US Biskra

US Biskra

Full name	Union Sportive de Biskra
Nickname(s)	Khadra
Founded	1934
Ground	18 February Stadium
Capacity	35,000
President	Abdelkader Triaa
Head Coach	Mounir Zeghdoud[1]
League	Ligue 1
2023–24	Ligue 1, 14th of 16
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Union Sportive de Biskra (Arabic: الإتحاد الرياضي لبسكرة), known as US Biskra or simply USB for short, is an Algerian football club based in Biskra. The club was founded in 1934 and the club colours are green and black. Their home stadium, 18 February Stadium, has a capacity of 35,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.

Some of its famous players of the 1970s and early-1980s include: Majorie, Chaib Lakhal, Mohamed Jonas, Mirini, Bessaou, Bouzidi, Ben Brahim, and of course Doubba.

L'USB was stock in the third division for most of its history and played major roles but never made it up. The third division used to be called "Division d'Honneur". At that time the most important achievement was defeating the then, and even now, mighty ES Setif 2–1 in Algerian cup. That was a short lived happy time followed by a loss to USM Bel-Abbès in the same competition by 4–1. All the citizens of Biskra still remember the year of Azzaba when l'US Biskra lost at home in one of the final games to Azzaba 3–1 and therefore missing the accession to the second division then known as "Division Regional".

L'US Biskra now is in second division and even played in Division one for one season two years ago. In May 2017, US Biskra returned to the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 after 11 years of absence.

• Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2
  • Champion (1): 2004–05

Algerian teams are limited to three foreign players. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player;

As of 31 January 2024^[update].^[2][3] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ALG Ahmed Abdelkader 2 DF  ALG Ahmed Redha Houhou 4 DF  ALG Tarek Adouane 6 DF  ALG Hamza Salem 8 MF  ALG Mustapha Zeghnoun 9 FW  ALG Mohamed Larbi Khoualed 10 MF  ALG Hamza Ounnas 11 FW  ALG Chérif Siam 12 MF  ALG Hatem Dakhia 13 GK  ALG Abderrahmane Amri 14 MF  ALG Tayeb Hamoudi 15 DF  ALG Abdelhak Belkacemi

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 DF  ALG Bilal Boukarroum 18 FW  ALG Khalil Darfalou 19 MF  ALG Ayoub Derbal 20 DF  ALG Nacereddine Khoualed (captain) 21 MF  ALG Yacine Medane 22 MF  ALG Abdellah Daouadji 23 DF  ALG Adel Lakhdari (vice-captain) 24 DF  ALG Salaheddine Benlaribi 25 FW  ALG Mohamed El Siddik Baali 26 MF  ALG Nizar Tamer 27 DF  ALG Aymen Chehmat 30 GK  ALG Oussama Mellala

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 29 FW  ALG Riad Rahmoun

No. Pos. Nation Player 31 FW  ALG Aymen Fellahi

For a list of current and former US Biskra player with a Wikipedia article, see Category:US Biskra players

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