USM Alger
Sign in to saveAlso known as Union Sportive Médina d'Alger, USMA, USMAlger, U.S.M.A.
football club based in Algiers, Algeria
Key facts
- Full name
- Union Sportive de la Médina d'Alger
- Nicknames
- USMA , Usmiste , al Ittihad , awled El Bahdja , ittihad Kahraba , Soustara
- Short name
- USMA
- Founded
- July 5, 1937 ; 88 years ago ( 1937-07-05 ) , as (Union Sportive Muslmane Algérois)
- Ground
- Stade du 5 Juillet
- Capacity
- 64,000
- Owner
- Groupe SERPORT (94.34%) , Small shareholders (5.66%)
- President
- Bilel Nouioua
- Manager
- Lamine N'Diaye
- League
- Ligue 1
- 2025 26
- Ligue 1 , 10th of 16
- Website
- www .usma .dz
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- association football club
- Official name
- Union Sportive Médina d'Alger
- Country
- Algeria
- Headquarters
- Algiers
- Sport
- association football
- Image
- USM Alger, 2014-02-15.jpg
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- home venue
- Omar Hamadi Stadium
- topic's main category
- Category:USM Alger
- Commons category
- USM Alger
- inception
- 1937-07-05
- official color
- black
- nickname
- Kahraba
- social media followers
- 19609
- category for members of a team
- Category:USM Alger players
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Encyclopedic overview
Current season
Union Sportive de la Médina d'Alger (Arabic: الإتحاد الرياضي لمدينة الجزائر); known as USM Alger or simply USMA for short, is a football club based in the inner suburbs of Algiers. The club was founded in 1937 and its colours are red and black. Their home stadium, Omar Hamadi Stadium, has a capacity of 10,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “USM Alger” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.