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The date of Saturday, June 3, 2023 will be remembered by the fans of "Red and Black” after the club's first continental triumph in the African Confederation Cup, earning the most distinguished of tributes, including from the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who congratulated the club and its players on this fine African achievement. After winning the African Confederation Cup, the Usmist club, which had already distinguished itself at the national and Arab levels with an Arab Champions League title in 2013, repeated the feat with a new trophy, that of the 2023 edition of the African Super Cup, beating Al-Ahly SC of Egypt (1-0) in the final played on September 15 at the King Fahd Stadium in Taif, Saudi Arabia.
With this latest triumph, USM Algiers became only the second Algerian team to win the African Super Cup, following ES Setif's 1-1 penalty shootout victory over Al-Ahly in 2015.
With one of the most impressive records in Algerian soccer, USMA has won the Algerian Championship and Algerian Cup eight times, two Algerian Super Cups, one Arab Champion Clubs Cup and one CAF Super Cup. The International Federation of History and Statistics (IFFHS) ranked USMA 18th among the best African clubs of the decade (2001-2010).
Algeria Press Service (APS) news agency seized this opportunity to award a "Special Prize" to USM Algiers for its historic victories in the African Confederation Cup and CAF Super Cup 2023 edition.
Since 1987, the APS poll has been named after the late Brahim Dahmani, an APS journalist who passed away that same year. He had held several positions, starting as a sports editor, and moving on to the cultural department before being appointed to a post abroad (Harari, Zimbabwe).