USM Bel Abbès

Union Sportive Medinat Bel Abbès (Arabic: الإتحاد الرياضي لمدينة بلعباس‎), known as USM Bel Abbès or simply USMBA for short, is an Algerian football club located in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria, that was founded in 1933. The team's colors are green and red. Their home stadium, Stade 24 Fevrier 1956, has a capacity of 45,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.

USM Bel Abbès
إتحاد بلعباس
Full nameUnion Sportive Medinat Bel Abbès
Nickname(s)El Mekerra, Les scorpions (Scorpions)
Founded7 February 1933 (1933-02-07)
as Union Sportive Musulmane de Bel Abbès
GroundStade 24 Fevrier 1956,
Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria
Capacity45,000
ChairmanAbdelghani El Hannani
Head CoachMoez Bouakaz[1]
LeagueLigue Professionnelle 1
2019–20Ligue Professionnelle 1, 11th

History

The team was founded on 7 February 1933 under the name of Union Sportive Musulmane de Bel Abbès. It was one of the great teams in the French colonial period. Between 1977 and 1987, the club was parrained by ENIE, an electronic national society and was named Electronique Sari Madinat Bel Abbès (ESMBA).

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.[2] 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
  • present logo

Grounds
Main article: February 24, 1956 Stadium

The club used to play at the Stade des trois frères Amarouch. Since 1981, the club plays at the 24 February 1956 Stadium which has a capacity of 45,000 spectators.

  • 24 February 1956 Stadium

Players

Algerian teams are limited to two foreign players. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player;

Current squad

As of 27 October, 2020.[3] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  ALG Abdelkader Zarat Belmokhtar
2 DF  ALG Abdelhak Sailaa (on loan from MC Alger)
3 DF  ALG Abbes Noureddine Haddou
4 DF  ALG Nasreddine Benlebna (captain)
5 DF  ALG Mohammed Hamza
6 MF  ALG Yahia Miloud Koufi
7 FW  ALG Mohamed El Amine Belmokhtar
8 MF  ALG Hamza Ounnas
9 MF  TUN Mehdi Ouertani
10 MF  ALG Aikel Charrad Gadacha
11 FW  ALG Abdelwahid Belgherbi
12 FW  ALG Mohamed Kamel Soltani
13 DF  ALG Mohammed Yassine Bounoua
14 FW  ALG Dadi El Hocine Mouaki
No. Pos. Nation Player
15 DF  ALG Ishak Ben Hassaini
16 GK  ALG Abdelkader Morcely
17 DF  ALG Mustapha Kheiraoui
18 FW  ALG Mohamed Itim
19 FW  ALG Ali Haroun
20 DF  ALG Abderrahim Abdelli
21 FW  ALG Abdelaziz Litt
22 MF  ALG Redouane Bounoua
23 MF  ALG Khalil Semahi
24 DF  ALG Anes Abbas
25 DF  ALG Houari Baouche
26 FW  ALG Mouloud Nabil Metref
27 DF  ALG Sofiane Khadir

Personnel

Current technical staff
Position Staff
Head coachMoez Bouakaz
Assistant coachLyes Arab
Assistant coachEl Hachmi Benkhadda
Goalkeeping coachSalim Fodil
Fitness coachFarid zeghdoud

Managers
  • Larbi Benbarek (1957 – 1958)
  • ...
  • 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)

Honours

Domestic competitions
Winners (6): 1966, 1978, 1980, 1988, 1993, 2013–14.
Winners (2): 1990–91, 2017–18.
Winner (1): 2018.

Regional competitions
Runners-up: 1956 [n 1]

Performance in CAF competitions
2018–19 – First round
1992 – Second Round

Notes and references

Notes
  1. The final between USM Bel Abbès and SC Bel Abbès was not played.

References
  1. "Foot-Ligue 1/USM Bel Abbès : Mouaz Bouakkaz nommé nouvel entraineur".
  2. APS (April 27, 2012). "Dix neuf ans après, Bel Abbés en Ligue 1" (in French). DZFoot. Retrieved April 27, 2012.
  3. "FICHE DU CLUB: USM BEL ABBES".



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