Super Division

Formerly	ABC National 1A Super Division
Founded	1962; 63 years ago (1962)
First season	1962–63
Country	Algeria
Confederation	FIBA Africa
Number of teams	16
Level on pyramid	1
Relegation to	ABC Second Division
Domestic cup	Algerian Cup
International cup	FIBA Champions Cup
Current champions	NB Staouéli (10th title)
Most championships	MC Alger (21 titles)
Website	fabbalgerie.org
2025–26 season

TheAlgerian Basketball Championship, now called theSuper Division and formally known as theABC Super Division, is the pre-eminent men'sbasketballleague inAlgeria. National 1 is contested by 16 teams, with the two lowest-placed teamsrelegated to the Second Division and replaced by the two playoff winners. From 1963 onwards,MC Alger (21 titles) andWA Boufarik (9 titles) both dominated.Darak El-Watani won 11 titles but no longer exists.

Before Algeria's independence, there were several regional leagues led by the French federation. The Algerian Basketball Championship was founded in 1962 when the country achieved independence. The first, second, and third championships were won byASM Oran in 1963, 1964, and 1965, respectively. Capital clubs began dominating the championship starting in the 1965–66 season.USM Alger won three titles (1966, 1967, and 1969) over the next few years, with RAM Alger breaking their win streak by winning in 1968.Darak El-Watani pulled ahead with 11 titles, including six consecutive wins between 1977 and 1982.MP Alger won four times in the mid-1980s, and again in 1988–89 under the name MC Alger.WA Boufarik won five consecutive titles between 1990 and 1994 and an additional three between 1997 and 1999.IRB Alger (later renamed OC Alger) broke the first streak by winning the championships in 1994–95 and 1995–96. WA Boufarik also won fourAlgerian Basketball Cups in the 1990s.^{[citation needed]}

TheGS Pétroliers dominated the first 20 years of the 2000s, first as MC Alger with titles in the 1999–2000 and 2000–01 seasons; four consecutive wins between 2003 and 2006; and one in 2007–08. The team started its run under its new name, MC Alger, with three consecutive wins (2009 to 2012), punctuated by a loss toCSM Constantine, and another six consecutive wins (2013 to 2019) before theCOVID-19 pandemic interrupted play.^[1]

In the 2006–07 season, there were six teams: WA Boufarik,CRB Dar El-Beida,WB Aïn Bénian,AS PTT Alger, MC Alger, andNB Staouéli. In the sixth minute of the second quarter of a mini-championship playoff game against DRB Staouéli, MC Alger left the court while the score was 28–21 in favor of DRB Staouéli. International referee Noureddine Chachoua awarded MC Alger a loss by penalty, allowing DRB Staouéli to win the championship for the first time.^[2] Two seasons later, AS PPT Alger also won the title after defeating GS Pétroliers in a mini-championship 2nd tournament playoff inHydra. At halftime, the score was 45–31^[3] and increased to 81–81 by the end of the game with three seconds left. Faycal Belkhodja was able to score three points, taking the win for GS Pétroliers.^[4]

Thefinal match (best of three) system, which had been absent for most of the early 2000s, returned in the2010–11 season. The GS Pétroliers sweptCRB Dar Beida in the finals.^[5] The competition system changed again; now, a tournament of 16 clubs would play 30 matches each. The club that came first in points was crowned champion. The GS Pétroliers beatUS Sétif (107–65) to win their second consecutive title. They also won theAlgerian Basketball Cup for the second consecutive time.^[6]

The2012–13 season brought another competition system change. Twenty clubs returned and four new ones joined. They were divided into groups A and B, with each group playing 18 matches as part of phase one. In phase two, the first four teams of each group moved on to the playoffs. The remaining teams were up for relegation.CSM Constantine beat GS Pétroliers 2–1 and won the title for the first time.^[7] The team went on to represent Algeria at the2013 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup. By the start of the next season, CSM Constantine had lost most of its star players and GS Pétroliers returned to win the title for four consecutive seasons, in addition to four consecutive cup wins.^[8][9] Due to its winning streak and sponsorship fromSonatrach, GS Pétroliers was the only club not to struggle with financial issues in the early 2010s.^[10][11]

The following is a list of clubs that participated in the2024-25 season:

CRBS

OMB

CST

WOB

USB

OSA

Algiers

Algiers teams:
NA Hussein Dey
USM Alger
MC Alger
NB Staouéli
Gué de Constantine
TRA Draria
Ouled Chebel Basketball
CB Rouiba

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Locations of teams for the2024–25 Algerian Basketball Championship

Notes

Below is the list of the champions since the first edition in 1962–63.^[12]MC Alger andWA Boufarik have historically been rivals due to both teams' high win count.

Season	Date	Ref	Champion	Series	Score			Runner-up	Champion Coach
1995–96	Jul ?–11	[13]	IRB/ECT Alger(4)	2–0	65–55	??–??	—	WA Boufarik
1996–97	Jun 29–Jul 10	[14][15][16]	WA Boufarik(6)	2–1	55–51	70–63	55–60	NA Hussein Dey	Ahmed Loubachria
1997–98	Jun 11–16		WA Boufarik(7)	2–0	92–75	62–58	—	DRB Staouéli	Ahmad Benyabou
1998–99	?– ?		WA Boufarik(8)	Round Robin				?
1999–00	?– ?		MC Alger(6)	Round Robin				?
2000–01	?– ?		MC Alger(7)	Round Robin				?
2001–02	Apr 19–May 24	[17]	WA Boufarik(9)	Round Robin				MC Alger
2002–03	?–Jun 13	[18]	MC Alger(8)	Round Robin				?	Bilal Faid
2003–04	Jul 1–9	[19][20]	MC Alger(9)	2–0	79–65	79–56	—	COBB Oran	Bilal Faid
2004–05	?– ?	[21]	MC Alger(10)	Round Robin				WA Boufarik
2005–06	?– ?	[22]	MC Alger(11)	Round Robin				WA Boufarik	Bilal Faid
2006–07	?– ?	[2]	DRB Staouéli	Round Robin				MC Alger	Ahmed Loubachria
2007–08	?– ?	[23]	MC Alger(12)	Round Robin				CRB Dar Beida	Valiente Conde
2008–09	?– ?	[24][3]	AS PTT Alger	Round Robin				GS Pétroliers	Reda Saiak
2009–10	May 7–May 22	[4]	GS Pétroliers(13)	Round Robin				CRB Dar Beida	Ahmed Loubachria
2010–11	Jun ?–Jul 1	[5]	GS Pétroliers(14)	2–0	109–78	91–80	—	CRB Dar Beida	Bilal Faid
2011–12	Oct 27–May 29	[6]	GS Pétroliers(15)	Round Robin				CSM Constantine	Bilal Faid
2012–13	Apr 30–May 4	[25]	CSM Constantine	2–1	63–54	85–64	54–65	GS Pétroliers	Said Didi
2013–14	May 27–30	[26]	GS Pétroliers(16)	2–0	91–73	54–64	—	CRB Dar Beida	Sean Whalen
2014–15	May 26–30	[27]	GS Pétroliers(17)	2–1	75–64	55–53	66–69	US Sétif	Sean Whalen
2015–16	May 24–28	[28]	GS Pétroliers(18)	2–1	53–65	55–88	87–71	CRB Dar Beida	Bilal Faid
2016–17	Jul 13–14	[8]	GS Pétroliers(19)	2–0	71–75	94–61	—	NA Hussein Dey	Nicolas Meistelman
2017–18	May 30–31		GS Pétroliers(20)	2–0	103–73	111–92	—	NB Staouéli	Sofiane Boulahya
2018–19	May 18		GS Pétroliers(21)	1–0	102–68	—	—	NB Staouéli	Sofiane Boulahya
2019–20	Cancelled due to theCOVID-19 pandemic in Algeria
2020–21
2021–22	Jun 2–4		NB Staouéli(2)	—	—	—	—	WA Boufarik
2022–23	Jun 8–10	[29]	USM Alger(4)	Round Robin				WA Boufarik	Réda El Hachemi
2023–24	Jun 28–Jul 2		WO Boufarik(10)	2–0	83–59	60–41	—	TRA Draria	Sofiane Boulahia
2024–25	Jun 13–Jun 14		NB Staouéli(3)	2–0	69–67	70–59	—	NA Hussein Dey	Mohamed Yahya

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