Noureddine Zekri

Noureddine Zekri (born in Batna) is an Algerian football manager and former player who currently is the manager of Damac in Saudi Professional League.

Noureddine Zekri
Personal information
Full name Noureddine Zekri
Place of birth Batna, Algeria
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Damac (Manager)
Teams managed
Years Team
2000 Brera
2005–2007 Brera
2009–2010 ES Sétif
2011–2011 MC Alger
2012–2013 Al-Ahly Shendi
2013–2014 Al-Raed
2014–2015 Al-Wakrah
2018–2019 ES Sétif
2019 Al-Fayha
2019– Damac

Zekri previously managed MC Alger in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 before resigning on July 10, 2011.[1]

Managerial career

Zekri gained his coaching badges, a UEFA Pro License, in Italy's famous football coaching centre, the FIGC Settore Tecnico Coverciano.[2]

Brera Calcio

Zekri started coaching the newly born Milan-based team Brera Calcio in 2000 in Serie D, but he was sacked shortly after and replaced with Walter Zenga.[3] He returned to Brera Calcio in 2005/2006 season and the following season he succeeded in getting the team promoted from Prima Categoria to Promozione, resigning immediately after.

ES Sétif

On December 8, 2009, Zekri was announced as the coach of Algerian club ES Sétif.[4]

In his first season, Zekri won the Algerian Cup, the North African Cup of Champions and the North African Super Cup.

However, On August 18, 2010, Zekri was sacked from his managerial position due to the poor results gained in the 2010 CAF Champions League group stage, picking up just one point out of the first three group matches. The 1-0 loss against Zimbabwe side Dynamos was the final straw for ES Sétif president Abdelhakim Serrar.[5]

MC Alger

On March 11, 2011, Zekri was appointed as the coach of MC Alger, replacing outgoing Frenchman Alain Michel.[6] He signed a 16-month contract with the club. In his first game as manager, MC Alger lost 4-1 to Dynamos F.C. of Zimbabwe in the first round of the 2011 CAF Champions League. However, the team managed to win the return leg 3-0 to qualify to the next round. On July 10, 2011, Zekri resigned from his position.[1]

Managerial statistics
As of 1 January 2021[7]
Team Nat From To Record
GWDLGF GAGDWin %
ES Sétif 8 October 2009 18 August 2010 50 29 14 7 83 40 +43 058.00
MC Alger 6 March 2011 19 July 2011 22 7 11 4 25 20 +5 031.82
Al-Ahly Shendi 1 July 2012 1 June 2013 38 16 10 12 37 31 +6 042.11
Al-Raed 6 June 2013 16 February 2014 25 7 6 12 19 31 −12 028.00
Al-Wakrah 6 November 2014 19 February 2015 8 2 3 3 11 15 −4 025.00
ES Sétif 24 November 2018 5 February 2019 9 5 1 3 11 6 +5 055.56
Al-Fayha 5 February 2019 17 May 2019 12 5 2 5 18 17 +1 041.67
Damac 5 October 2019 4 January 2020 39 12 9 18 55 69 −14 030.77
Career totals 203 83 56 64 259 229 +30 040.89

Honours

Manager

ES Sétif

References
  2. "ABILITATI CORSO ALLENATORE PROFESSIONISTA 1A CATEGORIA - UEFA PRO" (PDF) (in Italian). Settore Tecnico FIGC. 3 October 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  3. http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2000/08/12/il-mio-brera-calcio-allarena-con-il.html
  4. Noureddine Zekri, nouvel entraîneur de l’Entente
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2010-08-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. L1 : Noureddine Zekri nouvel entraineur du MCA Archived 2011-03-13 at the Wayback Machine
  7. "N. ZEKRI".
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