MC Oran

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MC Oran
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Full name Mouloudia Club d'Oran
Founded 1946
Ground Stade Ahmed Zabana
Oran, Algeria
(Capacity 40,000)
Chairman Algerian Youcef Djebbari
Manager Algerian Cherif El Ouazani
League Algerian Championnat National
2007/08 Algerian Championnat National, 13th
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Mouloudia Club d'Oran (MC Oran) (Arabic: مولودية وهران "المولودية الشعبية الوهرانية") The club Mouloudia Oran (MCO) is a football club based in Oran in Algeria. Founded in 1946, MCO was the only club to have Algerian disputed to this day (2007) all of the national championship seasons of first division (D1) since 1963, at its launch. However, the team was finally relegated at the end of the 2007/2008 season, finishing 13th in the 16-team league.

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[edit] Stadium

The club, one of the most popular in Algeria, plays at the Ahmed Zabana Stadium (40,000 places), in the popular district of El Hamri. The team supporters are nicknamed Hamraoua (named after the neighbourhood), and the team's colors are red and white.

[edit] History

It was in the night of Tuesday, May 14, 1946, the eve of the Muslim holiday Mawlid Leilat el Ennabaoui Echarif (celebration of the birth of the prophet Mohammed), which meets five people in the local area to Ali Bentouati Lamur - the current (El Hamri) - and agree to found a club to be called Mouloudia Club d'Oran. Among the founders, there were Bentouati Ali, Mohamed Bessoul, Omar Rouane Serrik, Boumefraa (one of the founders of Oran USM), and Omar (Mouloudia's first president), wealthy merchant in El Hamri. The founding ceremony of Mouloudia was attended by Cheïkh Said Zamouchi, delegated by the influential Sheikh Al Tayeb Mahaji and Sheikh Ben Badis of the Association of Algerian Muslim clerics.

The club has had in its workforce, and especially during the golden years (71, 75, 85, 87, 89, 91, 92), great figures of Algerian football and even Africa, like Lakhdar Belloumi, Tedj Bensaoula, and Karim Morocco, as well as children of the club for generations as Abdelkader Freha, Sid Ahmed Belkedrouci, Miloud Hadfi through Cherif Tahar El Ouazzani.

If his career is crowned many trophies and national titles, it has nevertheless just managed to escape relegation twice. The first time in 1970, by winning a decisive match against legendary club CR Belouizdad. The following season, the Mouloudia wins with the same number his first title of champion of Algeria. The second time or MC Oran would escape relegation, it was in 1983. Curiously, the following season also, in 1984, won the Cup Mouloudia of Algeria with a new wave of talented young players such as Mourad Meziane, Cherif Tahar El Ouazzani, Bachir Mecheri, Arezki Lebbah, led by Abdellah Mecheri, against The DNC Algiers.

[edit] Achievements

Champion: 1971, 1988, 1992, 1993
Vice Champion: 1968, 1969, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000
Winner: 1975, 1984, 1985, 1996
Finalist: 1998, 2002
Winner: 1973
Finalist: 1976
  • Algerian League Cup :(1)
Winner: 1995
Finalist: 1989
Finalist: 2001
Winner: 1997, 1998
Winner: 1999

[edit] Performance in CAF Competitions

1989: Finalist
1993: Quarter-Final
2005 - Second Round
1996 - Quarter-Final
1998 - First Round
1985 - Second Round
1986 - Second Round
1997 - Quarter-Final

[edit] Current (2007-2008)

Position Nom Numéro
Gardien Yacine Djebarat 1
Gardien Fethi Zitouni 16
Gardien Mohamed Amine Ouadah
Défenseur Brahim Serradj 2
Défenseur Samir Hamidi 3
Défenseur Samir Guira 4
Défenseur Sofiane Bengoureïne 5
Défenseur Fathallah Sabri Belhaoua 11
Défenseur Farid Bellabes 17
Défenseur Moulay Haddou Capitaine 19
Défenseur Redouane Bachiri 20
Défenseur Chaffik Bourzama 22
Défenseur Youcef Mabrouk 23
Défenseur Megdad Tazi 28
Défenseur Kada Kechamli 29
Milieu Abdennour Cherif El Ouazzani 6
Milieu Bouazza Feham 10
Milieu Moussa Rekkab 14
Milieu Mohamed Zine El Abidine Sebbah 15
Milieu Touhami Tiah 25
Milieu Sofiane Daoud 26
Milieu Zakaria Bendriss 32
Milieu Abdelmadjid Benatia 34
Milieu Redouane Cheïkh Benzerga 36
Milieu Nahas Pansao
Attaquant Seddik Berradja 12
Attaquant Sofiane Hanister 13
Attaquant Nasreddine El Bahari 18
Attaquant Toufik Chaïb 27
Attaquant Senoussi Medjahed 33
Attaquant Abdelmalek Bettouaf 35
Attaquant Alain Gérard Ketchemen 37
Attaquant Jean-Michel Nlend 39
Entraîneur Cherif El Ouazani XX
  • Training : 4-4-2

Djebarat
1
Bachiri
20
Bellabas
17
Kechamli
8
Berradja
12
Boudjakdji
30
Chaïb
27
El Bahari
18
Entraîneur : Eurico Montero Gomes


[edit] Notable Players

[edit] Equipment

MC Oran signed a 2-year contract with American sports firm Sarson Sports USA for the latter to provide jerseys and team equipment to the team.

The old equipment was made by French firm Le Coq Sportif.

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