League Algiers Football Association

The League Algiers Football Association, also called League Algiers Football or League of Algiers was an organization of soccer in Algeria to the French colonial era. Founded in 1920 in order to develop the colonial football to Algiers; She paused for a moment due to World War II, then resumed in 1946. Eventually it will cease all activities in 1962 after the end of the War of Algeria who devoted the independence of the Algeria and which led to the mass exodus of settlers to France signifier abandonment of sports clubs run by the "settlers" and their structures.

League Algiers Football Association
Founded1919
Folded1962 due to fall of France
after 38 seasons
Country France  Algeria
Number of teamsvaried
Level on pyramid1
Domestic cup(s)Forconi Cup
Coupe de France
Last championsO Hussein Dey
(1958–59)
Most championshipsGallia Sport d'Alger (8)

Affiliated to the French Football Federation with four other leagues in North Africa that are leagues: the Constantine of Oran of Tunisia and Morocco; League Algiers so possessed as his four sisters the status of "league" or "Championship" amateur, and had four divisions that corresponded to the seventh, sixth, fifth and fourth division of French football.

These leagues so were the main football regions in North Africa from cutting the French colonial administration. They were very structured and very hierarchical and organized competitions for all age categories in addition to a so-called "corporate" (or category Championship "corporate" or company), the highest level was called Division of Honor .

History

Champions of Honor Division (DH) of the League Algiers
  • DH Championship League Algiers Centre Football Association (LAFA) [1]
SeasonTeamSeasonTeamSeasonTeamSeasonTeam
1920–1921 SeasonFC Blida[2]1930–1931 SeasonAS Boufarik [3]1940–1941 SeasonNot Played (War)1950–1951 SeasonGS Alger [4]
1921–1922 SeasonFC Blida1931–1932 SeasonGS Algiers1941–1942 SeasonAS Boufarik1951–1952 SeasonAS Saint Eugène[5]
1922–1923 SeasonFC Blida1932–1933 SeasonAS Saint Eugène1942–1943 SeasonAS Saint Eugène1952–1953 SeasonFC Blida
1923–1924 SeasonFC Blida1933–1934 SeasonRU Algiers[6]1943–1944 SeasonAS Saint Eugène1953–1954 SeasonGS Algiers
1924–1925 SeasonAS Boufarik1934-1935 SeasonRU Algiers1944-1945 seasonUnassigned [7]1954–1955 SeasonGS Algiers
1925–1926 SeasonUS Blida [8]1935–1936 SeasonAS Saint Eugène1945-1946 SeasonRU Algiers1955–1956 SeasonGS Orléansville [9]
1926–1927 SeasonGS Orléansville1936–1937 SeasonGS Algiers1946–1947 SeasonGS Algiers1956–1957 SeasonAS Saint Eugène
1927–1928 SeasonGS Algiers1937–1938 SeasonAS Boufarik1947–1948 SeasonO Hussein-Dey [10]1957–1958 SeasonGS Algiers
1928–1929 SeasonFC Blida1938–1939 SeasonRU Algiers1948–1949 SeasonO Hussein-Dey1958–1959 SeasonO Hussein-Dey
1929–1930 SeasonAS Saint Eugène1939–1940 SeasonNot Played (War)1949–1950 SeasonO Hussein-Dey1959–1960 Season(training CFA)

Titles by club
Club Winners Winning seasons
GS Alger
8
 1927–28, 1931–32, 1936–37, 1946–47, 1950–51, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1957–58
AS Saint Eugène
7
 1929–30, 1932–33, 1935–36, 1942–43, 1943–44, 1951–52, 1956–57
FC Blida
6
 1920–21, 1921–22, 1922–23, 1923–24, 1928–29, 1952–53
AS Boufarik
4
 1924–25, 1930–31, 1937–38, 1941–42
O Hussein-Dey
4
 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1958–59
RU Alger
4
 1933–34, 1934–35, 1938–39, 1945–46
GS Orléansville
2
 1926–27, 1955–56
US Blida
1
 1925–26

See also

References
  1. Lahcène Belahoucine, "'The Saga of Algerian football,'" page 67, Hibr Editions, Algiers, 2010
  2. This is the club: Football Club Blida also known Football Club Blidéen
  3. This is the team: Sports Association Boufarik
  4. This is the team: Gallia Sport Algiers which can also be written in GSA
  5. This is the club: saint-eugénoise sports Association athletic Association also called Saint-Eugène
  6. This is the team: Racing Universitaire d'Alger which can be written as RUA
  7. This season AS Saint-Eugene and MC Alger ended tied for first place (ASSE's still ahead in goal difference) to separate the competitions according to the regulations, the Algiers League decided to organize a replay to determine a champion. Unfortunately as the festivities of the end of the World War II coincided with the end of the season, the meeting did not take place and so the unallocated basis.
  8. This is the team: Blida Sports Union also called Union SportiveBlidéene
  9. This is club: Athletic Grouping Orléansville also called Groupement Sportif Orléansvillois
  10. This is the team: Olympic Hussein Dey, which can also be written in OHD
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