North African Cup

North African Cup
	Trophy of North African Cup (1930–1956)
Founded	1930
Abolished	1956
Region	North Africa (ULNA)
Last champions	SC Bel Abbès
Most successful club(s)	CDJ Oran (4 times)

Last updated December 16, 2023

The North African Cup is an old football competition organized in North Africa since 1930. It was dissolved after the 1956 edition, due to the independence of Morocco and Tunisia. After the independence of Morocco and Tunisia from France, three Algerian leagues remained participating in the cup, Algiers, Constantine and Oran.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Winners of the North African Cup

Year	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Attendance
1930–31 Details	CDJ Oran	1 – 0	Gallia Sports d'Alger
1931–32 Details	RU Alger	2 – 1	USM Casablanca
1932–33 Details	CDJ Oran	2 – 1	USM Casablanca	Stade Alenda, Oran
1933–34 Details	CDJ Oran	2 – 0	USM Casablanca
1934–35 Details	CDJ Oran	4 – 2	USM Casablanca
1935–36 Details	Italia de Tunis	1 – 0	ISO Marocaine (Casablanca)
1936–37 Details	RU Alger	2 – 0	Gallia Sports d'Alger
1937–38 Details	ISO Marocaine (Casablanca)	1 – 0	Gallia Sports d'Alger
1938–39 Details	SA Marrakech	2 – 0	Stade Marocain
1939–40	not held^{[n 1]}
1940–41 Details	AS Marine Oran	3 – 0	RU Alger	Stade Alenda, Oran
1941–42 Details	SA Marrakech	1 – 0	CDJ Oran	Stade Philip, Casablanca
1942–43	not held^{[n 1]}
1943–44	not held^{[n 1]}
1944–45	not held^{[n 1]}
1945–46	not held^{[n 1]}
1946–47 Details	USM Casablanca	2 – 1	Olympique Hussein Dey
1947–48 Details	US Athlétique Casablanca	6 – 0	AS Saint-Eugène (Algiers)
1948–49 Details	Wydad AC Casablanca	2 – 1	US Athlétique Casablanca
1949–50 Details	AS Saint-Eugène (Algiers)	4 – 3	SC Bel-Abbès	Stade Vincent Monréal, Oran	20,000
1950–51 Details	SC Bel-Abbès	1 – 0	Wydad AC Casablanca	..., Casablanca
1951–52 Details	FC Blidéen	3 – 1	Racing AC Casablanca
1952–53 Details	USM Casablanca	2 – 0	Wydad AC Casablanca
1953–54 Details	USSC Témouchent	1 – 0	USM Oran	Stade Vincent Monréal, Oran	20,000
1954–55 Details	SC Bel-Abbès	5 – 2 (aet)	Gallia Sports d'Alger	Stade Vincent Monréal, Oran	20,000
1955–56 Details	SC Bel-Abbès	not played^{[n 2]}	USM Bel-Abbès

Winners by team

Num	Club	Winners	Runners-up
1	CDJ Oran	4 (1931, 1933, 1934, 1935)	1 (1942)
2	USM Casablanca	2 (1947, 1953)	4 (1932, 1933, 1934, 1935)
3	SC Bel Abbès	2 (1951, 1955)	2 (1950, 1956*)
4	RU Alger	2 (1932, 1937)	0
4	SA Marrakech	2 (1939, 1942)	0
6	Wydad AC	1 (1949)	2 (1951, 1953)
7	ISO Marocaine (Casablanca)	1 (1938)	1 (1936)
	US Athlétique Casablanca	1 (1948)	1 (1949)
	AS Saint-Eugène (Algiers)	1 (1950)	1 (1948)
10	Italia de Tunis	1 (1936)	0
	AS Marine Oran	1 (1941)	0
	FC Blidéen	1 (1952)	0
	USSC Témouchent	1 (1954)	0
15	Gallia Sports d'Alger	0	4 (1931, 1937, 1938, 1955)
16	Stade Marocain	0	1 (1939)
	Olympique Hussein Dey	0	1 (1947)
	Racing AC Casablanca	0	1 (1952)
	USM Oran	0	1 (1954)
	USM Bel-Abbès	0	1 (1956*)

*Match not played

Winners by league

Num	League	Winners	Runners-up
1	League of Oran	8	3
2	League of Morocco	7	10
3	League of Algiers	4	7
4	League of Tunisia	1	0
5	League of Constantine	0	0

In the 1955–56 edition, two teams from the League of Oran went to the final; however it was not played. So normally the League of Oran is ranked in the first place with 8 winners and four runners-up.

Notes and references

Notes

1 2 3 4 5 The competition were cancelled because the Second World War
↑ USMBA refused to play after the captain of SCBA had been cleared to play the match in spite of his expulsion in an earlier match

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[5] USMBA refused to play after the captain of SCBA had been cleared to play the match in spite of his expulsion in an earlier match

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[2] "Club de Derb Jeunesse d'Oran | Algérie".

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