punished not to participate in any African competition for a whole year because of the participation an ineligible goalkeeper Burkinabé Siaka Coulibaly against JS du Ténéré from Niger in the second leg, In 2003 the team to reach the semi-finals of the African Champions League at the hands of ousts champion Enyimba, and after an absence of eight years from the African Champions League USM Alger managed to reach the final in 2015 for the first time in its history, but was defeated against TP Mazembe 4–1 on aggregate. Players Algerian teams are limited to two foreign players. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player; Current squad Reserve Squad Out on loan Personnel Current technical staff Management Notable players Had senior international cap(s) for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for USM Alger. Ayoub Abdellaoui 13 Merouane Abdouni Hocine Achiou 8 Tarek Hadj Adlane Rachid Aftouche Mouldi Aïssaoui Saïd Allik Djamel Amani Amar Ammour Salim Aribi 8 Ali Attoui Youcef Belaïli Boubekeur Belbekri 1 Farid Belmellat Raouf Benguit 13 Fawzi Benkhalidi Mohammed Benkhemassa 13 Mokhtar Benmoussa Yacine Bentalaa Abdelaziz Bentifour Hamid Bernaoui Omar Betrouni Mohamed Boualem Brahim Boudebouda Isâad Bourahli Salim Boutamine Mehdi Cerbah Farouk Chafaï Noureddine Daham Oussama Darfalou 13 Rabah Deghmani Abderrahmane Derouaz 2 3 Farid Djahnine Billel Dziri 4 7 Djamel El Okbi Bouazza Feham Zinedine Ferhat Karim Ghazi Tarek Ghoul 5 Nacer Guedioura Abderrahmane Meziane 13 Abderrahmane Meziani Moulay Haddou Fayçal Hamdani 5 Mohamed Hamdoud Djamel Keddou Nacereddine Khoualed 10 Hamza Koudri Abdelkader Laïfaoui Khaled Lemmouchia Mahieddine Meftah 5 6 7 Djamel Menad Hocine Metref Hichem Mezaïr 8 Amokrane Oualiken Moncef Ouichaoui Azzedine Rahim 4 Krimo Rebih Smaïl Slimani 2 Saad Tedjar 11 Hamza Yacef Mounir Zeghdoud 5 6 7 Lamine Zemmamouche 12 Djamel Zidane Mohamed Rabie Meftah 14 Mohamed Benyahia 14 Daniel Moncharé Freddy Zemmour Mamadou Diallo 9 Mintou Doucoure Carolus Andriamatsinoro Abdoulaye Maïga 15 Michael Eneramo Nacer Zekri 4 Muaid Ellafi''' Notes Note 1: played at the 1968 African Cup of Nations. Note 2: played at the 1980 African Cup of Nations. Note 3: played at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Note 4: played at the 1996 African Cup of Nations. Note 5: played at the 1998 African Cup of Nations. Note 6: played at the 2000 African Cup of Nations. Note 7: played at the 2002 African Cup of Nations. Note