USM Alger Reserves and Academy

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Union sportive de la médina d'Alger
Full nameUSM Alger Development Squad & Academy
Nickname(s)The Reds and Blacks
Founded1937;87 years ago (1937)
(as Union Sportive Musulmane d'Alger)
Ground Stade Omar Hammadi
OwnerGroupe SERPORT (94.34%) [1]
Small shareholders (5.66%)
Manager Rabie Meftah (Under 21s)
Vacant (Academy)
Website Club website
Soccerball current event.svg Current season

USM Alger Under-23s are the reserve team of USM Alger. The team mainly consists of Under-23 players at the club, although senior players occasionally play in the reserve side, for instance when they are recovering from injury.

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History

USM Alger is one of the clubs that owns a well-known football school in Algeria. In the seventies the club relied on players who graduated from the club most notably Djamel Zidane and Djamel Keddou who spent all his football career with USM Alger. In the eighties, ninety percent of the squad was from the team, especially in the winning season of the Algerian Cup in 1988. Where was the majority of the players from the club, where coach Djamel Keddou put his trust in the colleagues of Farid Bengana, Amirouche Lalili, Farid Mouaci, Salim Boutamine, Athmane Nourine and Tarek Hadj Adlane. On July 4, 2023 USM Alger announced the arrival of five elements for the youth squad Kamil Mohamed Ramzy from JS Djijel, Sid Amhend Ameziane from JS Bordj Ménaïel, Bastani Aymen from Paradou AC, Mihoubi Rabeh from E Sour El Ghozlane and Hemlaoui Ishak from ASO Chlef. [2]

On 20 February 2024, the Russian club CSKA Moscow signed a contract with the under-21 team's player Sid Ahmed Aissaoui for two-year until the end of 2026, with an additional two-year option. The two clubs agreed a transfer fee of $250,000, USM Alger also negotiated a percentage on resale. Aissaoui became the first Algerian player who did not play any minutes with the senior team to join a European club. [3] [4] [5] On August 5, 2024, USM Alger appointed former player Rabie Meftah as coach of the under-21 team. Meftah expressed his happiness to return to a club dear to him and start his new mission with the young players. [6] On August 31, 2024, midfielder Sid mohand Ameziane joined the reserve team of Columbus Crew, a club that plays in Major League Soccer (MLS), in the United States. Ameziane who recently played for the youth teams of USM Alger, is now part of the Columbus Crew squad for a period of one year. [7] [8] A week after defender Riad Belhadj Kacem joined Bulgarian club CSKA Sofia for three seasons on a free transfer. [9]

Players

Ligue Professionnelle 1

Current squad

These players can also play with the senior squad and are all Young Professionals.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.Pos.NationPlayer
— GK Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG Abdellah Zakaria Saouchi
— GK Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG Sadek Abdellah El Hadj
— GK Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG Rabeh Mihoubi
— DF Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG
— DF Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG Wassim Ouhab
— DF Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG
— DF Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG
— DF Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG
— DF Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG Mohamed Bensaid
— DF Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG
— DF Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG
— DF Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG
— MF Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG Mohamed Ramzy Kamil
— MF Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG Ishak Hemlaoui
No.Pos.NationPlayer
— MF Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG Mohamed Djenidi
— MF Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG Mostafa Bekane
— MF Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG Aymen Kennan
— MF Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG
— MF Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG
— MF Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG
— MF Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG
— FW Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG
— FW Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG Aymen Bastani
— FW Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG
— FW Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG Samy Bouali
— FW Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG
— FW Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG
— FW Flag of Algeria.svg  ALG

Notable graduates

Current USM Alger players in bold.

   

Honours

Domestic Ligue

Domestic Cup

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