1882 Apr 11 L'Oranaise Club [unknown when the club started playing football]
1894 Apr 14 Club de Joyeusetés d'Oran [football department founded 1897, Jul 10]
1897 Feb 5 Club Athlétique d'Oran [1921 merged with Club Liberté d'Oran to Club Athlétique Liberté d'Oran]
Sep ? Sporting Club Oranais
1898 Jun 26 Club Sportif Constantinois [founded as Ikbal Emancipation (Constantine)]
1900 Avant Garde Sportive de Mascara [disbanded 1962]
1902 Sporting Club Algérois
Racing Club Algérien
1903 Feth Carteaux d'Oran [founded as FC Oranais]
1904 Oct 4 Football Club Blidéen (Blida)
1905 Gallia Club Algérois
1906 Jan 7 Gallia Club Oranais [disbanded 1962]
Sporting Club de Bel-Abbès (Sidi Bel-Abbès) [disbanded 1962]
1908 Jan 1 Sport Association Saint Eugènoise d'Alger [aka AS St.-Eugène]
1910 Etoile Sportive de Dupéré (Ain Defla)
1912 Olympique de Tizi Ouzou [disbanded 1962]
1913 Jan 30 Ghali Club de Mascara [founded as FC Musulmanes de Mascara]
1913 Dec 13 Olympic d'Hussein Dey [disbanded 1962]
1915 Association Sportive de Bône
1917 Jan 1 Mouloudia Club Musulman d'Oran [merged 1924 with Hamidia Club Musulman d'Oran
to Mouloudia Hamidia Club Musulman d'Oran]
1917 Jeunesse Sportive Guelmoise
1919 Association Sportive de la Marine d'Oran [disbanded 1962]
Jeunesse Sportive Saint-Eugène (Oran) [disbanded 1962]
1921 Aug 7 Mouloudia Club d'Alger [called Mouloudia Chaabia d'Alger between 1971 and 1973]
Club Athlétique Liberté d'Oran [merger of Club Athlétique d'Oran and Club Liberté d'Oran]
ca. 1921 Sporting Club de Cheminots de Souk-Ahras
Jeunesse Sportive de Cheminots de Souk-Ahras
1923 Aug 9 Entente Sportive de Collo
Etoile Sportive de Berrouaghia
Iberica FC (Alger)
1924 Apr 4 Espérance Sportive de Guelma [founded as Etendard Sportif Musulman Guelmois]
Oct 22 Mouloudia Hamidia Club Musulman d'Oran [merger of Mouloudia Club Musulman d'Oran and
Hamidia Club Musulman d'Oran; renamed Mouloudia Club d'Oran in 1931 and reformed
as such on 14 May 1946 following an interruption between 1939 and 1946 due to WW II]
Nov 21 Olympique de Marengo
Stade Ain Bessemois
Rapid de Riveh (Meftah)
Association Sportive de Boufarik
1925 Jun 6 Ghali Chabab (Mascara) [founded as Gallia Club de Mascara]
Jeunesse Sportive de Guelma
Avenir Sportive Eckmühl (Oran) [disbanded]
1926 Mar 1 Union Sportive Musulmane d'Oran
Etoile Sportive de Duperré (Ain Defla)
Union Sportive Blidéen
1927 Apr 13 Association Sportive de Khroub
Etoile Sportive de Bou-Saâda
Hijos d'España (Oran)
Racing Universitaire d'Alger
1928 Union Sportive Italienne Pietro Ceresa (Alger)
1929 May 11 Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie (Tizi-Ouzou) [founded as Rapide Club de Tizi-Ouzou]
Ittihad Baladiat Lakhdaria [founded as Union Sportive de Palestro]
Etoile Jeunesse Philippoise [merger of Etoile Sportive de Philippeville and Jeunesse Sportive de Philippeville; disbanded]
1930 Sari Amel Mohammadia
1931 Chabab Ahly Bordj Bou Arreridj
Union Sportive des Mineurs d'El Harrach
Rapid Club Musulman de Souk-Ahras
1932 Jun 16 Union Sportive Madinet de Blida [founded as Union Sportive Musulmane Blidéenne]
Chabab Aurès de Batna
Jeunesse Sportive de Bordj-Ménaïel
Sports Athlétique (Palikao) [disbanded]
1933 Feb 12 Union Sportive Madinet Sétif [founded as Union Sportive Musulmane Sétifienne]
AS Madinet d'Oran [founded as AS Musulmane Oranaise]
Union Sportive Musulman de Sidi-bel-Abbès
Association Sportive de Chemistes d'Oran
1934 Union Sportive de Biskra
1935 Union Sportive Madinet El Harrach [founded as Union Sportive Musulmane de Maison-Carrée]
1936 Mar 12 Jeunesse Sportive Djidjelienne (Jijel)
May 17 Jeunesse Sportive Madinet de Béjaïa
Aug 8 Jeunesse Sportive Madinet Skikda [founded as Jeunesse Sportive Musulmane de Philippeville]
Union Sportive de Chaouia (Oum el Bouaghi)
Association Sportive de Aïn M'lila
Hydra Athlectic Club (Alger)
Nadi Riadhi Baladiat Touggourt
Union Sportive de Tébessa [founded as Jil Sa'ad Madenet Tbessa]
Safaa Khemis Association Football (Khemis Miliana) [founded as Sporting Club d'Affreville]
1937 Mar 22 Jeunesse Sportive Musulmane de Tlemcen
Jul 5 Union Sportive de la Médina d'Alger [founded as Union Sportive Musulmane Algéroise]
1939 Dec 15 Mouloudia Olympique de Constantine
Avenir Sportif de La Marsa
1940 Olympique Bou Saada
1941 Feb 27 Raed Club Arbâa [founded as Raed Club Arbéen]
1942 Jan 28 Raed Chabab de Kouba (Alger)
1943 Union Sportive de la Médina d'Aïn Beïda
Jeunesse Sportive Madinet de Tiaret [founded as Jeunesse Sportive Musulmane de Tiaret]
1944 Jeunesse Sportive El Biar (Alger)
1945 Jan 28 Raed Solb de Kouba
Dec 13 Idéal Sports (Tighennif) [founded as Idéal Sports Musulmans (Palikao)]
NARB Reghaia [full name not known]
Entente Sportif de Sétif
Wydad Alfa (Boufarik)
Olympique Médéa
1946 Aug 2 Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie [temporarily known as Jeunesse Sportive de Tizi Ouzou]
1946 Milaha Athletic (Hussein-Dey)
1947 May 31 Mouloudia Club de Saïda
Jun 13 Association Sportive Olympique de Chlef [founded as Association Sportive de Orléansville]
Jun 15 Nasr Athlétique de Hussein Dey
Union Sportive Musulmane Madinet Hadjout [founded as Union Sportive Musulmane de Marengo]
1954 Mouloudia Olympique de Béjaja
1957 Sep 2 Rapid Commune de Souk-Ahras [founded as Entente Sportive de Souk-Ahras (ESSA)]
1962 Wydad Athlétique de Tlemcen
Mouloudia Sportive Populaire de Batna
Olympique Mustqbal Ruisseaux El Annasser (Alger)
Chabab Riadi Belouizdad Belcourt (Alger)
1968 JH Djazair (Alger) [disbanded 1994]
1994 Paradou Athletic Club (Alger)
Women Club Foundation Dates
1920 AS Algeroise
1921 Gallia Club Oranaise
1995 AFAK Relizane
1997 ASE Alger Centre
AS Intissar Oran
1999 FC Béjaïa
2000 MZ Biskra
2004 Fataiat Club de Constantine [FC Costantine]
2008 AS Oran Centre
2010 Mar 8 CF Akbou
Source for women 1920 and 1921 foundation dates: [Fal 17-18]
Thanks to Fayçal Boutenzar and Sofiane Nourai for additions and corrections
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Authors: Lars Kubusch and Hans Schöggl
Last updated: 7 Mar 2025
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