2016–17 USM Alger season

USM Alger
2016–17 season
preparation match in July 2016 against Stade Rennes in the picture Meftah, Koudri from USM Alger and Gourcuff from Stade Rennes.
Chairman Ali Haddad
Head coach Miloud Hamdi
(until 5 June 2016)
Adel Amrouche
(from 27 June 2016)
(until 17 August 2016)
Jean-Michel Cavalli
(from 17 August 2016)
(until 30 October 2016)
Paul Put
(from 30 October 2016)
Stadium Omar Hamadi Stadium, Bologhine
July 5, 1962 Stadium, Algeirs
Ligue 1 3rd
Algerian Cup Round of 16
Champions League Group stage
Super Cup Winners
Top goalscorer League:
Mohamed Rabie Meftah (9 goals)

All:
Mohamed Rabie Meftah (11 goals)
Highest home attendance 60.000 (vs. MC Alger, 4 March)
Lowest home attendance 0 (vs. RC Relizane, 27 August)
(spectator ban)
Average home league attendance 13,200

In the 2016–17 season, USM Alger is competing in the Ligue 1 for the 37th season, as well as the Algerian Cup. It is their 22nd consecutive season in the top flight of Algerian football. They will be competing in Ligue 1, the CAF Champions League, and Algerian Super Cup, and the Algerian Cup. USM Alger will enter the 2016-2017 season as reigning Ligue Professionnelle 1 champions after winning the Ligue Professionnelle 1 title in the 2015-2016 season, The club was managed by Miloud Hamdi, until his left on 5 June 2016. He was replaced by Adel Amrouche on 27 June.[1] but before the start of the season three days to resign was replace by French manager Cavalli[2] Then it was sacked because of poor results and replace by Belgian Paul Put.[3]

Non-competitive

Pre-season

Red and Black will play his first friendly match against Stade brestois 29 training playing in Ligue 2, they will face the Stade Rennes team the Algerian international Players Zeffane and Bensebaini. The last game will be against CFA training of US Granville, scheduled for July 22 in Granville.[4]

of Algerian Champion for the seventh time last season, it's a USM Alger "new look" who will defend his title. If frameworks like Khoualed, Meftah, Koudri, Zemmamouche, Benmoussa and Chafaï are still at the club, the club management decided to overhaul the team, starting with the coaching staff. Indeed, the Belgian-Algerian Adel Amrouche, former coach of Kenya, Burundi and Equatorial Guinea, replaced Hamdi.

At the level of the players, the club recorded the arrival of several players like Amir Sayoud (DRB Tadjenanet), Raouf Benguit (Paradou AC), Ziri Hammar (JS Saoura), Mohamed Benyahia (MC Oran), Toufik Zeghdane (MC Alger), Abel Khaled and Ghislain Guessan (RC Arbaâ). This bloated recruitment is partly fill the departures of Zinedine Ferhat, best assist last season, Brahim Boudebouda, Hocine El Orfi and Mohamed Seguer, The club has also signed several players of the national selection of age 20, recently trained by Mohamed Mekhazni, back to the club. Two of these young people have made the trip to France, he is Ilyes Yaiche and Ibrahim Farhi.

First friendly match was against Stade brestois 29 and ended with a draw 1-1 [5] goal scored by Union new player Bouderbal, three days later the team played the most important meeting against Stade Rennais [6] from Ligue 1 and ended with the victory of the Algerian international guys Zeffane 1-0 Then, in the third meeting against the reserve team of the Stade Rennais achieved the first victory in the preparation matches by 4-0 [7] Recording from Guessan two goals, Beldjilali goal by Penalty and finally the young Bengrina last goal, After the piece ran the team last friendly against US Granville ended with a draw 0-0 back to the team immediately after the end of the games to Algeria, Preparations were good where he discovered supporter several skilful players of the most prominent neo Bellahcene, Benyahia and Hammar in addition to the player the team youth Bengrina.

After the end of the first internship in France successfully USM Alger delegation returned to Algeria and Players he got four days rest before traveling to Tunisia, Sousse to fight a second internship between 27 July and 7 August [8] punctuated by three friendly matches against clubs Tunisian.[9]

Overview

Competition Record
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Ligue 1 30 14 8 8 50 31 +19 046.67
Algerian Cup 3 2 1 0 3 0 +3 066.67
Algerian Super Cup 1 1 0 0 2 0 +2 100.00
Champions League 5 2 1 2 7 4 +3 040.00
Total 39 19 10 10 62 35 +27 048.72
Competition Start round Final position/round First match Last match
Ligue 1 N/A3rd19 August 201614 June 2017
Algerian Cup Round of 64Round of 1624 November 201627 December 2016
Algerian Super Cup FinalWinners1 November 2016
CAF Champions League First roundGroup stage[note 1]11 March 20172 June 2017[note 1]

Ligue 1

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 ES Sétif (C, Q) 30 17 6 7 42 23 +19 57 Qualification for the 2018 CAF Champions League
2 MC Alger (Q) 30 14 8 8 38 27 +11 50[lower-alpha 1]
3 USM Alger (Q) 30 14 8 8 50 31 +19 50[lower-alpha 1] Qualification for the 2018 CAF Confederation Cup
4 USM Bel-Abbès (Q) 30 14 6 10 37 33 +4 48 Qualification for the 2018–19 Arab Club Champions Cup
5 JS Saoura 30 12 9 9 34 30 +4 45
Updated to match(es) played on 14 June 2017. Source: DZFoot
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) total goals; 6) fairplay ranking; 7) playoff.
(C) Champion; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated.
Notes:
  1. 1 2 MC Alger ahead of USM Alger on head-to-head record: MCA–UAL 2–1, UAL–MCA 2–2.

Results summary

OverallHomeAway
PldWDLGFGAGDPtsWDLGFGAGDWDLGFGAGD
29 14 8 7 50 29  +21 50 12 2 1 39 15  +24 2 6 6 11 14  −3

Last updated: 30 January 2016.
Source: Competitive matches

Results by round

Round123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930
GroundHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
ResultWWDWWWLWLLDWLWLDLDLWWDDWDWDWLW
Position211111111111223455654443434333

Updated to match(es) played on 30 January 2016. Source: Competitive matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss

Algerian Super Cup

  Win   Draw   Loss

Algerian Cup

  Win   Draw   Loss

Champions League

  Win   Draw   Loss

First round

Group stage

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification USM AHT ZAM CAP
1 Algeria USM Alger 6 3 2 1 12 5 +7 11 Quarter-finals 3–0 2–0 4–1
2 Libya Al-Ahli Tripoli 6 2 3 1 11 10 +1 9 1–1 0–0 4–2
3 Egypt Zamalek 6 1 3 2 6 8 2 6[lower-alpha 1] 1–1 2–2 2–0
4 Zimbabwe CAPS United 6 2 0 4 10 16 6 6[lower-alpha 1] 2–1 2–4 3–1
Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Notes:
  1. 1 2 Head-to-head results: Zamalek 2–0 CAPS United, CAPS United 3–1 Zamalek (Zamalek won on away goals).

Squad information

Playing statistics

As of 15 June 2017

Appearances (Apps.) numbers are for appearances in competitive games only including sub appearances
Red card numbers denote: Numbers in parentheses represent red cards overturned for wrongful dismissal.

No. Nat. Player Ligue 1 Algerian Cup CAF Champions League Algerian Super Cup Total
Yellow card Red card Yellow card Red card Yellow card Red card Yellow card Red card Yellow card Red card
Goalkeepers
1AlgeriaMohamed Lamine Zemmamouche263251343
16AlgeriaIsmaïl Mansouri2121
30AlgeriaMourad Berrefane213
Defenders
3AlgeriaAyoub Abdellaoui20421411112717
5AlgeriaMohamed Benyahia24363313136
6AlgeriaFarouk Chafaï2535252113365
20AlgeriaNacereddine Khoualed91211012
21AlgeriaToufik Zeghdane11
25AlgeriaMokhtar Benmoussa281335113714
30AlgeriaMohamed Meftah2994121311351141
31AlgeriaRaouf Benguit2616353416
Midfielders
7AlgeriaRafik Bouderbal11121141
8AlgeriaKaddour Beldjilali1812232312
10AlgeriaAmir Sayoud1912211211123341
14AlgeriaFaouzi Bourenane814121
15AlgeriaZiri Hammar6121192
17AlgeriaMohamed Benkablia10212
19AlgeriaAbel Khaled22
23AlgeriaHamza Koudri221425213016
24AlgeriaMohammed Benkhemassa17153112116
26AlgeriaReda Bellahcene62121921
37AlgeriaMustapha Bengrina (B)77
38AlgeriaMohamed Réda Boumechra (B)11
41AlgeriaIlyes Yaiche (B)7171
Forwards
9MadagascarCarolus Andriamatsinoro214235113052
11AlgeriaAbderrahmane Meziane26823513582
13AlgeriaOussama Darfalou2082422610
29Ivory CoastGhislain Guessan2354211312965
Own goals 2 0 0 0 2
Totals 50602 340 751 220 62713

(B)USM Alger B player

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