Union Sportive Medinat Bel Abbès ( ar, الإتحاد الرياضي لمدينة بلعباس), known as USM Bel Abbès or simply USMBA for short, is an Algerian football club located in

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, that was founded in 1933 and its colors are

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. Their home stadium, 24 February 1956 Stadium, has a capacity of 45,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the

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History

The team was founded on 7 February 1933 under the name of Union Sportive Musulmane de Bel Abbès. It was one of the great teams in the French colonial period. Between 1977 and 1987, the club was parrained by ENIE, an electronic national society and was named Electronique Sari Madinat Bel Abbès (ESMBA). On April 27, 2012, in the last round of the 2011-12 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2, USM Bel-Abbès beat

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3–0 to finish third and win promotion to the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1, returning to the top flight after a 19-year absence. However the team return one year after in the second division but one year after again in 2014, they returned to the top division.

Previous Logos

File:USM Bel Abbès (logo).png, present logo

Grounds

The club used to play at the Stade des trois frères Amarouch. Since 1981, the club plays at the 24 February 1956 Stadium which has a capacity of 45,000 spectators. File:Stade 24 Février 1956.jpg, 24 February 1956 Stadium

Players

Algerian teams are limited to two foreign players. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player;

Current squad

Personnel

Current technical staff

Managers

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(1957 – 1958) * ... * Fethi Benkabou (20??–July 1, 2012) * Fouad Bouali (July 23, 2012 – Oct 30, 2012) * Abdelkader Yaïche (Nov 14, 2012 – Jan 3, 2013) * Mokhtar Assas (Jan 18, 2013 – May 12, 2013) * Zouaoui Zitouni ''(interim)'' (May 13, 2013 – June 30, 2013) * Abdelkrim Bira (July 1, 2013 – June 30, 2014) *

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(July 1, 2014–15)

Honours

Domestic competitions

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, 2017–18. * Algerian Super Cup ::Winner (1):

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Regional competitions

North African Cup The North African Cup was a football competition involving the then French territories of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia from 1930 to 1956. The tournament was contested between the clubs of five leagues, with Morocco and Tunisia contributing one lea ...

::''Runners-up'' (1): 1956 The final between USM Bel Abbès and SC Bel Abbès was not played.

Performance in CAF competitions

* CAF Confederation Cup: 1 appearance :: 2018–19 – First round * African Cup Winners' Cup: 1 appearance :: 1992 – Second Round

Notes and references

Notes

References

External links

* Football clubs in Algeria Association football clubs established in 1933 USM Bel Abbes Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 clubs 1933 establishments in Algeria Sports clubs in Algeria {{Algeria-footyclub-stub