kimataifa, USM Alger imeshinda UAFA Club Championship mara moja 2013.
USMA ilifika Fainali ya Ligi ya Mabingwa ya CAF 2015 lakini ikafungwa na TP Mazembe, Klabu hiyo ilipitia kipindi kigumu hapo awali, ikasaidiwa kifedha, kama USMA ilinunuliwa mwaka wa 2010.
| Full name | Union Sportive de la Médina d’Alger |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | USMA The Usmiste Ouled El Bahdja L’Ittihad (The Union) ‘ Soustara |
| Short name | USMA, USM |
| Founded | July 5, 1937 as Union Sportive Musulmane Algéroise |
| Ground | Omar Hamadi Stadium Omar Benrabah Stadium (Temporary) |
| Capacity | 17,500 |
| Owner | Groupe SERPORT (94.34%) Small shareholders (5.66%) |
| President | Sid Ahmed Arab |
| Manager | Abdelhak Benchikha |
| League | Ligue Professionnelle 1 |
| 2021–22 | Ligue Professionnelle 1, 4th |
Hili ubinafsishaji unaambatana na matokeo chanya na sasa Klabi imesimama imara katika Ligue 1 kwani baada ya kuwasili kwa mwekezaji wa Algeria, Ali Haddad walibeba taji la Bingwa wa Algeria mwaka 2014.
Klabu hiyo hufuzu mara kwa mara kwenye CAF Champions League na Kombe la Shirikisho la CAF na kutwaa mataji 3 katika michuano ya kombe la Algeria na Super Cup msimu wa 2013/2014.
Performance ya USM Alger katika mashindano ya CAF.
USM Alger katika soka la Afrika ndiyo timu imekuwa ikishiriki mara kwa mara katika mashindano ya Shirikisho la Soka Afrika (CAF).
Kufuzu kwa vilabu vya Algeria kunatokana na mwenendo wa timu katika mashindano yake ya ligi ya ndani na vikombe, USM Alger wamefuzu mara kwa mara kwa mashindano ya Afrika, Kombe la Afrika, kwa kushinda Ligue Professionnelle 1.
USM Alger pia wamecheza katika Kombe la Washindi wa Kombe la Afrika na Kombe la CAF, Mechi ya kwanza ilikuwa dhidi ya CARA Brazzaville na kumalizika kwa ushindi kwa USM Alger 2-0 Kama matokeo ya ushindi mkubwa zaidi ilikuwa 2004 dhidi ya ASFA Yennenga 8-1, na kupoteza kubwa zaidi mwaka 1998 dhidi ya klabu ya Primeiro de Agosto, na ya pili katika 2013 dhidi ya US Bitam 3–0.
Ushiriki wa kwanza katika mashindano ya Kimataifa ulikuwa katika Kombe la Washindi wa Kombe la Afrika mwaka 1982 na kiwango cha juu katika Robo Fainali dhidi ya klabu ya Ghana Hearts of Oak, katika toleo la 1989 la mashindano hayo hayo na klabu ilijiondoa katika nafasi hiyo hiyo baada ya kupoteza katika Mechi ya kwanza dhidi ya Klabu ya Malagasy BFV kwenye Uwanja wa Stade Omar Hammadi, baada ya hapo kukosa mashindano ya Klabu Bingwa Afrika kwa miaka minane hadi 1997 kwenye Ligi ya Mabingwa ya CAF kwa mara ya kwanza, na karibu USM Alger kusonga mbele kwenye mechi ya fainali na tofauti ya mabao.
Kisha akawa timu ilishiriki kwa utaratibu katika mashindano mbalimbali kama vile Kombe la Washindi wa Kombe la Afrika, Kombe la CAF, Kombe la Shirikisho la CAF na Ligi ya Mabingwa wa CAF hadi 2007 isipokuwa 2001 ambapo timu hiyo iliondolewa mwaka 2000 kwenye Kombe la Washindi wa Kombe la Afrika, kwa kuadhibiwa kutoshiriki Mashindano yoyote ya Afrika kwa mwaka mzima kwa sababu ya ushiriki wa golikipa asiyestahiki Burkinabé Siaka Coulibaly dhidi ya JS du Ténéré kutoka Niger katika mkondo wa pili.
Mwaka 2003 timu hiyo ilitinga nusu fainali ya Ligi ya Mabingwa Afrika mikono ya Bingwa wa Enyimba, na baada ya kukosekana kwa miaka minane kwenye Ligi ya Mabingwa Afrika USM Alger ilifanikiwa kutinga Fainali mwaka 2015 kwa mara ya kwanza katika historia yake, lakini ilifungwa na TP Mazembe kwa jumla ya mabao 4-1.
Union Sportive de la Médina d’Alger (Arabic: الإتحاد الرياضي لمدينة الجزائر); known as USM Alger or simply USMA for short, is a football club based in the inner suburbs of Algiers. The club was founded in 1937 and its colours are red and black. Their home stadium, Omar Hamadi Stadium, has a capacity of 17,500 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.
The club has one of Algeria’s most prominent football charts, as it won the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 8 times, the Algerian Cup 8 times and the Algerian Super Cup 2 times, Internationally, USM Alger has won the UAFA Club Championship once in 2013. The IFFHS ranks the USMA in the 18th place of the best African teams of the decade between 2001–2010. USMA reached the final of the 2015 CAF Champions League but they lost to TP Mazembe.
With the past of the Union Sportive Musulmane d’Alger (former name of the USMA), winner of the first 1962–63 Algerian Championnat National, the USMA is the postwar reference Algerian War). In one year, the club Algérois won the titles of Algeria championship and subsequently finalist of the Algerian Cup 1969. The club is going through a difficult period.[clarification needed] The club is financially supported, as the USMA was bought in 2010. This privatization is accompanied by positive sporting results: solidly anchored in Ligue 1 since with the arrival of the Algerian investor Ali Haddad follows the title of champion of Algeria Of the Ligue 1 in 2014, the club regularly qualifies for the current African cups CAF Champions League or CAF Confederation Cup And realized 3 titles in 2 years championship-Algerian cup and Super Cup during the season 2013–2014.
Performance in CAF competitions
Main article: USM Alger in African football, USM Alger whose team has regularly taken part in Confederation of African Football (CAF) competitions. Qualification for Algerian clubs is determined by a team’s performance in its domestic league and cup competitions, USM Alger have regularly qualified for the primary African competition, the African Cup, by winning the Ligue Professionnelle 1. USM Alger have also achieved African qualification via the Algerian Cup and have played in both the former African Cup Winners’ Cup and the CAF Cup.
The first match was against CARA Brazzaville and ended in victory for USM Alger 2–0 As for the biggest win result was in 2004 against ASFA Yennenga 8–1, and biggest loss first defeat in 1998 against Primeiro de Agosto club, and the second in 2013 against US Bitam 3–0.
First participation in International competition were in the African Cup Winners’ Cup in 1982 and the maximum in the quarter-finals against Ghanaian club Hearts of Oak, in the 1989 version of the same competition and the club withdrew from the same role after the loss in the first leg against Malagasy club BFV at Stade Omar Hammadi, after that to miss the club’s continental competitions for eight years until 1997 in the CAF Champions League for the first time, and almost USM Alger advance to the final match and goal difference in favor of Raja Casablanca.
Then he became the team participated in a systematic manner in various competitions such as African Cup Winners’ Cup, CAF Cup, CAF Confederation Cup and the CAF Champions League until 2007 except in 2001 where the team disqualified in 2000 of the African Cup Winners Cup to be punished not to participate in any African competition for a whole year because of the participation an ineligible goalkeeper Burkinabé Siaka Coulibaly against JS du Ténéré from Niger in the second leg, In 2003 the team to reach the semi-finals of the African Champions League at the hands of ousts champion Enyimba, and after an absence of eight years from the African Champions League USM Alger managed to reach the final in 2015 for the first time in its history, but was defeated against TP Mazembe 4–1 on aggregate.
Records and statistics
Mohamed Lamine Zemmamouche currently holds the team record for total number of games played with 400 matches until the end of the 2020–21 season, including 294 matches in the league. Nacereddine Khoualed has the second most appearances for the club with 286 matches. Karim Ghazi is the third most capped player with 241 matches. In the continental level, Hocine Achiou is the most capped player; involved in 38 matches, including 29 matches in the CAF Champions League. Malagasy Carolus Andriamatsinoro is the most capped foreign player with 132 matches in five seasons, also there is the French player Freddy Zemmour, who played with USMA six seasons immediately after the independence of Algeria and in unofficial statistics it is said that he played more than 200 matches with the team but can not be sure of that, Mahieddine Meftah is USM Alger’s most capped international player. as for the scorers and beginning of the 1995–96 season Billel Dziri is the best scorer with 74 goals in all competitions and at the same time the best scorer in the League with 51 goals and in the continental competition with 16 goals, as for Tarek Hadj Adlane is the best scorer in the Algerian Cup with 11 goals also Moncef Ouichaoui is the only player of USM Alger in the history who won the league’s top scorer in the 2002–03 season with 18 goals and at the continental level, Malian Mamadou Diallo won the top scorer of the CAF Champions League in 2004 with 10 goals.
USM Alger is the most team to reach the Algerian Cup final with 17 times, including five consecutive ones. The first cup achieved by the team was after seven finals in 1981 against ASM Oran, at that time the team was in the second division to become the first Algerian team to achieve the Algerian Cup at this level. The club is one of only four clubs to have won the Algerian Cup twice in succession, in 2003 and 2004. USMA share with ES Setif, MC Alger and CR Belouizdad the record of Algerian Cup titles with eight. USM Alger’s biggest winning scoreline in a competitive match is 13–0, achieved against SO Berrouaghia in the Critériums d’Honneur in 1962 and League’s biggest win was 11–0 against ASM Oran in the 1975–76 season. League’s biggest loss was 1–7 against JS Kabylie in 1989 in Tizi Ouzou. USM Alger is the second most successful team in the Domestic League with (8) Titles. USM Alger have achieved “Doubles” once (in 2003). Every starting player in USM Alger’s 48 games of the 2012–13 season was a full international – a new club record. USM Alger were also the second Algerian club to reach the final of the CAF Champions League, in 2015, losing 4–1 on aggregate to TP Mazembe. Noureddine Saâdi holds the record for most games managed with 133, winning two titles. Rolland Courbis is the first foreign coach to achieve a title with the team when he won the Algerian Cup in 2013. The 700,000 Euro transfer of Mamadou Diallo to Nantes in 2004 is the team’s highest fee received for a player.[50] The 400,000 Euros transfer of Kaddour Beldjilali from Étoile du Sahel in 2014 is the team’s highest fee paid for a player.
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