2017–18 USM Alger season

In the 2017–18 season, USM Alger competed in the Ligue 1 for the 40th season, as well as the CAF Champions League, and the Algerian Cup. It was their 23rd consecutive season in the top flight of Algerian football.

With the start of the season, the team failed to achieve their biggest goal of winning the CAF Champions League after defeating against Morocco's Wydad. on 11 November 2017 the coach Paul Put announced his resignation following a 2-1 defeat to CS Constantine., A day after Put's departure, the club hired Franco Algerien coach Miloud Hamdi until the end of the season.

Season summary
In preparation for this season, which will start at the end of August 2017, the management of the USMA, in consultation with the technical staff, is planning the summer training course from 04 to 16 August 2017 in Turkey the Usmists will be in Istanbul at 2 pm, a bus will wait for the Algerian delegation to transport it to the station Kartepe in Izmit and will play five friendly matches. three against local clubs, two against Saudi clubs and one against a Qatari club. USM Alger is transported without six players: Ayoub Abdellaoui, Abderrahmane Meziane, Oussama Darfalou, Okacha Hamzaoui and Raouf Benguit Who joined the Algeria A' national team in preparation for the African Nations Championship qualification against the Libyan national team, as for Soumaila Sidibe did not move with the team because of the visa. the first friendly against Mersin İdmanyurdu and ended with a 5–1 victory and only Ziri Hammar played 90 minutes, and he was the author of three assists, in the same context the games it was delayed for a day due to heavy fog. The second match was against Al Kharaitiyat Qatar and ended 4–1 in favor of the Union and saw the match with the young striker Boumechra, who scored two goals The third game against Sultanbeyli Belediyespor canceled because of the fog and to avoid these problems the decision of the management of the USM Alger played the rest of the friendly games in another place to avoid being postponed, then in the fourth game against Al-Hazm Saudi Club won the Union winning two goals to zero, on the final day of training, the team played two friendly matches in the morning against Ataşehir Çamolukspor and ended in favor of USM Alger with a 2–0 victory. In the evening against Al-Orobah from Saudi Arabia, they ended with a 2–2 draw. after a 13-day internship in Turkey in the heights of Izmit, the Red and Black are back home. The plane from Istanbul arrived at the Algiers airport at 18:30.

Squad list
Players and squad numbers last updated on 19 May 2018. Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Overview
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" !rowspan=2|Competition !colspan=8|Record !rowspan=2|Started round !rowspan=2|Final position / round !rowspan=2|First match !rowspan=2|Last match !G !W !D !L !GF !GA !GD !Win %
 * Ligue 1
 * Ligue 1


 * N/A
 * 6th
 * 26 August 2017
 * 19 May 2018
 * Algerian Cup
 * Algerian Cup


 * Round of 64
 * Round of 16
 * 29 December 2017
 * 2 February 2018
 * Champions League
 * Champions League


 * Group stage
 * Semi-finals
 * 9 July 2017
 * 21 October 2017
 * Confederation Cup
 * Confederation Cup

! Total
 * First round
 * Group stage
 * 7 March 2018
 * 16 May 2018

Appearances and goals
{| class="wikitable mw-datatable sortable nowrap" style="text-align:center; font-size:96%;" ! rowspan="2"|No. ! rowspan="2"|Pos ! rowspan="2"|Player ! rowspan="2" style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|Nat ! colspan="3" style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|Ligue 1 ! colspan="3" style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|Algerian Cup ! colspan="3" style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|Champions League ! colspan="3" style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|Confederation Cup ! colspan="3"|Total !App!!St!!style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|G !App!!St!!style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|G !App!!St!!style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|G !App!!St!!style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|G !App!!St!!G !colspan=4 style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|Total !colspan=2|30||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|43 !colspan=2|3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|2 !colspan=2|5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|6 !colspan=2|6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|12 !colspan=2|44||63
 * -bgcolor=efefef class="sortbottom"
 * colspan=19" style="background:#000000; color:white; text-align:center"|Goalkeepers
 * 1
 * GK
 * style="text-align:left"|Lamine Zemmamouche
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 25||25||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 6||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 38||38||1
 * 16
 * GK
 * style="text-align:left"|Ismaïl Mansouri
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||3||0
 * 30
 * GK
 * style="text-align:left"|Mourad Berrefane
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||2||0
 * GK
 * style="text-align:left"|Abdelmoumen Sifour
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||1||0
 * -bgcolor=efefef class="sortbottom"
 * colspan=19" style="background:#000000; color:white; text-align:center"|Defenders
 * 3
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Ayoub Abdellaoui
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 23||23||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 6||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 36||36||2
 * 5
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Mohamed Benyahia
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 14||12||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|2
 * 2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 19||17||2
 * 6
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Farouk Chafaï
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 24||24||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|3
 * 2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 6||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 37||37||4
 * 19
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Redouane Cherifi
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 17||16||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 21||19||0
 * - style="font-style:italic"
 * 20
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Nacereddine Khoualed
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 3||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||2||0
 * 21
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Mehdi Benchikhoune
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 5||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 6||6||0
 * 22
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Mohamed Rabie Meftah
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 19||19||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 5||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 31||31||2
 * 25
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Mokhtar Benmoussa
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 24||20||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|3
 * 2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 36||31||3
 * 27
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Raouf Benguit
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 15||14||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 6||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 27||26||0
 * 42
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Abdeldjalil Semmane
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 2||2||0
 * -bgcolor=efefef class="sortbottom"
 * colspan=19" style="background:#000000; color:white; text-align:center"|Midfielders
 * 2
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Oussama Chita
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 18||13||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 22||15||0
 * - style="font-style:italic"
 * 4
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Soumaila Sidibe
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇲🇱
 * 5||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 2||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 8||2||0
 * 7
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Faouzi Yaya
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 19||16||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|3
 * 1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 2||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 22||17||3
 * 8
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Kaddour Beldjilali
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 18||12||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 2||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 2||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 22||14||1
 * - style="font-style:italic"
 * 10
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Ziri Hammar
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 10||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|2
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 14||7||3
 * - style="font-style:italic"
 * 14
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Faouzi Bourenane
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 2||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||0||0
 * - style="font-style:italic"
 * 17
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Mohamed Benkablia
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 3||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 2||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||1||0
 * 18
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Amir Sayoud
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 13||7||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 2||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 2||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 20||10||1
 * 23
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Hamza Koudri
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 18||14||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 6||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 30||25||1
 * 24
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Mohammed Benkhemassa
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 22||22||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 6||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 35||32||2
 * 26
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Reda Bellahcene
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 10||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 12||8||0
 * 20
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Rafik Bouderbal
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 8||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 10||3||1
 * 15
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Oualid Ardji
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 8||7||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 13||9||1
 * 31
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Ilyes Yaiche
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 7||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 9||3||0
 * 84
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Mohamed Reda Boumechra
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 7||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 7||3||1
 * 54
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Billel Benhammouda
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 6||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 6||0||0
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Zinedine Asli
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||0
 * -bgcolor=efefef class="sortbottom"
 * colspan=19" style="background:#000000; color:white; text-align:center"|Forwards
 * 9
 * FW
 * style="text-align:left"|Okacha Hamzaoui
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 9||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 14||8||2
 * 11
 * FW
 * style="text-align:left"|Abderrahmane Meziane
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 18||15||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|2
 * 2||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 28||24||4
 * 13
 * FW
 * style="text-align:left"|Oussama Darfalou
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 27||26||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|18
 * 2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|3
 * 5||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|5
 * 39||38||26
 * 10
 * FW
 * style="text-align:left"|Reda Hajhouj
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇲🇦
 * 8||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|2
 * 1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 10||6||2
 * 17
 * FW
 * style="text-align:left"|Mohamed Amine Hamia
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 3||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||1||0
 * - class="sortbottom"
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 28||24||4
 * 13
 * FW
 * style="text-align:left"|Oussama Darfalou
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 27||26||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|18
 * 2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|3
 * 5||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|5
 * 39||38||26
 * 10
 * FW
 * style="text-align:left"|Reda Hajhouj
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇲🇦
 * 8||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|2
 * 1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 10||6||2
 * 17
 * FW
 * style="text-align:left"|Mohamed Amine Hamia
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 3||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||1||0
 * - class="sortbottom"
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||1||0
 * - class="sortbottom"

Goalscorers
''Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted alphabetically by surname when total goals are equal.''

Clean sheets
Includes all competitive matches.

Kit
Supplier: Joma, the beginning of the year 2017. Sponsor: Djezzy