USM Alger Under-23s are the reserve team of

USM Alger Union Sportive de la Médina d'Alger ( ar, الإتحاد الرياضي لمدينة الجزائر); known as USM Alger or simply USMA for short, is a football club based in the inner suburbs of Algiers. The club was founded in 1937 and its co ...

. The team mainly consists of Under-23 players at the club, although senior players occasionally play in the reserve side, for instance when they are recovering from injury. The Under-23s team are managed by Sylvain Matrisciano and they play in the Ligue Professionnelle 1.

History

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and Djamel Keddou who spent all his football career with USM Alger. In the eighties, ninety percent of the squad was from the team, especially in the winning season of the Algerian Cup in

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. Where was the majority of the players from the club, where coach Djamel Keddou put his trust in the colleagues of Farid Bengana, Amirouche Lalili, Farid Mouaci, Salim Boutamine, Athmane Nourine and

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The Players

Ligue Professionnelle 1

Current squad

''These players can also play with the senior squad and are all Young Professionals.''

Notable graduates

Current USM Alger players in bold.

Honours

Domestic Ligue

* Ligue Professionnelle 1 U21 **Winners: 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16. * Ligue Professionnelle 1 U19 **Winners: 2022–23. * Ligue Professionnelle 1 U18 **Winners: 2011–12.

Domestic Cup

* Algerian Cup Junior **Winners: 1972, 1973, 1975, 1989, 1998, 2000. **Runners Up: 1970. * Algerian U21 Cup **Winners: 2018 * Algerian Cup Under-19s **Winners: 2018, 2023. * Algerian Cup Under-18s **Winners: 2017. **Runners Up: 2016. * Algerian Cup Under-17s **Winners: 2011. **Runners Up: 2007, 2015. * Algerian Cup Under-15s **Runners Up: 2008, 2011, 2015.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:USM Alger Development Squad and Academy Reserves and Academy