In the 2012–13 season, USM Alger competed in the Ligue 1 for the 35th time, as well as the Algerian Cup. It was their 18th consecutive season in the top flight of Algerian football.
Season summary In the 2012–13 season, led by Argentine coach Miguel Angel Gamondi. The start was bad three defeats, two wins and a draw, in the sixth round against ES Setif and after the loss Gamondi was sacked from his post and replaced by former Olympique de Marseille coach Rolland Courbis as their new coach. who gave a good start and the end of the first leg with six wins, two draws and one defeat, in the return stage in the Ligue Professionnelle 1 was not a good start, and it was clear that winning the first Algerian professional league was very difficult, the start of the team focusing on the Algerian Cup and the Arab Club Champions Cup, where it was initially in the Algerian Cup in the semi-final against MC Oran. USMA achieved the most important goal through Noureddine Daham. to reach the team's final for the seventeenth time in history and the first in six years. In the Arab Club Champions Cup it was an easy road but in the semi-final against Ismaily SC, it was a difficult meeting that ended with a penalty shootout for USMA to reach the final for the first time in their history, but in the Confederation Cup, the club did not set it as a major goal and were excluded from the second round after losing against US Bitam.
In the Algerian Cup Final against neighbor MC Alger in the Algiers Derby for the fifth time in history. USM Alger defeated of them with a goal scored by Mokhtar Benmoussa. USMA won its eighth title. Also this was the first time that Al Ittihad won against Mouloudia in the final after four defeats before. After the end of the match and while heading to get the medals, MC Alger refused to go up in protest against the performance of referee Djamel Haimoudi. Two weeks later, USMA won its first Arab Club Champions Cup title after defeating Kuwait's Al-Arabi club 3–2 in aggregate in the 2012–13 UAFA Club Cup final. The match saw the presence of a number of state officials led by Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal who handed the cup to the captain Mohamed Rabie Meftah.
Squad list Players and squad numbers last updated on 21 May 2013.Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Nat. Position Name Date of birth (age) Signed from Apps. Goals Goalkeepers1 GK Mohamed Lamine Zemmamouche MC Alger 186 016 GK Ismaïl Mansouri Reserve team 23 029 GK Amara Daïf CS Constantine 3 0 Defenders4 CB / RB Abdelkader Laïfaoui ES Sétif 47 46 CB Farouk Chafaï MC Alger 66 520 CB Nacereddine Khoualed US Biskra 182 524 RB Youcef Benamara CA Batna 25 026 LB Brahim Boudebouda Le Mans FC 33 127 CB Mohamed Yekhlef ES Sétif 37 030 RB Mohamed Rabie Meftah JSM Béjaïa 49 583 CB Ismaël Bouzid Baniyas SC 9 125 LB / LW Mokhtar Benmoussa ES Sétif 40 4- CB Ibrahim Bekakchi Reserve team 6 0 Midfielders5 Yacouba Ali Africa Sports 6 010 Mohamed Boualem USM El Harrach 18 211 Hocine El Orfi JS Kabylie 23 013 Nassim Bouchema MC Alger (Reserve team) 68 414 Lamouri Djediat ASO Chlef 64 715 Bouazza Feham ES Sétif 65 518 Saad Tedjar JS Kabylie 26 123 Hamza Koudri MC Alger 34 047 Zinedine Ferhat FAF Academy 54 2 Forwards7 Salim Hanifi JS Kabylie 15 28 Ahmed Gasmi JSM Béjaïa 35 99 Noureddine Daham TuS Koblenz 98 4112 Carolus Andriamatsinoro WA Tlemcen 6 022 Hichem Mokhtari MC Mekhadma 7 148 Mohamed Seguer ASO Chlef 28 499 Abdelmalek Ziaya CA Bizerte 13 2
Transfers
In DatePlayerFrom clubTransfer feeSource 26 May 2012 FW Ahmed Gasmi JSM Béjaïa Free transfer 26 May 2012 FW Hichem Mokhtari MC Mekhadma Free transfer 26 May 2012 MF Hamza Koudri MC Alger Free transfer 28 May 2012 FW Carolus Andriamatsinoro Paradou AC Free transfer 28 May 2012 MF Saad Tedjar JS Kabylie Free transfer 28 May 2012 MF Hocine El Orfi JS Kabylie Free transfer 28 May 2012 DF Adel Maïza JSM Béjaïa Free transfer 3 June 2012 DF Youcef Benamara CA Batna Free transfer 6 June 2012 MF Mohamed Seguer ASO Chlef Free transfer 12 June 2012 DF Brahim Boudebouda Le Mans FC Free transfer 16 June 2012 DF Mokhtar Benmoussa ES Sétif Free transfer 3 July 2012 GK Amara Daïf CS Constantine Free transfer 3 October 2012 DF Ismaël Bouzid Baniyas Club Free transfer 4 January 2013 FW Abdelmalek Ziaya CA Bizertin Free transfer 12 January 2013 MF Yacouba Ali Africa Sports d'Abidjan Free transfer 13 January 2013 MF Salim Hanifi JS Kabylie Free transfer
Out DatePlayerTo clubTransfer feeSource February 2012 MF Amadou Diamouténé Unattached Free transfer (Released) 3 June 2012 GK Sid Ahmed Rafik Mazouzi WA Tlemcen Loan 27 June 2012 MF Mehdi Benaldjia CR Belouizdad Loan 28 June 2012 FW Farès Hamiti CR Belouizdad Free transfer (Released) 30 June 2012 MF Salim Boumechra MC Oran Free transfer 30 June 2012 MF Nouri Ouznadji USM Blida Free transfer 2 July 2012 FW Mouaouia Meklouche MC Alger Loan 24 July 2012 FW Saïd Sayah WA Tlemcen Loan 6 August 2012 FW Serge N'Gal Académica de Coimbra Free transfer (Released) 21 August 2012 MF Khaled Lemmouchia Club Africain Free transfer 9 January 2013 DF Abdoulaye Maïga Gazélec Ajaccio Free transfer 14 January 2013 DF Adel Maïza JS Kabylie Free transfer (Released)
Pre-season and friendlies
Competitions Overview CompetitionRecordStarted roundFinal position / roundFirst match Last match Ligue 1 4th 15 September 2012 21 May 2013 Algerian Cup Round of 64Winner 15 December 2012 1 May 2013 Confederation Cup First round Second round 17 March 2013 4 May 2013 UAFA Club Cup Second roundWinner 19 October 2012 14 May 2013 Total
Ligue 1
League table
Results summary
Results by round
Matches
Algerian Cup
CAF Confederation Cup
First round
Second round
UAFA Club Cup
Second round
Quarter-finals
Semifinals
Final
Squad information
Appearances and goals
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|DF |style="text-align:left"|Ibrahim Bekakchi |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |6||6||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||6||0 |- style="font-style:italic" | |DF |style="text-align:left"|Adel Maïza |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |3||3||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||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |4||3||0
|DF |style="text-align:left"|Nazim Aklil |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 |–||–||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|– |1||1||0
|DF |style="text-align:left"|Hussein Boukatouh |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 |–||–||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|– |1||1||0 |-bgcolor=efefef class="sortbottom" |colspan=19|Midfielders |- |5 |MF |style="text-align:left"|Yacouba Ali |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |5||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 |6||5||0 |- |11 |MF |style="text-align:left"|Hocine El Orfi |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |14||8||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |6||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |23||0||0 |- |13 |MF