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| Full name | Union Sportive Médina d'Alger |
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| Nickname(s) | L'USMA Ouled El Bahdja Ouled El Hamra Kahraba The Reds and Blacks |
| Founded | July 5, 1937 as Union Sportive Musulmane d'Alger |
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Stade Omar Hammadi, Algiers Stade 5 Juillet 1962, Algiers (Derbies Only) |
| Capacity | 10,000 |
| President | Ali Haddad |
| Head Coach | Paul Put |
| League | Ligue Professionnelle 1 |
| 2015–16 | Ligue Professionnelle 1, 1st |
| Website | Club home page |
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Union Sportive Médina d'Alger (Arabic: الاتحاد الرياضي لمدينة الجزائر), known as USM Alger or simply USMA for short, is a football club based in the city of Algiers. The club was founded in 1937 and its colours are red and black. Their venue, the Stade Omar Hammadi, has a capacity of some 10,000. The club is currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.
The club has one of Algeria's most prominent football charts, won the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 7 times, the Algerian Cup 8 times and the Algerian Super Cup 2 times, Internationally, USM Alger has won the Arab World Club Cup once, winning the last edition in 2013. respectively. The IFFHS ranks the USMA in the 18th place of the best African teams of the decade 2001-2010. Five years later, the club reached the final of the 2015 CAF Champions League but he lost to TP Mazembe.
With the past of the Algerian Muslim Sports Union (former name of the USMA), winner of the first 1962–63 Algerian Championnat National, the USMA is the postwar reference Algerian War). In one year, the club Algérois won a titles of champion of Algeria and subsequently finalist of the Algerian Cup 1969. The club is going through a difficult period, the club is financially supported, the USMA is bought in 2010. This privatization is accompanied by positive sporting results: solidly anchored in Ligue 1 since with the arrival of the Algerian investor Ali Haddad follows the title of champion of Algeria Of the Ligue 1 in 2014, the club regularly qualifies for the current African cups CAF Champions League or CAF Confederation Cup And realized 3 titles in 2 years championship-Algerian cup and Super Cup during the season 2013-2014.
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