List of USM Alger seasons

Union sportive de la médina d'Alger is an Algerian professional football club based in Algiers, Algiers Province. The club was formed in Casbah in 1937 as Union Sportive Musulmane d'Alger, and played their first competitive match in 1937, when they entered the 1937–38 Ligue d'Alger Troisième Division. The club was renamed Union sportive de la médina d'Alger in 1989.

The Founders of USM Alger on July 6, 1937.

The club has won a total of 18 major trophies, including the national championship 7 times also won the Algerian Cup a record 8 times, the Algerian Super Cup 1 time, and the UAFA Club Cup 1 time Al Ittihad reached the CAF Champions League final for the first time in 2015 but was defeated against TP Mazembe. The club has also never been out of the top two divisions of Algerian football since entering the Football League.

This is a list of the seasons played by USM Alger from 1962 when the club first entered a league competition to the most recent seasons. The club's achievements in all major national and international competitions as well as the top scorers are listed. Top scorers in bold were also top scorers of Ligue 1. The list is separated into three parts, coinciding with the three major episodes of Algerian football:

History

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The club formed in 1937 as Union Sportive Musulmane d'Alger after considerable difficulties because of the designation of the Musulmane, where the French administration requested to remove the word however it was the first season in the third division 1937–38 season the results of the team during the colonial period are not in the table and the competitions in which he was then participating are Ligue d'Alger, Coupe de la Ligue and Coupe de la Solidarité The USMA has never participated in a continental competition at the time like North African Championship and North African Cup.

After independence, Al Ittihad became the first champion of Algeria after winning the final match against MC Alger 3–0, it also has the record of reaching the final of the Algerian Cup 17 times, won eight of them also considered the most losing team for the final nine times, including five consecutive times from 1969 to 1973 it is the first club to win the Cup of Algeria and play in second division in 1981 also the only one who won the championship immediately after his second division rise in the 1995–96 season, in 2002–03, they won an unprecedented Doubles of Ligue 1, Algerian Cup in 2001–02 and 2002–03, making USM Alger only the fourth club to win two consecutive Algerian league titles knowing there is no Algerian club won the Algerian league three consecutive times or more. The USMA is a party to the first Super Cup final in 1981, which they were defeated against RC Kouba 3–1 this tournament later achieved twice, in 2013 and 2016. In 1982, USM Alger he debuted for the first time in African competition, entering the Cup Winners' Cup also in 1997, became the first Algerian club to enter Champions League in its new version.

Seasons

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Before independence

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Below, the USM Alger season-by-season record before independence in the French Algeria period :

  FFF - season-by-season record of Union Sportive Musulmane d'Alger
Season League of Algiers Forconi Cup
Division Pos. Pts P W D L F A GD Goalscorer
Union Sportive Musulmane d'Alger (USMA)
1938-39 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - -
1939-40 Première Division 6th 19 12 2 1 9 18 21 -3 - Round of 16
1940-41 Troisième Division 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - Round of 16
1941-42 Troisième Division 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - Round of 32
1942-43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - -
1943-44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - -
1944-45 Première Division 1st 35 12 11 1 0 45 6 +39 - Second Round
1945-46 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - Quarter-finals
1946-47 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - Second Round
1947-48 Première Division 44 18 13 2 3 39 10 +29 - Quarter-finals
1948-49 Première Division 1st 36 18 6 6 6 24 22 +2 - Fourth Round
1949-50 Première Division 5th 38 18 7 6 5 28 25 +3 - Fifth Round
1950-51 Première Division 7th 35 18 6 5 7 27 26 +1 - Third Round
1951-52 Première Division 1st 49 18 14 3 1 51 18 +33 Rabah Zouaoui (12) Second Round
1952-53 Première Division 8th 34 18 4 8 6 22 27 −5 - Fourth Round
1953-54 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - -
1954-55 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - -
1955-56 Deuxième Division 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - -
No competition is played by the muslim clubs between 1956 and 1962 by order of the FLN (Algerian War)

After independence

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Below, the USM Alger season-by-season record after independence of Algeria :

Season League Cup Other Africa Top goalscorer(s)[note 1] Ref.
Division Pos Pts P W D L GF GA Name Goals
1962–63 Critérium Honneur 1st 70 24 21 2 1 95 11 SF
1963–64 Division Honneur 3rd 74 30 19 6 5 69 23 SF Abderrahmane Meziani 19
1964–65 National 16th 54 30 8 8 14 36 44 R64 Abderrahmane Meziani 11
1965–66 National 2 2nd 73 30 18 7 5 53 22 R16
1966–67 National II 5th 36 18 6 6 6 26 20 SF Abderrahmane Meziani 8
1967–68 National II 5th 45 22 8 7 7 29 23 R16 Abderrahmane Meziani 7
1968–69 National II 2nd 51 22 11 7 4 44 26 RU Mouldi Aissaoui 11
1969–70 National I 5th 43 22 7 7 8 34 32 RU Kamel Tchalabi 10
1970–71 National I 5th 45 22 7 9 6 37 32 RU Meziani, Tchalabi 10
1971–72 National I 15th 55 30 9 7 14 38 47 RU Abderrahmane Meziani 8
1972–73 National II 2nd - - - - - - - RU
1973–74 National II 1st - - - - - - - R32
1974–75 National I 5th 63 30 13 7 10 48 36 R32 Zidane, Guedioura 10
1975–76 National I 4th 66 30 14 8 8 52 29 R32
1976–77 National I 11th 47 26 7 7 12 32 36 QF
1977–78 Division 1 5th 54 26 11 6 9 40 26 RU
1978–79 Division 1 12th 48 26 7 8 11 30 40 QF
1979–80 Division 1 15th 54 30 7 11 12 30 35 RU
1980–81 Division 2 1st 54 22 12 8 2 49 21 W
1981–82 Division 1 9th 59 30 9 11 10 24 30 QF RU Cup Winners' Cup QF
1982–83 Division 1 16th 56 30 8 10 12 21 31 R16 Nacer Guedioura 7 [1]
1983–84 Division 2 4th 68 30 13 12 5 45 23 R2
1984–85 Division 2 2nd 69 29 13 11 5 39 20 R32
1985–86 Division 2 2nd 69 30 14 11 5 41 22 R32
1986–87 Division 2 1st 46 30 19 8 3 41 15 R64
1987–88 Division 1 7th 35 34 11 13 10 35 30 W Fawzi Benkhalidi 9
1988–89 Division 1 13th 28 30 9 10 11 27 34 R16 Cup Winners' Cup QF Tarek Hadj Adlane 7
1989–90 Division 1 16th 23 30 8 7 15 23 39 NP Tarek Hadj Adlane 10
1990–91 Division 2 4th 34 30 12 10 8 40 25 QF Tarek Hadj Adlane 13
1991–92 Division 2 3rd 34 30 13 8 9 34 23 R64
1992–93 Division 2 7th 31 30 10 11 9 33 25 NP
1993–94 Division 2 2nd 48 32 21 6 5 52 12 R64
1994–95 Division 2 1st 50 32 20 10 2 54 29 R2 Azzedine Rahim ??
1995–96 Division 1 1st 60 30 19 3 8 39 24 R64 Grp Azzedine Rahim 11
1996–97 Division 1 3rd 49 30 14 7 9 32 30 W Champions League Grp[note 2] Tarek Hadj Adlane 16
1997–98 Division 1 2nd 25 15 6 7 2 18 13 R16 QF Cup Winners' Cup QF Tarek Hadj Adlane 6
1998–99 Super Division 4th 44 26 12 8 6 32 17 W CAF Cup QF Tarek Hadj Adlane 17
1999–00 Super Division 12th 21 22 6 3 13 15 27 R16 SF Cup Winners' Cup Dis Athmane Samir Amirat 5
2000–01 Super Division 2nd 55 30 15 10 5 51 28 W Tarek Hadj Adlane 14
2001–02 Super Division 1st 57 30 17 6 7 37 24 R32 Cup Winners' Cup SF[note 2] Rabie Benchergui 12
2002–03 Division 1 1st 58 30 17 7 6 52 17 W Champions League SF[note 2] Moncef Ouichaoui 22
2003–04 Division 1 2nd 58 30 17 7 6 49 23 W Champions League Grp[note 2] Rabie Benchergui 15
2004–05 Division 1 1st 67 30 21 4 5 55 27 R64 Champions League R2 Billel Dziri 11
CAF Confederation Cup PO
2005–06 Division 1 2nd 57 30 18 6 6 50 30 RU Champions League R1 Moulay Haddou 12 [2]
2006–07 Division 1 4th 47 30 13 8 9 32 25 RU Champions League PR Mintou Doucoure 7 [3]
2007–08 Division 1 4th 42 30 12 6 12 32 27 R16 Arab Champions League Grp Amar Ammour 12 [4]
2008–09 Division 1 6th 48 32 13 9 10 38 31 R64 Arab Champions League R16 Ali Rial 7 [5]
2009–10 Division 1 4th 53 34 14 11 9 47 33 R16 Cheikh Hamidi 15 [6]
2010–11 Ligue 1 9th 38 30 9 11 10 32 28 R64 Noureddine Daham 11 [7]
2011–12 Ligue 1 3rd 52 30 15 7 8 37 25 QF Lamouri Djediat 12 [8]
2012–13 Ligue 1 4th 51 30 15 6 9 32 15 W Confederation Cup R2 Noureddine Daham 12 [9]
UAFA Club Cup W
2013–14 Ligue 1 1st 68 30 20 8 2 49 21 R32 W Ziaya, Andria, Gasmi 6 [10]
2014–15 Ligue 1 8th 41 30 10 11 9 35 27 R16 RU Champions League RU[note 2] Youcef Belaïli 8 [11]
2015–16 Ligue 1 1st 58 30 17 7 6 49 31 R64 Mohamed Seguer 12 [12]
2016–17 Ligue 1 3rd 50 30 14 8 8 50 31 R16 W Champions League SF[note 2] Mohamed Rabie Meftah 11 [13]
2017–18 Ligue 1 6th 42 30 11 9 10 43 35 R16 Confederation Cup QF[note 2] Oussama Darfalou 26[14] [15]
2018–19 Ligue 1 1st 53 30 15 8 7 49 29 R16 Arab Club Champions Cup R2 Prince Ibara 10 [16]
2019–20 Ligue 1[note 3] 6th[note 4] 32 22 9 5 7 25 22 R32 Champions League Grp Aymen Mahious 12 [22]
2020–21 Ligue 1 4th 65 38 19 8 11 62 39 NP RU Ismail Belkacemi 17 [23]
SF
2021–22 Ligue 1 4th 57 34 15 12 7 45 22 NP Mahious, Belkacemi 8 [24]
2022–23 Ligue 1 11st 40 30 11 7 11 31 27 R64 Confederation Cup W Aymen Mahious 11 [25]
2023–24 Ligue 1 4th 49 30 15 4 11 40 32 SF Confederation Cup SF Ismail Belkacemi 17 [26]
CAF Super Cup W
2024–25 Ligue 1 R64 Confederation Cup Second round [27]
Champions Runners-up Promoted Relegated

Division shown in bold to indicate a change in division.
Top scorers shown in bold are players who were also top scorers in their division that season.

Statistics

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Algeria

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As of 14 June 2024:

FAF competitions
Competition Seasons Played Won Drawn Lost Goals For Goals Against Last season played
Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 44 1277 544 342 391 1665 1281 2023–24
Algerian Ligue 2[note 5] 16 387 190 122 75 580 306 1994–95
Algerian Cup[note 6] 58 204 132 37 35 370 156 2023–24
Algerian Super Cup 5 5 2 0 3 6 6 2019
Algerian League Cup (defunct) 4 25 9 8 8 35 22 2020–21
Total 127 1898 877 509 512 2656 1771

Africa

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As of 22 September 2024:

CAF competitions
Competition Seasons Played Won Drawn Lost Goals For Goals Against Last season played
Champions League 9 80 37 19 24 132 82 2019–20
CAF Cup Winners' Cup (defunct) 5 25 13 4 8 40 25 2002
CAF Confederation Cup 6 46 21 13 12 61 36 2024–25
CAF Cup (defunct) 1 6 4 0 2 13 6 1999
CAF Super Cup 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 2023
Total 22 158 76 37 45 247 149

Non-CAF competitions

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As of 10 December 2018:

Non-CAF competitions
Competition Seasons Played Won Drawn Lost Goals For Goals Against Last season played
Arab Champions League 5 29 14 8 7 46 34 2018–19
Maghreb Cup Winners Cup (defunct) 2 4 1 0 3 3 6 1970
Total 7 33 15 8 10 49 38

Notes

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  1. ^ Goals in all competitions (Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1, Algerian Cup, League Cup, African and Super Cup) are counted.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g The competition ended in the following season
  3. ^ On March 15, 2020, the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) decided to halt the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria.[17] On July 29, 2020, the LFP declared that season is over and CR Belouizdad to be the champion, the promotion of four teams from the League 2, and scrapping the relegation for the current season.[18]
  4. ^ USM Alger were deducted 3 points due to their withdrawal in their game against MC Alger.[19] The decision has been appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.[20] On August 28, 2020, after postponing several times the final decision was made without appeal, which is to return the three points and repeat the match.[21]
  5. ^ No statistics on the Algerian Ligue 2 for the seasons 1972–73 and 1973–74.
  6. ^ No statistics on the Algerian Cup for the seasons 1983–84, 1993–94 and 1994–95.

References

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  1. ^ "Statistics 1982–83 USM Alger season". footballvintage.net.
  2. ^ "Statistics 2005–06 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu.
  3. ^ "Statistics 2006–07 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu.
  4. ^ "Statistics 2007–08 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu.
  5. ^ "Statistics 2008–09 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu.
  6. ^ "Statistics 2009–10 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu.
  7. ^ "Statistics 2010–11 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu.
  8. ^ "Statistics 2011–12 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu.
  9. ^ "Statistics 2012–13 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu.
  10. ^ "Statistics 2013–14 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu.
  11. ^ "Statistics 2014–15 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu.
  12. ^ "Statistics 2015–16 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu.
  13. ^ "Statistics 2016–17 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu.
  14. ^ "L1 : Darfalou meilleur buteur, Benaldjia meilleur passeur" (in French). dzfoot.com. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
  15. ^ "Statistics 2017–18 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu.
  16. ^ "Statistics 2018–19 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu.
  17. ^ "بسبب كورونا.. الدوري الجزائري مهدد بالسيناريو الفرنسي". al-ain.com (in Arabic). 12 July 2020.
  18. ^ "شباب بلوزداد بطلا لموسم استثنائي". elkhabar.com (in Arabic). 29 July 2020.
  19. ^ "LFP : MCA-USMA et Casoni, décisions de la commission de discipline". dzfoot.com. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  20. ^ "MCA-USMA : Recours au TAS de Lausanne déposé". DZFoot.com. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  21. ^ "TAS : L'USM Alger aurait obtenu gain de cause". DZFoot.com. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  22. ^ "Statistics 2019–20 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu.
  23. ^ "Statistics 2020–21 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu.
  24. ^ "Statistics 2021–22 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu.
  25. ^ "Statistics 2022–23 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu.
  26. ^ "Statistics 2023–24 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu.
  27. ^ "Statistics 2024–25 USM Alger season". footballdatabase.eu.