Algeria A' national football team

The Algeria A' national football team (Arabic: منتخب الجزائر لكرة القدم للمحليين‎) is the local national football team of Algeria and is open only to domestic league players. The team represents Algeria at the African Nations Championship and is controlled by the Algerian Football Federation.

Algeria A'
Nickname(s)الأفنــاك
(Fennec Foxes)
AssociationAlgerian Football Federation
ConfederationCAF (Africa)
Head coachMadjid Bougherra
Most capsHocine Metref (13)
Top scorerYoucef Ghazali (4)
Home stadiumMustapha Tchaker
FIFA codeALG
First colours
Second colours
First international
 Algeria 1–1 Morocco 
(Koléa, Algeria; May 3, 2008)
Biggest win
 Algeria 4–0 Liechtenstein 
(Koléa, Algeria; March 7, 2010)
Biggest defeat
 Morocco 3–0 Algeria 
(Berkane, Morocco; October 19, 2019)
African Nations Championship
Appearances2 (first in 2011)
Best result4th (2011)

African Nations Championship record
African Nations Championship
Appearances: 2
Year Round Position Pld W D L GF GA
2009Did not qualify
2011Fourth place4th623174
2014Did not enter
2016Disqualified 1
2018Did not qualify
2020
2022Qualified
TotalFourth place2/7623174

^1 The CAF disqualified Algeria from the CHAN 2016 because the team have abandoned the qualifiers of the previous edition, the CHAN 2014.[1]

Coaching staff

Managerial history
Year Name Record (W–D–L)
2008 Mustapha Heddane 0–2–0
2009–2011 Abdelhak Benchikha 6–3–1
2010 Mohamed Chaib* 1–1–0
2011–2012 Ali Fergani
2017 Lucas Alcaraz 0–1–1
2017–2018 Rabah Madjer 1–0–1
2018–2020 Djamel Belmadi 1–0–0
2020–present Madjid Bougherra 0–0–0
  • Chaib was in charge of a pair of friendlies against Mali since Benchikha was on duty with the A national team

Results and Fixtures

2008
06-01-1984 Algeria  1–1  Egypt Alger, Algérie

Current team status

2020 African Nations Championship qualification
Main article: 2020 African Nations Championship qualification

North Zone – First round (final)

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Algeria  0–3  Morocco 0–0 0–3

References
  1. "CHAN-2016 : L'Algérie disqualifiée". El Watan. Tarek Aït Sellamet. January 16, 2015.
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