MC El Bayadh

MC El Bayadh

Full name	Mouloudia Club El Bayadh
Founded	1936 as Mouloudia Club Gereyville
Ground	Zakaria Medjdoub Stadium
Capacity	15,000
President	Abdelkader Dahmani
Head Coach	Abdelhaq Belaid[1]
League	Algerian Professional League
2023–24 Algerian Professional League	Algerian Professional League, 11th of 16
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Mouloudia Club El Bayadh (Arabic: نادي مولودية البيض), known as MC El Bayadh or simply MCEB for short, is an Algerian football club based in El Bayadh. The club was founded in 1936 and its colours are white and blue. Their home stadium, Zakaria Medjdoub Stadium, has a capacity of 15,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.

History

On June 30, 2021, MC El Bayadh were promoted to the Algerian Ligue 2.^[2]

On May 21, 2022, MC El Bayadh were promoted to the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.^[3][4]

On December 22, 2023, the bus taking the team to face JSK overturned in Sougueur, Tiaret, resulting in the deaths of reserve goalkeeper Zakaria Bouziani and assistant head-coach Khalid Muftah.^[5][6] The Algerian Football Federation opted to postpone all scheduled football matches for the upcoming weekend.^[7][6]

Players

Algerian teams are limited to three foreign players. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player;

Current squad

As of 5 February 2024^[update].^[8][9] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ALG Abdelkader Morcely 2 DF  ALG Abdeldjalil Bahhoussi 3 FW  ALG Ahmed Ghennam 4 MF  ALG Brahim Zouad 5 DF  ALG Mohamed El Amine Barka 6 MF  ALG Abdenour Abbes 7 FW  ALG Yasser Belaribi 8 MF  ALG Amine Antar 9 MF  ALG Ramzi Tennah 10 FW  ALG Mohand Sediri 11 FW  ALG Mohammed Brahimi 12 DF  ALG Anis Khemaissia 13 DF  ALG Abdessamad Bounaama 14 DF  ALG Adel Amaouche 15 DF  ALG Azzedine Berriah

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 GK  ALG Abdeselem Naili 17 MF  ALG Benamar Mellal 18 MF  ALG Djamel Belalem 19 FW  ALG Abdelillah Barkat 20 FW  ALG Ibrahim Morsli 21 DF  ALG Belaid Kouar (captain) 22 MF  ALG Nacer Benzid 23 MF  ALG Abdellah El Moudene 24 DF  ALG Kheireddine Benamrane 25 MF  ALG Youcef Serraoui 26 DF  ALG Aïssa Boudechicha 27 FW  ALG Kamel Belmiloud 30 GK  ALG Ali Hamzaoui — DF  ALG Abdelhak Sailaa

Personnel

Current technical staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Abdelhaq Belaid
Assistant coach	Ahmed Ghoulam
Goalkeeping coach	Hichem Mezair
Fitness coach

References

1. "MC El Bayadh : Abdelhak Belaid de retour au club". mediafootdz.dz. 23 May 2024. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
2. "Football : Le MC El Bayadh sixième et dernier promu en Ligue 2".
3. "Championnat de Ligue2 : L'USM Khenchela et le MC El Bayadh en Ligue 1". 21 May 2022. Archived from the original on 23 May 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
4. "Fin du championnat de Ligue 2 : Le verdict". 21 May 2022. Archived from the original on 21 May 2022. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
5. "Tragic bus accident kills goalkeeper and assistant coach of Algeria's El Bayadh". 2023-12-21. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
6. AGENCIES (2023-12-21). "Bus crash in Algeria kills footballer and coach from Mouloudia Club El Bayadh". Capital Sports. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
7. Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
8. "FICHE DU CLUB: MC EL BAYADH". Archived from the original on 2022-08-09. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
9. "Joueurs du MC El Bayadh". Archived from the original on 2023-08-13. Retrieved 2023-09-03.

External links

• MC El Bayadh on Facebook