Hacène Lalmas (12 March 1943 – 7 July 2018), also known as El Kebch (The Ram), was an Algerian

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who played as a

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. Lalmas scored a record 131 goals in the Algerian championship. He was also voted as the 14th-best African player of all time by the CAF.

Club career

Although he started his career with OM Ruisseau, Lalmas played most of his career for

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and it was with CRB. He led the club to four league titles, three

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titles and three Maghreb Champions Cup titles. On 22 October 1962, during his career with OM Ruisseau, he scored 14 goals in his team's 18–0 victory over Birtouta, which is the record for most goals in one match in all top men's football leagues in the history,"ALL TIME RANKING TOP DIVISION IN THE WORLD - ONE MATCH SCORERS"
IFFHS up until 3 August 2007, when Passang Tshering scored 17 goals in the Bhutan A-Division, which was the only league in the country at that time.

Career statistics

International

:''Scores and results list Algeria's goal tally first. "Score" column indicates the score after the player's goal.''

Honours

CR Belouizdad * Algerian league: 1965, 1966, 1970, 1971 *

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: 1966, 1969, 1970 * Maghreb Champions Cup: 1970, 1971, 1972 Individual * Algerian league top scorer: 1969–70

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Hacene LALMAS
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