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.

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Union sportive de la médina d'Alger

Full name	USM Alger Development Squad & Academy
Nickname(s)	The Reds and Blacks
Founded	1937; 85 years ago (1937) (as Union Sportive Musulmane d'Alger)
Ground	Stade Omar Hammadi
Capacity	Stade Omar Hammadi 17,500
Owner	Groupe SERPORT (94.34%)[1] Small shareholders (5.66%)
Chairman	Achour Djelloul
Manager	Vacant (Under 21s) Vacant (Academy)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

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.

The Players

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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  ALG Abdellah Zakaria Saouchi — GK  ALG — GK  ALG — DF  ALG — DF  ALG Wassim Ouhab — DF  ALG — DF  ALG — DF  ALG Abdessamed Bounacer — DF  ALG Mohamed Bensaid — DF  ALG — DF  ALG — DF  ALG — MF  ALG — MF  ALG

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ALG Mohamed Djenidi — MF  ALG Mostafa Bekane — MF  ALG Aymen Kennan — MF  ALG — MF  ALG — MF  ALG — MF  ALG — FW  ALG — FW  ALG — FW  ALG — FW  ALG Samy Bouali — FW  ALG Khalil Darfalou — FW  ALG Mohamed Ait El Hadj — FW  ALG Abderraouf Othmani

Notable graduates

Current USM Alger players in bold.

Honours

• Ligue Professionnelle 1 U21
  • Winners: 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15,[2] 2015–16.[3]
• Ligue Professionnelle 1 U18
  • Winners: 2011–12.[4]
• Algerian Cup Junior
  • Winners: 1972, 1973, 1975, 1989, 1998, 2000.
  • Runners Up: 1970.
• Algerian U21 Cup
  • Winners: 2018
• Algerian Cup Under-18s
  • Winners: 2017.[5]
  • Runners Up: 2016.
• Algerian Cup Under-17s
  • Winners: 2011.
  • Runners Up: 2007, 2015.
• Algerian Cup Under-15s
  • Runners Up: 2008, 2011, 2015.

References