MC Alger

For other uses, see MC Alger (disambiguation).

Mouloudia Club d'Alger (Arabic: نادي مولودية الجزائر), 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, the Stade 5 Juillet 1962, has a capacity of 65,000 spectators. They also receive their opponents in Omar Hamadi Stadium. The club is currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.

MC Alger

Full name	Mouloudia Club d'Alger
Nickname(s)	M.C.A Mouloudia The Dean Chnawa (the Chinese, due to their large fanbase) Green and Red The People's Club
Founded	August 7, 1921; 101 years ago (1921-08-07) as Mouloudia Club Algérois
Ground	Stade 5 Juillet 1962, Algiers
Capacity	64,000
Owner	Sonatrach
President	Mohamed Hakim Hadj Redjem
Head Coach	Faouzi Benzarti^[1]
League	Ligue Professionnelle 1
2021–22	Ligue Professionnelle 1, 8th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Founded in 1921 as Mouloudia Club Algérois and Mouloudia Chaâbia d’Alger, the club was known as Mouloudia Pétroliers d'Alger from 1977 to 1986 and changed its name to Mouloudia Club d'Alger in 1986. The club colours are red and green. They play at the Stade Omar Hamadi.

MC Alger were the first Algerian club to win a continental competition, winning the 1976 African Cup of Champions Clubs. They are one of the most successful Algerian clubs having won the domestic league 7 times, and the domestic cup 8 times, third to USM Alger, CR Belouizdad and ES Sétif.

History

In 1921, a group of youths from the Casbah and Bab El Oued neighborhoods joined to create the first Muslim football club in colonized Algeria.^[2] The group was led by Hamoud Aouf, who served as a liaison between the two groups. On August 7, 1921, the club was officially founded in the waiting room of the Benachere café. The date coincided with the Mawlid, hence the name Mouloudia Club d'Alger. Green, for the hope of the Algerian people and the traditional colour of Islam, and red, for the love of the nation, were chosen as the club colours.

In 1976, MC Alger qualified for the African Cup of Champions Clubs for the first time in its history after winning the 1974–75 Algerian Championnat National. They reached the final after beating Al-Ahly Benghazi of Libya, Al Ahly of Egypt, Luo Union of Kenya and Enugu Rangers of Nigeria, respectively.^[3] In the final, they met Guinean club Hafia Conakry, who had won the last edition of the competition. In the first leg in Conakry, MC Alger lost 3–0 and faced the difficult task of having to score three goals in the return leg. However, in the return leg, they managed to score the three goals with a brace from Omar Betrouni and a goal from Zoubir Bachi.^[4] They went on to win the penalty shootout 4–1 to win their first African title and also become the first Algerian club to win a continental competition.

Crest

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  Former logo

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  Present logo

Kit manufacturers

Kit suppliers
Dates	Supplier
2009–2012	Adidas
2012–2016	Joma
2016–2019	Umbro
2019–2021	Puma
2021–	Joma

Honours

Domestic competitions

• Algerian League 1

Champions (7): 1971–72, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1998–99, 2009–10

Runners-up (5): 1962–63, 1969–70, 1988–89, 2016–17, 2019–20

• Algerian Cup

Winners (8) – shared record: 1970–71, 1972–73, 1975–76, 1982–83, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2013–14, 2015–16

Runners-up (1): 2012–13

• Algerian Super Cup

Winners (3) (record): 2006, 2007, 2014

Runner-up (2): 1973, 2016

• Algerian League Cup

Winners (1): 1998

International competitions

• CAF Champions League

Winners (1): 1976

Regional competitions

• Maghreb Cup Winners Cup

Winners (2): 1971, 1974

• North African Cup of Champions

Runners-up (1): 2010

• Maghreb Champions Cup

Runners-up (1): 1975

Performance in CAF competitions

• African Cup of Champions Clubs / CAF Champions League: 8 appearances

1976 – Champion 1977 – Quarter-finals 1979 – Second Round 1980 – Quarter-finals

2000 – First Round 2011 – Group stage 2018 – Group stage 2021 – Quarter - finals

• CAF Confederation Cup: 4 appearances

2007 – First Round

2008 – First Round

2015 – First Round

2017 – Quarter-finals

• CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 1 appearance

1984 – Second Round

Players

Main article: List of MC Alger players

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

Current squad

As of 25 August 2022^[5]Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   ALG Farid Chaâl (captain) 2 GK   ALG Abdelatif Ramdane 3 DF   ALG Boualem Mesmoudi 4 MF   ALG Tayeb Hamoudi 5 DF   ALG Ayoub Abdellaoui (vice-captain) 7 FW   ALG Abdelmalek Oukil 8 FW   ALG Féth-Allah Tahar 9 FW   NGA Victor Mbaoma 10 FW   GHA Joseph Esso 11 FW   ALG Mohammed Souhil Bassa 12 DF   ALG Mohamed Merouani 13 MF   ALG Aziz Benabdi 15 DF   ALG Houari Ferhani

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 GK   ALG Oussama Litim 17 DF   ALG Kamel Hamidi 18 FW   ALG Kheireddine Merzougui 19 DF   ALG Ayoub Ghezala 20 DF   ALG Réda Halaïmia 21 FW   ALG Aymene Rahmani 22 MF   ALG Khalid Dahmani 23 FW   ALG Chouaib Debbih 24 FW   ALG Mohamed Ramzi Haif 25 MF   ALG Badreddine Touki 26 MF   ALG Moundhir Bouzekri 27 FW   ALG Idir Boutrif 31 DF   ALG Abdelkader Menezla

Reserve Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player

No. Pos. Nation Player

Personnel

Current technical staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Faouzi Benzarti
Assistant coach	Mounir Lehbab
Goalkeeping coach	Fouad Cheriet
Fitness coach	Cheikh Bouziane

Notable players

Below are the notable former players who have represented MC Alger in league and international competition since the club's foundation in 1921. To appear in the section below, a player must have played in at least 100 official matches for the club or represented the national team for which the player is eligible during his stint with MC Alger or following his departure.

For a complete list of MC Alger players, see Category:MC Alger players

Algeria   Zoubir Bachi   Fayçal Badji   Mohamed Belgherbi   Lakhdar Belloumi   Ali Bencheikh   Omar Betrouni   Hadj Bouguèche   Ismaël Bouzid   Noureddine Daham   Farès Fellahi

Kader Firoud   Fodil Hadjadj   Larbi Hosni   Karim Kaddour   Hamza Koudri   Tarek Lazizi   Bouzid Mahyouz   Fawzi Moussouni   Amokrane Oualiken   Rafik Saïfi   Mohamed Lamine Zemmamouche   Abdeslam Bousri   Abdelwahab Maiche Mali   Moussa Coulibaly   Drissa Diakite Togo   Mamam Cherif Touré

* Rachid Sebbar * Aissa Draoui * Abdelmalek Cherrad 

Managers

•   Mahmoud Hamid Bacha, Mustapha Biskri (1998)
•   Abdelhamid Kermali, Mustapha Biski (1983–89), (1998-1999)
•   Michel Renquin (2000-2001)
•   Bachir Mechri, Ali Bencheikh, Bachta (2001-2002)
•   Noureddine Saâdi (2002– Dec 4, 2003)
•   Hervé Revelli (Jan 1, 2004 – May 1, 2004)
•   Jean-Paul Rabier (2004–05)
•   Robert Nouzaret (July 1, 2005 – Dec 24, 2005)
•   Noureddine Saâdi (Dec 2005 – March 2006)
•   François Bracci (March 2006 – Oct 06)
•   Hacène Matallah (Oct 2006 – Nov 06)
•   Enrico Fabbro (Nov 2006 – Nov 07)
•   Jean Thissen (Nov 2007 – Jan 08)
•   Enrico Fabbro (Jan 2008 – Feb 08)
•   Mohamed Mekhazni (Feb 2008 – March 8)
•   Ameur Djamil (March 27, 2008 – Sept 21, 2008)
•   Alain Michel (Sept 21, 2008 – Dec 09)
•   François Bracci (Dec 2009–10)
•   Alain Michel (June 2010 – March 15, 2011)
•   Noureddine Zekri (March 11, 2011 – July 19, 2011)
•   Abdelhak Menguellati (June 2011 – Aug 11)
•   Abdelhak Benchikha (Sept 1, 2011 – Oct 5, 2011)
•   François Bracci (Oct 23, 2011 – Feb 11, 2012)
•   Kamel Bouhellal (Feb 10, 2012 – May 5, 2012)
•   Abdelkrim Bira (May 4, 2012 – June 30, 2012)
•   Patrick Liewig (July 1, 2012 – Aug 20, 2012)
•   Jean-Paul Rabier (Aug 27, 2012 – Sept 23, 2012)
•   Djamel Menad (Sept 24, 2012 – May 9, 2013)
•   Farid Zemiti (interim) (May 10, 2013 – June 30, 2013)
•   Alain Geiger (July 1, 2013 – Nov 10, 2013)
•   Fouad Bouali (Nov 18, 2013–14)
•   Artur Jorge (2014 – October 8, 2015)
•   Meziane Ighil (October 13, 2015– February 2016)
•   Lotfi Amrouche (Mars, 2016 – May 27, 2016)
•   Djamel Menad (June, 2016– October, 2016)
•   Kamel Mouassa (October, 2016– July, 2017)
•   Bernard Casoni (August, 2017– August, 2018)
•   Rafik Saifi (September 15, 2018– October 23, 2018)
•   Adel Amrouche (October, 2018– March 12, 2019)
•   Bernard Casoni (July, 2019– December 8, 2019)
•   Mohamed Mekhazni (December 8, 2019– February 5, 2020)
•   Nabil Neghiz (February 5, 2020 – February 4, 2021)
•   Abdelkader Amrani (February 7, 2021 – April 12, 2021)
•   Nabil Neghiz (April 28, 2021 –August 10, 2021)
•   Khaled Ben Yahia (September 1, 2021 –June 10, 2022)
•   Faruk Hadžibegić (July 16, 2022 –September 10, 2022)
•   Faouzi Benzarti (September 25, 2022 –)

References

1. "MCA : Faouzi Benzarti, nouveau coach".
2. "le MC Alger : un club, une histoire, un palmarès" (in French). APS.dz. August 29, 2012. Archived from the original on January 6, 2013. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
3. "African Club Competitions 1976". Rsssf.com. 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2015-07-10.
4. . Kazeo.com. Archived from the original on 2012-04-24. Retrieved 2015-07-10.
5. "FICHE DU CLUB: MC ALGER".

External links

• MC Alger on Facebook