MC Alger

MC Alger

Full name	Mouloudia Club d'Alger
Nickname(s)	MCA El Mouloudia (The Mouloudia) Chnawa The Doyen The People's Club
Short name	MCA
Founded	7 August 1921; 103 years ago (7 August 1921) (as Mouloudia Club Algérois)
Ground	Ali La Pointe Stadium
Capacity	40,000
Owner	Sonatrach
President	Mohamed Hakim Hadj Redjem
Head Coach	Patrice Beaumelle[1]
League	Ligue 1
2023–24	Ligue 1, 1st of 16 (champions)
Website	https://mouloudiaclubalger.dz/
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Active departments of Mouloudia Club d'Alger
Football Handball (Men's) Handball (Women's) Basketball (Men's) Basketball (Women's) Volleyball (Men's) Volleyball (Women's) Boxing Swimming Fencing Cycling Judo Athletics Karate Table tennis Tennis Weightlifting

Mouloudia Club d'Alger (Arabic: نادي مولودية الجزائر), referred to as MC Alger or MCA for short, is an Algerian football club based in Algiers. The club was founded in 1921 and its colours are red, green and white. Their home stadium, Ali La Pointe Stadium, has a capacity of 40,000 spectators.The club is currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.

Founded in 1921 as Mouloudia Club Algérois and Mouloudia Chaâbia d’Alger, the club was known as Mouloudia Pétroliers d'Alger from 1977 to 1986 and changed its name to Mouloudia Club d'Alger in 1986. The club colours are red and green.

MC Alger were the first Algerian club to win a continental competition, winning the 1976 African Cup of Champions Clubs. They are one of the most successful Algerian clubs having won the domestic league 8 times, and the domestic cup 8 times, tied with USM Alger, CR Belouizdad and ES Sétif.

In 1921, Aouf Ahmed, a member of a wealthy family from the Casbah and a former student at the Sarrouy school, witnessed a scene that made him want to create a football club. On the Place du Gouvernement, now Place des Martyrs5, children were playing football with a ball made from paper.^[2] French soldiers were watching them, and a sergeant declared: "Here is the Parc des Princes of the Arabs!" This statement annoyed him and prompted him to talk about his project to his friends the next day. The meeting that gave birth to the club took place in the back room of the café on rue Bénachère (called Souikia). Several names were proposed: Éclair sportif d’Alger, Croissant club d’Alger, Étoile sportive d'Alger, Jeunesse sportive d'Alger, until the name chosen Mouloudia Club Algérois. The colors (green and red) were chosen for these reasons: green represents the hope of the Algerian people, it is also the symbolic color of Islam. Red symbolizes love of the nation and sacrifice, it is also one of the favorite colors of the prophet Mohammed.

Encouraged by his friends, Ahmed Aouf organized the club statutes and regulations of the association, staff, preparation of resources (materials and finances), choice of acronym, problems of supervision, acquisition of a playing field and a sports club. Aouf sent a request to the prefecture to obtain approval for the founding of the club. The response was negative, Aouf Ahmed being then twenty-six years old. He therefore wrote the name of Abdelmalek, his aunt's husband, so that his project would be accepted. Abdelrrahmane Aouf was summoned twice by the prefecture to examine the file concerning the creation of the Muslim club. During the interviews, Aouf convinced the municipality of the legitimacy of his project. Thus, he said that the club would aim to train young people for military service and explained: "green, paradise, red hell for others seeking training". The colonial authorities sent a note to the headquarters specifying that the club's premises should be used only for sporting purposes (in order to prohibit political gatherings)6. On August 31, 1921 (26 Dhou Al-Hijja 1339) the Mouloudia Club Algérois was created. Its headquarters are located at the American refreshment bar, Place Mahon, in Algiers.

In 1976, MC Alger qualified for the African Cup of Champions Clubs for the first time in its history after winning the 1974–75 Algerian Championnat National. They reached the final after beating Al-Ahly Benghazi of Libya, Al Ahly of Egypt, Luo Union of Kenya and Enugu Rangers of Nigeria, respectively.^[3] In the final, they met Guinean club Hafia Conakry, who had won the last edition of the competition. In the first leg in Conakry, MC Alger lost 3–0 and faced the difficult task of having to score three goals in the return leg. However, in the return leg, they managed to score the three goals with a brace from Omar Betrouni and a goal from Zoubir Bachi.^[4] They went on to win the penalty shootout 4–1 to win their first African title and also become the first Algerian club to win a continental competition.

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• Algerian League 1
  • Champions (8): 1971–72, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1998–99, 2009–10, 2023–24
  • Runners-up (5): 1962–63, 1969–70, 1988–89, 2016–17, 2019–20
• Algerian Cup
  • Winners (8): 1970–71, 1972–73, 1975–76, 1982–83, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2013–14, 2015–16
  • Runners-up (2): 2012–13, 2023-24
• Algerian Super Cup
  • Winners (3) (record): 2006, 2007, 2014
  • Runner-up (1): 2016
• Algerian League Cup
  • Winners (1): 1998

• CAF Champions League
  • Winners (1): 1976

• Maghreb Cup Winners Cup
  • Winners (2): 1971, 1974
• North African Cup of Champions
  • Runners-up (1): 2010
• Maghreb Champions Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 1975

• African Cup of Champions Clubs / CAF Champions League: 9 appearances

• CAF Confederation Cup: 4 appearances

2007 – First Round

2008 – First Round

2015 – First Round

2017 – Quarter-finals

• CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 1 appearance

1984 – Second Round

Algerian teams are limited to three foreign players. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player;

As of 31 August 2024^{[update][5][6]} 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 Abdelatif Ramdane 2 GK  ALG Seifeddine Belkhir 3 DF  ALG Marwane Khelif 4 DF  CIV Serge Badjo 5 DF  ALG Ayoub Abdellaoui (captain) 6 MF  ALG Mohammed Benkhemassa 7 FW  ALG Sofiane Bayazid 8 FW  CIV Romaric Ouattara 9 FW  ALG Andy Delort 10 FW  ALG Zakaria Naidji 11 MF  ALG Zakaria Draoui 12 MF  CIV Mohamed Zougrana 14 DF  ALG Hamza Mouali

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 GK  ALG Toufik Moussaoui 17 DF  ALG Kamel Hamidi 18 FW  ALG Khayreddine Merzougui 19 DF  ALG Ayoub Ghezala 20 DF  ALG Réda Halaïmia 21 MF  ALG Larbi Tabti 22 MF  CIV Kipré Zunon 25 MF  ALG Badreddine Touki 26 MF  ALG Akram Bouras 27 DF  ALG Abdelkader Menezla 29 FW  MAR Amine Messoussa 41 FW  ALG Mehdi Boucherit — FW  ALG Tayeb Meziani

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Below are the notable former players who have represented MC Alger in league and international competition since the club's foundation in 1921. To appear in the section below, a player must have played in at least 100 official matches for the club or represented the national team for which the player is eligible during his stint with MC Alger or following his departure.

For a complete list of MC Alger players, see Category:MC Alger players

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