page_title: History of USM Alger
section_title: CAF Champions League final for the first time
hierarchical_section_title: History of USM Alger / Haddad ownership (2010–20) / CAF Champions League final for the first time
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Photographie prise lors du match opposant le Stade rennais à l'USM Alger en match amical au stade Paul-Audrin de Dinard le 16 juillet 2016. Ici, Nacereddine Khoualed.
context_page_description: Union Sportive Médina d'Alger, commonly referred to as USMA, is an Algerian professional association football club based in Algiers, whose first team play in the highest tier of Algerian football, the Ligue 1. Established on 5 July 1937. He won the first trophy in 1963 against MC Alger and reached the final of the cup. 17 time, a record, including five consecutive times from 1969 to 1973 and won eight first time in 1981 against ASM Oran and last against MC Alger in 2013 also made the USMA Super Cup twice either on the level of the Continental Union did not achieve any title and the best result is the 2015 CAF Champions League Final The team landed to the second division of several times the first from 1965 to 1969 and, latest of which, the longest from 1990 to 1995 USMA won the UAFA Club Cup in 2013 against the Al-Arabi Club Kuwaiti 3–2 on aggregate as the first international title but is not recognized by FIFA.
context_section_description: The beginning of the 2014–15 season were not good where he was defeated in a meeting season opening against MC Alger in the Super Cup after the piece and in the defense of the league title trip initially were not good On 23 August 2014, It witnessed the top match against JS Kabylie where it ended in a 2–1 victory and Youcef Belaïli's goal in the last minutes, But after the end of the match and while the players went to the changing rooms, the JS Kabylie player Albert Ebossé Bodjongo was assaulted, Albert was killed by a projectile thrown from the crowd. in the first eight rounds USM Alger did not win only in two matches put him in 13th place, but after the piece things returned to normal and the team won five consecutive wins to top the league for the first time this season, but the lead did not last only one round to go back again and bad results after five games without a win USM Alger Administration separated from her coach Velud. He was replaced by German manager Otto Pfister. But the results were not good eight meetings without a win with the exclusion of the Algerian Cup against ASO Chlef. last hope to end the season title at least, less than three months after the appointed Pfister was sacked as coach of USM Alger. to take over all of Mounir Zeghdoud and Mahieddine Meftah temporarily to the end of the season the team to ensure survival in the final round against ASO Chlef score 3–1.
  Summer 2015, Miloud Hamdi officially USMA coach for three seasons. since Hamdi, supported the president Ali Haddad, comes with USMA reached the Final of the 2015 CAF Champions League finished 1st in their group Five consecutive victories and a single defeat against Al-Merrikh Sudanese, Advance to the semi-finals and find Al Hilal of Sudan 2–1 win in total. In the final, USMA loses against the TP Mazembe 4–1 after confrontation. This is the first time in the history of the club USMA reached the final. In 2015–16 season under the leadership of coach Hamdi achieved a historic achievement by reaching the CAF Champions League final for the first time and also won the league title for the seventh time in the Date is the second in the professional era USM Alger has achieved the beginning of a very strong and did not defeated in seventeen meeting consecutive. including seven consecutive victory, in the second half of the season dropped the team's performance is limited, especially with the end of the season and defeat against RC Relizane away from home and JS Saoura inside the home and then draw against MC Alger in the Algiers Derby meeting, exposed players to a large Criticisms after the end of the shed where he wanted fans to celebrate the title against rivals MC Alger, in twenty seventh round against ASM Oran within Teammates captain Khoualed title after winning score 3–0, in the twenty-nine round against DRB Tadjenanet celebrated players, the managers, crew members technical and supporters the shield championship.
  Algerian Champion for the seventh time last season, it's a USM Alger "new look" who will defend his title, the club management decided to overhaul the team, starting with the coaching staff. Indeed, the Belgian-Algerian Adel Amrouche, former coach of Kenya, Burundi and Equatorial Guinea, replaced Hamdi but before the start of the season three days to resign was replace by French manager Cavalli But the experiment did not last long Cavalli with the team because of bad performance, even though the team made the tournament but the defeat by CA Batna wheel of his departure to be compensated by the coach Belgian Paul Put. former coach of The Gambia and Jordan, was finalist of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations with Burkina Faso, and was crowned Africa Under-17 champion with The Gambia. Then in the final of the Super Cup, led by interim coach Mustapha Aksouh achieves title after beating city rivals MC Alger score 2–0.
caption: Nacereddine Khoualed captain from 2010 to 2016.
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