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30-428: Founded in 1921 as Mouloudia Club Algérois and Mouloudia Chaâbia d’Alger , the club was known as Mouloudia Pétroliers d'Alger from 1977 to 1986 and changed its name to Mouloudia Club d'Alger in 1986. The club colours are red and green. MC Alger were the first Algerian club to win a continental competition, winning the 1976 African Cup of Champions Clubs . They are one of the most successful Algerian clubs having won

60-585: A 4-year deal to sponsor CAF competitions worth US$ 12.5 million, which was the biggest sponsorship deal in African sporting history at that time. CAF opened new sponsorship callouts when MTN's contract expired and French telecommunications giant Orange scooped it up in July 2009, signing an 8-year comprehensive long-term undisclosed deal to sponsor CAF competitions with a value of €100 million. On 21 July 2016, French energy and petroleum giant, Total S.A., replaced Orange as

90-831: A competition for all African composers to create its anthem without lyrics to reflect the cultural patrimony and the music of Africa on 18 September 2007. Sources: A total of 54 member associations are part of the Confederation of African Football. Additionally, there are territories located in Africa which are not affiliated with CAF or any other confederation to any extent. Some African states with limited or no international recognition have official national teams, but none have been considered for CAF membership. Instead, they are affiliated with organizations such as CONIFA . National teams: Clubs: Inter Continental: Regional: Shortly after formation, CAF organized

120-470: A playing field and a sports club. Aouf sent a request to the prefecture to obtain approval for the founding of the club. The response was negative, Aouf Ahmed being then twenty-six years old. He therefore wrote the name of Abdelmalek, his aunt's husband, so that his project would be accepted. Abdelrrahmane Aouf was summoned twice by the prefecture to examine the file concerning the creation of the Muslim club. During

150-509: A sergeant declared: "Here is the Parc des Princes of the Arabs!" This statement annoyed him and prompted him to talk about his project to his friends the next day. The meeting that gave birth to the club took place in the back room of the café on rue Bénachère (called Souikia). Several names were proposed: Éclair sportif d’Alger, Croissant club d’Alger, Étoile sportive d'Alger, Jeunesse sportive d'Alger, until

180-786: The Africa Cup of Nations (abbreviated AFCON) in 1957 and it has since become its flagship competition. Faced with undisclosed decline in popularity of local competitions and the mass exodus of homegrown footballers to Europe, Asia and the Americas in the 1990s and early 2000s, CAF launched the African Nations Championship (alternatively, though not widely used, the Championship of African Nations (CHAN)) on 11 September 2007 and began organization two years later, to address this issue. CAF also organizes qualification tournaments/competitions for

210-460: The Africa Cup of Nations and Women's Africa Cup of Nations , which they control the prize money and broadcast rights to. CAF will be allocated 9 spots at the FIFA World Cup starting from 2026 and could have an opportunity of 10 spots with the addition of an intercontinental play-off tournament involving 6 teams to decide the last 2 FIFA World Cup places (46+2). The main headquarters of CAF

240-523: The African Cup Winners' Cup , commenced in 1975 for national cup winners of member associations and a third currently-former competition, the CAF Cup , launched in 1992 for African teams who finished below the top 2 positions of the league classifications of member associations and haven't met any criteria for qualification to any CAF competition. CAF decided to merge these two competitions together to form

270-625: The African Cup of Champions Clubs (simply known sometimes as the African Cup ) and rebranded in 1997 as the CAF Champions League, this "prestigious" football club competition currently features the champions of top-division leagues of CAF member associations and the runners-up teams of the league classifications of member associations the top 12 ranked national associations as documented by the CAF 5-year ranking system. A currently-former competition,

300-610: The FIFA U-20 World Cup and the FIFA U-17 World Cup for its member associations; both of which initially began on a home-and-away two-legged basis but has since 1995 been organized in appointed host countries as respectively the Under-20 and U-17 Africa Cup of Nations . For women's football operates competitions which currently serve as qualification tournaments for the related FIFA-organized tournaments which launched at

330-825: The Under-20 and Under-17 levels , launched in 2002 and 2008 respectively, both of which crowns no champions but instead qualifies 2 teams to compete at the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup and the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup respectively. For African clubs, CAF runs the CAF Men's and Women's Champions League , the CAF Confederation Cup , the CAF Super Cup and the African Schools Football Championship for both males and females. First held in 1964 as

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360-477: The Wayback Machine For each tournament, the flag of the host country and the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown. Teams are sorted by number of appearances. The voting to select the best of the century refers to three categories: male player, goalkeeper and female player and is obtained from five different steps. The resulting best players and goalkeepers were honored during

390-609: The CAF Champions League. The winners of the CAF Champions League play the winners of the African Cup Winners' Cup until 2004 and the CAF Confederation Cup thereafter in the CAF Super Cup which was launched in 1993. The Afro-Asian Club Championship was an annual football match jointly organized between CAF and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) between the winners of the CAF Champions League and

420-620: The Mouloudia Club Algérois was created. Its headquarters are located at the American refreshment bar, Place Mahon, in Algiers. In 1976 , MC Alger qualified for the African Cup of Champions Clubs for the first time in its history after winning the 1974–75 Algerian Championnat National . They reached the final after beating Al-Ahly Benghazi of Libya , Al Ahly of Egypt, Luo Union of Kenya and Enugu Rangers of Nigeria, respectively. In

450-557: The current second-tier CAF Confederation Cup in 2004, and it currently incorporates the participation of national cup winners from the Cup Winners' Cup, whiles maintaining the format of the participation of teams who finished 3rd in the top-division league classifications of the 12 highest-ranked member associations as documented by the CAF 5-Year Ranking system from the CAF Cup. It is also ranked below

480-591: The domestic league 8 times, and the domestic cup 8 times, tied with USM Alger , CR Belouizdad and ES Sétif . In 1921, Aouf Ahmed, a member of a wealthy family from the Casbah and a former student at the Sarrouy school, witnessed a scene that made him want to create a football club. On the Place du Gouvernement, now Place des Martyrs5, children were playing football with a ball made from paper. French soldiers were watching them, and

510-691: The exact same year they began formation. The flagship African women's football competition/tournament is the Women's Africa Cup of Nations , which launched in 1991 as the African Women's Championship and was known in the mass media between 2015 and 2021 as the Africa/African Women/Women's Cup of Nations , which currently qualifies 4 teams to the FIFA Women's World Cup . CAF also organizes qualification matches for "promising future female footballers" at both

540-505: The final, they met Guinean club Hafia Conakry , who had won the last edition of the competition. In the first leg in Conakry , MC Alger lost 3–0 and faced the difficult task of having to score three goals in the return leg. However, in the return leg, they managed to score the three goals with a brace from Omar Betrouni and a goal from Zoubir Bachi . They went on to win the penalty shootout 4–1 to win their first African title and also become

570-511: The first Algerian club to win a continental competition. Algerian teams are limited to three foreign players. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player; As of 31 August 2024 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Below are

600-463: The first club from Algeria to win the trophy. Okoume FC and AS FAN Niamey withdrew. Al-Merrikh withdrew. The top scorers from the 1976 African Cup of Champions Clubs are as follows: Confederation of African Football The Confederation of African Football ( CAF ) is the administrative and controlling body for association football , beach soccer , and futsal in Africa . It

630-458: The interviews, Aouf convinced the municipality of the legitimacy of his project. Thus, he said that the club would aim to train young people for military service and explained: "green, paradise, red hell for others seeking training". The colonial authorities sent a note to the headquarters specifying that the club's premises should be used only for sporting purposes (in order to prohibit political gatherings)6. On August 31, 1921 (26 Dhou Al-Hijja 1339)

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660-412: The main sponsor with an 8-year sponsorship package from CAF for a value of €950 million to support its competitions. Total rebranded as TotalEnergies on 28 May 2021. The current main CAF sponsors are: The following clubs are the top 10 clubs in CAF competitions. The following table lists all the countries whose clubs have won at least one CAF competition. Egyptian clubs are

690-501: The most successful, with a total of 44 titles. Egyptian clubs hold a record number of wins in the African Cup of Champions Clubs/CAF Champions League (18), the now-defunct African Cup Winners' Cup (8), the CAF Super Cup (12) and the now-defunct Afro-Asian Club Championship (3), followed by Tunisian clubs with 24 titles and they have the most victories in the now-defunct CAF Cup (4) and Moroccan clubs have secured also 24 titles with

720-577: The most victories in the CAF Confederation Cup (7). Rankings are calculated by the CAF based on points gathered by African teams throughout their participation in international club tournaments organized by either CAF themselves or FIFA since the establishment of the first African Cup of Champions Clubs in 1964. Per 22 June 2023: (*)= Provisional ranking (played at least 10 matches) (**)= Inactive for more than 24 months Rankings are calculated by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW). Top ten, last updated 12 March 2018 Archived 23 October 2019 at

750-572: The name chosen Mouloudia Club Algérois. The colors (green and red) were chosen for these reasons: green represents the hope of the Algerian people, it is also the symbolic color of Islam. Red symbolizes love of the nation and sacrifice, it is also one of the favorite colors of the prophet Mohammed. Encouraged by his friends, Ahmed Aouf organized the club statutes and regulations of the association, staff, preparation of resources (materials and finances), choice of acronym, problems of supervision, acquisition of

780-558: The notable former players who have represented MC Alger in league and international competition since the club's foundation in 1921. 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 MC Alger or following his departure. For a complete list of MC Alger players, see Category:MC Alger players Algeria Mali Togo 1976 African Cup of Champions Clubs The African Cup of Champions Clubs 1976

810-523: The winners of the AFC Champions League between 1987 and 1999. The CAF Women's Champions League was announced and approved on 30 June 2020, launched on 12 September that year and began contesting the following year, i.e. 2021. It features women's national league and cup winners nvolving the champions of CAF's sub-confederation qualification tournaments for women's club teams. In October 2004, South African telecommunications giant, MTN , contracted

840-721: Was established on 8 February 1957 at the Grand Hotel in Khartoum , Sudan by the national football associations of: Algeria , Egypt , Ethiopia , Nigeria , and South Africa . following formal discussions between the aforementioned associations at the FIFA Congress held on 7 June 1956 at Avenida Hotel in Lisbon , Portugal . Representing the African confederation of FIFA , CAF organizes runs and regulates national team and club continental competitions annually or biennially such as

870-602: Was first situated within the offices of the Sudanese Football Association in Khartoum until it experienced a fire outbreak and then moved to a town near Cairo , Egypt until 2002. Youssef Mohamad was the first general secretary and Abdel Aziz Abdallah Salem , the first president . President Patrice Motsepe from South Africa was elected on 12 March 2021 in an unopposed elections held in Rabat , Morocco . CAF launched

900-416: Was the 12th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CAF region (Africa), the African Cup of Champions Clubs . It determined that year's club champion of association football in Africa . The tournament was played by 25 teams and used a knock-out format with ties played home and away. MC Alger of Algeria won the final, becoming CAF club champion for the first time, and

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