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| Full name | Union Sportive de la Médina Bel Abbès | ||
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| Nicknames | El Mekerra,Les scorpions (Scorpions) | ||
| Founded | 7 February 1933 (92 years ago) (1933-02-07) asUnion Sportive Musulmane de Bel Abbès | ||
| Ground | 24 February 1956 Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 50,000 | ||
| League | Inter-Régions Division | ||
| 2024–25 | Inter-Régions Division, Group West,2nd | ||
 Current season | |||
Union Sportive de la Médina Bel Abbès (Arabic:الإتحاد الرياضي لمدينة بلعباس), known asUSM Bel Abbès or simplyUSMBA for short, is an Algerianfootball club located inSidi Bel Abbès,Algeria, that was founded in 1933 and its colors aregreen andred. Their home stadium,24 February 1956 Stadium, has a capacity of 50,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in theInter-Régions Division.
The team was founded on 7 February 1933 under the name ofUnion 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 namedElectronique Sari Madinat Bel Abbès (ESMBA).
On April 27, 2012, in the last round of the2011-12 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2, USM Bel-Abbès beatUSM Annaba 3–0 to finish third and win promotion to theAlgerian Ligue Professionnelle 1, returning to the top flight after a 19-year absence.[1] However the team return one year after in the second division but one year after again in 2014, they returned to the top division.
The club used to play at theStade des trois frères Amarouch. Since 1981, the club plays at the24 February 1956 Stadium which has a capacity of 45,000 spectators.
Larbi Benbarek (1957 – 1958)
Fethi Benkabou (20??–July 1, 2012)Fouad Bouali (July 23, 2012 – Oct 30, 2012)Abdelkader Yaïche (Nov 14, 2012 – Jan 3, 2013)Mokhtar Assas (Jan 18, 2013 – May 12, 2013)Zouaoui Zitouni(interim) (May 13, 2013 – June 30, 2013)Abdelkrim Bira (July 1, 2013 – June 30, 2014)
Jean-Guy Wallemme (July 1, 2014–15)  | This article about anAlgerian footballclub is astub. You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it. |
