# 2024–25 USM Alger basketball season

The 2024–25 season was USM Alger's 63rd in existence, their 6th consecutive season in the top flight of the Algerian basketball, USM Alger are participating in this season's editions of the Algerian Cup.

## Overview

After the withdrawal of Saïd Allik who decided not to run for a new term, Allik has expressed his desire to pass the torch, providing an opportunity for new faces to take the reins of the club, on September 18, 2024, Djabrouni Fouad a member of the Judo Section, was elected as the new president of the CSA/USMA. Djabrouni received 16 votes out of 24 voters, while the other candidate, Khebaz Hamid the treasurer received only 7 votes. The first phase of the Super Division played in a two-legged format, 26 rounds in total. At the end of this phase, the top eight teams in the standings will play the Play-offs, while the remaining six teams will play the Play-downs. The FABB also announced the renewal of the decision prohibiting foreign players from playing in the Super Division, the FABB which set the deadline for submitting the commitment file to September 30.
The first match of the new season was against CSC Gué de Constantine at home. USM Alger was behind in the first three quarters, and in the fourth and final quarter, USMA reduced the score to one point, which was not enough to receive its first defeat. On December 3, 2024, WO Boufarik star Lamouri Merahi joined USM Alger. On December 5, 2024, after leading USM Alger to return to the podium with two league and cup titles, coach Réda El Hachemi left for rival club MC Alger. On January 31, 2024, the Algerian Basketball Federation (FABB), announced the scheduling of the Basketball Super Cup match on February 11, 2025 at La Coupole d'Alger Arena between WO Boufarik, the Super Division champion, and USM Alger, the Algerian Cup champion. WO Boufarik beat USM Alger with a score of 70-59.

## Players
### Super Division roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

### Transactions
#### In

| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | Moving from | Type | Ends | Transfer fee | Date |
| 2 | | Lamouri Merahi | 29 | WO Boufarik | Transfer | June 2025 | Free | 3 December 2024 |
| 77 | G | Ahmed Boutiba | 29 | MC Alger | Transfer | June 2025 | Free | 20 December 2024 |
| 26 | C | Faredj Messaoudi | 22 | Shonan Sesaside | Transfer | June 2025 | Free | |
| 24 | | Mohamed Amairia | | WO Boufarik | Transfer | June 2025 | Free | |

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Win % |
| Super Division | 9 November 2024 | In Progress | Round 1 | To be confirmed | 17 | 9 | | 8 | 1,043 | 983 | +60 | 052.94 |
| Algerian Cup | In Progress | In Progress | Round of 32 | To be confirmed | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | !— |
| Algerian Super Cup | 11 February 2025 | 11 February 2025 | Final | Runners–up | 1 | 0 | | 1 | 59 | 70 | −11 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 18 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 1,102 | 1,053 | +49 | 050.00 |
Last updated: March 14, 2025 Source: Competitions

### Super Division
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
| 8 | USM Blida | 15 | 7 | 8 | 1029 | 1054 | −25 | 22 | Advance to playoffs |
| 9 | TRA Draria | 15 | 6 | 9 | 929 | 966 | −37 | 21 | Advance to Play down |
| 10 | USM Alger | 15 | 7 | 8 | 906 | 864 | +42 | 21 | Advance to Play down |
| 11 | Rouiba CB | 15 | 5 | 10 | 950 | 981 | −31 | 20 | Advance to Play down |
| 12 | M Ouled Chebel | 15 | 3 | 12 | 900 | 1020 | −120 | 18 | Advance to Play down |
* ↑ USM Alger were deducted 1 points.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
| Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | W | L | PF | PA | PD | W | L | PF | PA | PD |
| 17 | 9 | 8 | 1043 | 983 | +60 | 6 | 3 | 620 | 544 | +76 | 3 | 5 | 423 | 439 | −16 |
Last updated: March 14, 2025. Source: Competitive matches

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H |
| Result | L | L | W | L | L | L | W | L | W | W | W | W | W | L | L | W | W | | | | | | | | | |
| Position | 8 | 10 | 7 | | 10 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | | | | | | | | | |

#### Matches

All times are local, WAT (UTC+1).

### Super Cup

| Starters: | Starters: | Starters: | Pts | Reb | Ast |
| SG | 1 | Tarek Hamdani | 5 | 5 | 3 |
| SG | 23 | Kadour Métidji | 13 | 1 | 1 |
| SF | 32 | Cherif Djamel Eddine Achache | 11 | 7 | 2 |
| C | 44 | Rabah Zitoun | 12 | 8 | 0 |
| | 99 | Mohamed Akram Sahraoui | 10 | 3 | 2 |
| Reserves: | Reserves: | Reserves: | | | |
| | 8 | Adel Bachouche | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| C | 10 | Mohamed Seddik Touati | 12 | 6 | 0 |
| PG | 11 | Abdelhak Henna | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| SF | 12 | Zakaria Foughali | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| PF | 14 | Louai Chebel | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| | 15 | Redouane Mimouni | 7 | 3 | 2 |
| SG | 21 | Fayçal Zerouk Belkhodja | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| Head coach: ||||||
| Sofiane Boulahia ||||||
| WO Boufarik | USM Alger |
| WO Boufarik | Statistics | USM Alger |
| 19/38 (50.0%) | 2-pt field goals | 19/49 (38.8%) |
| 5/19 (26.3%) | 3-pt field goals | 2/28 (7.1%) |
| 17/29 (58.6%) | Free throws | 15/19 (78.9%) |
| 12 | Offensive rebounds | 18 |
| 38 | Defensive rebounds | 27 |
| 50 | Total rebounds | 45 |
| 19 | Assists | 17 |
| 21 | Turnovers | 14 |
| | Steals | |
| 3 | Blocks | 2 |
| 34 | Fouls | 36 |
| Starters: | Starters: | Starters: | Pts | Reb | Ast |
| F/C | 0 | Nabil Saidi | 12 | 6 | 3 |
| | 2 | Lamouri Merahi | 13 | 4 | 2 |
| | 10 | Bouhaous Messaoudi | 8 | 6 | 3 |
| | 24 | Mohamed Amairia | 11 | 7 | 1 |
| G | 77 | Ahmed Boutiba | 7 | 8 | 2 |
| Reserves: | Reserves: | Reserves: | | | |
| | 1 | Ramadane Belhadj | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| | 4 | Zakaria Khoudja | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| | 7 | Riadh Lakeb | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| | 9 | Moussa Bougria | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| | 11 | Tarek Redouane | DNP | DNP | DNP |
| | 21 | Bacim Medjoubi | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C | 26 | Faredj Messaoudi | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Head coach: ||||||
| Ali Benhocine ||||||