USM Bel-Abbès

USMBA
إتحاد بلعباس

Full name	Union Sportive Medinat de Bel Abbès إتحاد رياضي مدينة بلعباس
Founded	1933
Ground	Stade 24 Fevrier 1956, Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria
Ground Capacity	45,000
Chairman	Belkacem Aïda
Manager	Tahar Chérif El-Ouazzani
League	Ligue Professionnelle 1
L2 2015–16	3rd place (promoted)
Home colours Away colours

Union Sportive Medinat Bel Abbès (Arabic: إتحاد رياضي مدينة بلعباس‎‎, Arabic pronunciation: [Ittihād Riadhi Madinat Bal-ʿAbbās]) or USM Bel Abbès, is an Algerian football club located in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria, that was founded in 1933. The team's colors are green and red. It currently plays in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.

History

The team was founded in 1933 under the name of Union Sportive Musulmane de Bel-Abbès. It was one of the great teams in the French colonial period.

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.^[1] 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

Honours

National

• Algerian Cup

Winner (1): 1990–91

• Algerian Ligue 2

Winner (5): 1966, 1980, 1988, 1993, 2012, 2013–14

International

• North African Cup

Runner-up (1): 1956 ^{[n 1]}

Performance in CAF competitions

• African Cup Winners' Cup: 1 appearance

1992 – Second Round

Current squad

As of 21 August 2016:^[2]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Oussama Benbout 5 MF Larbi Tabti 6 MF Ilyes Sidhoum 7 FW Abou Sofiane Balegh 8 MF Karim Hendou 9 FW Ilyes Kourbia 10 MF Abdessamed Bounoua 11 MF Ali Amiri 13 DF Redouane Bachiri 14 FW Habib Bouguelmouna 15 DF Mohamed Yaghni

No. Position Player 16 GK Athmane Toual 18 MF Ahmed Meguehout 19 DF Zakaria Khali 20 MF Yahia Labani 22 DF Sofiane Bengorine 23 FW Youcef Ghazali 24 DF Redouane Cherifi 25 DF Farès Benabderahmane 26 FW Amine Lamali 28 MF Ahmida Zenasni – GK Abdelkader Zarat Belmokhtar

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)

Notes and references

Notes

References

External links

• USM Bel-Abbès fan site