ASO Chlef

ASO Chlef

Full name	Association Sportive Olympique de Chlef
Founded	June 13, 1947 (1947-06-13) (64 years ago) as Association Sportive Orléansvilloise [1]
Ground	Stade Mohamed Boumezrag (Capacity: 17,000)
President	Abdelkrim Medouar
Head Coach	Noureddine Saâdi
League	Ligue Professionnelle 1
2010-11	Ligue Professionnelle 1, 1st
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Association Sportive Olympique de Chlef (Arabic: جمعية أولمبي الشلف‎) is an Algerian football club based in Chlef, founded in 1947. The club colours are red and white. Their venue, Stade Mohamed Boumezrag has a capacity of some 30,000.

History

ASO Chlef was founded on June 13, 1947 as Association Sportive d'Orléansville, Orléansville being the colonial name of Chlef at the time.^[2] The club was founded by the indigenous Algerian Muslim community of the city who wanted a club to rival the already existing European club in the city, Groupement Sportif Orléansville. In its first season of existence, the club finished second in the third division. In the following two seasons, it won promotion to the first division. After Algeria gained its independence in 1962, the name of the city was changed from Orléansville to El Asnam and the club changed its name to Asnam Sportive Olympique, keeping its original ASO initials.

On June 21, 2005, ASO Chlef won its first domestic title after beating USM Sétif 1-0 in the final of the 2005 Algerian Cup with a goal from Mohamed Messaoud in extra-time.^[3] By winning the Cup, they also qualified for continental competition for the first time, earning a spot in the 2006 CAF Confederation Cup. However, their run in African competition came to a quick end. After walking over ASC Entente of Mauritania in the preliminary round of the, they lost to AS Douanes of Senegal 1-0 on aggregate in the first round.

In the 2007-2008 season, ASO Chlef achieved its best league finish to date by finishing second in the Algerian Championnat National, 10 points behind champions JS Kabylie.

On June 21, 2011, led by head coach Meziane Ighil, ASO Chlef won its first Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 title after second placed CR Belouizdad lost to USM El Harrach.^[4]

On May 12, 2012, ASO Chlef beat Sudanese club Al-Hilal 4–2 in a penalty shoot-out in the second round of the 2012 CAF Champions League after the two legs ended up tied 2–2 to qualify to the group stage for the first time in the club's history.^[5]

Achievements

• Ligue 1

Winner (1): 2010–11

Runner-up (1): 2007-08

• Algerian Cup

Winner (1): 2004-05

Runner-up (1): 1991-92

Performance in CAF competitions

• CAF Champions League: 2 appearances

2009 - First Round

2012 - In progress

• CAF Confederation Cup: 2 appearances

2006 - First Round

2007 - Second Round

Current squad (2012-2013)

As of June 1, 2012:^[6]

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Mohamed Ghalem 2 FW Hervé Oussalé 4 DF Mohamed Amine Aouamri 5 DF Samir Zazou 7 FW Karim Ali Hadji 10 MF Mohamed Messaoud 11 FW Cheikh Hamidi 13 DF Farid Mellouli 14 MF Mohamed Zaouche 17 MF Hocine Achiou 19 GK Kouadri El Aid Maamar 20 MF Mâamar Bentoucha

No. Position Player 21 DF Benziane Senouci 22 MF Kheireddine Selama 23 MF Charif Nasseri 25 DF Maâmar Youcef 26 DF Sabri Gharbi 28 GK Maamar Nadjib Meddah 29 MF Ismail Kadar 30 DF Samir Zaoui – DF Toufik Bouhafer – MF Mohamed Amine Saïdoune – FW Zakaria Haddouche

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player FW Mansour Belhani (at Olympique de Médéa until end of season)

Notable players

Below are the notable former players who have represented ASO Chlef in league and international competition since the club's foundation in 1947. To appear in the section below, a player must have played in at least 100 official matches for the club or represented the national team for which the player is eligible during his stint with ASO Chlef or following his departure.

For a complete list of ASO Chlef players, see Category:ASO Chlef players

• Abderrazak Belgherbi
• Mohamed Belgherbi
• Farid Cheklam
• Bouabdellah Daoud
• Azzedine Doukha
• Samir Hadjaoui
• Fodil Megharia
• Mustapha Meksi
• El Arbi Hillel Soudani
• Mohamed Talis
• Alhassane Issoufou

Managers

• Abdelkader Amrani
• Sid-Ahmed Slimani
• Said Hadj Mansour
• Rachid Belhout (2007–08)
• Moussa Saïb (2009)
• Meziane Ighil (2010–11)
• Noureddine Saâdi (2011–)

References

External links

• (French) Official website
• (French) Fan site

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