List of USM Alger presidents

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Saadi Yacef club president from, 1972 to 1975 was one of the leaders of Algeria's National Liberation Front during his country's war of independence.

USM Alger is a football club based in Algiers, Algeria that competes in Ligue 1, the most senior football league in Algeria. Since its founding in 1937, the club has had 19 different presidents, And the first president of the club is Arezki Meddad. As for the longest period as president was Saïd Allik for 16 years during which he achieved 9 titles.

Presidential history[]

I want to make this club the best in the country. The USMA is a great team and we will naturally have to play to win titles, that's the least. Personally, I will do my best to ensure that the club does not miss anything on a daily basis. We have many projects and we are very keen to achieve them.

— Ali Haddad a statement about his ambitions with the team.[1]

Founder member of the club, Arezki Meddad is chosen by his peers to be the first president in the history of USMA. Arezki Meddad was the first president, but he has not been included in the prefecture. It's in his coffee, rue du Divan in the Casbah - which also housed the headquarters of the Étoile Nord-Africaine - that was created USMA. The first president was officially registered on Ali Shahid Hammar said "Ali Zaied" tortured to death in March 1957, the club was in time for the official address of coffee Benkanoun located Randon street in the Casbah. With nine major trophies (4 championships and five cups) in sixteen at the helm of the club season, Said Allik is the most successful president of USM Alger.

On August 4, 2010, USM Alger went public in conjunction with the professionalization of the domestic league.[2] Algerian businessman Ali Haddad became the majority share owner after investing 700 million Algeria dinars to buy an 83% ownership in the club to become the first professional club in Algeria.[3][4] On October 27, 2010, Haddad replaced Saïd Allik as president of the club.[5] Allik had been the club's president for the past 18 years, After the outbreak of protests in Algeria and the arrest of club owner Ali Haddad on corruption charges.[6] On April 30, 2019 The board of the SSPA USMA met and noted the vacancy of the post of president of the company since the incarceration of Ali Haddad there is nearly a month. It was Boualem Chendri who was unanimously elected to succeed him while ETRHB Haddad remains the majority shareholder of the club.[7] On June 2, 2019 it is official, the Haddad family is selling its shares in SSPA USMA which it holds 92%, It was the club's communication officer, Amine Tirmane, who announced it on the Echourouk TV.[8] the reasons that made them make this decision is the imprisonment of club owner Ali Haddad and also freeze all financial accounts of the club. After it was expected that the general assembly of shareholders will be on March 12, 2020 it was submitted to March 2, especially after the imprisonment of the former club president, Rabouh Haddad. The meeting witnessed the attendance of ETRHB Haddad representative and the absence of the amateur club president Saïd Allik, and after two and a half hours, it was announced that Groupe SERPORT had bought the shares of ETRHB Haddad which amounted to 94.34%.[9][10]

On July 31, 2020 general manager Abdelghani Haddi spoke about some newspapers and responded to them and the fake news about the value of buying USM Alger's shares, where he said that the amount was 2 billion dinars about 13 million euros.[11] On September 10, 2021 Saadi Yacef passed away at the age of 93, who was one of the leaders of Algeria's National Liberation Front during his country's war of independence, president of the club in the seventies and honorary president.[12][13]

List of presidents[]

Algerian businessman Ali Haddad owner and president of club USM Alger from 2010 until 2019.
Name From To
Algeria Arezki Meddad 5 July 1937 1938
Algeria Ali Hammar 1938 1939
Algeria ? 1940 1942
Algeria Mohamed Zenagui 1943 194?
Algeria Ali Hammar 194? 1952
Algeria Saïd Meddad 1962 1963
Algeria Abdelkader Amrani 1963 1971
Algeria Ali Kezal 1971 1972
Algeria Saadi Yacef 1972 1975
Algeria Abdelaziz Tazairt 1975 1976
Algeria Rachid Khelouati 1976 1977
Algeria Saïd Hammo 1977 19??
Algeria Hadji 19?? 1984
Algeria Abdesslem Bensahli 1985 1989
Algeria Saïd Hammo 1989 1991
Algeria Rachid Khelouati 1992 1993
Algeria Mouldi Aïssaoui 1993 1994
Algeria Saïd Allik 1994 4 August 2010
Algeria Ali Haddad 4 August 2010 30 April 2019
Algeria Boualem Chendri 30 April 2019 2 March 2020
Algeria Achour Djelloul 2 March 2020 present

Honours by presidents[]

Player Ligue 1 Algerian Cup Super Cup UAFA Cup Total
Saïd Allik 4 5 — — 9
Ali Haddad 3 1 2 1 7
Saïd Meddad 1 — — — 1
Saïd Hammo — 1 — — 1
Abdesslem Bensahli — 1 — — 1

References[]

  1. ^ "USM Alger : Ali Haddad nouveau patron des rouge et noir". depechedekabylie. 6 August 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  2. ^ Cérémonie au Sheraton Aujourd’hui, l'USMA sera pro Archived 2012-03-18 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ USM Alger : Ali Haddad nouveau patron des rouge et noir
  4. ^ "إتحاد العاصمة يدخل الاحتراف من الباب الواسع ب 70 مليار". djazairess.com. 5 August 2010. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  5. ^ Saïd Allik se retire de l’USM Alger Archived 2012-03-25 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Exclusif : Ali Haddad arrêté au poste frontalier d'Oum Teboul". elwatan.com. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  7. ^ "USMA : Ali Haddad n'est plus président". dzfoot.com. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  8. ^ "USMA : Les Haddad officiellement vendeurs". dzfoot.com. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  9. ^ "USMA : Serport acquiert 94,34% des actions". DZFoot.com. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  10. ^ "USMA : Le Groupe Serport prend officiellement le pouvoir". competition.dz. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  11. ^ "USMA : Haddi, « Serport a mis 20 millions d'€ »". DZFoot.com. 1 August 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  12. ^ "yacef saâdi est mort : un grand nom de le révolution s'éteint". algerie360.com. 10 September 2021. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
  13. ^ "Décès de Yacef Saadi, l'un des symboles et architectes de la Bataille d'Alger". aps.dz. 11 September 2021. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
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