List of USM Alger seasons

Union sportive de la médina d'Alger is an Algerian professional football club based in Algiers, Algiers Province. The club was formed in Casbah in 1937 as Union Sportive Musulmane d'Alger, and played their first competitive match in 1937, when they entered the 1937–38 Ligue d'Alger Troisième Division. The club was renamed Union sportive de la médina d'Alger in 1989.

USM Alger's team during their first season 1937–38.

The club has won a total of 18 major trophies, including the national championship 7 times also won the Algerian Cup a record 8 times, the Algerian Super Cup 1 time, and the UAFA Club Cup 1 time Al Ittihad reached the CAF Champions League final for the first time in 2015 but was defeated against TP Mazembe. The club has also never been out of the top two divisions of Algerian football since entering the Football League.

This is a list of the seasons played by USM Alger from 1962 when the club first entered a league competition to the most recent seasons. The club's achievements in all major national and international competitions as well as the top scorers are listed. Top scorers in bold were also top scorers of Ligue 1. The list is separated into three parts, coinciding with the three major episodes of Algerian football:

History

The club formed in 1937 as Union Sportive Musulmane d'Alger after considerable difficulties because of the designation of the Musulmane, where the French administration requested to remove the word however it was the first season in the third division 1937–38 season the results of the team during the colonial period are not in the table and the competitions in which he was then participating are Ligue d'Alger, Coupe de la Ligue and Coupe de la Solidarité The USMA has never participated in a continental competition at the time like North African Championship and North African Cup.

After independence, Al Ittihad became the first champion of Algeria after winning the final match against MC Alger 3–0, it also has the record of reaching the final of the Algerian Cup 17 times, won eight of them also considered the most losing team for the final nine times, including five consecutive times from 1969 to 1973 it is the first club to win the Cup of Algeria and play in second division in 1981 also the only one who won the championship immediately after his second division rise in the 1995–96 season, in 2002–03, they won an unprecedented Doubles of Ligue 1, Algerian Cup in 2001–02 and 2002–03, making USM Alger only the fourth club to win two consecutive Algerian league titles knowing there is no Algerian club won the Algerian league three consecutive times or more. The USMA is a party to the first Super Cup final in 1981, which they were defeated against RC Kouba 3–1 this tournament later achieved twice, in 2013 and 2016. In 1982, USM Alger he debuted for the first time in African competition, entering the Cup Winners' Cup also in 1997, became the first Algerian club to enter Champions League in its new version.

Seasons
Season League Cup Other Africa Top goalscorer(s)[note 1] Ref.
Division Pos Pts P W D L GF GA Name Goals
1962–63 Critérium Honneur1st702421219511 Semi-final
1963–64 Division Honneur3rd743019656923 Semi-final Abderrahmane Meziani19
1964–65 National16th543088143644 Round of 64 Abderrahmane Meziani11
1965–66 National 22nd733018755322 Round of 16
1966–67 National II5th36186662620 Semi-final Abderrahmane Meziani8
1967–68 National II5th45228772923 Round of 16 Abderrahmane Meziani7
1968–69 National II2nd512211744426 Runners–up Mouldi Aissaoui11
1969–70 National I5th43227783432 Runners–up Kamel Tchalabi10
1970–71 National I5th45227963732 Runners–up Meziani, Tchalabi10
1971–72 National I15th553097143847 Runners–up Abderrahmane Meziani8
1972–73 National II2nd------- Runners–up
1973–74 National II1st------- Round of 32
1974–75 National I5th6330137104836 Round of 32 Zidane, Guedioura10
1975–76 National I4th663014885229 Round of 32
1976–77 National I11th472677123236 Quarter-final
1977–78 Division 15th542611694026 Runners–up
1978–79 Division 112th482678113040 Quarter-final
1979–80 Division 115th5430711123035 Runners–up
1980–81 Division 21st542212824921 Winners
1981–82 Division 19th5930911102430 Quarter-final Runners–up Cup Winners' Cup Quarter-final
1982–83 Division 116th5630810122131 Round of 16 Nacer Guedioura7 [1]
1983–84 Division 24th6830131254523 Second Round
1984–85 Division 22nd6929131153920 Round of 32
1985–86 Division 22nd6930141154122 Round of 32
1986–87 Division 21st463019834115 Round of 64
1987–88 Division 17th35341113103530 Winners Fawzi Benkhalidi9
1988–89 Division 113th2830910112734 Round of 16 Cup Winners' Cup Quarter-final Tarek Hadj Adlane7
1989–90 Division 116th233087152339 Not played Tarek Hadj Adlane10
1990–91 Division 24th3430121084025 Quarter-final Tarek Hadj Adlane13
1991–92 Division 23rd343013893423 Round of 64
1992–93 Division 27th3130101193325 Not played
1993–94 Division 22nd483221655212 Round of 64
1994–95 Division 21st5032201025429 Second Round Azzedine Rahim??
1995–96 Division 11st603019383924 Round of 64 Group stage Azzedine Rahim11
1996–97 Division 13rd493014793230 Winners Champions League Group stage[note 2] Tarek Hadj Adlane16
1997–98 Division 12nd25156721813 Round of 16 Quarter-final Cup Winners' Cup Quarter-final Tarek Hadj Adlane6
1998–99 Super Division4th442612863217 Winners CAF Cup Quarter-final Tarek Hadj Adlane17
1999–00 Super Division12th212263131527 Round of 16 Semi-final Cup Winners' Cup Disqualified Athmane Samir Amirat5
2000–01 Super Division2nd5530151055128 Winners Tarek Hadj Adlane14
2001–02 Super Division1st573017673724 Round of 32 Cup Winners' Cup Semi-final[note 2] Rabie Benchergui12
2002–03 Division 11st583017765217 Winners Champions League Semi-final[note 2] Moncef Ouichaoui22
2003–04 Division 12nd583017764923 Winners Champions League Group stage[note 2] Rabie Benchergui15
2004–05 Division 1 1st 67 30 21 4 5 55 27 Round of 64 Champions League Second round Billel Dziri 11
CAF Confederation Cup 2nd round of 16
2005–06 Division 12nd573018665030 Runners–up Champions League First Round Moulay Haddou12 [2]
2006–07 Division 14th473013893225 Runners–up Champions League Preliminary round Mintou Doucoure7 [3]
2007–08 Division 14th4230126123227 Round of 16 Arab Champions League Group stage Amar Ammour12 [4]
2008–09 Division 16th4832139103831 Round of 64 Arab Champions League Round of 16 Ali Rial7 [5]
2009–10 Division 14th5334141194733 Round of 16 Cheikh Hamidi15 [6]
2010–11 Ligue 19th3830911103228 Round of 64 Noureddine Daham11 [7]
2011–12 Ligue 13rd523015783725 Quarter-final Lamouri Djediat12 [8]
2012–13 Ligue 1 4th 51 30 15 6 9 32 15 Winners Confederation Cup Second round Noureddine Daham 12 [9]
UAFA Club Cup Winners
2013–14 Ligue 11st683020824921 Round of 32 Winners Ziaya, Andria, Gasmi6 [10]
2014–15 Ligue 18th4130101193527 Round of 16 Runners–up Champions League Runners–up[note 2] Youcef Belaïli8 [11]
2015–16 Ligue 11st583017764931 Round of 64 Mohamed Seguer12 [12]
2016–17 Ligue 13rd503014885031 Round of 16 Winners Champions League Semi-final[note 2] Mohamed Rabie Meftah11 [13]
2017–18 Ligue 16th4230119104335 Round of 16 Confederation Cup Quarter-final[note 2] Oussama Darfalou26[14] [15]
2018–19 Ligue 11st533015874929 Round of 16 Arab Club Champions Cup Second round Prince Ibara10 [16]
2019–20 Ligue 1[note 3]6th[note 4]32229572522 Round of 32 Champions League Group stage Aymen Mahious12 [22]
2020–21 Ligue 1 Not played Runners–up [23]

Key
Champions Runners-up Promoted Relegated

Division shown in bold to indicate a change in division.
Top scorers shown in bold are players who were also top scorers in their division that season.

Notes
  1. Goals in all competitions (Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1, Algerian Cup, League Cup, African and Super Cup) are counted.
  2. The competition ended in the following season
  3. On March 15, 2020, the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) decided to halt the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria.[17] On July 29, 2020, the LFP declared that season is over and CR Belouizdad to be the champion, the promotion of four teams from the League 2, and scraping the relegation for the current season.[18]
  4. USM Alger were deducted 3 points due to their withdrawal in their game against MC Alger.[19] The decision has been appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.[20] On August 28, 2020, after postponing several times the final decision was made without appeal, which is to return the three points and repeat the match.[21]

References
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  8. "Statistics 2011–12 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  9. "Statistics 2012–13 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  10. "Statistics 2013–14 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  11. "Statistics 2014–15 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  12. "Statistics 2015–16 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  13. "Statistics 2016–17 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  14. "L1 : Darfalou meilleur buteur, Benaldjia meilleur passeur" (in French). dzfoot.com. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
  15. "Statistics 2017–18 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  16. "Statistics 2018–19 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  17. "بسبب كورونا.. الدوري الجزائري مهدد بالسيناريو الفرنسي". al-ain.com (in Arabic). 12 July 2020.
  18. "شباب بلوزداد بطلا لموسم استثنائي". elkhabar.com (in Arabic). 29 July 2020.
  19. "LFP : MCA-USMA et Casoni, décisions de la commission de discipline". dzfoot.com. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  20. "MCA-USMA : Recours au TAS de Lausanne déposé". DZFoot.com. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  21. "TAS : L'USM Alger aurait obtenu gain de cause". DZFoot.com. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  22. "Statistics 2019–20 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  23. "Statistics 2020–21 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
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