MC Alger

This article is about the Algerian football club. For other uses, see Mouloudia (disambiguation).

MC Alger

Full name	Mouloudia Club d'Alger
Nickname(s)	Le doyen (Dean)
Founded	August 7, 1921 (1921-08-07) (90 years ago) as Mouloudia Chaàbya d'Alger
Ground	Stade 5 Juillet 1962, Alger (Capacity: 80,000)
President	Omar Ghrib
Head Coach	François Bracci
League	Ligue Professionnelle 1
2010–11	Ligue Professionnelle 1, 10th
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Mouloudia Club d'Alger (Arabic: نادي مولودية الجزائر‎), referred to as MC Alger or MCA for short, is an Algerian football club based in Algiers, founded in 1921. The club colours are red and green. They play at the Stade 5 Juillet 1962.

History

In 1976, MC Alger qualified for the African Cup Of Champions Clubs for the first time in its history after winning the 1974–1975 Algerian Championnat National. They reached the final after beating Al-Ahly Benghazi of Libya, Al-Ahly of Egypt, Luo Union of Kenya and Enugu Rangers of Nigeria, respectively.^[1] In the final, they met Guinean-club Hafia Conakry, who had won the last edition of the competition. In the first leg in Conakry, MC Alger lost 3–0 and faced the difficult task of having to score three goals in the return leg. However, in the return leg, they managed to score the three goals with a brace from Omar Betrouni and a goal from Zoubir Bachi.^[2] They went on to win the penalty shootout 4–1 to win their first African title and also become the first Algerian club to win a continental competition.

Honors

• Algerian Championnat National: 7

1972, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1999, 2010

• Algerian Cup: 6

1971, 1973, 1976, 1983, 2006, 2007

• Algerian League Cup: 2

1998, 1999

• Algerian Super Cup: 2

2006, 2007

• African Cup of Champions Clubs: 1

1976

• Maghreb Cup Winners Cup: 2

1971, 1974

Performance in CAF competitions

• CAF Champions League: 2 appearances

2000 – First Round

2011 – In Progress

• African Cup of Champions Clubs: 4 appearances

1976: Champion

1977: Quarter-Finals

1979: Second Round

1980: Quarter-Finals

• CAF Confederation Cup: 1 appearance

2008 – Second Round

• CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 2 appearances

1983 – Quarter-Finals

1984 – Second Round

Current squad (2011–12)

As of November 10, 2011:^[3]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Faouzi Chaouchi 2 DF Amine Belaïd 3 FW Hervé Oussalé 5 DF Walid Cherfa 6 MF Yanis Youcef 7 MF Billel Attafen 8 MF Tayeb Berramla 9 FW Mohamed Amroune 11 DF Abdelkader Besseghir 12 DF Mohamed Megherbi 14 MF Nabil Yaâlaoui 15 DF Réda Babouche (captain) 16 MF Karim Ghazi

No. Position Player 18 MF Farid Daoud 19 MF El Almi Daoudi 20 DF Claude Mobitang 21 FW Abdelhakim Laref 22 FW Réda Sayah 23 MF Hamza Koudri 25 DF Hamza Zeddam 28 GK Sofiane Azzedine 30 DF Abdelmalek Djeghbala 31 FW Zinedine Bensalem 35 GK Farid Bouzidi – MF Seddik Berradja

Notable players

Below are the notable former players who have represented MC Alger in league and international competition since the club's foundation in 1921. To appear in the section below, a player must have played in at least 100 official matches for the club or represented the national team for which the player is eligible during his stint with MC Alger or following his departure.

For a complete list of MC Alger players, see Category:MC Alger players

Algeria Fayçal Badji Lakhdar Belloumi Ali Bencheikh Omar Betrouni Hadj Bouguèche Abdesslem Bousri Ismaël Bouzid Noureddine Daham Farès Fellahi

Fodil Hadjadj Larbi Hosni Tarek Lazizi Bouzid Mahyouz Fawzi Moussouni Amokrane Oualiken Rafik Saïfi Mohamed Lamine Zemmamouche

Mali Moussa Coulibaly Drissa Diakite Togo Mamam Cherif Touré

References

1. ^ Champions' Cup 1976
2. ^ Les différentes participations du MC Alger en compétition Africaine
3. ^ [1]

External links

• (Arabic) Official Fans Site