2016–17 season | |||
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![]() preparation match in July 2016 against Stade Rennes in the picture Meftah, Koudri from USM Alger and Gourcuff from Stade Rennes.
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Chairman | Ali Haddad | ||
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) |
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Stadium |
Omar Hamadi Stadium, Bologhine July 5, 1962 Stadium, Algeirs |
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Ligue 1 | 3rd | ||
Algerian Cup | Round of 16 | ||
Champions League | Group stage | ||
Super Cup | Winners | ||
Top goalscorer |
League: Mohamed Rabie Meftah (9 goals) All: Mohamed Rabie Meftah (11 goals) |
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Highest home attendance | 60.000 (vs. MC Alger, 4 March 2017) | ||
Lowest home attendance | 0 (vs. RC Relizane, 27 August 2016) (spectator ban) |
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Average home league attendance | 13,200 | ||
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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.
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.