USM Bel Abbès

USM Bel Abbès
إتحاد بلعباس
Full name Union Sportive Medinat Bel Abbès
إتحاد رياضي مدينة بلعباس
Founded 1933
Ground Stade 24 Fevrier 1956,
Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria
Capacity 45,000
Chairman Abdelghani El Hannani
Head Coach Moez Bouakaz
League Ligue Professionnelle 1
2017–18 Ligue Professionnelle 1, 9th

Union Sportive Medinat Bel Abbès (Arabic: الإتحاد الرياضي لمدينة بلعباس‎), known as USM Bel Abbès or simply USMBA for short, is an Algerian football club located in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria, that was founded in 1933. The team's colors are green and red. Their venue, the Stade 24 Fevrier 1956, has a capacity of 45,000. The club is currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.


History

The team was founded in 1933 under the name of Union Sportive Musulmane de Bel Abbès. It was one of the great teams in the French colonial period. Between 1977 and 1987, the club was parrained by ENIE, an electronic national society and was named Electronique Sari Madinat Bel Abbès (ESMBA).

On April 27, 2012, in the last round of the 2011-12 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2, USM Bel-Abbès beat USM Annaba 3–0 to finish third and win promotion to the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1, returning to the top flight after a 19-year absence.[1] However the team return one year after in the second division but one year after again in 2014, they returned to the top division.

Previous Logos

Honours

National

Third place: 1969, 1983
Winners (5): 1966, 1980, 1988, 1993, 2014
Winners (2): 1991, 2018

International

Runners-up: 1956 [n 1]

Performance in CAF competitions

2018–19 – TBD
1992 – Second Round

Current squad

As of August 11, 2018. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Algeria GK Nadjib Ghoul
2 Algeria DF Samir Zerrouki
3 Algeria DF Boualem Mesmoudi
4 Algeria DF Nasreddine Benlebna
5 Algeria MF Larbi Tabti
6 Algeria MF Mohamed Lagraâ
7 Algeria MF Abdennour Iheb Belhocini
8 Algeria FW Hamza Belahouel
9 Algeria FW Ameur Bouguettaya
10 Algeria MF Abdessamed Bounoua
11 Algeria FW Mourad Benayad
15 Algeria DF Nabil Lamara
16 Algeria GK Sofiane Khedairia
17 Algeria MF Ishak Bouda
No. Position Player
18 Algeria DF Fateh Achour
19 Algeria DF Zakaria Khali
20 Algeria DF Abderrahim Abdelli
21 Algeria FW Mohamed Seguer
22 Algeria DF Ishak Guebli
23 Algeria MF Nabil Aït Ferguene
24 Algeria DF Anes Abbas
25 Algeria MF Sid Ahmed Abbaci
26 Algeria FW Mouloud Nabil Metref
27 Algeria FW Abdelkrim Zouari
28 Algeria FW Sid Ahmed El Mahi
29 Algeria MF Yahia Labani
30 Algeria GK Abdelkader Zarat Belmokhtar

Managers

  • Morocco Larbi Benbarek (1957 – 1958)
  • ...
  • Algeria Fethi Benkabou (20??–July 1, 2012)
  • Algeria Fouad Bouali (July 23, 2012 – Oct 30, 2012)
  • Algeria Abdelkader Yaïche (Nov 14, 2012 – Jan 3, 2013)
  • Algeria Mokhtar Assas (Jan 18, 2013 – May 12, 2013)
  • Algeria Zouaoui Zitouni (interim) (May 13, 2013 – June 30, 2013)
  • Algeria Abdelkrim Bira (July 1, 2013 – June 30, 2014)
  • France Jean-Guy Wallemme (July 1, 2014–15)

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ The final between USM Bel Abbès and SC Bel Abbès was not played.

References

  1. ↑ APS (April 27, 2012). "Dix neuf ans après, Bel Abbés en Ligue 1" (in French). DZFoot. Retrieved April 27, 2012.


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