Algeria national football team records and statistics

This list of Algeria national football team records contains statistical accomplishments related to the Algeria national football team (French: Equipe d'Algérie), its players, and its managers. The Algeria national team represents the nation of Algeria in international football. It is fielded by the Algerian Football Federation (French: Fédération algérienne de football) and competes as a member of Confederation of African Football.

Most appearances

Aïssa Mandi, 103, 5 March 2014 — present

Most appearances as a captain

Yazid Mansouri, 52, 5 June 2004 — 5 June 2010

Most goals

See also: List of international goals scored by Islam Slimani

Islam Slimani, 45, 2012 —

Longest Algeria career

Djamel Menad, 15 years, 1 month and 30 days, (31 May 1980 — 30 July 1995)

Rabah Madjer, 13 years, 2 months and 20 days, (28 October 1978 — 17 January 1992)

Oldest player

Raïs M'Bolhi, 35 years, 10 months and 27 days

Youngest player

Tahar Chérif El-Ouazzani, 18 years, 5 months and 20 days, 30 December 1984

Most appearances at the World Cup finals

Rafik Halliche, 7, 13 June 2010 — 30 June 2014

Appearances at Two World Cup final tournaments

Lakhdar Belloumi, 1982 and 1986

Tedj Bensaoula, 1982 and 1986

Madjid Bougherra, 2010 and 2014

Mahmoud Guendouz, 1982 and 1986

Rafik Halliche, 2010 and 2014

Nourredine Kourichi, 1982 and 1986

Mehdi Lacen, 2010 and 2014

Raïs M'Bolhi, 2010 and 2014

Rabah Madjer, 1982 and 1986

Faouzi Mansouri, 1982 and 1986

Djamel Mesbah, 2010 and 2014

Hassan Yebda, 2010 and 2014

Djamel Zidane, 1982 and 1986

Most goals scored at the World Cup finals

Salah Assad, 2, 24 June 1982

Abdelmoumene Djabou, 2, 22 June 2014 — 30 June 2014

Islam Slimani, 2, 22 June 2014 — 26 June 2014

Most appearances at the African Championship finals

Rabah Madjer, 22, 9 March 1980 — 17 January 1992

Appearances at Six African Championship final tournaments

Rabah Madjer, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1990, and 1992

Mahieddine Meftah, 1990, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002

Most goals scored at the African Championship finals

Lakhdar Belloumi, 6, 13 March 1980 — 26 March 1988

Riyad Mahrez, 6, 19 January 2015 — present

Most appearances on aggregate at the World Cup and African Championship finals

Rabah Madjer, 28, 9 March 1980 — 17 January 1992

Appearances in three different decades

Rabah Madjer, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s

Mahieddine Meftah, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s

Moussa Saïb, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s

Rafik Saïfi, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s

Most matches as coach

Rabah Saâdane, 74, 30 August 1981 — 3 September 2010

Most matches won as coach

26 by Djamel Belmadi

Most matches drawn as coach

21 by Rabah Saâdane

Most matches lost as coach

23 by Rabah Saâdane

Most goals scored as coach

90 by Djamel Belmadi

Largest victory

15–1, South Yemen – Algeria, 17 August 1973

Largest away victory

0–6, Jordan – Algeria, 28 September 1974

Largest defeat

5–0, East Germany – Algeria, 21 April 1976

Largest home defeat

5–2, Algeria – Nigeria, 4 September 2005

Most consecutive victories

9, 26 May 1975 — 6 January 1976

Most consecutive matches without a defeat

35, October 2018 - January 2022

Most consecutive defeats

Most consecutive matches without a victory

11, 3 February 2004 — 17 November 2004

Longest period without conceding a goal

Highest home attendance

110,000, Algeria – Serbia, 3 March 2010

Highest away attendance

100,000, Iran – Algeria, 27 September 1991

As of 22 April 2021.

List of Algeria national football team hat-tricks

No.	Player	Opponent	Goals	Score	Venue	Competition	Date	Ref
1	Noureddine Hachouf	DR Congo	3 – (50', 67', 73')	4–1	Brazzaville	1965 All-Africa Games	20 July 1965
2	Hacène Lalmas	Uganda	3 – (15', 25', 70')	4–0	Hailé Sélassié Stadium, Addis Ababa	1968 AFCON	14 January 1968
3	Mokhtar Khalem	Morocco	3 – (46', 60', 80')	3–1	Stade 20 Août 1955, Algiers	1972 AFCON qualification	10 December 1970
4	Nasreddine Akli	South Yemen	6 – (6', 16', 35', 55', 64', 65')	15–1	March 28 Stadium, Benghazi	1973 Palestine Cup of Nations	17 August 1973
5	Tedj Bensaoula	Morocco	3 – (15', 16', 69')	1–5	Stade d'Honneur, Casablanca	1980 Summer Olympics qualifiers	9 December 1979
6	Mohamed Rahem	Mali	3 – (8', 36', 42')	5–0	Paris	Friendly match	12 January 1990
7	Abdelhafid Tasfaout	Senegal	3 – (3', 62', 76')	4–0	Stade Birouana, Tlemcen	1994 AFCON qualification	25 July 1993
8	Islam Slimani	Djibouti	4 – (5', 25'p, 46', 53')	8–0	Mustapha Tchaker Stadium, Blida	2022 WC qualification	2 September 2021

• ⁶ Player scored 6 goals

44 players managed to score 2 goals in the same match. 17 have done it more than once, for a total of 82 doubles.

• 8 doubles: Islam Slimani
• 6 doubles: Abdelhafid Tasfaout
• 5 doubles: Riyad Mahrez
• 4 doubles: Baghdad Bounedjah, Rachid Dali, Rabah Madjer, Djamel Menad, Hillal Soudani
• 3 doubles: Sofiane Feghouli, Rafik Saïfi
• 2 doubled: Lakhdar Belloumi, Tedj Bensaoula, Yacine Brahimi, Aïssa Draoui, Ali Meçabih, Hamid Merakchi, Moussa Saïb

As of September 30, 2017.

Goal	Player	Competition	Against	Home/Away	Result	Date
0.16'	Foued Kadir	2013 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers	Gambia	Home	4–1	15 June 2012
0.35'	Yacine Brahimi	2018 FIFA World Cup African Qualifiers	Tanzania	Home	7–0	17 November 2015
0.48'	Yacine Brahimi	2015 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers	Malawi	Home	3–0	15 October 2014
0.50'	Tedj Bensaoula	1984 Summer Olympics African Qualifiers	Egypt	Home	1–1	6 January 1984

8 players scored in the first minute of the game. It is  :

• Mahieddine Safsafi on 17 August 1973 (1973-08-17) against  South Yemen (1973 Palestine Cup of Nations)
• Salah Assad on 28 October 1978 (1978-10-28) against  Zambia (Friendly)
• Lakhdar Belloumi on 6 April 1979 (1979-04-06) against  Mali (1980 OG Qualifiers)
• Tedj Bensaoula on 6 January 1984 (1984-01-06) (50') against  Egypt (1984 OG Qualifiers)
• Djamel Menad on 25 February 1986 (1986-02-25) against  Mozambique (Friendly)
• Foued Kadir on 15 June 2012 (2012-06-15) (16') against  Gambia (2013 Afcon Qualifiers)
• Yacine Brahimi on 15 October 2014 (2014-10-15) (48') against  Malawi (2015 Afcon Qualifiers)
• Yacine Brahimi on 17 November 2015 (2015-11-17) (35') against  Tanzania (2018 FIFA WC Qualifiers)

Scores from 6–0 and up

Best Results by Algeria
	Date	Opponent	Round	Result	Difference
1	17 August 1973	South Yemen	1973 Palestine Cup	15 – 1	+14
2	10 May 1974	Mauritania	Friendly	9 – 1	+8
	28 May 1975	Mauritania	Friendly	8 – 0
	2 September 2021	Djibouti	2022 World Cup qualification	8 – 0
3	30 August 1981	Burkina Faso	1982 AFCON qualification	7 – 0	+7
	13 November 1988	Mali	Friendly	7 – 0
	17 November 2015	Tanzania	2018 World Cup qualification	7 – 0
4	28 September 1974	Jordan	Friendly	6 – 0	+6
	26 May 1975	Libya	Friendly	6 – 0
	14 November 2003	Niger	2006 World Cup qualification	6 – 0
	4 September 2016	Lesotho	2017 AFCON qualification	6 – 0
	25 March 2016	Ethiopia	2017 AFCON qualification	7 – 1

Scores from 4–0 and up

Worst Results by Algeria
	Date	Opponent	Round	Result	Difference
1	21 April 1976	East Germany	Friendly	0 – 5	–5
2	12 March 1972	Guinea	1974 World Cup qualification	1 – 5	–4
	19 November 1980	Poland	Friendly	1 – 5
	4 June 2011	Morocco	2012 AFCON qualification	0 – 4
	14 February 1973	Turkey	Friendly	0 – 4
	19 May 1975	Sweden	Friendly	0 – 4
	28 January 2010	Egypt	2010 Africa Cup of Nations	0 – 4

Italics denotes players still playing club football, Bold denotes players still playing in the national team.

#	Name	Date of birth	Date of debut	Age	Opponent
1	Tahar Chérif El-Ouazzani	1966–10–7	1984–12–30	18 years 2 months 23 days	Tunisia
2	Hakim Meddane	1966–9–5	1984–3–8	18 years 3 months 25 days	Ghana
3	Yacine Titraoui	2003–7–23	2021–12–1	18 years 4 months 5 days	Sudan
4	Tarek Lazizi	1971–6–8	1990–1–12	18 years 7 months 4 days	Mali
5	Nacer Guedioura	1954–11–4	1973–5–20	18 years 9 months 9 days	Uganda
6	Ismaël Bennacer	1997–12–1	2016–9–4	18 years 9 months 27 days	Lesotho
7	Miloud Hadefi	1949–3–12	1968–3–17	19 years 0 months 5 days	Morocco

Italics denotes players still playing club football, Bold denotes players still playing in the national team.

Italics denotes players still playing club football, Bold denotes players still playing in the national team.

As of 16 October 2018^[update]

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