In the 2017–18 season, USM Alger is competing in the Ligue 1 for the 40th season, as well as the Algerian Cup. It is their 23rd consecutive season in the top flight of Algerian football. They will be competing in Ligue 1, the CAF Champions League, and the Algerian Cup, With the start of the season, the team failed to achieve their biggest goal of winning the CAF Champions League after defeating against Morocco's Wydad. on 11 November 2017 the coach Paul Put announce after the end of the match against the leaders CS Constantine and lost 2-1, for his resignation put said he took all responsibility for the setbacks and said he had a great honor working with the team., Just a day after the resignation of Paul Put, the union administration contracted with the Franco Algerien coach Miloud Hamdi until the end of the season and had already coach the team in 2015–16 and led him to win the Ligue 1 and to the final of the CAF Champions League.
Pre-season
In preparation for this season, which will start at the end of August 2017, the management of the USMA, in consultation with the technical staff, is planning the summer training course from 04 to 16 August2017 in Turkey the Usmists will be in Istanbul at 2 pm, a bus will wait for the Algerian delegation to transport it to the station Kartepe in Izmit and will play five friendly matches. three against local clubs, two against Saudi clubs and one against a Qatari club. USM Alger is transported without six players: Ayoub Abdellaoui, Abderrahmane Meziane, Oussama Darfalou, Okacha Hamzaoui and Raouf Benguit Who joined the Algeria A' national team in preparation for the African Nations Championship qualification against the Libyan national team, as for Soumaila Sidibe did not move with the team because of the visa. the first friendly against Mersin İdmanyurdu and ended with a 5-1 victory and only Ziri Hammar played 90 minutes, and he was the author of three assists, in the same context the games it was delayed for a day due to heavy fog. The second match was against Al Kharaitiyat Qatar and ended 4-1 in favor of the Union and saw the match with the young striker Boumechra, who scored two goals The third game against Sultanbeyli Belediyespor canceled because of the fog and to avoid these problems the decision of the management of the USM Alger played the rest of the friendly games in another place to avoid being postponed, then in the fourth game against Al-Hazm Saudi Club won the Union winning two goals to zero, on the final day of training, the team played two friendly matches in the morning against Ataşehir Çamolukspor and ended in favor of USM Alger with a 2-0 victory. In the evening against Al-Orobah from Saudi Arabia, they ended with a 2-2 draw. after a 13-day internship in Turkey in the heights of Izmit, the Red and Black are back home. The plane from Istanbul arrived at the Algiers airport at 18:30.
Mid-season
Competitions
Overview
Ligue 1
League table
Results summary
Results by round
Matches
Algerian Cup
Champions League
Group stage
Group B
knockout stage
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Confederation Cup
First round
Play-off round
Group stage
Group D
Squad information
Playing statistics
Appearances numbers are for appearances in competitive games only including sub appearances
