USM Alger Reserves and Academy

USM Alger Under-23s are the reserve team of USM Alger. The team mainly consists of Under-23 players at the club, although senior players occasionally play in the reserve side, for instance when they are recovering from injury. The Under-23s team are managed by Sylvain Matrisciano and they play in the Ligue Professionnelle 1.

Union sportive de la médina d'Alger
Full nameUSM Alger Development Squad & Academy
Nickname(s)The Reds and Blacks
Founded1937 (1937)
(as Union Sportive Musulmane d'Alger)
GroundStade Omar Hammadi
CapacityStade Omar Hammadi 17,500
OwnerGroupe SERPORT (94.34%)[1]
Small shareholders (5.66%)
ChairmanAchour Djelloul
ManagerVacant (Under 21s)
Vacant (Academy)
WebsiteClub website

History

USM Alger is one of the clubs that owns a well-known football school in Algeria. In the seventies the club relied on players who graduated from the club most notably Djamel Zidane and Djamel Keddou who spent all his football career with USM Alger. In the eighties, ninety percent of the squad was from the team, especially in the winning season of the Algerian Cup in 1988. Where was the majority of the players from the club, where coach Djamel Keddou put his trust in the colleagues of Farid Bengana, Amirouche Lalili, Farid Mouaci, Salim Boutamine, Athmane Nourine and Tarek Hadj Adlane.

Ligue Professionnelle 1

Current squad

These players can also play with the senior squad and are all Young Professionals.

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— GK Algeria ALG Abdellah Zakaria Saouchi
— GK Algeria ALG
— GK Algeria ALG
— DF Algeria ALG
— DF Algeria ALG Wassim Ouhab
— DF Algeria ALG
— DF Algeria ALG
— DF Algeria ALG Abdessamed Bounacer
— DF Algeria ALG Mohamed Bensaid
— DF Algeria ALG
— DF Algeria ALG
— DF Algeria ALG
— MF Algeria ALG
— MF Algeria ALG
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Algeria ALG Mohamed Djenidi
— MF Algeria ALG Mostafa Bekane
— MF Algeria ALG Aymen Kennan
— MF Algeria ALG
— MF Algeria ALG
— MF Algeria ALG
— MF Algeria ALG
— FW Algeria ALG
— FW Algeria ALG
— FW Algeria ALG
— FW Algeria ALG Samy Bouali
— FW Algeria ALG Khalil Darfalou
— FW Algeria ALG Mohamed Ait El Hadj
— FW Algeria ALG Abderraouf Othmani

Notable graduates

Current USM Alger players in bold.

       

Honours

References
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