Union Sportive Médina d'Alger is an Algerian association football club based in Algiers, that competes in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1. The club was formed in Algiers in 1937 as Union Sportive Musulmane d'Alger before it was renamed Union Sportive Médina d'Alger in 1962. the team changed its name, one more time in 1977 to be named that time Union sportive kahraba d'Alger, in 1987 the club name was changed again to Union d'Alger until 1989 faced with a major financial and economic crisis, the Algerian government in place in 1989 decides to abandon the 1977 reform. they recovered their old name Union Sportive Médina d'Alger. Before independence, the team played in many degrees in Ligue d'Alger, third, second, and first division, but they had never played in Honor Division the highest degree then. On March 15, 2020, the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) decided to halt the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria.[1] On July 29, 2020, the LFP declared that season is over USM Alger did not play all of its matches and settled with 22 out of 30 matches of 2019–20 season.[2][3]
^In the 2020–21 season USM Alger were deducted 3 points due to their withdrawal in their game against MC Alger.[4] The decision has been appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.[5] On August 28, 2020, after postponing several times the final decision was made without appeal, which is to return the three points and repeat the match.[6] however due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria the Match was canceled.
^USM Annaba mentioned in this article is a club founded in 1944 now called HAMRA Annaba. Not to be confused with the current USM Annaba, a club based in the same city but founded in 1983.