USM Alger

Union Sportive de la Médina d'Alger (Arabic: الإتحاد الرياضي لمدينة الجزائر); 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. The club has one of Algeria's successful football records or simply list the achievements, as it won the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 8 times, the Algerian Cup 10 times and the Algerian Super Cup 3 times. Internationally, USM Alger won the CAF Confederation Cup twice, the CAF Super Cup once in 2023 and the UAFA Club Championship once in 2013. The IFFHS ranks USMA in the 18th place of the best African teams of the decade between 2001–2010. USMA have also reached the 2015 CAF Champions League final but suffered a defeat against TP Mazembe and lost the title. In past years, the Union Sportive Musulmane d'Alger (former name of the USMA) was the winner of the first 1962–63 Algerian Championnat National. USMA has since become the name in the postwar years since the Algerian War for independence. In one year, the club won the Algerian championship and subsequently qualified for the finals of the Algerian Cup 1969. The club now has stronger financial support after they were bought in 2010. This privatization has been accompanied by positive sporting results, as they have been solidly anchored in Ligue 1 since the arrival of the Algerian investor Ali Haddad. They won the Ligue 1 in 2014, and the club regularly qualifies for the current African cups CAF Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup, as they have won the CAF Confederation Cup twice, as well...