2018–19 USM Alger season

In the 2018–19 season, USM Alger competed in the Ligue 1 for the 41st season, as well as the Confederation Cup, Club Championship, and the Algerian Cup. It was their 24th consecutive season in the top flight of Algerian football.

Season summary
With the end of the 2017–18 season USM Alger started looking for a new coach and the squad saw the departure of many players, most notably Ayoub Abdellaoui, who joined the Swiss club FC Sion. and striker Oussama Darfalou, who joined Dutch club Vitesse. finally, after a month of research, the team contracted with French technical Thierry Froger to be the new coach. This season USM Alger is competing on four fronts Ligue 1, Algerian Cup, Confederation Cup and Arab Club Champions Cup, The first goals was to win the Confederation Cup, but they are eliminated in the quarter-finals against the Egyptian club Al-Masry. Then in the Arab Club Champions Cup was the ambition to win, especially that the value of financial prizes exceed 15 million dollars. more than the CAF Champions League, but the march of The Reds and Blacks stopped in the second round against the Sudanese Al-Merrikh 4–3 on aggregate. then moved USM Alger's attention to the Ligue 1 Leader in the standings, the USMA counts 33 units and ensures at the same time to finish first at the end of the first phase of the championship Followed by JS Kabylie.

After the outbreak of protests in Algeria and the arrest of club owner Ali Haddad on corruption charges. affected the results of USM Alger where he was defeated in three consecutive games, all Darby matches against Paradou AC, MC Alger and CR Belouizdad to shrink the difference to one point from the runner-up four games before the end of the season. 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. On May 26, 2019, And after the victory outside the home against CS Constantine 3–1 achieved the eighth Ligue 1 title, one point behind JS Kabylie. immediately after the end of the game Abdelhakim Serrar announced his resignation from his office.

Squad list
Players and squad numbers last updated on 26 May 2019. 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
 * style="background:gold;"| Winners
 * 14 August 2018
 * 26 May 2019
 * Algerian Cup
 * Algerian Cup


 * Round of 64
 * Round of 16
 * 18 December 2018
 * 22 January 2019
 * Confederation Cup
 * Confederation Cup


 * Group stage
 * Quarter-final
 * 18 July 2018
 * 23 September 2018
 * Club Championship
 * Club Championship

! Total
 * First round
 * Second round
 * 8 August 2018
 * 10 December 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"|Confederation Cup ! colspan="3" style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|Club Champions 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"|49 !colspan=2|3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|5 !colspan=2|6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|6 !colspan=2|4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|6 !colspan=2|43||66
 * -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"|
 * 13||13||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 6||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 23||23||0
 * 16
 * GK
 * style="text-align:left"|Ismaïl Mansouri
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 15||14||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
 * 16||15||0
 * 30
 * GK
 * style="text-align:left"|Mourad Berrefane
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 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
 * 5||5||0
 * -bgcolor=efefef class="sortbottom"
 * colspan=19" style="background:#000000; color:white; text-align:center"|Defenders
 * 5
 * CB
 * style="text-align:left"|Mohamed Benyahia
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 25||25||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|2
 * 2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 34||34||3
 * 6
 * CB
 * style="text-align:left"|Farouk Chafaï
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 20||20||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 6||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 30||0||2
 * 19
 * LB
 * style="text-align:left"|Redouane Cherifi
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 28||27||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 39||38||2
 * 3
 * CB
 * style="text-align:left"|Abderrahime Hamra
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 8||6||0
 * 22
 * RB
 * style="text-align:left"|Mohamed Rabie Meftah
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 14||13||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|2
 * 2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 6||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 26||25||3
 * 25
 * LB / LW
 * style="text-align:left"|Mokhtar Benmoussa
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 19||12||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|2
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 24||14||2
 * - style="font-style:italic"
 * 12
 * CB
 * style="text-align:left"|Mohamed Mezghrani
 * 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
 * - style="font-style:italic"
 * 4
 * CB
 * style="text-align:left"|Mexes Nyeck Bayiha
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇨🇲
 * 1||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
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 2||1||0
 * - style="font-style:italic"
 * 21
 * RB
 * style="text-align:left"|Mehdi Benchikhoune
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 0||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
 * 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"|Midfielders
 * 2
 * DM
 * style="text-align:left"|Oussama Chita
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 21||20||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 32||31||2
 * 10
 * AM / LW
 * style="text-align:left"|Muaid Ellafi
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 14||8||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|5
 * 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
 * 15||8||5
 * 8
 * DM
 * style="text-align:left"|Kamel Belarbi
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 9||5||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
 * 10||5||0
 * 23
 * DM
 * style="text-align:left"|Hamza Koudri
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 20||16||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|2
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 31||26||2
 * 24
 * AM / DM
 * style="text-align:left"|Mohammed Benkhemassa
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 22||21||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 30||28||0
 * 27
 * CB / DM
 * style="text-align:left"|Raouf Benguit
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 28||26||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|4
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 6||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 40||37||6
 * 20
 * AM
 * style="text-align:left"|Rafik Bouderbal
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 21||12||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 3||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 2||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 30||19||1
 * 15
 * LW / LB
 * style="text-align:left"|Oualid Ardji
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 20||17||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 3||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 29||23||2
 * 26
 * AM
 * style="text-align:left"|Billel Benhammouda
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 12||3||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
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 14||3||0
 * - style="font-style:italic"
 * 7
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Faouzi Yaya
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 10||7||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|3
 * 1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 20||15||3
 * - style="font-style:italic"
 * 18
 * AM
 * style="text-align:left"|Amir Sayoud
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 8||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 12||4||1
 * -bgcolor=efefef class="sortbottom"
 * colspan=19" style="background:#000000; color:white; text-align:center"|Forwards
 * 11
 * ST
 * style="text-align:left"|Abderrahmane Meziane
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 24||23||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|7
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 6||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 3||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 36||34||8
 * 9
 * ST
 * style="text-align:left"|Zakaria Benchaâ
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 5||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||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 7||1||1
 * 13
 * ST
 * style="text-align:left"|Prince Ibara
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 23||16||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|9
 * 1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 29||22||10
 * 14
 * RW
 * style="text-align:left"|Abdelkrim Zouari
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 13||10||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|4
 * 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
 * 14||11||4
 * 17
 * ST
 * style="text-align:left"|Mohamed Amine Hamia
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 10||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|3
 * 3||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 17||10||6
 * - style="font-style:italic"
 * 29
 * ST
 * style="text-align:left"|Aymen Mahious
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 9||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 16||3||2
 * - class="sortbottom"
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 14||11||4
 * 17
 * ST
 * style="text-align:left"|Mohamed Amine Hamia
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 10||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|3
 * 3||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 17||10||6
 * - style="font-style:italic"
 * 29
 * ST
 * style="text-align:left"|Aymen Mahious
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 9||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 16||3||2
 * - class="sortbottom"
 * - 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.

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