USM Bel Abbes
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Union Sportive de la Médina Bel Abbès (Arabic: الإتحاد الرياضي لمدينة بلعباس), known as USM Bel Abbès or simply USMBA for short, is an Algerian football club located in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria, that was founded in 1933 and its colors are green and red. Their home stadium, 24 February 1956 Stadium, has a capacity of 45,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Inter-Régions Division.
History
The team was founded on 7 February 1933 under the name of Union Sportive Musulmane de Bel Abbès. It was one of the great teams in the French colonial period. Between 1977 and 1987, the club was parrained by ENIE, an electronic national society and was named Electronique Sari Madinat Bel Abbès (ESMBA).
On April 27, 2012, in the last round of the 2011-12 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2, USM Bel-Abbès beat USM Annaba 3–0 to finish third and win promotion to the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1, returning to the top flight after a 19-year absence. However the team return one year after in the second division but one year after again in 2014, they returned to the top division.
Klub vyhral dva alžírske poháre, v rokoch 1991 a 2018. V sezóne 2018-19 sa mu podarilo získať double, keď vyhral ligu aj pohár.
USM Bel Abbes je známy svojou silnou základňou fanúšikov a je považovaný za jeden z najpopulárnejších klubov v Alžírsku. Klub má tiež rivalitu s ďalším belabeským klubom MC Oran.
Medzi najznámejších hráčov, ktorí hrali za USM Bel Abbes, patria Karim Ziani, Rafik Saïfi a Abdelkader Ghezzal.