Mouloudia Club d'Alger (), referred to as MC Alger or MCA for short, is an Algerian

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team that was founded on 7 August 1921, as a division of

MC Alger Mouloudia Club d'Alger (), 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 stadium, Ali La Pointe Stadium, has a capacit ...

. They play their home games in the

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, 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 (; 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

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, 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

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. On 30 November 2019, GS Pétroliers qualified for the 2020 season of the

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(BAL), by winning the West Division of the qualifying tournaments. The season was later rescheduled to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the

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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.

Roster (Men)

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

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*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

Notes

References

External links

Team profile at ''Eurobasket.com''
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