2016–17 USM Alger season

USM Alger
2016–17 season
	Pre-season match in July 2016 between USM Alger and Stade Rennes
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)
Stadium	Omar Hamadi Stadium; July 5, 1962 Stadium
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)
	← 2015–16 2017–18 →

In the 2016–17 season, USM Alger competed in the Ligue 1 for the 39th season, as well as the Algerian Cup. It was their 22nd consecutive season in the top flight of Algerian football. They competed in Ligue 1 as well as the CAF Champions League, and Algerian Super Cup, and the Algerian Cup.

USM Alger entered 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 he left on 5 June 2016. He was replaced by Adel Amrouche on 27 June,^[1] but Amrouche resigned 3 days before the season began and was replaced by French manager Cavalli^[2] Cavalli was later sacked because of poor results and replaced by Belgian Paul Put.^[3]

Season summary edit

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.^[4]

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.

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 ^[5] goal scored by Union new player Bouderbal, three days later the team played the most important meeting against Stade Rennais^[6] 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 ^[7] 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 ^[8] punctuated by three friendly matches against clubs Tunisian.^[9]

Squad list edit

Players and squad numbers last updated on 14 June 2017.^[10]^[11]
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Name	Position	Date of Birth (Age)	Signed from	Apps.	Goals	Signed in	Contract ends
Goalkeepers
1	Lamine Zemmamouche	GK	(1985-03-19)19 March 1985 (aged 31)	MC Alger	296	0	2012	2020
16	Ismaïl Mansouri	GK	(1988-01-07)7 January 1988 (aged 28)	MO Béjaïa	50	0	2008	2019
30	Mourad Berrefane	GK	(1986-03-18)18 March 1986 (aged 30)	MO Béjaïa	20	0	2014	2016
Defenders
3	Ayoub Abdellaoui	LB / CB	(1993-02-16)16 February 1993 (aged 23)	Youth system	58	1	2011	2016
5	Mohamed Benyahia	CB / DM	(1992-06-30)30 June 1992 (aged 24)	MC Oran	31	3	2016	2019
6	Farouk Chafaï	CB	(1990-06-23)23 June 1990 (aged 26)	Youth system	190	18	2010	2019
20	Nacereddine Khoualed (V.C.)	CB	(1986-04-16)16 April 1986 (aged 30)	US Biskra	285	10	2006	2018
21	Toufik Zeghdane	RB	(1992-09-17)17 September 1992 (aged 24)	MC Alger	1	0	2016	2019
25	Mokhtar Benmoussa	LB / LM / LW	(1986-08-01)1 August 1986 (aged 30)	ES Sétif	172	11	2012	2019
30	Mohamed Rabie Meftah (C.)	RB	(1985-05-05)5 May 1985 (aged 31)	JSM Béjaïa	175	36	2011	2020
31	Raouf Benguit	RB / RM	(1996-04-05)5 April 1996 (aged 20)	Paradou AC	35	1	2016	2017
Midfielders
7	Rafik Bouderbal	AM / FW	(1987-09-19)19 September 1987 (aged 29)	AS Lyon-Duchère	14	0	2016	2018
8	Kaddour Beldjilali	AM / CM	(1988-11-28)28 November 1988 (aged 28)	Étoile du Sahel	60	5	2014	2017
10	Amir Sayoud	AM	(1990-09-30)30 September 1990 (aged 26)	DRB Tadjenanet	25	3	2016	2020
15	Ziri Hammar	AM	(1992-07-25)25 July 1992 (aged 24)	JS Saoura	10	0	2016	2020
14	Faouzi Bourenane	AM	(1994-08-24)24 August 1994 (aged 22)	Příbram	12	1	2016	2020
17	Mohamed Benkablia	AM	(1993-02-02)2 February 1993 (aged 23)	JS Kabylie	12	0	2016	2019
19	Abel Khaled	AM	(1992-11-09)9 November 1992 (aged 24)	RC Arbaâ	2	0	2016	2018
23	Hamza Koudri	DM	(1987-12-15)15 December 1987 (aged 29)	MC Alger	154	4	2012	2020
24	Mohammed Benkhemassa	AM / DM	(1993-06-28)28 June 1993 (aged 23)	Youth system	69	2	2011	2018
26	Reda Bellahcene	DM	(1993-01-21)21 January 1993 (aged 23)	FC Saint-Louis Neuweg	11	1	2016	2019
41	Ilyes Yaiche	AM / LM	(1997-10-27)27 October 1997 (aged 19)	Youth system	7	0	2016	2020
Forwards
9	Carolus Andriamatsinoro	CF	(1989-09-06)6 September 1989 (aged 27)	Paradou AC	131	20	2012	2017
11	Abderrahmane Meziane	ST	(1994-03-07)7 March 1994 (aged 22)	RC Arbaâ	46	10	2014	2021
13	Oussama Darfalou	ST / FW	(1993-09-29)29 September 1993 (aged 23)	RC Arbaâ	40	14	2015	2018
29	Ghislain Guessan	FW	(1992-09-15)15 September 1992 (aged 24)	RC Arbaâ	29	6	2016	2017

Transfers edit

In edit

USM Alger started their transfer business early, acquiring midfielder Amir Sayoud for an undisclosed fee + Arslane Mazari and Djamel Chettal from DRB Tadjenanet on 9 June. USM Alger continued their recruitment in 11 June, signing young defender Raouf Benguit Loan from Paradou AC for a €50,000. 13 June, USM Alger confirmed their third summer signing in Reda Bellahcene, with the midfielder joining from FC Saint-Louis Neuweg for a free transfer. The club would later sign Ivorian prospect Ghislain Guessan, who joined the USM Alger team on a one-year deal from RC Arbaâ and also Abel Khaled from the same club. end of the season also saw the return of six players from the loan they Abderrahmane Meziane, Nazim Aklil, Abderrahmane Bourdim, Mohamed Taïb, Ibrahim Bekakchi and ivorian Manucho. in the month of July joined by four new players to the team they Rafik Bouderbal from AS Lyon-Duchère, Ziri Hammar from JS Saoura, Mohamed Benyahia from MC Oran and Toufik Zeghdane from MC Alger.

Date	Pos	Player	From club	Transfer fee	Source
9 June 2016	AM	Amir Sayoud	DRB Tadjenanet	Undisclosed + Arslane Mazari & Djamel Chettal	^[12]
11 June 2016	CB	Raouf Benguit	Paradou AC	Loan end of season + €50,000	^[13]
13 June 2016	CB / DM	Reda Bellahcene	FC Saint-Louis Neuweg	Free transfer	^[14]
28 June 2016	FW	Ghislain Guessan	RC Arbaâ	Undisclosed	^[15]
30 June 2016	ST	Abderrahmane Meziane	RC Arbaâ	Loan Return	^[16]
30 June 2016	FW	Manucho	RC Relizane	Loan Return
30 June 2016	DF	Nazim Aklil	JSM Skikda	Loan Return
30 June 2016	MF	Abderrahmane Bourdim	RC Relizane	Loan Return
30 June 2016	MF	Mohamed Taïb	RC Arbaâ	Loan Return
30 June 2016	DF	Ibrahim Bekakchi	CA Bordj Bou Arréridj	Loan Return
1 July 2016	AM	Abel Khaled	RC Arbaâ	Undisclosed
1 July 2016	AM / FW	Rafik Bouderbal	AS Lyon-Duchère	Undisclosed
2 July 2016	AM	Ziri Hammar	JS Saoura	Undisclosed	^[17]
2 July 2016	DM	Mohamed Benyahia	MC Oran	€150,000	^[18]
4 July 2016	RB	Toufik Zeghdane	MC Alger	Free transfer	^[19]
20 December 2016	AM	Faouzi Bourenane	Příbram	Undisclosed	^[20]
25 December 2016	FW	Mohamed Benkablia	JS Kabylie	Free transfer (Released)	^[21]

Out edit

Date	Pos	Player	To club	Transfer fee	Source
8 June 2016	LB	Saadi Redouani	JS Kabylie	Free transfer (Released)	^[22]
8 June 2016	CB	Arslane Mazari	DRB Tadjenanet	As a part of Amir Sayoud Transfer	^[23]
15 June 2016	AM	Djamel Chettal	DRB Tadjenanet	As a part of Amir Sayoud Transfer	^[24]
18 June 2016	AM	Mohamed Taïb	CS Constantine	Free transfer (Released)	^[25]
19 June 2016	AM	Karim Baïteche	CS Constantine	Free transfer (Released)	^[26]
27 June 2016	RB / CB	Houcine Benayada	CS Constantine	Free transfer (Released)
30 June 2016	FW	Manucho	CS Constantine	Loan	^[27]
1 July 2016	MF	Nassim Bouchema	CR Belouizdad	End of contract	^[28]
1 July 2016	FW	Rachid Nadji	ES Sétif	End of contract	^[29]
1 July 2016	LB	Brahim Boudebouda	MC Alger	End of contract	^[30]
1 July 2016	FW	Mohamed Amine Aoudia	CS Constantine	End of contract	^[31]
1 July 2016	CM / LM / AM	Zinedine Ferhat	Le Havre AC	End of contract	^[32]
1 July 2016	DM	Hocine El Orfi	NA Hussein Dey	End of contract	^[33]
1 July 2016	FW	Mohamed Seguer	MC Alger	End of contract	^[34]
1 July 2016	DF	Ibrahim Bekakchi	JS Saoura	Free transfer (Released)
2 July 2016	AM / LM / RM	Abderrahmane Bourdim	JS Saoura	Free transfer	^[35]
4 July 2016	MF	Oualid Ardji	NA Hussein Dey	Loan	^[36]

New contracts edit

No.	Pos	Player	Contract length	Contract end	Date	Source
16	GK	Ismaïl Mansouri	2 years	2019	4 May 2016
33	FW	Abderrahmane Meziane	2 years	2019	31 May 2016	^[16]
30	RB	Mohamed Meftah	3 years	2020	7 June 2016
27	GK	Mourad Berrefane	2 years	2018	8 June 2016	^[37]
25	LB / LM / LW	Mokhtar Benmoussa	3 years	2019	16 June 2016	^[38]
6	CB	Farouk Chafaï	3 years	2019	19 June 2016	^[39]
N/A	AM / LM / RM	Abderrahmane Bourdim	5 years	2021	19 June 2016	^[39]
23	DM	Hamza Koudri	3 years	2020	8 November 2016	^[40]

Pre-season and friendlies edit

v

USM Alger

13 July 2016 Friendly	Stade brestois 29	1–1	USM Alger	Ploudalmézeau
18:30 UTC+2	Magnon 46'	Report Live TV: None	21' Bouderbal	Stadium: Municipal Ploudalmézeau Attendance: 1.500

v

USM Alger

16 July 2016 Friendly	Stade Rennais	1–0	USM Alger	Dinard
18:00 UTC+2	Gnagnon 66'	Report Live TV: None		Stadium: Stade Paul Audrin Attendance: 1.315 Referee: Bartolomeu Varela

v

USM Alger

20 July 2016 Friendly	Stade Rennais res	0–4	USM Alger	Brittany
18:00 UTC+2		Report Live TV: None	7', 50' Guessan 81' (pen.) Beldjilali 88' Bengruina	Stadium: Centre Henri Guerin Attendance: 200 Referee: Benoît Millot

v

USM Alger

22 July 2016 Friendly	US Granville	0–0	USM Alger	Granville
14:00 UTC+2		Report Live TV: None		Stadium: Stade Louis Dior Attendance: 50

v

USM Alger

30 July 2016 Friendly	Club Africain	0–1	USM Alger	Mutuelleville
17:00 UTC+1		Report Live TV: None	44' Andria	Stadium: Stade Chedli Zouiten Attendance: 100

v

USM Alger

4 August 2016 Friendly	CS Sfaxien	0–2	USM Alger	Sousse
17:00 UTC+1		Report Live TV: None	25' Chafaï 54' Sayoud

Paradou AC

12 August 2016 Friendly	USM Alger	0–0	Paradou AC
16:00 UTC+1		Report Live TV: None

Competitions edit

Overview edit

Competition	Record								Started round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
Competition	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %	Started round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
Ligue 1	30	14	8	8	50	31	+19	046.67	—	3rd	19 August 2016	14 June 2017
Algerian Cup	3	2	1	0	3	0	+3	066.67	Round of 64	Round of 16	24 November 2016	27 December 2016
Algerian Super Cup	1	1	0	0	2	0	+2	100.00	Final	Winners	1 November 2016
Champions League	7	3	2	2	10	5	+5	042.86	First round	Group stage^{[note 1]}	11 March 2017	30 June 2017^{[note 1]}
Total	41	20	11	10	65	36	+29	048.78

Ligue 1 edit

League table edit

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	ES Sétif (C)	30	17	6	7	42	23	+19	57	Qualification for the 2018 CAF Champions League
2	MC Alger	30	14	8	8	38	27	+11	50^[a]	Qualification for the 2018 CAF Champions League
3	USM Alger	30	14	8	8	50	31	+19	50^[a]	Qualification for the 2018 CAF Confederation Cup
4	USM Bel-Abbès	30	14	6	10	37	33	+4	48
5	JS Saoura	30	12	9	9	34	30	+4	45

Updated to match(es) played on 14 June 2017. Source: DZFoot
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) total goals; 6) fairplay ranking; 7) playoff.
(C) Champions
Notes:

^ ^a ^b MC Alger ahead of USM Alger on head-to-head record: MCA–UAL 2–1, UAL–MCA 2–2.

Results summary edit


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	14	8	8	50	31	+19	50	12	2	1	39	15	+24	2	6	7	11	16	−5

Last updated: 14 June 2017.
Source: Competitive matches

Results by round edit

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Ground	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	W	W	D	W	W	W	L	W	L	L	D	W	L	W	L	D	L	D	L	W	W	D	D	W	D	W	D	W	L	W
Position	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	3	4	5	5	6	5	4	4	4	3	4	3	4	3	3	3

Updated to match(es) played on 14 June 2017. Source: Competitive matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches edit

Win Draw Loss

19 August 2016 Round 1	USM Alger	2–0	MO Béjaïa	Bologhine
19:15	Darfalou 44' Meftah 78' (pen.)	Soccerway report Live TV: None	60' Yesli 77' Baouali	Stadium: Omar Hamadi Stadium Referee: Mohamed Benouza

27 August 2016 Round 2	USM Alger	6–0	RC Relizane	Bologhine
19:00	Bentoucha 6' (o.g.) Meftah 24' (pen.) Guessan 41' Benkhemassa 45' Andria 71' Benguit 79' Darfalou 88'	Soccerway report Live TV: None	23' Chahloul	Stadium: Omar Hamadi Stadium Attendance: 0 (close doors) Referee: Said Aouina

9 September 2016 Round 3	DRB Tadjenanet	0–0	USM Alger	Tadjenanet
17:00		Soccerway report Live TV: EPTV Terrestre / TV Tamazight 4	37' Khoualed 56' Benkhemassa	Stadium: Lahoua Smaïl Stadium Referee: Lahlou Benbraham

17 September 2016 Round 4	USM Alger	1–0	CS Constantine	Bologhine
19:00	Meziane 51' Khoualed 57' Benyahia 61'	Soccerway report Live TV: None	77' Sameur	Stadium: Omar Hamadi Stadium Referee: Mohamed Boukhalfa

24 September 2016 Round 5	CR Belouizdad	0–1	USM Alger	Algiers
17:45	Tarikat 81' Feham 90+2'	Soccerway report Live TV: Algérie 3	12' Meziane 62' Benguit 90+4' Bouderbal	Stadium: Stade du 5 Juillet Referee: Lotfi Bekouassa

1 October 2016 Round 6	USM Alger	3–2	Olympique de Médéa	Bologhine
17:00	Meziane 5' Chafaï 9' Meftah 41' (pen.) 66' Benmoussa 49' Benkhemassa 72' Zemmamouche 89' Guessan 93'	Soccerway report Live TV: Canal Algérie	39' Saadou 46' Banouh 58' Gharbi 66' Bouchiba 70' Zeroual	Stadium: Omar Hamadi Stadium Referee: Farouk Mial

13 October 2016 Round 7	MC Alger	2–1	USM Alger	Blida
19:00	Zerdab 38', 77' (pen.) Demmou 50'	Soccerway report Live TV: None	17' Koudri 87' Guessan	Stadium: Stade Mustapha Tchaker Attendance: 0 (close doors) Referee: Mohamed Boukhalfa

22 October 2016 Round 8	USM Alger	2–1	JS Kabylie	Bologhine
17:00	Guessan 31' Andria 57' Meftah 81' (pen.)	Soccerway report Live TV: Algérie 3 / TV Tamazight 4	52' Raiah 76' Ziaya 90+3' Rial	Stadium: Omar Hamadi Stadium Referee: Redouane Necib

27 October 2016 Round 9	CA Batna	2–1	USM Alger	Batna
15:00	Meftah 20' (o.g.) Selmi 43' Hadj Aïssa 62'	Soccerway report Live TV: None	42' Benkhemassa 71' Chafaï 90' Benyahia	Stadium: Stade Mustapha Sefouhi Referee: Mehdi Abid Charef

5 November 2016 Round 10	USM Alger	0–2	USM El Harrach	Algiers
16:00	Bellahcene 45'	Soccerway report Live TV: Algérie 3	38' Mellal 62' Belarbi 90+5' Younes	Stadium: Stade du 5 Juillet Referee: Merzak Halalchi

11 November 2016 Round 11	MC Oran	0–0	USM Alger	Oran
16:00	Heriat 21' Sebbah 90+2'	Soccerway report Live TV: TV Tamazight 4 / Algérie 3	21' Guessan 73' Abdellaoui 90' Meftah	Stadium: Habib Bouakeul Stadium Referee: Abderrezzak Arab

17 November 2016 Round 12	USM Alger	2–1	NA Hussein Dey	Algiers
17:00	Benyahia 44' Guessan 54', 70' 54' Benkhemassa 57' Koudri 64' Chafaï 87'	Soccerway report Live TV: TV Tamazight 4 / Canal Algérie / beIN Sports	58' Ardji 80' El Orfi	Stadium: Stade du 5 Juillet Referee: Lahlou Benbraham

1 December 2016 Round 13	USM Bel-Abbès	2–1	USM Alger	Sidi Bel Abbès
16:00	Balegh 7' Kourbia 33' Zenasni 53' 58' Yaghni 70'	Soccerway report Live TV: TV Tamazight 4 / Canal Algérie	36' Abdellaoui 77' Guessan 90' Andria 90+2' Benkhemassa	Stadium: Stade 24 Fevrier 1956 Referee: Ahmed Bouzrar

9 December 2016 Round 14	USM Alger	3–1	ES Sétif	Bologhine
16:00	Chafaï 12' Meftah 25' Benyahia 58' Meziane 78'	Soccerway report Live TV: EPTV Terrestre / TV Tamazight 4 / Algérie 3	57' (pen.) Amada	Stadium: Omar Hamadi Stadium Referee: Mohamed Boukhalfa

22 December 2016 Round 15	JS Saoura	1–0	USM Alger	Béchar
19:00	Djallit 66'	Soccerway report Live TV: None	3' 73' Meftah 23' Meziane 49' Sayoud 55' Hammar 74' Zemmamouche	Stadium: Stade 20 Août 1955 Referee: Said Aouina

3 February 2017 Round 18	USM Alger	0–0	DRB Tadjenanet	Bologhine
16:00	Benyahia 25' Benmoussa 28'	Soccerway report Live TV: TV Tamazight 4	41' Fourloul 56' Hadded	Stadium: Omar Hamadi Stadium Referee: Mohamed Boukhalfa

9 February 2017 Round 19	CS Constantine	1–0	USM Alger	Constantine
16:00	Sameur 51' Benayada 61' Zerara 63' Aoudia 87'	Soccerway report Live TV: Canal Algérie	53' Benguit	Stadium: Stade Mohamed Hamlaoui Referee: Abderrezzak Arab

14 February 2017 Round 16	MO Béjaïa	0–0	USM Alger	Béjaïa
16:00	Khadir 10' Boucherit 79' 81' Sidibe 89'	Soccerway report Live TV: None	10' Koudri 15' Yaiche 73' Benyahia	Stadium: Stade de l'Unité Maghrébine Referee: Mehdi Abid Charef
Note: Match rescheduled due to share some of their players in the African Cup and World Cup military

20 February 2017 Round 20	USM Alger	2–1	CR Belouizdad	Algiers
18:00	Benguit 14' Abdellaoui 48' Meziane 72' Zemmamouche 90+3'	Soccerway report	86' Naamani 90+1' Lamhene	Stadium: Stade du 5 Juillet Referee: Lahlou Benbraham

25 February 2017 Round 21	Olympique de Médéa	1–3	USM Alger	Médéa
15:00	Lamraoui 27' Banouh 44' Rachedi 45+2' Addadi 79'	Soccerway report Live TV: None	28' (pen.) Meftah 64' Andria 68' 78' Bellahcene 72' Chafaï	Stadium: Stade Imam Lyes de Médéa Referee: Farouk Mial

4 March 2017 Round 22	USM Alger	2–2	MC Alger	Algiers
17:45	Benmoussa 8' Meftah 21' 90+6' Benyahia 25' Chafaï 60'	Soccerway report Live TV: Algérie 3 / Al-Kass Sports	4' Seguer 8' Karaoui 10' Bouguèche 90+6' Boudebouda	Stadium: Stade du 5 Juillet Referee: Rafik Achouri

25 March 2017 Round 17	RC Relizane	2–0	USM Alger	Relizane
16:00 Match rescheduled due to share some of their players in the African Cup and World Cup military	Guebli 24' 70' Benayad 33' 35' Bousseder 33'	Soccerway report Live TV: Canal Algérie		Stadium: Stade Tahar Zoughari Referee: Merzoug Brahimi

25 April 2017 Round 23	JS Kabylie	1–1	USM Alger	Tizi Ouzou
18:00	Djerrar 11' Zerguine 35' 35'	Soccerway report Live TV: Al-Kass Sports / TV Tamazight 4	15' Benguit 43' Benyahia 64' Abdellaoui 85' Mansouri	Stadium: November 1, 1954 Stadium Referee: Mehdi Abid Charef

29 April 2017 Round 24	USM Alger	3–0	CA Batna	Bologhine
17:00	Koudri 35' Bitam 60' (o.g.) Darfalou 72', 87'	Soccerway report Live TV: Al-Kass Sports / TV Tamazight 4		Stadium: Omar Hamadi Stadium Referee: Mohamed Saïdi

7 May 2017 Round 25	USM El Harrach	1–1	USM Alger	Algiers
17:45	Younes 3' 20' Zeghba 90+2'	Soccerway report Live TV: Canal Algérie / Al-Kass Sports	57' Meftah 71' Chafaï 87' Beldjilali	Stadium: Stade du 5 Juillet Referee: Abderrezzak Arab

16 May 2017 Round 26	USM Alger	2–1	MC Oran	Bologhine
17:45	Andria 48' Benguit 81' Meziane 88'	Soccerway report Live TV: Algérie 3 / TV Tamazight 4	86' Sebbah 90+3' Hamidi	Stadium: Omar Hamadi Stadium Referee: Farouk Mial

29 May 2017 Round 27	NA Hussein Dey	1–1	USM Alger	Algiers
22:30	Coumbassa 5' Laribi 47' Ouertani 64' Herida 88'	Soccerway report Live TV: TV Tamazight 4 / Al-Kass Sports	7' Meziane 35' Abdellaoui	Stadium: Stade du 5 Juillet Referee: Ahmed Bouzerar

7 June 2017 Round 28	USM Alger	6–2	USM Bel-Abbès	Bologhine
22:30	Darfalou 9' Chafaï 20' Meftah 29' Sayoud 44' Meziane 45+1' Bourenane 58' Koudri 65' Beldjilali 77'	Soccerway report Live TV: TV Tamazight 4 / Al-Kass Sports	22' Zouari 50' Khali 50' Balegh 51' 90+2' (pen.) Bounoua 62' Bouguelmouna	Stadium: Omar Hamadi Stadium Referee: Rafik Achouri

10 June 2017 Round 29	ES Sétif	2–1	USM Alger	Sétif
22:30	Djahnit 5' Djabou 52' Khedairia 84'	Soccerway report Live TV: TV Tamazight 4 / beIN Sports / Al-Kass Sports	19' Benyahia 33' Meziane 55' Beldjilali 75' Sayoud	Stadium: Stade 8 Mai 1945 Referee: Mohamed Saïdi

14 June 2017 Round 30	USM Alger	5–2	JS Saoura	Bologhine
22:30	Darfalou 23', 77', 83' Andria 44' Benmoussa 60' (pen.) Benguit 63' Khoualed 90+3' (pen.)	Soccerway report Live TV: None	43' Bourdim 68' Tiboutine 86' Bekakchi	Stadium: Omar Hamadi Stadium Attendance: 0 (close doors) Referee: Mehdi Abid Charef

Algerian Super Cup edit

1 November 2016	USM Alger	2–0	MC Alger	Blida^{[note 2]}
17:45	Benkhemassa 38' Abdellaoui 43' Chafaï 61' Meftah 77' (pen.)	Report Live TV: Algérie 3 / beIN Sports / Al-Kass Sports	40' Mebarakou 44' 64' Boudebouda 75' Chaâl 80' Hachoud	Stadium: Mustapha Tchaker Stadium Referee: Mohamed Benouza
Note: Match rescheduled due to share some of their players in the Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Algerian Cup edit

24 November 2016 Round of 64	USM Alger	2–0	NT Souf	Bologhine
17:00	Sayoud 43' 71' Guessan 78'	Soccerway report DZfoot report Live TV: TV Tamazight 4	52' Bitel	Stadium: Omar Hamadi Stadium Referee: Azzaz, Benaceur, Djafi
Note: Lineup for USM Alger - Berrefane - Meftah (c), Benyahia, Abdellaoui, Benmoussa - Benguit, Benkhemassa, Koudri (Beldjillali 80’), Sayoud (Meziane 89’) - Bouderbal (Andria 46’), Guessan

16 December 2016 Round of 32	USM Alger	1–0	CA Batna	Bologhine
16:00	Guessan 81' Meftah 83' Hammar 87'	Soccerway report DZfoot report Live TV: EPTV Terrestre / Canal Algérie	45+1' 70' Djarbou 46' Khennab 87' Daoud	Stadium: Omar Hamadi Stadium Referee: Mustapha Ghorbal
Note: Lineup for USM Alger - Zemmamouche - Meftah (c), Benyahia, Chafaï, Benmoussa - Benguit, Benkhemassa, Hammar - Bouderbal, Guessan (Darfalou 81’), Meziane (Andria 88’)

27 December 2016 Round of 16	USM Bel-Abbès	0–0 (a.e.t.) (5–4 p)	USM Alger	Sidi Bel Abbes
17:00	Khali 26' Balegh 100' Toual 103'	Soccerway report DZfoot report Live TV: EPTV Terrestre	100' Abdellaoui	Stadium: Stade 24 Fevrier 1956 Referee: Brahimi, Semsoum, Chaballah
	Penalties
	Sidhoum Benabderahmane Belhocini Cherifi Balegh Kourbia Bounoua		Benyahia Sayoud Benguit Benmoussa Meziane Abdellaoui Beldjilali
Note: Lineup for USM Alger - Zemmamouche (c) - Benguit, Benyahia, Chafaï, Abdellaoui - Koudri (Benmoussa 112’), Benkhemassa, Beldjilali - Andria (Sayoud 75’), Darfalou, Hammar (Meziane 66’)

Champions League edit

Qualifying rounds edit

First round edit

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Rail Club du Kadiogo

11 March 2017 first leg	USM Alger	2–0	Rail Club du Kadiogo	Bologhine
20:30 UTC+1	Koudri 31' Darfalou 72' Sayoud 87'	Report	30' S.Sylla 32' Traoré 34' Amanor 81' O.Sylla 85' Sidiki Traoré 88' Asamoah 90' Sawadogo	Stadium: Omar Hamadi Stadium Referee: Youssef Essrayri (Tunisia)
Note: Lineup for USM Alger - Zemmamouche, Benguit, Chafaï, Abdellaoui (Bellahcène, 60'), Benmoussa, Koudri, Benyahia, Bourenane (Sayoud, 56'), Andria, Guessan (Darfalou, 67'), Meziane

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USM Alger

18 March 2017 Second leg	Rail Club du Kadiogo	1–0 (1–2 agg.)	USM Alger	Ouagadougou
15:30 UTC±0	Asamoah 44' Kahan 54' John 68' Ibeh 83'	Report	26' 27' Sayoud 48' Abdellaoui	Stadium: Stade du 4 Août^{[note 3]} Referee: Mahamadou Keita (Mali)
Note: Lineup for USM Alger - Zemmamouche, Benguit, Benyahia (Bourenane, 74'), Chafaï, Abdellaoui, Meziane (Zeghdane, 85'), Koudri, Benmoussa, Sayoud, Andria, Guessan (Belahcène, 63')

Group stage edit

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	USM	AHT	ZAM	CAP
1	USM Alger	6	3	2	1	12	5	+7	11	Quarter-finals	—	3–0	2–0	4–1
2	Al-Ahli Tripoli	6	2	3	1	11	10	+1	9	Quarter-finals	1–1	—	0–0	4–2
3	Zamalek	6	1	3	2	6	8	−2	6^[a]		1–1	2–2	—	2–0
4	CAPS United	6	2	0	4	10	16	−6	6^[a]		2–1	2–4	3–1	—

Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Head-to-head results: Zamalek 2–0 CAPS United, CAPS United 3–1 Zamalek (Zamalek won on away goals).

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Al-Ahli Tripoli

12 May 2017 (2017-05-12) Matchday 1	USM Alger	3–0	Al-Ahli Tripoli	Algiers
18:00 UTC+1	Chafaï 31' Carolus 45+1' Darfalou 83'	Report		Stadium: Stade du 5 Juillet Referee: Youssef Essrayri (Tunisia)

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USM Alger

24 May 2017 (2017-05-24) Matchday 2	CAPS United	2–1	USM Alger	Harare
15:00 UTC+2	Chitiyo 16', 81'	Report	Abdellaoui 67'	Stadium: National Sports Stadium Referee: Thierry Nkurunziza (Burundi)

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USM Alger

2 June 2017 (2017-06-02) Matchday 3	Zamalek	1–1	USM Alger	Alexandria
22:00 UTC+2	Mayuka 90+4'	Report	Chafaï 30'	Stadium: Borg El Arab Stadium Referee: Ali Lemghaifry (Mauritania)

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Zamalek

21 June 2017 (2017-06-21) Matchday 4	USM Alger	2–0	Zamalek	Algiers
23:00 UTC+1	Bellahcene 44' Meziane 87'	Report		Stadium: Stade du 5 Juillet Referee: Victor Gomes (South Africa)

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USM Alger

30 June 2017 (2017-06-30) Matchday 5	Al-Ahli Tripoli	1–1	USM Alger	Sfax (Tunisia)
19:00 UTC+1	Saltou 38'	Report	Chafaï 16'	Stadium: Stade Taïeb Mhiri ^{[note 4]} Referee: Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)

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CAPS United

9 July 2017 Matchday 6	USM Alger	4–1	CAPS United	Algiers
20:00 UTC+1	Hammar 36' Hamzaoui 42' Darfalou 78', 88'	Report	81' Amidu	Stadium: Stade du 5 Juillet Attendance: 52,000 Referee: Malang Diedhiou (Senegal)

Squad information edit

Appearances and goals edit

No.	Pos	Player	Nat	Ligue 1			Algerian Cup			Champions League			Super Cup			Total
No.	Pos	Player	Nat	App	St	G	App	St	G	App	St	G	App	St	G	App	St	G
Goalkeepers
1	GK	Lamine Zemmamouche		26	26	0	2	2	0	7	7	0	1	1	0	36	36	0
16	GK	Ismaïl Mansouri		2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0
30	GK	Mourad Berrefane		2	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0
Defenders
3	DF	Ayoub Abdellaoui		20	19	0	2	2	0	6	6	1	1	1	0	29	28	1
5	DF	Mohamed Benyahia		24	23	3	3	3	0	3	3	0	1	1	0	31	30	3
6	DF	Farouk Chafaï		25	24	3	2	2	0	7	7	3	1	1	1	35	34	7
20	DF	Nacereddine Khoualed		9	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	10	8	1
21	DF	Toufik Zeghdane		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
25	DF	Mokhtar Benmoussa		28	24	1	3	2	0	7	6	0	1	0	0	39	32	1
30	DF	Mohamed Rabie Meftah		29	29	9	2	2	1	5	5	0	1	1	1	37	37	11
31	DF	Raouf Benguit		26	24	1	3	3	0	6	6	0	0	0	0	35	33	1
Midfielders
7	MF	Rafik Bouderbal		11	10	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	14	13	0
8	MF	Kaddour Beldjilali		18	14	1	2	1	0	5	5	0	0	0	0	25	20	1
10	MF	Amir Sayoud		19	8	1	2	1	1	4	3	1	0	0	0	25	12	3
14	MF	Faouzi Bourenane		8	4	1	0	0	0	4	2	0	0	0	0	12	6	1
15	MF	Ziri Hammar		6	3	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	10	5	0
17	MF	Mohamed Benkablia		10	6	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	12	7	0
19	MF	Abel Khaled		2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0
23	MF	Hamza Koudri		22	19	1	2	2	0	5	5	0	1	1	0	30	27	1
24	MF	Mohammed Benkhemassa		17	14	1	3	3	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	23	18	1
26	MF	Reda Bellahcene		6	4	0	0	0	0	5	1	1	1	0	0	12	5	1
37	MF	Mustapha Bengrina^[a]		6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	1	0
38	MF	Mohamed Reda Boumechra^[a]		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
41	MF	Ilyes Yaiche^[a]		7	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	2	0
Forwards
9	FW	Carolus Andriamatsinoro		21	16	4	3	1	0	7	7	1	1	0	0	32	24	5
	FW	Okacha Hamzaoui		0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
11	FW	Abderrahmane Meziane		26	21	8	3	0	0	7	7	1	1	1	0	37	29	9
13	FW	Oussama Darfalou		19	14	8	2	0	0	6	5	2	0	0	0	27	19	10
29	FW	Ghislain Guessan		23	13	5	2	2	1	3	2	0	1	1	0	29	18	6
Total				30		50	3		3	7		10	1		2	41		65

Last updated: 17 June 2022
Source: soccerway.com

^ ^a ^b ^c Player from USM Alger Reserve

Disciplinary record edit

No.	Pos.	Player	Ligue 1			Algerian Cup			Champions League			Super Cup			Total
No.	Pos.	Player
1	GK	Lamine Zemmamouche	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
16	GK	Ismaïl Mansouri	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
3	DF	Ayoub Abdellaoui	4	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	7	0	0
5	DF	Mohamed Benyahia	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0
6	DF	Farouk Chafaï	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0
20	DF	Nacereddine Khoualed	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
25	DF	Mokhtar Benmoussa	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0
30	DF	Mohamed Rabie Meftah	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0
31	DF	Raouf Benguit	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0
7	MF	Rafik Bouderbal	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
8	MF	Kaddour Beldjilali	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
10	MF	Amir Sayoud	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	4	1	1
15	MF	Ziri Hammar	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
23	MF	Hamza Koudri	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0
24	MF	Mohammed Benkhemassa	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	0	0
26	MF	Reda Bellahcene	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1
41	MF	Ilyes Yaiche	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
9	FW	Carolus Andriamatsinoro	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
11	FW	Abderrahmane Meziane	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
29	FW	Ghislain Guessan	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0
Total			59	1	1	4	0	0	5	1	1	2	0	0	70	2	2

Suspensions edit

Date Incurred	Name	Games Missed	Reason
1 November 2016	Mohammed Benkhemassa	1
5 November 2016	Ziri Hammar	3	(vs. USM El Harrach)^[42]
17 November 2016	Farouk Chafaï	1
1 December 2016	Ghislain Guessan	1
1 December 2016	Ayoub Abdellaoui	1
22 December 2016	Mohamed Meftah	1	(vs. JS Saoura)
3 February 2017	Mokhtar Benmoussa	1
14 February 2017	Mohamed Benyahia	1
25 February 2017	Reda Bellahcene	1	(vs. Olympique de Médéa)
18 March 2017	Amir Sayoud	1	(vs. Rail Club du Kadiogo)
25 April 2017	Ismaïl Mansouri	1	^[43]
2 June 2017	Hamza Koudri	1
2 June 2017	Raouf Benguit	1	Unknown

Goalscorers edit

Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted alphabetically by surname when total goals are equal.

No.	Player	Pos.	L 1	AC	CL 1	SC	TOTAL
30	Mohamed Meftah	DF	9	1	0	1	11
13	Oussama Darfalou	FW	8	0	2	0	10
11	Abderrahmane Meziane	FW	8	0	1	0	9
6	Farouk Chafaï	DF	3	0	3	1	7
29	Ghislain Guessan	FW	5	1	0	0	6
9	Carolus Andriamatsinoro	FW	4	0	1	0	5
5	Mohamed Benyahia	DF	3	0	0	0	3
10	Amir Sayoud	MF	1	1	1	0	3
24	Mohammed Benkhemassa	MF	1	0	0	0	1
31	Raouf Benguit	MF	1	0	0	0	1
3	Ayoub Abdellaoui	DF	0	0	1	0	1
8	Kaddour Beldjilali	MF	1	0	0	0	1
14	Faouzi Bourenane	MF	1	0	0	0	1
23	Hamza Koudri	MF	1	0	0	0	1
25	Mokhtar Benmoussa	DF	1	0	0	0	1
20	Nacereddine Khoualed	DF	1	0	0	0	1
26	Reda Bellahcene	MF	0	0	1	0	1
Own Goals			2	0	0	0	2
Totals			50	3	10	2	65

Clean sheets edit

Includes all competitive matches.

No.	Name	L 1	AC	ASC	CL 1	Total
1	Lamine Zemmamouche	8	2	2	2	14
16	Ismaïl Mansouri	–	–	–	–	–
30	Mourad Berrefane	1	1	–	–	2
	TOTALS	9	3	2	2	16

Hat-tricks edit

Player	Against	Result	Date	Competition	Ref
Oussama Darfalou	JS Saoura	5–2 (H)	14 June 2017	Ligue Professionnelle 1	^[44]

(H) – Home ; (A) – Away

Kit edit

Supplier: Adidas after that Joma, the beginning of the year 2017.^[45]Sponsor: Djezzy

Home

Away

Third

Four

Goalkeeper 1

Goalkeeper 2

Home

Away

Third

Notes edit

^ ^a ^b The competition will be completed in the new season 2017–18 starting from the fourth round.
^ The final of the Algerian Super Cup in 2016 between USM Alger and MC Alger will be relocated to the Mustapha Tchaker Stadium in Blida instead of July 5, 1962 Stadium.^[41]
^ Rail Club du Kadiogo played their home match at Stade du 4 Août, Ouagadougou, instead of their regular stadium Stade de Kadiogo, Kadiogo.
^ Teams from Libya were not allowed to host their home matches in their country due to security concerns.

References edit

[table_hth_UAL0.81976389084932-42] MC Alger ahead of USM Alger on head-to-head record: MCA–UAL 2–1, UAL–MCA 2–2.

[table_hth_ZAM0.78573434557101-46] Head-to-head results: Zamalek 2–0 CAPS United, CAPS United 3–1 Zamalek (Zamalek won on away goals).

[USM_AlgerReserve-48] Player from USM Alger Reserve

[CAF_Champions_League-41] The competition will be completed in the new season 2017–18 starting from the fourth round.

[Algerian_Super_Cup-44] The final of the Algerian Super Cup in 2016 between USM Alger and MC Alger will be relocated to the Mustapha Tchaker Stadium in Blida instead of July 5, 1962 Stadium.^[41]

[Kadiogo-45] Rail Club du Kadiogo played their home match at Stade du 4 Août, Ouagadougou, instead of their regular stadium Stade de Kadiogo, Kadiogo.

[Libya-47] Teams from Libya were not allowed to host their home matches in their country due to security concerns.

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