Algerian national football team

This article is about the Algerian men's national soccer team, the women's team is described under Algerian women's national soccer team .

Algeria
الجزائر / al-Jaza'ir

Nickname (s)	Les Fennecs ( The Desert Foxes )
Association	Fédération Algérienne de Football
confederacy	CAF
Technical sponsor	Adidas
Head coach	Djamel Belmadi (since 2018)
captain	Riyad Mahrez
Record scorer	Abdelhafid Tasfaout (36)
Record player	Lakhdar Belloumi (100)
Home stadium	Stade Mustapha Tchaker
FIFA code	ALG
FIFA rank	35th (1482 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
statistics
First international match Tunisia 1: 2 Algeria ( Tunisia ; June 1, 1957)
Biggest win Algeria 15-1 South Yemen ( Libya ; August 17, 1973)
Biggest defeat Hungary 9-2 Algeria ( Hungary ; August 16, 1967)
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals	4 ( first : 1982 )
Best results	Round of 16 ( 2014 )
African Championship
Participation in the finals	17 ( first : 1968 )
Best results	Africa Champion ( 1990 , 2019 )
(As of November 19, 2019)

The Algerian national football team , also known as Les Fennecs , is the selection of the Fédération Algérienne de Football . The team of the Mediterranean bordering Algeria qualified four times ( 1982 , 1986 , 2010 , 2014 ) for the finals of the World Cup .

Officially, it was only created after the country gained independence (1962), which was part of France (Algérie française) until the end of the Algerian struggle for independence through the Peace of Évian ; the 2-1 victory over Bulgaria on January 6, 1963 is considered to be its birth. However, between 1958 and 1962 it had a very active forerunner in the football selection of the FLN , and even before that, national teams from the French departments of Algiers , Oran , Constantine and played Bône against national teams from other countries.

Participation in soccer world championships

At the Soccer World Cup in 1982 they lost after the surprising 2-1 opening win over Germany in the second game against Austria after a superior first half with 0-2. The last preliminary group game of the Algerians took place on June 24, 1982 against Chile . Although the team was already leading 3-0 at halftime and would almost certainly have qualified for the final round with this score, the Chileans managed to score two more goals against the team with the stars Lakhdar Belloumi and Rabah Madjer towards the end of the game to achieve. Due to this starting position, the German national team and the Austrian team scored 1-0, for which Horst Hrubesch scored in the 10th minute of the game , to move into the second final round. After Hrubesch's goal, both teams were keen to keep this result, which is why this so-called non - aggression pact is also known as the "Shame of Gijón". As a consequence, FIFA later stipulated that in subsequent World Cups on the last match day of each preliminary round group, both games would be played at the same time.

At the 1986 World Cup , the Algerian team only scored 1-1 in the first game of the preliminary round against Northern Ireland after a poor performance. The second group match against fellow favorites Brazil was lost 1-0, even if Algeria had good chances through Belloumi and Assad. The only goal for Brazil came from a defensive mistake. After another clear 3-0 defeat against Spain , Algeria were eliminated.

In the qualification for the soccer world championship 2010 the "desert foxes" u. a. somewhat surprisingly prevailed against the six-time African champions Egypt . The Algerians had to play three games against their North African arch-rivals: After a 3-1 home win in the first leg of the final qualifying round, Algeria lost 2-0 to the Egyptians in a second leg overshadowed by riots in the last minute. Since both teams were now equal on points and goals in the final table, a play-off on a neutral place was required. This game won the Algerians in Sudan with 1: 0 with a goal of at this time when VfL Bochum dedicated Antar Yahia . At the World Cup finals , the team met Slovenia , England and the USA in the preliminary round . With two 0-1 defeats against the Slovenes and the Americans and the respectable success of a goalless draw against England, the team was eliminated without a single goal.

At the soccer world championship in 2014 , the team made it into the second round of a world championship for the first time. Islam Slimani scored the decisive goal to make it 1-1 against the Russian national team . In the round of 16, the elimination against the German national soccer team followed after a hard-won 2-1 after extra time.

In qualifying for the 2018 World Cup , the Algerians were only able to get one point in the first four games of the third round in the 1-1 draw against Cameroon, then lost the next three games against Nigeria (3-1) and Zambia (1-3 and 0: 1) and thus had no chance to qualify before the last two games.

Tournaments

Olympic games

→ Main article : Algerian national football team / Olympic Games

1900 to 1964	not participated
1968 in Mexico City	not qualified
1972 in Munich	not qualified
1976 in Montreal	not qualified
1980 in Moscow	Quarter finals
1984 in Los Angeles	not qualified
1988 in Seoul	not qualified

After 1988 the senior national team stopped taking part in the Olympic Games and the qualifying games. In 2015, the U-23 team qualified for the Olympic Games the following year for the first time.

World Championship

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year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1930	Uruguay	not participated				Not an independent state
1934	Italy	not participated				Not an independent state
1938	France	not participated				Not an independent state
1950	Brazil	not participated				Not an independent state
1954	Switzerland	not participated				Not an independent state
1958	Sweden	not participated				Forerunner team of the FLN not recognized
1962	Chile	not participated				Forerunner team of the FLN not recognized
1966	England	withdrawn
1970	Mexico	not qualified				Tunisia failed in the first round of qualification , but they also failed to qualify.
1974	Germany	not qualified				In the qualification in the 1st round again failed by Guinea , which could not qualify either.
1978	Argentina	not qualified				In the qualification in the second round, Tunisia failed again.
1982	Spain	Preliminary round	Germany , Austria , Chile	13.	Rachid Mekhloufi	Algeria was eliminated after one win, one loss and one win. Austria, which was level on points with Algeria, played against Germany in the last game. In the so-called non - aggression pact of Gijón between Germany and Austria , the two teams left it with a 1-0 victory for Germany, which gave Austria the better goal difference against Algeria.
1986	Mexico	Preliminary round	Northern Ireland , Brazil , Spain	22nd	Rabah Saâdane	Eliminated as last group.
1990	Italy	not qualified				In the qualifying in the third round of Egypt failed.
1994	United States	not qualified				In the qualification in the 2nd round to Nigeria failed.
1998	France	not qualified				In the qualifiers in the first round of Kenya failed, which also failed to qualify.
2002	South Korea / Japan	not qualified				Failed in the qualification in the 2nd round at Senegal .
2006	Germany	not qualified				In the qualification in the second round of Angola failed.
2010	South Africa	Preliminary round	Slovenia , England , USA	28.	Rabah Saâdane	Eliminated as last group
2014	Brazil	Round of 16	Germany		Vahid Halilhodžić	In the qualification , Algeria prevailed against Mali , Benin and Rwanda and - in the barrages  - against Burkina Faso (→ Football World Cup 2014 / Algeria ). In the preliminary round, Algeria came second behind Belgium and ahead of Russia and South Korea, which was the first time they reached the second round, in which the team met Germany and lost 2-1 after extra time.
2018	Russia	not qualified				In qualifying , Algeria met Tanzania in the second round and qualified for the third round. In this Algeria retired as the bottom of the group with four defeats in six games.

African Championship

1957 in Sudan	Forerunner team of the FLN not recognized
1959 in Egypt	Forerunner team of the FLN not recognized
1962 in Ethiopia	Forerunner team of the FLN not recognized
1963 in Ghana	Not participated
1965 in Tunisia	Not participated
1968 in Ethiopia	Round 1
1970 in Sudan	Not qualified
1972 in Cameroon	Not qualified
1974 in Egypt	Not qualified
1976 in Ethiopia	Not qualified
1978 in Ghana	Not qualified
1980 in Nigeria	Runner-up
1982 in Libya	fourth place
1984 in Ivory Coast	third place
1986 in Egypt	Round 1
1988 in Morocco	third place
1990 in Algeria	African champions
1992 in Senegal	Round 1
1994 in Tunisia	Disqualified *
1996 in South Africa	Quarter finals
1998 in Burkina Faso	Round 1
2000 in Ghana and Nigeria	Quarter finals
2002 in Mali	Round 1
2004 in Tunisia	Quarter finals
2006 in Egypt	Not qualified
2008 in Ghana	Not qualified
2010 in Angola	4th Place
2012 in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea	Not qualified
2013 in South Africa	Preliminary round
2015 in Equatorial Guinea	Quarter finals
2017 in Gabon	Preliminary round
2019 in Egypt	African champions

* Algeria was excluded from the final tournament in Tunisia because of the use of an ineligible player. Senegal moved up.

African Nations Championship

• 2009 : not qualified
• 2011 : 4th place
• 2014 : not qualified
• 2016 : disqualified ¹

¹ The team was not allowed to participate in the qualification because they had not played their first game in qualifying for the 2014 championship.

Arab Nations Cup

• Arab Nations Cup 1963: not qualified
• Arab Nations Cup 1964: not qualified
• Arab Nations Cup 1966: not qualified
• Arab Nations Cup 1985: not qualified
• 1988 Arab Nations Cup: group stage ¹
• Arab Nations Cup 1992: not qualified
• Arab Nations Cup 1998: group stage ²
• Arab Nations Cup 2002: not qualified
• Arab Nations Cup 2009: not qualified ³
• Arab Nations Cup 2012: not qualified

¹ Participation of the university team
² Participation of the U23 team
³ Competition was canceled during the qualification phase

Games against teams from German-speaking countries

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team	occasion
1.	01/01/1964	Algiers	Algeria	2-0	FRG
2.	02/28/1974	Algiers	Algeria	1: 3	GDR
3.	04/21/1976	cottbus	GDR	5-0	Algeria
4th	06/16/1982	Gijón ( )	Algeria	2: 1	FRG	World Cup preliminary round
5.	06/21/1982	Oviedo ( )	Algeria	0: 2	Austria	World Cup preliminary round
6th	11/30/1983	Algiers	Algeria	1: 2	Switzerland
7th	10/10/1984	Aue	GDR	5: 2	Algeria
8th.	March 13, 1985	Batna	Algeria	1: 1	GDR
9.	05/06/1986	Geneva	Switzerland	2-0	Algeria
10.	11/17/2010	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	0-0	Algeria
11.	06/30/2014	Porto Alegre ( )	Germany	2: 1 a.d.	Algeria	World Cup round of 16

So far there have been no meetings against Liechtenstein.

Record player

Record player
Games	player	position	Period	Gates
100 (82)	Lakhdar Belloumi	midfield	1978-1989	27 (22)
086 (76)	Rabah Madjer	attack	1978-1992	29 (27)
081	Billel Dziri	midfield	1992-2005	09
080	Abdelhafid Tasfaout	midfield	1990-2002	36
079 (71)	Djamel Menad	attack	1980-1995	25 (23)
077	Mahieddine Meftah	Defense	1989-2002	04th
074 (65)	Mahmoud Guendouz	Defense	1977-1986	0 4th
072 (71)	Raïs M'Bolhi	goal	2010-	0 0
070	Madjid Bougherra	Defense	2004-2015	04th
068 (58)	Salah Assad	attack	1977-1989	15 (13)
068 (64)	Fodil Megharia	Defense	1984-1992	00
068 (67)	Islam Slimani	attack	2012-	29
067	Yazid Mansouri	midfield	2001-2010	00
065	Moussa Saïb	midfield	1989-2001	06th
064 (54)	Ali Fergani	midfield	1973-1986	05
064	Rafik Saïfi	attack	1998-2010	18th

Record shooters
Gates	player	Period	Games
36	Abdelhafid Tasfaout	1990-2002	080
29 (27)	Rabah Madjer	1978-1992	086 (76)
29	Islam Slimani	2012-0000	068 (67)
28 (20)	Lakhdar Belloumi	1978-1989	100 (82)
25 (23)	Djamel Menad	1980-1995	079 (71)
23	El Arbi Hillel Soudani	2011-0000	051
19 (14)	Tedj Bensaoula	1979-1986	050 (39)
18th	Rafik Saïfi	1998-2010	063
16	Baghdad Bounedjah	2014-0000	034
15 (13)	Salah Assad	1977-1989	068 (58)
15th	Riyad Mahrez	2014-0000	057

Source: The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Other well-known former players

• Abdelaziz Ben Tifour - 1958–1962 member of the FLN team
• Mustapha Dahleb - World Cup participant 1982
• Fawzi Mansouri - World Cup participant in 1982 and 1986
• Rachid Mekhloufi - 1958–1962 member of the FLN team
• Djamel Zidane - World Cup participant in 1982 and 1986
• Mustapha Zitouni - 1958–1962 member of the FLN team

Trainer

Current coaching staff

Nat.	Surname	position	since
	Djamel Belmadi	National coach	2018
	Jesus Canadas	Assistant coach	2017
	vacant	Assistant coach	2017
	Aziz Bouras	Goalkeeping coach	2017
	Miguel Ángel Campos	Athletic trainer	2017
	vacant	Rehab trainer	2017
	Ali Yekdah	Team doctor	2010

Coach history

No.	Trainer	from	to	Games	Victories	draw	Defeats	successes
1	Squad Firoud	01/01/1963	02/16/1963	1	0	0	1
2	Smaïl Khabatou (1st term)	07/01/1963	06/30/1964	5	1	3	1
3	Abderrahmane Ibrir	10/01/1964	July 1965	11	2	3	6th
4th	Smaïl Khabatou (2nd term)	11/01/1965	March 1966	2	0	1	1
5	Lucien Leduc	11/1/1966	01/31/1969	17th	8th	4th	5
6th	Saïd Amara (1st term)	1.02.1969	March 1969	2	1	0	1
7th	Hamid Zouba (1st term) and Abdelaziz Ben Tifour	08/01/1969	04/01/1971	8th	2	2	4th
8th	Rachid Mekhloufi (1st term)	09/01/1971	09/30/1972	13	7th	2	4th
9	Mohamed El-Kenz and Abdulhamid Sellal	10/01/1972	February 1973	5	2	1	2
10	Dumitru Macri (1st term)	05/01/1973	May 21, 1973	2	1	1	0
11	Saïd Amara (2nd term)	May 22, 1973	October 31, 1973	10	4th	4th	2
12	Dumitru Macri (2nd term)	02/01/1974	06/30/1975	21st	7th	4th	10
13	Rachid Mekhloufi (2nd term)	08/01/1975	05/30/1979	47 (43)	24 (20)	9	14th	1975 Mediterranean Games
14th	Mahieddine Khalef (1st term)	07/01/1979	07/31/1979	1	0	0	1
15th	Mahieddine Khalef (1st term) and Zdravko Rajkov	08/01/1979	08/30/1980	16	7th	5	4th	Vice African champion 1980 , quarter-finals Olympic Games 1980
16	Zdravko Rajkov	09/01/1980	04/21/1981	7th	4th	1	2
17th	Evgeni Rogov (1st term)	05/01/1981	02/09/1982	8th	6th	1	1
18th	Mahieddine Khalef (2nd term)	03/01/1982	04/30/1982	7th	3	2	2	Fourth place African Championship 1982
19th	Rachid Mekhloufi (3rd term)	05/01/1982	06/30/1982	3	2	0	1
20th	Hamid Zouba (2nd term)	09/01/1982	01/08/1984	19th	10	4th	5
21st	Mahieddine Khalef (3rd term)	02/01/1984	10/17/1984	10	4th	3	3	Third place African Championship 1984
22nd	Rabah Saâdane (1st term)	December 01, 1984	06/30/1986	29	9	10	10
23	Mustapha Zitouni	August 1986	August 1986	2	2	0	0
24	Evgeni Rogov (2nd term)	09/01/1986	03/30/1988	16	8th	6th	2	Third place in the 1988 African Championship
25th	Camel Lemoui	09/01/1988	10/10/1989	18th	7th	7th	4th
26th	Abdelhamid Kermali (1st term) and Ali Fergani (1st term)	10/15/1989	03/15/1991	22nd	9	9	4th	African champions 1990
27	Meziane Ighil (1st term)	March 16, 1992	11/30/1993	21st	7th	10	4th
28	Rabah Madjer (1st term)	December 01, 1993	06/30/1995	9	3	4th	2
29	Ali Fergani (2nd term) and Mourad Abdelouahab	07/01/1995	06/30/1996	19th	10	4th	5
30th	Hamid Zouba (3rd term) and Abdelhamid Kermali (2nd term)	10/01/1996	02/25/1997	5	1	3	1
31	Abderrahmane Mehdaoui	05/01/1997	02/18/1998	14th	5	2	7th
32	Meziane Ighil (2nd term) and Marcel Pigulea (Team Principal )	03/01/1998	01/31/1999	6th	2	1	3
33	Boualem Charef and Rabah Saâdane (2nd term)	02/01/1999	11/30/1999	5	2	1	2
34	Wet sandjak	December 01, 1999	04/25/2000	7th	2	3	2
35	Abdelghani Djadaoui and Mircea Rădulescu (from August 2000)	04/26/2000	03/30/2001	15th	6th	5	4th
36	Hamid Zouba (4th term) and Abdelhamid Kermali (3rd term)	04/01/2001	07/30/2001	6th	1	2	3
37	Rabah Madjer (2nd term)	08/01/2001	05/30/2002	9	2	3	4th
38	Hamid Zouba (5th term)	08/01/2002	01/08/2003	5	3	2	0
39	Rachid Bouarrata	01/10/2003	01/31/2003	1	1	0	0
40	George Leekens	02/01/2003	06/27/2003	6th	2	2	2
41	Rabah Saâdane (3rd term)	07/08/2003	02/15/2004	10	4th	3	3
42	Robert Waseige	03/27/2004	09/07/2004	7th	0	4th	3
43	Ali Fergani (3rd term)	10/01/2004	06/21/2005	8th	2	2	4th
44	Meziane Ighil (3rd term)	09/01/2005	03/02/2006	3	0	2	1
45	Peter Schnittger (Interim)	03/03/2006	04/15/2006	0	0	0	0
46	Jean-Michel Cavalli	05/14/2006	10/16/2007	12	4th	2	6th
47	Rabah Saâdane (4th term)	10/17/2007	04.09.2010	32	15th	6th	11	Fourth place African Championship 2010
48	Abdelhak Benchikha	09/21/2010	05.09.2010	4th	1	1	2
49	Vahid Halilhodžić	06/22/2011	07/07/2014	30th	18th	5	7th	Round of 16 World Cup 2014
50	Christian Gourcuff	08/01/2014	04/03/2016	21st	13	3	5
51	Nabil Neghiz (Interim)	04/04/2016	06/30/2016	1	1	0	0
51	Milovan Rajevac	07/01/2016	10/27/2016	2	1	1	0
52	George Leekens	10/27/2016	01/24/2017	6th	2	2	2	second term as national coach
52	Lucas Alcaraz	04/13/2017	October 2017	0	0	0	0
53	Rabah Madjer	October 18, 2017	06/24/2018	0	0	0	0
54	Djamel Belmadi	08/02/2018
55
56

1. ↑ in brackets the number of games, not including the qualifying games for the 1980 Summer Olympics, which FIFA did not count

Multi-tenure coach

Terms of office	Surname	Total games	S.	U	N
5	Hamid Zouba	43	17th	13	13
4th	Rabah Saâdane	76	30th	20th	26th
3	Meziane Ighil	30th	9	13	8th
3	Ali Fergani	49	21st	15th	13
3	Mahieddine Khalef	34	14th	10	10
3	Abdelhamid Kermali	33	11	14th	8th
3	Rachid Mekhloufi	59	29	11	19th
2	Evgeni Rogov	24	14th	7th	3
2	Dumitru Macri	23	8th	5	12
2	Rabah Madjer	18th	5	7th	6th
2	Said Amara	12	5	4th	3
2	George Leekens	12	4th	4th	4th
2	Smaïl Khabatou	7th	1	4th	2

See also

• Gijón Non-Aggression Pact
• List of international matches for the Algerian national football team
• Algerian national football team (U-17 juniors)
• Algerian national football team (U-20 men)

Remarks

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ cf. the list of Algerian internationals on http://www.rsssf.com/tablesa/alg-intres.html
3. ↑ The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games. See: All-time FIFA World Cup Ranking 1930–2010 (PDF; 200 kB).
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Incl. Games and goals in the 1980 Olympic Games and qualifications for the 1980, 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games, which FIFA does not count as A international games. Numbers in brackets without these games.
5. ^ Roberto Mamrud: Appearances for Algeria National Team ( English ) Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. November 18, 2019. Retrieved April 28, 2020.

Web links

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