JS Kabylie

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JS Kabylie

Full name	Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie
Nickname(s)	The Canary The Lions of Djurdjura
Short name	JSK
Founded	August 2, 1946; 75 years ago (1946-08-02) as Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie
Ground	Stade du 1er Novembre 1954
Capacity	21,240
Chairman	Cherif Mellal
Manager	Henri Stambouli[1]
League	Ligue Professionnelle 1
2020–21	Ligue Professionnelle 1, 5th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie (in Kabyle: Ilemẓiyen inaddalen n leqbayel, in Arabic: الشبيبة الرياضية للقبائل‎) known as JS Kabylie or JSK, is an Algerian football club based in Tizi Ouzou. The club is named after the cultural, natural and historical region that is home to the Berber-speaking Kabyle (the letters ⵊ ⵙ ⴽ on the badge are Berber for JSK). The club was founded in 1946 and its colours are green and yellow. Their home stadium, Stade du 1er Novembre 1954, has a capacity of 21,240 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1. To date, it is the most successful football club in Algeria.

JS Kabylie has won the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 title 14 times, the Algerian Cup 5 times, the Algerian League Cup once and the Algerian Super Cup once.The club has also won a number of African titles, including the CAF Champions League twice, the African Cup Winners' Cup once and the CAF Cup three time.

History[]

On 2 August 1946 the club was officially founded with the name Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie, and began competing in the Third Division League Football Association of Algiers. They played their first official match on 13 October 1946 in the Seven Division.^[2]

In 1947–48 the club won the championship group, finishing first in their pool and therefore were promoted to the first division. The first season in the 1st division of Algiers ended with a second-place finish.^{[citation needed]}

They won their first Algerian Cup in 1977 as JS Kawkabi, defeating NA Hussein Dey 2–1.^[3]

The idea of an african super cup was introduced at the "Coupe de la Fraternité" in Abidjan. In 1982, the Jeunesse sportive de Kabylie, winner of the African Cup of Champions Clubs in 1981 won this trophy by winning against the winner of the African Cup of Cup Winners, Union Douala, by a penalty shoot-out (4–3) after the score of 1–1. But, this cup was officially born only from 1993 under the name of CAF Super Cup.^[4][5]

They won the Algerian league on seven occasions between 1979/80 and 1989/90, when they were known as JE Tizi-Ouzou.^[6]

They won the African Champions Cup in 1981 and 1990.^[7]

Following their fourth Algerian Cup success in 1994,^[3] in 1995 they won the African Cup Winners' Cup.^[8]

In 2000, 2001 and 2002 they won the CAF Cup three times in the row.

In 2004 and 2006 they won the league title.

In 2007–08, they won the league title,^[9] and were runners-up to ES Sétif the following season.^[10]

In 2011, they won the Algerian Cup.

They won Algerian League Cup in 2021.

Rivalries[]

JSK has a big rivalry with MC Alger (the big algerian clasico), with CR Belouizdad, with ES Setif, with USM Alger (Clasico kabylo-algérois).

Their matches with JSM Bejaia are known as the Derby of Kabylia.^[11]

A rivalry formed with another club in the city of Bejaia; MO Bejaia.^[12]

Honours[]

Domestic competitions[]

• Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1^[6]

Champions (14) (record): 1972–73, 1973–74, 1976–77, 1979–80, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1994–95, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2007–08

Runner-up (11): 1977–78, 1978–79, 1980–81, 1987–88, 1998–99, 2001–02, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2013–14, 2018–19

• Algerian Cup^[3]

Winner (5): 1976–77, 1985–86, 1991–92, 1993–94, 2010–11

Runner-up (6): 1978–79, 1990–91, 1998–99, 2003–04, 2013–14, 2017–18

• Algerian League Cup

Winner (1) (record): 2021

• Algerian Super Cup^[3]

Winner (1): 1992

Runner-up (3): 1994, 1995, 2006

International competitions[]

• African Champions Cup^[7]

Winner (2): 1981, 1990

• African Cup Winners' Cup^[8]

Winner (1): 1995

• CAF Cup^[13]

Winner (3) (record): 2000, 2001, 2002

• CAF Confederation Cup

Runner-up : 2021

• CAF Super Cup

Runner-up : 1996

• African Super Cup (Abidjan)

Winner (1): 1982

• Fraternity Tournament (Ivory Coast)

Winner (1): 1982

• Tripartite tournament of Dakar (Senegal)

Winner (1): 1985

• Maghreb Champions club (North Africa)

Runner-up : 1974

Statistics[]

Players with most appearances in officials competitions[]

Players[A 1]	Years	League	Cup	Africa[A 2]	Others[A 3]	Total
	1970–1984	424	20	22	4	470
Salah Larbès	1971–1987	+400		32	4	+400
Mohand Chérif Hannachi	1969–1983	+300		4	4	+300
	1970–1985	+300		26	4	+300
	1972–1985	+300		26	4	+300
	1977–1993	+300		50	13	+300
Mourad Amara	1977–1992	+300		46	12	+300
Abdelhamid Sadmi	1978–1994	+300		44	17	+300
	1978–1991	+300		34	12	+300
Rachid Adghigh	1980–1992	+300		40	12	+300

Players with most goals in officials competitions[]

Players[A 1]	Years	League	Cup	Africa[A 4]	Others[A 5]	Total
Nacer Bouiche	1983–1990	113	13	11		137
Tarek Hadj Adlane	1991–1996	70	10	9	5	94
	1965–1975	+78				+78
	1967–1976	+70				+70
Djamel Menad	1981–1987 1994–1996	+39	+13	8	1	+70
Hamid Berguiga	2001–2006	51	6	8		65
	1974–1981	+30	+6	1		+50
	1987–1994 1997–1999	35	8	4		47
Fawzi Moussouni	1994–2001	33	2	5	2	42
Nabil Hemani	2005–2008 2011–2012	29	6	4		39

Players with most titles in officials competitions[]

Players[A 1]	Years	League	Cup	Africa[A 6]	Others[A 7]	Total
	1977–1993	7	2	3	1	13
Abdelhamid Sadmi	1978–1994	7	3	3		13
Salah Larbès	1971–1987	8	2	2		12
Rachid Adghigh	1980–1992	6	2	3	1	12
Mourad Amara	1977–1992	6	2	3		11
	1978–1991	7	1	3		11
	1983–1997	5	3	2	1	11
	1970–1985	7	1	2		10
	1972–1985	7	1	2		10
	1972–1985	7	1	2		10

Sporting result[]

The JSK, officially created in , entered the competition in the Third Division and played its first official match on 13. Affiliated to both the French Football Association and the , it participated in all possible competitions in Algeria governed by these two organizations. The JSK won only one title during this period, it is a title of champion of the Second Division acquired at the end of the 1949–1950 season. An unofficial title of Premier Division champion also appears in its record when the team reached the Honorary Promotion Division. Finally the JSK will play its last match on 11 March 1956 and will cease all its activities following the appeal of the FLN.

Records[]

The club had many records in Algeria, in Africa and in the World.

• Best algerian club in the twenty century.
• The CAF classify the club on one on the best ten club in Africa on the twenty century.
• The club is ranking 7th club in africa during the decade (2001–2011) by the IFFHS and also among the top ten of all time.
• The club is the only algerian club that has never been relegated to the second division. He has 53 seasons in the row in top level.
• In Algeria, the club is the most successfful club in african cup with 7 african titles in 9 finals played.
• In Africa, the club is the 7th most successful club.
• JSK is the second Algerian club to have won the CAF Champions League.
• JSK is the first Algerian club to have won the CAF Champions League twice.
• JSK have never lost in the final of the CAF Champions League.
• JSK is the first Algerian club to achieve twice the double CAF Champions League – , in 1981 and 1990.
• JSK twice achieved the double – in 1977 and 1986.
• JSK won twice in a row the in and (the 1993 edition was not palyed).
• JSK holds the record for Algerian League Cup with a title tied with MC Oran, MC Alger and CR Belouizdad.
• JSK is the only Algerian club to have won the African Cup Winners' Cup.
• JSK is the only Algerian club to win the CAF Cup / CAF Confederation Cup.
• JSK holds two other African records: it won the CAF Cup three times and consecutively in 2000, 2001 and 2002.
• JSK is the first club in the world to win the Continental C3 three times in a row.
• The JSK is part of the very closed circle of clubs having won the three African competitions: the CAF Champions League, the African Cup Winners' Cup and the CAF Cup / CAF Confederation Cup, a record shared with Esperance de Tunis, Etoile Sportive du Sahel, Al Ahly, Zamalek and TP Mazembe.
• JSK is the Algerian club which has played the most African games (197 games) including (110 games) in the CAF Champions League as well as the club with the most of participation in African Cups (29 times).
• The JSK is the Algerian club which has played the most national and continental finals in all competitions: 9 African finals, one Maghrebian final, 11 final in the Algerian Cup, four final in the Algerian Super Cup, one final in the Algerian championship and a final in the Algerian League Cup (27 in total).
• JSK is the first African club to have won the CAF Super Cup at a tournament in Abidjan in 1982.
• JSK is the most successful club in the Algerian league (14 titles).
• The JSK holds the record for the highest number of points in the Algerian championship with 98 points on the counter achieved during the season , in a 20-club championship (38 fixtures).
• JSK is the second Algerian club which has played the most final in the Algerian Cup (11 finals).
• At the end of the season , JSK is the club with the most wins in the league (725 victories) in 52 seasons, having scored the most goals (2087 goals) and the third club having played the most top-flight matches (1585 matches).
• JSK holds the record for the greatest goal difference in a season with 89 goals scored for 22 goals conceded (+67) during the (38 fixtures).
• JSK achieved the best defense in its history during the with only 11 goals conceded in a 14 fixtures.
• The JSK also holds the record for the greatest number of league victories: 27 victories in 38 games during the season .
• The JSK jointly hold the record for the largest victory in the league with a score of 11–0, against JHD Algiers, achieved during the .
• JSK also holds the record for the greatest number of doubles in the Algerian league with four doubles.
• JSK holds the record for the most podiums with 31 podiums.
• Nacer Bouiche is the , the most prolific in the history of the championship, with a record of 36 goals scored during the (38 fixtures) with the club.
• The JSK also has the record for the greatest number of : 12 in total.
• JSK is part of the very closed circle of clubs which have never known relegation to the second division in the world since its accession to the first division.

Players[]

Most of the team players are Algerians, as the Algerian teams are limited to two foreign players. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player.

Current squad[]

As of 9 September 2021.^[14] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ALG 6 MF  ALG 8 MF  ALG Juba Oukaci 10 MF  ALG 12 FW  ALG 13 MF  ALG 15 FW  ALG 17 FW  ALG Rédha Bensayah (captain) 20 MF  ALG 21 MF  ALG Malik Raiah (vice-captain) 23 DF  ALG 26 DF  ALG 48 FW  ALG - DF  MLI - DF  ALG

No. Pos. Nation Player - DF  ALG - DF  ALG - DF  ALG - DF  ALG - MF  ALG - MF  ALG - MF  ALG - MF  ALG - MF  ALG - MF  ALG - FW  ALG - FW  ALG - GK  ALG - FW  ALG Dadi El Hocine Mouaki

Personnel[]

Current technical staff[]

Club personalities[]

Presidents[]

JSK is the most stable club in Algeria. It has only known 18 presidents since its creation in . The president who has been the club president the shortest is for a period of three months. The longest presidency of the JSK is that of Mohand Chérif Hannachi who was in office for 24 years. The confidence of the shareholders was withdrawn at the 7 August 2017 board. Malik Azlef is responsible for ensuring the transition pending the election of a new president. On 8 February 2018, the board of directors decides to appoint a businessman, , as president of the club.

The most successful president is with 14 titles in 15 years.

No activity between 1956 and 1962 due to the Algerian war.

The presidents who have succeeded at its head are:

Presidents	Periode
	Since 1946 to 1950
	Since 1950 to 1951
	Since 1951 to 1952
	Since 1952 to 1953
	Since 1953 to 1956
	Since 1962 to 1963
	Since 1963 to 1971
	Since 1971 to 1972
	Since 1972 to 1973
	Since 1974 to 1976
	Since 1977 to 1992
	Since 1992 to 1993
	Year 1993
	Year 1993
Mohand Chérif Hannachi	Since 1993 to 2017
Abdelhamid Sadmi	Year 2017
	Since 2017 to 2018
	Since 2018

Coaches[]

From Ali Benslama in 1946 to Henri Stambouli, 76 changes of trainers have taken place. They involved 67 different people and the club has known no less than 18 coaching duos during its history. Some coaches have been at the head of JS Kabylie several times, such as Abderrahmane Boubekeur and Mahieddine Khalef. During this period, a coach stays in place for an average of one year and four months, or just over a championship season. The instability in this position is particularly strong during the period 1965-1977 since the club knows 15 changes of coaches during this period, which is equivalent to a different coach every seven and a half months. The arrival of the duo Mahieddine Khalef and Stefan Zywotko at the technical bar of the JSK for 13 seasons (from 1977 to 1990) stops this instability. However, after the departure of this duo, the JSK knows again a new waltz of coaches, which lasts until today, like the 29 coaches or duo of coaches that the club had between 1989 and 2011, or a trainer every nine months or so.

Mahieddine Khalef is the most successful Algerian and JSK coaches (13 titles), with eight Algerian championship titles (1977, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1989 and 1990), two Algerian Cup ( 1977 and 1986), an African Cup of Champions Clubs in 1981 as well as a CAF Supercup in 1982. He also won the CAF Cup in 2001 with Nasser Sendjak.

The Khalef - Zywotko duo is the most successful technical staff (9 titles) with the JSK since they won the Algerian championships 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1989 as well as the Algerian Cup in 1986, the African Cup of Champion Clubs in 1981 and the CAF Supercup in 1982. This duo is considered “legendary” in the ranks of JSK79 supporters. Other coaches brought titles to the club: the JSK thus won the CAF Cup under the orders of the Sendjak-Khalef duo (who replaced Nadjmeddine Belayachi just before the final of 2000), Kamel Mouassa, and Jean-Yves Chay in 2000, 2001 and 2002 respectively. Djamel Menad, while being at the same time assistant coach of Djaâfar Harouni and player, allows the club to win the African Cup winners' Cup in 1995 and the championship. After nine years without a title of champion (longest period of famine in the history of the club), the JSK won the title of champion of Algeria under the leadership of Azzedine Aït Djoudi in 2004.

After ten years without a title, the JSK won the Algerian League Cup in 2021 under the direction of Denis Lavagne and added a new line to its list.

Among the coaches of the JSK, there are 28 foreign technicians who are twelve French, four Romanians, two Tunisians, two Hungarians, two Belgians, a Polish, a Yugoslav, a Swiss, a Brazilian, a Bulgarian and an Italian.

The longevity record is attributed to Stefan Zywotko (1977- December 1991, 14 years and 6 months).

Unless otherwise indicated, the periods indicated in the following table begin and end respectively at the start and end of the season.

No activity between 1956 and 1962 due to the Algerian war.

Coachs of JS Kabylie
Rank Coach Period 1 Ali Benslama 1946-1948 2 Hassan Hamoutène 1948-1949 3 Khelifa Belhadj 1949-1951 4 Mansour Abtouche Lounes Boukersi 1951-1952 5 Hassan Hamoutène 1952-1956 1962-1963 6 Saïd Hassoun 1963-1964 7 Gyula Leneïr 1964-1965 8 Hassan Hamoutène 1965-novembre 1965 9 Belkacem Allouche décembre 1965-1966 10 Mahdi Defnoun 1966-1967 11 Ali Benfadah 1967-1969 12 Lemaître 1969-1970 13 Abdelaziz Ben Tifour 1970-1971 14 1971-1972 15 Virgil Popescu 1972-1973 16 Jovan Cestić 1973 17 1973-1974 18 Bazil Marian 1974-décembre 1974 19 Christian Manjou décembre 1974-mars 1975 20 Amar Rouaï mars 1975-1975 21 Christian Manjou 1975-janvier 1976 22 janvier 1976-1976 23 André Nagy 1976-décembre 1976 24 Mahieddine Khalef Djaâfar Harouni janvier 1977-juillet 1977 25 Mahieddine Khalef Stefan Zywotko 1977-1990	Rank Coach Period 26 Ali Fergani Stefan Zywotko 1990- décembre 1991 27 Nour Benzekri Mohamed Younsi 1991-1992 28 Noureddine Saâdi 1992-avril 1994 29 Djaâfar Harouni Djamel Menad avril 1994-1996 30 Brahim Ramdani Hamid Zouba 1996-1997 31 Kamel Mouassa Nourredine Aït-Mouloud 1997-1999 32 Mustapha Biskri 1999-décembre 1999 33 Rachid Adghigh Janko Guelov décembre 1999-2000 34 Nedjmeddine Belayachi juillet 2000- novembre 2001 35 Mahieddine Khalef Nacer Sandjak novembre 2000-avril 2001 36 Djaâfar Harouni avril 2001-2001 37 Kamel Mouassa 2001-2002 38 Jean-Yves Chay 2002-février 2003 39 Djaâfar Harouni février 2003-2003 40 Nacer Sandjak 2003-novembre 2003 41 Azzedine Aït Djoudi Moussa Saïb novembre 2003-2004 42 Kamel Mouassa Moussa Saïb 2004-décembre 2004 43 Christian Coste décembre 2004-2005 44 René Taelman 2005-décembre 2005 45 Jean-Yves Chay décembre 2005-2006 46 Carlos da Cunha 2006-octobre 2006 47 Azzedine Aït Djoudi octobre 2006-2007 48 Moussa Saïb 2007-2008 49 Alexandru Moldovan 2008-novembre 2008 50 Younès Ifticen novembre 2008-2009	Rank Coach Period 51 Jean-Christian Lang 2009-novembre 2009 52 Mourad Karouf novembre 2009-janvier 2010 53 Alain Geiger janvier 2010-décembre 2010 54 Rachid Belhout décembre 2010-juin 2011 55 Moussa Saïb juin 2011-août 2011 56 Meziane Ighil septembre 2011-janvier 2012 57 Mourad Karouf janvier 2012-juin 2012 58 Enrico Fabbro juin 2012-novembre 2012[15] 59 Nacer Sandjak 20 novembre 2012- avril 2013 60 Azzedine Aït Djoudi juin 2013- juin 2014 61 Hugo Broos juillet 2014 - octobre 2014 62 François Ciccolini octobre 2014 - janvier 2015 63 Jean-Guy Wallemme janvier 2015 - avril 2015 64 Dominique Bijotat août 2015 - mars 2016 65 Kamel Mouassa mars 2016 - octobre 2016 66 Sofiene Hidoussi octobre 2016 - février 2017 67 Mourad Rahmouni Faouzi Moussouni février 2017 - septembre 2017 68 Jean-Yves Chay octobre 2017 69 Azzedine Aït Djoudi octobre 2017 - janvier 2018 70 Noureddine Saâdi janvier 2018 - février 2018 71 Youcef Bouzidi février 2018 - juin 2018 72 Franck Dumas 2018 - 2019 73 Hubert Velud juin 2019 - janvier 2020 74 Yamen Zelfani février 2020 - novembre 2020 75 Youcef Bouzidi novembre 2020 - janvier 2021 76 Denis Lavagne janvier 2021 - août 2021 77 Henri Stambouli août 2021 -

Iconic players[]

Some players have contributed to the great successes of this team, and a few have become legends for fans of the "canaries". Here are some big names of football players who have worn the colors of the JSK.

, with 470 games played, is the player who has worn the JSK jersey the most times ^{[A 20]}.

• means winner of African Games football, being a JSK player.
• means winner of the Africa Cup of Nations, being a JSK player
• means winner of Mediterranean Games football, being a JSK player.

Captains of JS Kabylie[]

To date, there have been 33 captains who have succeeded at the head of the club. No activity between 1956 and 1962 due to the Algerian war.

Name Period - - - - - - - - - Mehdi Cerbah - - Mohand Chérif Hannachi - - - Ali Fergani - Abdelhamid Sadmi -

Name Period Mourad Amara - - Djamel Menad - Hakim Medane - Abdelazziz Benhamlat - Moussa Saïb - Farouk Belkaïd - Brahim Zafour - Lounès Gaouaoui Chérif Abdeslam - Mohamed Meftah - Lamara Douicher - Ali Rial - Essaïd Belkalem - Nabil Saâdou - Mohamed Walid Bencherifa -

Name Period Rezki Hamroune -

Individual trophies[]

Notes[]

References[]

External links[]

• JS Kabylie on Facebook