USM Bel Abbes
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Union Sportive de la Médina Bel Abbès (Arabic: الإتحاد الرياضي لمدينة بلعباس), known as USM Bel Abbès or simply USMBA for short, is an Algerian football club located in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria, that was founded in 1933 and its colors are green and red. Their home stadium, 24 February 1956 Stadium, has a capacity of 45,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Inter-Régions Division.
History
The team was founded on 7 February 1933 under the name of Union Sportive Musulmane de Bel Abbès. It was one of the great teams in the French colonial period. Between 1977 and 1987, the club was parrained by ENIE, an electronic national society and was named Electronique Sari Madinat Bel Abbès (ESMBA).
On April 27, 2012, in the last round of the 2011-12 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2, USM Bel-Abbès beat USM Annaba 3–0 to finish third and win promotion to the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1, returning to the top flight after a 19-year absence. However the team return one year after in the second division but one year after again in 2014, they returned to the top division.
USM Bel Abbes zdobył dwa tytuły mistrza Algierii, w latach 1996 i 2003. Klub wygrał także trzy Puchary Algierii, w latach 1991, 1999 i 2018. W rozgrywkach międzynarodowych USM Bel Abbes występował w Pucharze Konfederacji CAF, Pucharze Ligi Mistrzów CAF i Pucharze Zdobywców Pucharów CAF.
Niektórzy z najbardziej znanych zawodników USM Bel Abbes to:
* Lahdar Belloumi
* Rabah Madjer
* Djamel Zidane
* Hocine Metref
* Mohamed Belkacemi
* Noureddine Daham