Bentifour, coach of the USM Alger receives from the hands of Ben Bella president, the first trophy Algerian football championship, under the gaze of President of the FAF the Dr Maouche (left) and Minister of Defense Houari Boumedienne (right)
In 1962, it was only a regional championship called "Critérium Honneur". After several months of administrative procedures and the affiliations of clubs to the various regional organizations governing football in Algeria, football competitions came back to life in the country. Given the geographical distribution of clubs across the country, formerly divided into three departments under the French colonial administration, each league took charge of organizing competitions autonomously, encouraged by the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
Thus, all the football teams in the country are divided into several groups according to their territorial affinities; they compete with the aim of finishing as "Champions of the groups" to which they were assigned. Then the winners compete in a second phase in a regional tournament in order to designate the "regional champions". In the Central region, sixty clubs are divided into five groups of ten participants each, for the Eastern region only three groups of nine teams each; as for the Western region, the most populated, it has seventy clubs divided into six groups. During this first season, there were therefore qualifiers in the three major regions of the country in order to designate the participants in the final national tournament to award the first title of Algerian Football Champion.
A mini tournament is organized between these clubs to designate the county champion. USM Alger finally prevail in the final two goals to one against MC Alger and will enter the final round with winners from other regions. The runner accompany because it was decided that the central region for the first two teams qualify criterion.
A tournament is held between the winners of these regional criteriums, a sort of "play-off" whose goal is to identify the first "Champion of Algeria football." In the semi-final draw to give USM Alger match against USM Bône and MC Alger facing SCM Oran. In the first meeting, Bône little bow face to Algiers by the rule of the many corners obtained in a scoreless game after a goal everywhere. In the other match, the mouloudia wins against the Oran on the final score four goals to nil. At the end of the tournament, the first title was awarded to USM Alger, MC Alger winner by three goals to nil. The two losers of the semifinals fought for third place, and that's USM Bône who prevailed over the SCM Oran by four goals to one.
^USM Alger requires corners 7-6 semi-final between USM Alger and USM Bône ended on a 2-2 draw.
The rule penalties not yet in force in 1963, the two teams were broken by the number of corners awarded during the game. The USM Alger won the semi-final with 7 corners against 6 for the USM Annaba
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