# List of USM Alger international footballers

This is a list of players, past and present, who have been capped by their country in international football whilst playing for Union Sportive Médina d'Alger. a further 5 nations have fielded USM Alger players in their international sides. and the first player from the team to participate in the African Cup was Boubekeur Belbekri in 1968 and the first goal scored by an Al Ittihad player was Billel Dziri in 1996 against Burkina Faso, The largest number of players in one tournament was in 1998 with the participation of four namely Meftah, Ghoul, Zeghdoud and Hamdani all of them defenders, In the Olympic games Abderrahmane Derouaz is the first to participate in the 1980 Moscow tournament and also in 2004 Malian Mamadou Diallo participated as the first foreigner from USM Alger in this Competition, after 36 years of absence the Algeria national under-23 football team qualified for Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics and among the squad's list are five players Abdellaoui, Benguit, Benkhemassa, Darfalou and Meziane. In the FIFA World Cup the only player to participate was the goalkeeper Mohamed Lamine Zemmamouche in 2014. On January 3, 2023, Madjid Bougherra unveiled the list of 28 players who represent Algeria at the 2022 African Nations Championship, including nine players from USMA, Belaïd, Loucif, Radouani, Baouche, Chita, Djahnit, Meziane, Mahious and Ait El Hadj, Two-thirds of Algeria's roster is made up of players from CR Belouizdad and USM Alger.

## Players

Key :
| GK | Goalkeeper | Goalkeeper | Goalkeeper |
| DF | Defender | Defender | Defender |
| MF | Midfielder | Midfielder | Midfielder |
| FW | Forward | Forward | Forward |
| Bold | Still playing competitive football | Still playing competitive football | Still playing competitive football |

### Algerien players

USM Alger Algerian international footballers :
| Name | Position | Date of first cap | Debut against | Date of last cap | Final match against | Caps |
| Boubekeur Belbekri | MF | 26 Feb 1963 | Czechoslovakia | 16 Jan 1968 | Ethiopia | 4 |
| Abdelmalek Ali Messaoud | DF | 7 Apr 1974 | Morocco | 17 Nov 1978 | Congo | 25 |
| Abderrahmane Meziani | FW | 6 Jan 1963 | Bulgaria | 14 Mar 1965 | Tunisia | 5 |
| Rabie Benchergui | FW | 26 Sep 2003 | Burkina Faso | 26 Sep 2003 | Burkina Faso | 1 |
| Djamel Bougandoura | DF | 20 Aug 2002 | DR Congo | 20 Aug 2002 | DR Congo | 1 |
| Kamel Maouche | MF | June 30, 2001 | Namibia | July 21, 2001 | Egypt | 2 |
| Mouldi Aïssaoui | MF | June 19, 1969 | United Arab Republic | April 11, 1971 | Mali | 5 |
| Fares El Aouni | DF | 30 Jun 2001 | Namibia | 30 Jun 2001 | Namibia | 1 |
| Abderrahmane Derouaz | DF | 9 Dec 1979 | Morocco | 24 Jul 1980 | Spain | 4 |
| Smaïl Slimani | MF | 23 Sep 1979 | Tunisia | 19 Mar 1980 | Egypt | 6 |
| Billel Dziri | MF | 21 Oct 1995 | Mali | 19 Jun 2005 | Zimbabwe | 30 |
| Azzedine Rahim | MF | 21 Oct 1995 | Mali | 14 Jun 1996 | Kenya | 4 |
| Mahieddine Meftah | DF | 6 Oct 1996 | Ivory Coast | 28 Jan 2002 | Mali | 41 |
| Tarek Ghoul | DF | 13 Jul 1997 | Mali | 26 Sep 2003 | Burkina Faso | 9 |
| Mounir Zeghdoud | DF | 13 Jul 1997 | Mali | 3 Jul 2004 | Nigeria | 23 |
| Salim Aribi | DF | 14 May 2002 | Belgium | 28 Apr 2004 | China | 16 |
| Nacereddine Khoualed | DF | 25 May 2013 | Mauritania | 19 Nov 2013 | Burkina Faso | 4 |
| Hichem Mezaïr | GK | 9 Jul 2000 | Morocco | 15 Jan 2004 | Mali | 19 |
| Hocine Achiou | MF | 25 Jan 2003 | Uganda | 4 Jun 2006 | Sudan | 25 |
| Saad Tedjar | MF | 9 Sep 2012 | Libya | 30 Jan 2013 | Ivory Coast | 5 |
| Merouane Abdouni | GK | 20 Aug 2002 | DR Congo | 17 Nov 2004 | Senegal | 3 |
| Amar Ammour | MF | 25 Jan 2003 | Uganda | 28 Apr 2004 | China | 3 |
| Mokhtar Benmoussa | DF | 26 May 2012 | Mauritania | 7 June 2018 | Portugal | 5 |
| Tarek Hadj Adlane | FW | 29 Oct 1988 | Angola | 5 Mar 1991 | Tunisia | 14 |
| Mohamed Hamdoud | DF | 28 Feb 1999 | Liberia | 7 Oct 2006 | Gambia | 5 |
| Fayçal Hamdani | DF | 26 Jul 1997 | Benin | 9 Apr 1999 | Liberia | 4 |
| Djamel Keddou | DF | 13 Aug 1973 | United Arab Emirates | 4 Jul 1978 | Iraq | 20 |
| Hamza Koudri | MF | 26 Mar 2013 | Benin | 26 Mar 2013 | Benin | 1 |
| Abdelkader Laïfaoui | DF | 3 Sep 2011 | Tanzania | 3 Sep 2011 | Tanzania | 1 |
| Khaled Lemmouchia | MF | 9 Oct 2011 | Central African Republic | 15 Jun 2012 | Gambia | 5 |
| Hocine Metref | MF | 8 Oct 2005 | Gabon | 4 Jun 2006 | Sudan | 4 |
| Lamine Zemmamouche | GK | 19 Nov 2013 | Burkina Faso | 15 Nov 2014 | Ethiopia | 4 |
| Djamel Amani | MF | 15 Dec 1987 | Mauritania | 6 Jan 1989 | Zimbabwe | 6 |
| Youcef Belaïli | FW | 26 Mar 2015 | Qatar | 30 Mar 2015 | Oman | 2 |
| Brahim Boudebouda | DF | 13 Oct 2015 | Senegal | 13 Oct 2015 | Senegal | 1 |
| Isâad Bourahli | FW | 9 Oct 2004 | Rwanda | 9 Feb 2005 | Burkina Faso | 3 |
| Farouk Chafaï | DF | 26 Mar 2015 | Qatar | 1 June 2018 | Cape Verde | 6 |
| Rabah Deghmani | DF | 21 Apr 2001 | Senegal | 15 Oct 2001 | Burkina Faso | 5 |
| Farid Djahnine | MF | 6 Jun 1999 | Tunisia | 21 Jul 2001 | Egypt | 2 |
| Hassen Djemaâ | DF | 6 Mar 1966 | Morocco | 17 Nov 1968 | Tunisia | 11 |
| Zinedine Ferhat | MF | 5 Mar 2014 | Slovenia | 5 Mar 2014 | Slovenia | 1 |
| Karim Ghazi | MF | 14 May 2002 | Belgium | 9 Feb 2005 | Burkina Faso | 16 |
| Mohamed Rabie Meftah | DF | 7 Jan 2017 | Mauritania | 23 Jan 2017 | Senegal | 4 |
| Nacer Guedioura | MF | 17 Aug 1973 | South Yemen | 19 Mar 1975 | Sweden | 2 |
| Raouf Benguit | MF | 5 Sep 2017 | Zambia | 7 Oct 2017 | Cameroon | 2 |
| Ayoub Abdellaoui | DF | 10 Nov 2017 | Nigeria | 14 Nov 2017 | Central African Republic | 2 |
| Mohamed Benkhemassa | MF | 7 June 2018 | Portugal | 26 Mar 2019 | Tunisia | 3 |
| Oussama Chita | MF | 18 Nov 2018 | Togo | 18 Jun 2023 | Uganda | 2 |
| Haithem Loucif | DF | 18 Jun 2023 | Uganda | 18 Jun 2023 | Uganda | 1 |
| Zineddine Belaïd | DF | 18 Jun 2023 | Uganda | 10 Jun 2024 | Uganda | 2 |
| Aymen Mahious | FW | 18 Jun 2023 | Uganda | 18 Jun 2023 | Uganda | 1 |
| Saâdi Radouani | DF | 14 Oct 2024 | Togo | 14 Oct 2024 | Togo | 1 |

### Foreign players

| Name | Position | Date of first cap | Debut against | Date of last cap | Final match against | Caps |
| Hamidou Balbone | FW | 2 Feb 2004 | Kenya | 2 Feb 2004 | Kenya | 1 |
| Mamadou Diallo | FW | 5 Sep 2004 | Senegal | 5 Sep 2004 | Senegal | 4 |
| Mintou Doucoure | MF | 3 Jun 2013 | Benin | 3 Jun 2013 | Benin | 1 |
| Abdoulaye Maïga | DF | 26 Mar 2011 | Zimbabwe | 3 Jun 2012 | Benin | 6 |
| Carolus Andriamatsinoro | FW | 18 May 2014 | Uganda | 9 Jun 2017 | Sudan | 14 |
| Yacouba Ali | MF | 9 June 2013 | Burkina Faso | 15 Jun 2013 | Gabon | 2 |
| Prince Ibara | FW | 11 Oct 2018 | Liberia | 24 Mar 2019 | Zimbabwe | 4 |
| Muaid Ellafi | MF | 24 Mar 2019 | South Africa | 19 Nov 2019 | Tanzania | 7 |
| Kwame Opoku | FW | 12 Jun 2021 | Ivory Coast | 6 Sep 2021 | South Africa | 2 |
| Zakaria Alharaish | MF | 21 Sep 2022 | Uganda | 17 Jun 2023 | Botswana | 2 |
| Tumisang Orebonye | FW | 24 Mar 2023 | Equatorial Guinea | 16 Nov 2023 | Mozambique | 5 |
| Adalid Terrazas | MF | 10 Oct 2024 | Colombia | 14 Nov 2024 | Ecuador | 3 |