page_title: History of USM Alger
section_title: Back in the top flight and win the title after 33 years
hierarchical_section_title: History of USM Alger / Allik Era (1994–2010) / Back in the top flight and win the title after 33 years
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: usmalger 1995
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: In 1994 Saïd Allik became Chairman of the Board of Directors of USM Alger and promised to return the team to Division 1, On May 26, 1995 USM Alger won away from home against MC Ouargla and achieved an promotion challenge back to the Division 1 after five full seasons under the leadership of Younis Ifticen, Allik announce that USM Alger has returned to its normal place and will not fall again to the second division, In 1995–96 season Ifticen left USM Alger despite achieving the underlined goall to be replaced by Ahmed Aït El Hocine, In Algiers Derby who played in Omar Hamadi Stadium and after USM Alger scored a goal, the assistant referee was injured by smoke gases, to stop and be repeated behind closed doors in the same stadium. After that it was decided that the Algiers Derby would not be played in the future in this stadium with the presence of the fans. After a great struggle with MC Oran for the title and in the last round USM Alger won the title after its victory against CS Constantine at Stade Mohamed Hamlaoui, with a difference of only two points.
  In the following season, USM Alger was unable to retain its title, and in the last match against CS Constantine it happened unlike last season, where this time CS Constantine need to win to achieve the title which was happened, twenty-four years after Tahar Chérif El-Ouazzani stated that they were deprived of two championship titles because of USM Alger. in 1997 CAF Champions League USMA participated for the first time a new copy of the competition, Where they reached the group stage in the last match against Primeiro de Agosto, USM Alger won with a single goal that was not enough to qualify for the final after a major conflict with Moroccan club Raja Casablanca. In 1997–98 season Algerian Football Federation change league system to the groups USMA signed in the group B with strong teams such as the ES Setif, JS Kabylie and MC Alger side managed to qualify for the final 3 points for JS Kabylie Then in the final against USM El Harrach at Stade du 5 Juillet 1962 USM Alger lost the title 2–3 after he advanced (2–0) 20 minutes before the end of a match to receive a full team of three goals, in the final minute USMA to get a Penalty kick Its lost by defender Mounir Zeghdoud.
  In the CAF Cup in 1999, USM Alger arrived to the quarter-finals and eliminated against Moroccan club Wydad Casablanca in either  National 1 1999–2000 season was the worst season since the rise of the Red and Black and finished in last place with 21 points, but in this season, there was no fall to the second division, also USM Alger disqualified in 2000 African Cup Winners' Cup to be punished not to participate in any African competition for one year because of the participation an ineligible of goalkeeper Burkinabé Siaka Coulibaly against JS du Ténéré. in the Algerian League Cup arrived to the semi-final round and lost to CR Belouizdad score (2–1), either in the African Cup Winners Cup in 2002, the team achieved a post good and arrived in the semi-final and once again defeated against Wydad Casablanca and depriving them of their first continental title.
caption: USM Alger Team Winning the league title season 1995–96.
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