Union Sportive de la Médina Bel Abbès (), known as USM Bel Abbès or simply USMBA for short, is an Algerian

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club located in

Sidi Bel Abbès Sidi Bel Abbès (), also called Bel Abbès, is the capital''Sidi Bel Abbes'', lexicorient.com (Encyclopaedia of the Orient), internet article. of the Sidi Bel Abbès wilaya, Algeria. It is named after Sidi bel Abbass, a Muslim marabout or noble ...

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, that was founded in 1933 and its colors are

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and

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. Their home stadium,

24 February 1956 Stadium 24 February 1956 Stadium (, ) is a multi-use stadium in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria. It is currently used mostly for football (soccer), football matches and is the home ground of USM Bel Abbès. The stadium holds 45,000 spectators. History The stad ...

, has a capacity of 50,000 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

USM Annaba Union Sportive Médinat d'Annaba (), known as USM Annaba or simply USMAN for short, is an Algerian football club based in Annaba. It was founded in 1983 and its colours are red and white. Their home stadium, 19 May 1956 Stadium has a capacity of ...

3–0 to finish third and win promotion to the

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, 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, Supporteurs les club

Grounds

The club used to play at the Stade des trois frères Amarouch. Since 1981, the club plays at the

which has a capacity of 45,000 spectators.

Managers

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(1957 – 1958) * ... * Fethi Benkabou (20??–July 1, 2012) *

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(July 23, 2012 – Oct 30, 2012) *

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(Nov 14, 2012 – Jan 3, 2013) * Mokhtar Assas (Jan 18, 2013 – May 12, 2013) * Zouaoui Zitouni ''(interim)'' (May 13, 2013 – June 30, 2013) *

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(July 1, 2013 – June 30, 2014) *

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(July 1, 2014–15)

Honours

Domestic competitions

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**Winners (6): 1966, 1978, 1980, 1988, 1993, 2013–14 *

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**Winners (2): 1990–91, 2017–18 *

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**Winner (1):

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Performance in CAF competitions

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: 1 appearance :: 2018–19 – First round *

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: 1 appearance ::

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– Second Round

Notes and references

Notes

References

External links

* Football clubs in Algeria Association football clubs established in 1933

USM Bel Abbès Union Sportive de la Médina Bel Abbès (), known as USM Bel Abbès or simply USMBA for short, is an Algerian football (soccer), football club located in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria, that was founded in 1933 and its colors are green and red. Their h ...

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