Union sportive de la médina d'Alger is a professional football club based in Algiers, Algeria, which plays in Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1. This chronological list comprises all those who have held the position of manager of the first team of USM Alger from 1962, when the first professional manager was appointed, to the present day. Each manager's entry includes his dates of tenure and the club's overall competitive record (in terms of matches won, drawn and lost), honours won and significant achievements while under his care. Caretaker managers are included, where known. As of the start of the 2021–22 season, USM Alger have had 61 full-time managers.
Background
After independence USM Alger brought former Nice and Monaco player Abdelaziz Ben Tifour to be a coach and player at the same time, he led the club to win its first Critérium d'Honneur title against MC Alger in a match in which he scored a goal. In the early 1980s, USMA contracted Ali Benfadah, and after seven Algerian Cup finals, it eventually led him to win the first cup in 1981. From the 1986–87 season, the team's son Djamel Keddou became the new coach, with Mustapha Aksouh as his assistant. and despite the lack of experience, weak abilities and a young team, he managed to win the Algerian Cup title in 1988 against CR Belouizdad for the second time in its history. The club then fell into the second division, where he suffered instability at the level of the technical bar and after the advent of Saïd Allik as chairman of the board of directors, and who contracted with the young coach Younes Ifticène to obtain promotion to the first division, which was achieved in the 1994–95 season. Ifticen left USM Alger despite achieving the underlined goal of being replaced by Nour Benzekri who didn't stay long and left because of his disagreement with Azzedine Rahim, where Mustapha Aksouh ended the season and led him to win the first Championship title in 33 years. In the 1997–98 season, Younès Ifticen returned again where he achieved a feat with him in the Champions League and failed to reach the final by a goal difference. In Division 1 USM Alger reached the final against USM El Harrach despite progressing in the result with two goals, but in the last 20 minutes the team conceded three goals, at the end The match was blamed on the coach mostly after taking out the two scorers.
In the 2002–03 season, USM Alger hired a young coach Azzedine Aït Djoudi, who achieved a great feat by winning the league and cup double for the first time in the club's history. And eliminated in the semi-final of the Cup Winners' Cup against Wydad AC. Despite the success, Aït Djoudi did not end his career with the club and left to be replaced by Mourad Abdelouahab, the latter despite the good results and played in the semi-finals of the Champions League, but left while the team was in second place, only to be temporarily replaced by Aksouh until the end of the season and led him to win the Algerian Cup. Once again the start of the season with a new coach, to which Noureddine Saâdi returned, expressing his satisfaction at once again taking over the destinies of the Algiers club for next season. Despite the good results, he left at the end of the match go and the team was in the lead, and Djamel Menad came in his place left after the bad results and elimination of the Confederation Cup, according to Menad his decision is motivated by "personal reasons" which he does not want to spread in the public square. “After careful consideration, I have decided to leave my post. The reasons for this decision I prefer to keep to myself, but know that they have nothing to do with the latest results of the team”. Once again Aksouh finishes the season and wins the championship title with ease. After that, the club entered a void, despite its contract with known coaches like Mustapha Biskri, Rachid Belhout, Abdelkader Amrani and Kamel Mouassa, and even foreigners, namely René Lobello and Oscar Fulloné and this until the end of the era of President Allik.