Ground Capacity 45,000 Founded 1933 Manager Ali Mechiche | Chairman Abdelghani El Hannani Arena/Stadium February 24, 1956 Stadium Location Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria | |
Full name Union Sportive Medinat de Bel Abbès
إتحاد رياضي مدينة بلعباس Ground Stade 24 Fevrier 1956,
Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria Head Coach Tahar Chérif El-Ouazzani 2015–16 Ligue Professionnelle 2, 3rd (promoted) League Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 | ||
Union Sportive Medinat Bel Abbès (Arabic: إتحاد رياضي مدينة بلعباس, [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.
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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. However the team return one year after in the second division but one year after again in 2014, they returned to the top division.
National
International
Performance in CAF competitions
Current squad
As of 15 January 2017:
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.