Full name | Entente Sportive de Sétif الوفاق الرياضي السطايفي |
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Nickname(s) |
E.S.S El Kahla (The Black One) Les Aigles Noirs (Black Eagles) |
Founded |
1958 (as Entente Sportive de Sétif) |
Ground | Stade 8 Mai 1945 |
Capacity | 25,000 |
President | Hacène Hemmar |
Head Coach | Kheïreddine Madoui |
League | Ligue Professionnelle 1 |
2015–16 | Ligue Professionnelle 1, 5th |
Entente Sportive de Sétif (Arabic: الوفاق الرياضي السطايفي) (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃.tɑ̃t spɔʁ.tiv də se.tif]), commonly referred to as ES Sétif or ESS for short, is an Algerian professional football club based in Sétif currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1. The club was founded in 1958 and plays its games at the Stade 8 Mai 1945.
ESS is one of the most successful clubs in Algeria having won the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 seven times and the Algerian Cup a record eight times. They are also one of only three Algerian clubs to have won the CAF Champions League, winning it twice in 1988 and 2014. They have also won the Arab Champions League twice, in 2007 and 2008, as well as three North African Cups in 2009 and 2010. In 2015, they became the first Algerian club to win the CAF Super Cup.
ES Sétif were CAF Champions League champion, after beating DR Congo's AS Vita Club in the 2014 final, the reigning CAF Super Cup, after beating Egypt's Al Ahly in the 2015 Super Cup and the reigning Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 champions.