Chairman Ali Haddad Algerian Cup Round of 16 | Ligue 1 Pre-season Champions League First round | |
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Head coach Miloud Hamdi
(until 5 June 2016)
Adel Amrouche
(from 27 June 2016)
(until 17 August 2016)
Jean-Michel Cavalli
(from 17 August 2016)
(until 30 October 2016)
Paul Put
(from 30 October 2016) Stadium Stade Omar Hammadi, Bologhine | ||
In the 2016–17 season, USM Alger is competing in the Ligue 1 for the 37th season, as well as the Algerian Cup. It is their 22nd consecutive season in the top flight of Algerian football. They will be competing in Ligue 1, the CAF Champions League, and Algerian Super Cup, and the Algerian Cup. USM Alger will enter the 2016-2017 season as reigning Ligue Professionnelle 1 champions after winning the Ligue Professionnelle 1 title in the 2015-2016 season, The club was managed by Miloud Hamdi, until his left on 5 June 2016. He was replaced by Adel Amrouche on 27 June. but before the start of the season three days to resign was replace by French manager Cavalli Then it was sacked because of poor results and replace by Belgian Paul Put.
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Pre-season
Red and Black will play his first friendly match against Stade brestois 29 training playing in Ligue 2, they will face the Stade Rennes team the Algerian international Players Zeffane and Bensebaini. The last game will be against CFA training of US Granville, scheduled for July 22 in Granville.
of Algerian Champion for the seventh time last season, it's a USM Alger "new look" who will defend his title. If frameworks like Khoualed, Meftah, Koudri, Zemmamouche, Benmoussa and Chafaï are still at the club, the club management decided to overhaul the team, starting with the coaching staff. Indeed, the Belgian-Algerian Adel Amrouche, former coach of Kenya, Burundi and Equatorial Guinea, replaced Hamdi.
At the level of the players, the club recorded the arrival of several players like Amir Sayoud (DRB Tadjenanet), Raouf Benguit (Paradou AC), Ziri Hammar (JS Saoura), Mohamed Benyahia (MC Oran), Toufik Zeghdane (MC Alger), Abel Khaled and Ghislain Guessan (RC Arbaâ). This bloated recruitment is partly fill the departures of Zinedine Ferhat, best assist last season, Brahim Boudebouda, Hocine El Orfi and Mohamed Seguer, The club has also signed several players of the national selection of age 20, recently trained by Mohamed Mekhazni, back to the club. Two of these young people have made the trip to France, he is Ilyes Yaiche and Ibrahim Farhi.
First friendly match was against Stade brestois 29 and ended with a draw 1-1 goal scored by Union new player Bouderbal, three days later the team played the most important meeting against Stade Rennais from Ligue 1 and ended with the victory of the Algerian international guys Zeffane 1-0 Then, in the third meeting against the reserve team of the Stade Rennais achieved the first victory in the preparation matches by 4-0 Recording from Guessan two goals, Beldjilali goal by Penalty and finally the young Bengrina last goal, After the piece ran the team last friendly against US Granville ended with a draw 0-0 back to the team immediately after the end of the games to Algeria, Preparations were good where he discovered supporter several skilful players of the most prominent neo Bellahcene, Benyahia and Hammar in addition to the player the team youth Bengrina.
After the end of the first internship in France successfully USM Alger delegation returned to Algeria and Players he got four days rest before traveling to Tunisia, Sousse to fight a second internship between 27 July and 7 August punctuated by three friendly matches against clubs Tunisian.
Results summary
Last updated: 30 January 2016.
Source: Competitive matches
Results by round
Last updated: 30 January 2016.
Source: Competitive matches
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.
Matches
Win Draw Loss
Algerian Super Cup
Win Draw Loss
Algerian Cup
Win Draw Loss
Champions League
Win Draw Loss
Playing statistics
As of 26 February 2017Appearances (Apps.) numbers are for appearances in competitive games only including sub appearances
Red card numbers denote: Numbers in parentheses represent red cards overturned for wrongful dismissal.