Aso Chlef

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; 76 years ago (1947-06-13) (as Association Sportive Orléansvilloise)
Ground	Mohamed Boumezrag Stadium
Capacity	18,000
President	Mohamed Ouahab
Head Coach	Chérif Hadjar
League	Ligue 1
2022–23	Ligue 1, 7th of 16
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

ASO Chlef was founded on June 13, 1947, as Association Sportive d'Orléansville, Orléansville being the colonial name of Chlef at the time. 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. 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.

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.

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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

• CAF Champions League: 2 appearances

2009 – First Round
2012 – Group stage

• CAF Confederation Cup: 3 appearances

2006 – First Round
2007 – Second Round
2024 – First Round

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]. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   ALG Sofiane Kacem 3 DF   ALG Chemseddine Nessakh 4 MF   ALG Abderrahmane Bourdim 5 MF   ALG Ahmida Zenasni 6 MF   BOT Gape Mohutsiwa 7 FW   TOG Yawo Agbagno 8 MF   ALG Abdelkader Boussaid (captain) 9 FW   ALG Ayyoub Kersani 10 MF   ALG Juba Aguieb 11 FW   ALG Yacine Aliane 12 DF   ALG Achraf Abada 13 DF   ALG Abderrahim Hamra 14 FW   ALG Boualem Sryer

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 MF   ALG Redouane Bounoua 16 GK   ALG Mohamed Alaouchiche 17 FW   ALG Zakaria Haddouche 18 MF   ALG Toufik Addadi 19 FW   ALG Dhiyaeddine Benyahia 20 MF   ALG Kamel Belarbi 21 MF   ALG Ibrahim Farhi Benhalima 22 DF   ALG Fateh Achour 23 FW   ALG Redouane Zerdoum 24 DF   ALG Mohamed Roufid Arab 26 DF   ALG Abdelhak Debbari 27 FW   ALG Mostapha Alili 30 MF   ALG Rayan Choukri

Reserve Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. 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

Current technical staff

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

•   Sid-Ahmed Slimani
•   Abdelkader Amrani (2003–09)
•   Rachid Belhout (July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008)
•   Said Hadj Mansour (July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009)
•   Moussa Saïb (2009)
•   Meziane Ighil (July 13, 2010 – Sept 5, 2011)
•   Noureddine Saâdi (Sept 6, 2011 – June 30, 2012)
•   Rachid Belhout (July 1, 2012 – Oct 25, 2012)
•   Mohamed Benchouia (interim) (Oct 23, 2012 – Nov 15, 2012)
•   Nour Benzekri (Nov 14, 2012 – Jan 24, 2013)
•   Mohamed Benchouia (interim) (Jan 25, 2013 – June 30, 2013)
•   Meziane Ighil (July 1, 2013–)