Union Sportive de la Médina d'Alger ; known as USM Alger or simply USMA for short, is a football club based in the inner suburbs of Algiers. The club was founded in 1937 and its colours are red and black. Their home stadium, Omar Hamadi Stadium, has a capacity of 10,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.
Billel Dziri is an Algerian football manager, former player and the current head coach of ES Ben Aknoun.
Isâad Bourahli is an Algerian former football player who plays as a striker. Bourahli spent most of his football career in ES Setif and USM Alger and won the league's top scorer in the 2000–01 season with ES Setif.
Mohamed Youcef Belaïli is an Algerian professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 club Espérance de Tunis and the Algeria national team.
Union Sportive Musulmane Madinet Hadjout, known as USMM Hadjout or simply USMMH for short, is an Algerian football club based in Hadjout. The club was founded on 5 March 1947 and its colours are green and white. Their home stadium Stade du 5 Juillet 1962 has a capacity of 10,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Ligue Régional I.
Abdel Slem Billel Omrani is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga I club Politehnica Iași.
Abdelraouf Benguit is an Algerian professional footballer who plays for CR Belouizdad.
Abderrahmane Meziane Bentahar is an Algerian footballer who plays as a striker for CR Belouizdad in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.
In the 1995–96 season, USM Alger competed in the Division 1 for the 20th time They competed in Ligue 1, the Algerian League Cup, and the Algerian Cup. In 1995–96 season Ifticen left USM Alger despite achieving the underlined goal to be replaced by Nour Benzekri, The team signed six players duo of AS Aïn M'lila the goalkeeper Laïd Belgherbi, Abdelmalek Khouni and the duo of NA Hussein Dey, Nacer Zekri and Billel Dziri also Toufik Brakni and Nabil Mehdaoui, In Algiers Derby who played in Omar Hamadi Stadium and after USM Alger scored a goal, the assistant referee was injured by smoke gases, to stop and be repeated behind closed doors in the same stadium. After that it was decided that the Algiers Derby would not be played in the future in this stadium with the presence of the fans. After a great struggle with MC Oran for the title and in the last round USM Alger won the title after its victory against CS Constantine at Stade Mohamed Hamlaoui, with a difference of only two points, it is the first in 33 years and the second in its history.
In the 1998–99 season, USM Alger is competing in the Super Division for the 19th time, as well as the Algerian Cup. It is their 4th consecutive season in the top flight of Algerian football. They will be competing in Ligue 1 and the Algerian Cup. In 1998–99 Algerian Cup against JS Kabylie, the two teams met for the first time in the final of the Algerian Cup at Stade 5 Juillet 1962 and in the first final to be attended by the new president of the country Abdelaziz Bouteflika and ended with the victory of USM Alger with two goals record by Billel Dziri and the former player in JS Kabylie Tarek Hadj Adlane To be the fourth Cup of USMA, Before that in the Semi-finals against MC Alger, there was a great controversy over the way the game was played, where it was supposed to play from two games, but the Ministry of Youth and Sports decided to play the two games in Stade du 5 Juillet, Saïd Allik President of USMA, refused this insisting that each team plays in his stadium and Stade du 5 Juillet, he was the official stadium of MC Alger, after which the Minister of Youth and Sports Mohamed Aziz Derouaz rejected this request and insisted that he play on Stade du 5 Juillet for security reasons. On the day of the match, USM Alger went to Omar Hamadi Stadium and MC Alger and the referees to Stade du 5 Juillet. Minister of the Interior and Local Authorities at that time Abdelmalek Sellal called Allik to find a solution to this problem, His response was that there were two solutions the first is that each team plays in its stadium Or hold one game in a neutral stadium, and Allik proposes Stade du 19 Mai 1956 in Annaba, but because of the black decade and since both of them are from the capital, it was decided to hold it in Stade du 5 Juillet.
The clasico kabylo-algérois is the name given to matches between USM Alger and JS Kabylie football clubs from Tizi Ouzou and Algiers, Algeria they are considered one of the most famous clubs in Algeria and their matches are given great attention by the Algerian media, The period between 1996 and 2010 is the most exciting between the two teams because of the great conflict between the heads of the two teams Saïd Allik and Mohand Chérif Hannachi, It is said that the reason for the enmity between the two when Said Alik bringing the star of JS Kabylie and national team at the time Mahieddine Meftah the two teams were both champions and runners-up in the same season five times, including three consecutive times between 2003–04 and 2005–06.
In the 2013–14 season, MC Alger competed in Ligue 1 for the 43rd season, as well as the Algerian Cup. It was their 11th consecutive season in the top flight of Algerian football. They remained in Ligue 1, and went on to win the Algerian Cup. Because of the events of the Algerian Cup final last season club president Omar Gharib was given a life ban, Faouzi Chaouchi and Réda Babouche two years and coach Djamel Menad one year.
Billel Benhammouda was an Algerian professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
Billel Bensaha is an Algerian footballer who plays as a winger for Al-Nahda.
In the 2009–10 season, MC Alger competed in the National 1 for the 39th season, as well as the Algerian Cup. It was their 7th consecutive season in the top flight of Algerian football. The general assembly of MC Alger, held on May 25, 2010 at the club's headquarters, gave its approval for the transition to professionalism and the creation of an SARL "Le Doyen". The 50 members present, including 38 by proxy out of the 73 that make up the AG, voted unanimously to first transition the MCA from an amateur club to a professional club, then the choice of the type of commercial company, namely the SSPA called "Le Doyen Mouloudia Club d'Alger". The assembly was chaired by Bouhraoua with at his side President Sadek Amrous and the auditor of the MC Alger. The decision was taken during the general assembly of the Club held on May 25, 2010 and officially took effect on August 5, 2010.
The ES Sétif–USM Alger rivalry is a football rivalry between Sétif-based ES Sétif and USM Alger of Algiers. The two clubs together won 42 titles from the Ligue Professionnelle 1, Algerian Cup and Super Cup at the local level, Regionally the Arab Champions League And internationally in CAF Champions League, CAF Super Cup and the defunct Afro-Asian Club Championship.
In the 2021–22 season, USM Alger was competing in the Ligue 1 for the 44th season. It was their 27th consecutive season in the top flight of Algerian football. They competed in Ligue 1.
