Mouloudia Club d'Alger ( ar, نادي مولودية الجزائر), referred to as MC Alger or MCA for short, is an Algerian
basketball
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team that was founded on 7 August 1921, as a division of the of
MC Alger
Mouloudia Club d'Alger ( ar, نادي مولودية الجزائر), referred to as MC Alger or MCA for short, is an Algerian football club based in Algiers. The club was founded in 1921 and its colours are red, green and white. Their home sta ...
. They play their home games in the
Hacène Harcha Arena
Harcha Hassan Arena is an indoor sporting arena located in Algiers, Algeria. The capacity of the arena is 8,000 spectators. It hosts indoor sporting events such as Handball, Basketball, Volleyball and hosts the home matches of GS Pétroliers. ...
, which has a capacity of 8,000 people. The team has won a record twenty-one
Algerian national championships, as well as twenty
Algerian Cups.
History
The team was originally part of the Mouloudia Club d'Alger (MC Alger) club, but became a part of Groupement Sportif des Pétroliers ( ar, المجمع الرياضي البترولي; English: Sports Group of Oil Fields) on 2 June 2008. Starting from the 1999–2000 season, the team has won numerous titles in Algeria.
By the start of the 2023–24, the defending champions
CSM Constantine had lost most of its star players and GS Pétroliers returned to win the title for six consecutive seasons, in addition to nine consecutive cup wins.
Due to its winning streak and sponsorship from
Sonatrach
Sonatrach ( ar, سوناطراك; french: Société Nationale pour la Recherche, la Production, le Transport, la Transformation, et la Commercialisation des Hydrocarbures) is the national state-owned oil company of Algeria. Founded in 1963, it is ...
, GS Pétroliers was the only club not to struggle with financial issues in the early 2010s. The 2019–20 and 2020–21 season were then cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
On 30 November 2019, GS Pétroliers qualified for the 2020 season of the
Basketball Africa League
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(BAL), by winning the West Division of the
qualifying tournaments.
The season was later re-scheduled to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the
group stage
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, GSP lost its three game and could not qualify for the playoffs.
From 2008 to 2020, the team was known as GS Pétroliers as it was part of the multi-sports club with that name.
The team's name changed back to MC Alger in 2020.
Season-by-season record
Honours
National
Super Division
*Champions (21): 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Algerian Cup
The Algerian Cup ( ar, كأس الجزائر) also known the Republic Cup ( ar, كأس الجمهورية), is a football competition in Algeria, pitting regional teams against each other. It was established in October 1962, three months after in ...
*Champions (20):1983, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1993, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
International
Arab Championship
*Runners-up (4): 1987, 2001, 2002, 2015
**Third place (1): 2004
References
External links
Team profile at ''Eurobasket.com''
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Groupement Sportif des Pétroliers
Basketball teams in Algeria
Sport in Algiers
Basketball teams established in 1921
Basketball Africa League teams
1921 establishments in Algeria
Road to BAL teams