List of Algerian football champions

Algerian football champions

Founded
1962
Number of teams
18
Current champions
MC Alger
Country
Algeria
Most successful club
JS Kabylie (14-time champions)

The Algerian football champions are the winners of the primary football league in Algeria, Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1. The league is contested on a round robin basis and the championship is awarded to the team that is top of the league at the end of the season. Algerian football league, first established in 1962, originally contained fifty two teams. Ligue 1 is contested by 16 teams; the three lowest-placed teams are relegated to the Ligue 2 and replaced by the top three teams in that division. Of the founding teams in Algerian football league

Key
	Champions also won the Algerian Cup that season
	Champions also won the Algerian Cup and CAF Champions League that season

Season	Winner	Runner-up	Third place	Top goalscorer
1962–1963	USM Alger	MC Alger	Hamra Annaba
1963–1964	USM Annaba^[A]	NA Hussein Dey	ASM Oran
1964–1965	CR Belcourt^[B]	MSP Batna	ES Guelma	Hocine Saadi (NA Hussein Dey, 21 goals)
1965–1966	CR Belcourt (2)	ES Guelma	SCM Oran	Abdelkader Reguig (ASM Oran, 20 goals)
1966–1967	NA Hussein Dey	RC Kouba	CR Belcourt	Noureddine Hachouf (ES Guelma, 18 goals)
1967–1968	ES Setif	MC Oran	CR Belcourt	Abdelkader Fréha (MC Oran, 15 goals)
1968–1969	CR Belcourt (3)	MC Oran	USM Bel-Abbès	Abdelkader Fréha (MC Oran, 15 goals)
1969–1970	CR Belcourt (4)	MC Alger	CCS Kouba	Hacène Lalmas (CR Belcourt, 18 goals)
1970–1971	MC Oran	CS Constantine	MC Alger	Abdelkader Fréha (MC Oran, 15 goals) Noureddine Hamel (MC Oran, 15 goals)
1971–1972	MC Alger	CR Belcourt	MO Constantine	Rabah Gamouh (MO Constantine, 24 goals)
1972–1973	JS Kabylie	NA Hussein Dey	MC Alger	Abdesslem Bousri (MC Alger, 12 goals)
1973–1974	JS Kabylie (2)	MO Constantine	NA Hussein Dey	Omar Betrouni (MC Alger, 17 goals)
1974–1975	MC Alger (2)	RC Kouba	MC Oran	Boualem Amirouche (RC Kouba, 18 goals) Sid Ahmed Belkedrouci (MC Oran, 18 goals)
1975–1976	MC Alger (3)	NA Hussein Dey	JS Kabylie	Mohamed Griche (ES Sétif, 21 goals)
1976–1977	JS Kabylie^[C] (3)	CR Belcourt	NA Hussein Dey	Mokrane Baïleche (JS Kabylie, 20 goals)
1977–1978	MP Alger^[D] (4)	JS Kabylie	EP Sétif	Abdesslem Bousri (MP Alger, 14 goals)
1978–1979	MP Alger (5)	JS Kabylie	MP Oran	Lakhdar Belloumi (MP Oran, 11 goals) Redouane Guemri (ASC Oran, 11 goals) Abdesslem Bousri (MP Alger, 11 goals)
1979–1980	JS Kabylie^[E] (4)	CM Belcourt	MA Hussein Dey	Nasser Bouiche (MP Alger, 19 goals)
1980–1981	RS Kouba^[F]	JS Kabylie	EP Setif	Noreddine Meghichi (RS Kouba, 16 goals)
1981–1982	JS Kabylie (5)	MA Hussein-Dey	EP Setif	Abdesslem Bousri (MP Alger, 16 goals)
1982–1983	JS Kabylie (6)	EP Setif	ESM Bel-Abbès	Abdesslem Bousri (MP Alger, 19 goals)
1983–1984	GCR Mascara^[G]	USM El Harrach	JS Kabylie	Naçer Bouiche (JS Kabylie, 17 goals)
1984–1985	JS Kabylie (7)	MP Oran	WKF Collo	Mohamed Aloui (AM Aïn M'lila, 17 goals)
1985–1986	JS Kabylie (8)	EP Setif	Chlef SO	Naçer Bouiche (JS Kabylie, 36 goals)
1986–1987	EP Setif^[H] (2)	MP Oran	Chlef SO	El Hadi Khellili (RCM Relizane, 17 goals)
1987–1988	Mouloudia d'Oran (2)	JS Kabylie	Jeunesse de Bordj Ménaïel	Chawki Bentayeb (Union d'Aïn Béïda, 19 goals)
1988–1989	JS Kabylie (9)	Mouloudia d'Alger	Rapid de Relizane	Naçer Bouiche (JS Kabylie, 18 goals)
1989–1990	JS Kabylie (10)	MC Oran	MC Alger	Tarek Hadj Adlane (USM Alger, 24 goals)
1990–1991	MO Constantine	ASM Oran	AS Aïn M'lila	Salaheddine Benhamadi (AS Aïn M'lila, 19 goals)
1991–1992	MC Oran (3)	USM El Harrach	WA Tlemcen	Abdelhafid Tasfaout (MC Oran, 17 goals)
1992–1993	MC Oran (4)	NA Hussein Dey	US Chaouia	Abdelhafid Tasfaout (MC Oran, 15 goals)
1993–1994	US Chaouia	JS Bordj Ménaïel	JS Kabylie	Tarek Hadj Adlane (JS Kabylie, 18 goals)
1994–1995	JS Kabylie (11)	MC Oran	USM Blida	Tarek Hadj Adlane (JS Kabylie, 23 goals)
1995–1996	USM Alger (2)	MC Oran	USM Aïn Beïda	Mohamed Brahimi (WA Tlemcen, 14 goals)
1996–1997	CS Constantine	MC Oran	USM Alger	Mohamed Djalti (WA Tlemcen, 15 goals)
1997–1998	USM El Harrach	USM Alger	CS Constantine	Hamid Merakchi (ES Mostaganem, 7 goals)
1998–1999	MC Alger (6)	JS Kabylie	CR Belouizdad	Farid Ghazi (JS Kabylie, 19 goals)
1999–2000	CR Belouizdad (5)	MO Constantine	MC Oran	Lotfi Sahraoui (MO Constantine, 11 goals)
2000–2001	CR Belouizdad (6)	USM Alger	JS Kabylie	Issaad Bourahli (ES Sétif, 16 goals)
2001–2002	USM Alger (3)	JS Kabylie	WA Tlemcen	Noureddine Daham (ASM Oran, 13 goals) Kamel Kherkhache (USM Blida, 13 goals)
2002–2003	USM Alger (4)	USM Blida	NA Hussein Dey	Moncef Ouichaoui (USM Alger, 18 goals)
2003–2004	JS Kabylie (12)	USM Alger	NA Hussein Dey	Adel El Hadi (USM Annaba, 17 goals)
2004–2005	USM Alger (5)	JS Kabylie	MC Alger	Hamid Berguiga (JS Kabylie, 18 goals)
2005–2006	JS Kabylie (13)	USM Alger	ASO Chlef	Hamid Berguiga (JS Kabylie, 18 goals)
2006–2007	ES Sétif (3)	JS Kabylie	JSM Béjaïa	Cheick Oumar Dabo (JS Kabylie, 17 goals)
2007–2008	JS Kabylie (14)	ASO Chlef	ES Sétif	Nabil Hemani (JS Kabylie, 17 goals)
2008–2009	ES Sétif (4)	JS Kabylie	JSM Béjaïa	Mohamed Messaoud (ASO Chlef, 19 goals)
2009–2010	MC Alger (7)	ES Sétif	JS Kabylie	Hadj Bouguèche (MC Alger, 17 goals)
2010–2011	ASO Chlef	JSM Béjaïa	ES Sétif	El Arbi Hillel Soudani (ASO Chlef, 18 goals)
2011–2012	ES Sétif (5)	JSM Béjaïa	USM Alger	Mohamed Messaoud (ASO Chlef, 15 goals)
2012–2013	ES Sétif (6)	USM El Harrach	CS Constantine	Moustapha Djallit (MC Alger, 14 goals)
2013–2014	USM Alger (6)	JS Kabylie	ES Sétif	Albert Ebossé Bodjongo (JS Kabylie, 17 goals)
2014–2015	ES Sétif (7)	MO Béjaïa	MC Oran	Walid Derrardja (MC El Eulma, 16 goals)
2015–2016	USM Alger (7)	JS Saoura	JS Kabylie	Mohamed Zubya (MC Oran, 13 goals) Mohamed Tiaïba (RC Relizane, 13 goals)
2016–2017	ES Sétif (8)	MC Alger	USM Alger	Ahmed Gasmi (NA Hussein Dey, 14 goals)
2017–2018	CS Constantine (2)	JS Saoura	NA Hussein Dey	Oussama Darfalou (USM Alger, 18 goals)
2018–2019	USM Alger (8)	JS Kabylie	Paradou AC	Zakaria Naidji (Paradou AC, 20 goals)
2019–2020^{[note 1]}	CR Belouizdad (7)	MC Alger	ES Setif	Abdennour Belhocini (USM Bel Abbès, 10 Goals)
2020–2021	CR Belouizdad (8)	ES Setif	JS Saoura	Amir Sayoud (CR Belouizdad, 20 Goals)
2021–2022	CR Belouizdad (9)	JS Kabylie	JS Saoura	Samy Frioui (MC Alger, 17 Goals)
2022–2023	CR Belouizdad (10)	CS Constantine	MC Alger	Mohamed Souibaâh (ASO Chlef, 13 goals)
2023–2024	MC Alger (8)	CR Belouizdad	CS Constantine	Youcef Belaïli (MC Alger, 14 goals) Ismaïl Belkacemi (USM Alger, 14 goals)
2024–2025	MC Alger (9)	JS Kabylie	CR Belouizdad

Note:

1962 - 2010 : Algerian Championnat National (Algerian National Championship)

from 2010 : Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 (Algerian Professional League 1)

Titles by club

Updates: As of 2022–23 season Teams in bold compete in the Ligue Professionnelle 1 as of 2022–23 season. In total, 15 clubs have won the Algerian championship, The record champions are JS Kabylie with 14 titles.

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Winning seasons
JS Kabylie	14	13	1972–73, 1973–74, 1976–77, 1979–80, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1994–95, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2007–08
CR Belouizdad	10	4	1964–65, 1965–66, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23
MC Alger	9	5	1971–72, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1998–99, 2009–10, 2023–24, 2024–25
USM Alger	8	4	1962–63, 1995–96, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2018–19
ES Setif	8	4	1967–68, 1986–87, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2016–17
MC Oran	4	8	1970–71, 1987–88, 1991–92, 1992–93
CS Constantine	2	3	1996–97, 2017–18
NA Hussein Dey	1	5	1966–67
USM El Harrach	1	3	1997–98
RC Kouba	1	2	1980–81
MO Constantine	1	2	1990–91
ASO Chlef	1	1	2010–11
Hamra Annaba	1	0	1963–64
GC Mascara	1	0	1983–84
US Chaouia	1	0	1994–95

Total titles won by region

Region	Number of titles	Clubs
Algiers Province	30	CR Belouizdad (10), MC Alger (9), USM Alger (8), NA Hussein Dey (1), RC Kouba (1), USM El Harrach (1)
Tizi Ouzou Province	14	JS Kabylie (14)
Sétif Province	8	ES Sétif (8)
Oran Province	4	MC Oran (4)
Constantine Province	3	CS Constantine (2), MO Constantine (1)
Annaba Province	1	Hamra Annaba (1)
Mascara Province	1	GC Mascara (1)
Oum El Bouaghi Province	1	US Chaouia (1)
Chlef Province	1	ASO Chlef (1)

List of Algerian football champions

Titles by club

Total titles won by region

See also

Notes

Notes

References

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