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MC Oran
Full name	Mouloudia Club d'Oran
Founded	1946
Ground	Stade Ahmed Zabana; Oran, Algeria; (Capacity: 40,000)
Chairman	Youcef Djebbari
Manager	Cherif El Ouazani
League	Algerian Championnat National
2007/08	Algerian Championnat National, 13th
Home colours	Away colours

Mouloudia Club d'Oran (MC Oran) (Arabic: نادي مولودية وهران) The club Mouloudia Oran (MCO) is a football club based in Oran in Algeria. Founded in 1946, MCO was the only club to have Algerian disputed to this day (2007) all of the national championship seasons of first division (D1) since 1963, at its launch. However, the team was finally relegated at the end of the 2007/2008 season, finishing 13th in the 16-team league.

[edit] Stadium

The club, one of the most popular in Algeria, plays at the Ahmed Zabana Stadium (40,000 places), in the popular district of El Hamri. The team supporters are nicknamed Hamraoua (named after the neighbourhood), and the team's colors are red and white.

[edit] History

It was in the night of Tuesday, May 14, 1946, the eve of the Muslim holiday Mawlid Leilat el Ennabaoui Echarif (celebration of the birth of the prophet Mohammed), which meets five people in the local area to Ali Bentouati Lamur - the current (El Hamri) - and agree to found a club to be called Mouloudia Club d'Oran. Among the founders, there were Bentouati Ali, Mohamed Bessoul, Omar Rouane Serrik, Boumefraa (one of the founders of Oran USM), and Omar (Mouloudia's first president), wealthy merchant in El Hamri. The founding ceremony of Mouloudia was attended by Cheïkh Said Zamouchi, delegated by the influential Sheikh Al Tayeb Mahaji and Sheikh Ben Badis of the Association of Algerian Muslim clerics.

The club has had in its workforce, and especially during the golden years (71, 75, 85, 87, 89, 91, 92), great figures of Algerian football and even Africa, like Lakhdar Belloumi, Tedj Bensaoula, and Karim Morocco, as well as children of the club for generations as Abdelkader Freha, Sid Ahmed Belkedrouci, Miloud Hadfi through Cherif Tahar El Ouazzani.

If his career is crowned many trophies and national titles, it has nevertheless just managed to escape relegation twice. The first time in 1970, by winning a decisive match against legendary club CR Belouizdad. The following season, the Mouloudia wins with the same number his first title of champion of Algeria. The second time or MC Oran would escape relegation, it was in 1983. Curiously, the following season also, in 1984, won the Cup Mouloudia of Algeria with a new wave of talented young players such as Mourad Meziane, Cherif Tahar El Ouazzani, Bachir Mecheri, Arezki Lebbah, led by Abdellah Mecheri, against The DNC Algiers.

[edit] Achievements

Algerian Championnat National :(4)

Champion: 1971, 1988, 1992, 1993

Vice Champion: 1968, 1969, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000

Algerian Cup :(4)

Winner: 1975, 1984, 1985, 1996

Finalist: 1998, 2002

Maghreb Champions Cup :(1)

Winner: 1973

Finalist: 1976

Algerian League Cup :(1)

Winner: 1995

African Cup of Champions Clubs :(0)

Finalist: 1989

Arab Champions League :(0)

Finalist: 2001

Arab Cup Winners' Cup :(2)

Winner: 1997, 1998

Arab Super Cup :(1)

Winner: 1999

[edit] Performance in CAF Competitions

African Cup of Champions Clubs: 2 appearances

1989: Finalist

1993: Quarter-Final

CAF Confederation Cup: 1 appearance

2005 - Second Round

CAF Cup: 2 appearances

1996 - Quarter-Final

1998 - First Round

CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 3 appearances

1985 - Second Round

1986 - Second Round

1997 - Quarter-Final

[edit] 2007-2008 season squad

Position	Nom	Numéro
Gardien	Yacine Djebarat	1
Gardien	Fethi Zitouni	16
Gardien	Mohamed Amine Ouadah
Défenseur	Brahim Serradj	2
Défenseur	Samir Hamidi	3
Défenseur	Samir Guira	4
Défenseur	Sofiane Bengoureïne	5
Défenseur	Fathallah Sabri Belhaoua	11
Défenseur	Farid Bellabes	17
Défenseur	Moulay Haddou	19
Défenseur	Redouane Bachiri	20
Défenseur	Chaffik Bourzama	22
Défenseur	Youcef Mabrouk	23
Défenseur	Megdad Tazi	28
Défenseur	Kada Kechamli	29
Milieu	Abdennour Cherif El Ouazzani	6
Milieu	Bouazza Feham	10
Milieu	Moussa Rekkab	14
Milieu	Mohamed Zine El Abidine Sebbah	15
Milieu	Touhami Tiah	25
Milieu	Sofiane Daoud	26
Milieu	Zakaria Bendriss	32
Milieu	Abdelmadjid Benatia	34
Milieu	Redouane Cheïkh Benzerga	36
Milieu	Nahas Pansao
Attaquant	Seddik Berradja	12
Attaquant	Sofiane Hanister	13
Attaquant	Nasreddine El Bahari	18
Attaquant	Toufik Chaïb	27
Attaquant	Senoussi Medjahed	33
Attaquant	Abdelmalek Bettouaf	35
Attaquant	Alain Gérard Ketchemen	37
Attaquant	Jean-Michel Nlend	39
Entraîneur	Cherif El Ouazani	XX