ASO Chlef

Association Sportive Olympique de Chlef (Arabic: الجمعية الرياضية أولمبي الشلف), known as ASO Chlef or simply ASO for short, is an Algerian professional football club based in Chlef, founded in 1947. The club colours are red and white. Their home stadium, Mohamed Boumezrag Stadium, has a capacity of some 20,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.

ASO Chlef

Full name	Association Sportive Olympique de Chlef
Nickname(s)	Chalfawa
Founded	June 13, 1947; 78 years ago (1947-06-13) (as Association Sportive Orléansvilloise)[1]
Ground	Mohamed Boumezrag Stadium
Capacity	18,000
President	Abdelkrim Medouar
Head Coach	Samir Zaoui[2]
League	Ligue 1
2024–25	Ligue 1, 13th of 16
Home colours Away colours
Current season

History

ASO Chlef was founded on June 13, 1947, as Association Sportive d'Orléansville, Orléansville being the colonial name of Chlef at the time.^[3] The club was founded by the indigenous Algerian Muslim community of the city who wanted a club to rival the already existing European club in the city, Groupement Sportif Orléansville. In its first season of existence, the club finished second in the third division. In the following two seasons, it won promotion to the first division. After Algeria gained its independence in 1962, the name of the city was changed from Orléansville to El Asnam and the club changed its name to Asnam Sportive Olympique, keeping its original ASO initials.

On June 21, 2005, ASO Chlef won its first domestic title after beating USM Sétif 1–0 in the final of the 2005 Algerian Cup with a goal from Mohamed Messaoud in extra-time.^[4] By winning the Cup, they also qualified for continental competition for the first time, earning a spot in the 2006 CAF Confederation Cup. However, their run in African competition came to a quick end. After walking over ASC Entente of Mauritania in the preliminary round, they lost to AS Douanes of Senegal 1–0 on aggregate in the first round.

In the 2007–08 season, ASO Chlef achieved its best league finish to date by finishing second in the Algerian Championnat National, 10 points behind champions JS Kabylie.

On June 21, 2011, led by head coach Meziane Ighil, ASO Chlef won its first Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 title after second-placed CR Belouizdad lost to USM El Harrach.^[5]

On May 12, 2012, ASO Chlef beat Sudanese club Al-Hilal 4–2 in a penalty shoot-out in the second round of the 2012 CAF Champions League after the two legs ended up tied 2–2 to qualify to the group stage for the first time in the club's history.^[6]

On June 22, 2023, the club led by head coach Abdelkader Amrani beat CR Belouizdad 2–1 in the final of the 2022-23 Algerian Cup to win its second cup title.^[7]

Crest

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  Former logo
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  Present logo

Honours

Domestic competitions

• Algerian Ligue 1
  • Champions (1): 2010–11
  • Runners-up (1): 2007–08
  • Third place (3): 1985–86, 1986–87, 2005–06
• Algerian Cup
  • Winners (2): 2004–05, 2022–23
  • Runners-up (1): 1991–92

Performance in CAF competitions

• CAF Champions League: 2 appearances

2009 – First Round

2012 – Group stage

• CAF Confederation Cup: 4 appearances

2006 – First Round

2007 – Second Round

2015 – Second Round

2024 – First Round

Players

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

Current squad

As of 30 August, 2025.^[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 Mohamed Medjadji 2 FW  ALG Anis Elhadj Benchouya 3 DF  ALG Mohamed El Amine Barka 5 MF  ALG Ibrahim Ben Halima Farhi (captain) 6 MF  ALG Ayoub Sadahine 7 FW  TOG Yawo Agbagno 8 MF  ALG Mohamed Ilyas Abboub 10 MF  ALG Imad Eddine Larbi 11 FW  ALG Zinedine Boutmène 12 MF  NIG Ismael Moussa 13 MF  ALG Dalil Hassen-Khodja 14 MF  ALG Ayoub Sadahine 15 MF  ALG Chemseddine Bekkouche

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 GK  ALG Abderrahmane Medjadel 17 FW  ALG Moussa Boukhenna 18 MF  ALG Djamel Belalem 20 DF  ALG Belkacem Brahimi 21 DF  ALG Tarek Bouabta 22 FW  LBR Edward Ledlum 23 DF  ALG Achref Abada 25 FW  TOG Kokou Avotor 26 DF  ALG Abdelhak Debbari 27 FW  ALG Aissa Feddal 28 DF  ALG Abdelillah Badani 29 DF  ALG Houssam Kellouche 30 GK  ALG Ali Tadjeddine Tergou

Reserve Squad

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 40 GK  ALG Mohamed Medjadji

No. Pos. Nation Player 49 DF  ALG Houssam Kellouche

Personnel

Current technical staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Samir Zaoui
Assistant coach	Aziz Khellafi
Goalkeeping coach	Hussein Aabrous
Fitness coach	Abdelali Sehri

Notable players

Below are the notable former players who have represented ASO Chlef in league and international competition since the club's foundation in 1947. To appear in the section below, a player must have played in at least 100 official matches for the club or represented the national team for which the player is eligible during his stint with ASO Chlef or following his departure.

For a complete list of ASO Chlef players, see Category:ASO Chlef players

• Mohamed Messaoud
• Abderrazak Belgherbi
• Mohamed Belgherbi
• Samir Zaoui
• Farid Cheklam
• Bouabdellah Daoud
• Azzedine Doukha
• Lounès Gaouaoui
• Samir Hadjaoui
• Fodil Megharia
• Mohamed Seguer
• Karim Ali Hadji
• Ameur Benali
• Mustapha Meksi
• El Arbi Hillel Soudani
• Mohamed Talis
• Alhassane Issoufou

Managers

List of managers

Information correct as of 15 July 2024. Only competitive matches are counted.

Key

*	Caretaker manager

Name	From	To	Matches	Won	Drawn	Lost	Win%
Abdelkader Amrani	July 2003	June 2007	122	47	41	34	38.52
Rachid Belhout	1 July 2007	9 June 2008[10]	33	15	10	8	45.45
Said Hadj Mansour	1 July 2008[11]	30 June 2009	39	14	13	12	35.9
Moussa Saïb	30 June 2009[12]	30 August 2009[13]	4	0	2	2	0
Meziane Ighil	10 July 2010[14]	5 September 2011	33	21	6	6	63.64
Noureddine Saâdi	6 September 2011[15]	30 May 2012	40	18	10	12	45
Rachid Belhout	1 June 2012[16]	25 October 2012	12	2	3	7	16.67
Mohamed Benchouia*	25 October 2012	15 November 2012	2	0	1	1	0
Nour Benzekri	17 November 2012[17]	24 January 2013	9	4	4	1	50
Mohamed Benchouia*	25 January 2013	30 June 2013	14	6	1	7	42.86
Meziane Ighil	1 July 2013	8 October 2014[18]	37	11	14	12	29.73
Mohamed Benchouia	9 October 2014[19]	30 May 2015	35	12	12	11	34.29
Samir Zaoui	17 July 2019[20]	8 March 2020	24	8	7	9	33.33
Fodil Moussi	27 November 2020	22 January 2021[21]	9	4	1	4	44.44
Nadhir Leknaoui	24 January 2021[22][21]	26 February 2021	3	1	0	2	33.33
Meziane Ighil	10 March 2021[23][24]	11 May 2021	7	1	1	5	14.29
Samir Zaoui	11 May 2021[25]	12 June 2022	52	19	18	15	36.54
Lyamine Bougherara	30 July 2022[26]	7 December 2022[27]	14	3	6	5	21.43
Abdelkader Amrani	22 January 2023[28]	16 July 2023[29]	19	10	5	4	52.63
Abdelkader Yaiche	12 August 2023[30]	9 October 2023[31]	6	3	1	2	50
Kais Yaâkoubi	25 October 2023[32]	10 January 2024[33][34]	8	2	2	4	100
Chérif Hadjar	15 January 2024[35]	15 June 2024	19	8	6	5	42.11
Samir Zaoui	15 July 2024[36][37]		0	0	0	0

List of ASO Chlef managers by games

#	Manager	Period	G	W	D	L	Win %	Honours
1	Abdelkader Amrani	2003 – 2007, 2023	141	57	46	38	40.43	2 Algerian Cup
2	Meziane Ighil	2010 – 2011, 2013 – 2014, 2021	77	33	21	23	45.71	1 Ligue Professionnelle 1
3	Samir Zaoui	2019 – 2020, 2021 – 2022 2024 – present	76	27	25	24	35.53
4	Mohamed Benchouia	2012, 2013, 2014 – 2015	51	18	14	19	35.29

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