USM Bel-Abbès

USM Bel-Abbès
إتحاد بلعباس

Full name	Union Sportive Medinat de Bel-Abbès إتحاد رياضي مدينة بلعباس
Founded	1933
Ground	Stade 24 Fevrier 1956, Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria
Ground Capacity	45,000
Chairman	Belkacem Aïda
League	Ligue Professionnelle 1
L2 2013–14	1st place (promoted)
Home colours Away colours

Union Sportive Medinat Bel-Abbès (Arabic: إتحاد رياضي مدينة بلعباس‎, Arabic pronunciation: [Ittihād Riadhi Madinat Bal-ʿAbbās]) or USM Bel-Abbès, is an Algerian football club located in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria, that was founded in 1933. The team's colors are green and red. It currently plays 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.

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

• Algerian Cup

Winner (1): 1990-91

• Algerian Ligue 2

Winner (5): 1966, 1980, 1988, 1993, 2012, 2013-14

International

• North African Cup

Runner-up (1): 1956 ^{[n 1]}

Performance in CAF competitions

• African Cup Winners' Cup: 1 appearance

1992 – Second Round

Current squad (2014–15)

As of 21 January 2015:^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Jonathan Matijas 5 MF Riad Gharrich 7 MF Sofiane Choubani 8 MF Houari Hamiche 10 FW Hacene El Okbi Benhaddouche 11 MF Belkacem Niati 16 DF Fayçal Abdat 18 GK Abdennour Argoub 19 MF Zakaria Khali 22 DF Sofiane Bengorine

No. Position Player 23 FW Youcef Ghazali 24 DF Redouane Cherifi 27 MF Mohamed Abdelaziz Tchikou 30 GK Ahmed Walid Chouih 31 MF Abdessamad Bounoua 32 DF Dieumerci Vua 55 DF Mohamed Yaghni 72 MF Ahmed Gaâgaâ 77 MF Mohamed Bennai 99 FW Jessy Mayele

Managers

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

Notes and references

Notes

References

External links

• USM Bel-Abbès fan site