Stade Ahmed-Zabana — Wikipedia

The Stade Ahmed-Zabana (in Arabic : Ahmed Zubana Stadium ), is a Municipal Omnisports stadium whose capacity has been 32,000 seats since the installation of seats in 2013 ^{[ first ]} , and coated in artificial lawn.

It is located in the El Hamri district of Oran. The name of the stadium was given in honor of Ahmed Zabana. The domiciled clubs are MC Oran for football. The XV rugby club, the Oran stadium is also scheduled to be domiciled at the stadium, it is awaiting the launch of the first national rugby championship.

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The construction of the stadium began in 1955 under the auspices of the mayor of Oran, Henri Fouques-Duparc, in the Lyautey district of El Hamri with a capacity of 40,000 seats. ^{[ 2 ]} The stadium is inaugurated on May 5, 1957 Under the name of the “Municipal Sports Park” but he will later bear the name of its founder, the “Stade Henri-Fouques-Duparc” until the independence of Algeria.

In 1962, the stadium was baptized “municipal stadium”, and was considered at the time as the largest stadium in Africa. He will later be appointed, “Stade from 19-June-1965” in reference to the date of the coup perpetrated by Houari Boumédiene against Ahmed Ben Bella. THE November 25, 1992 , this infrastructure will be renamed on behalf of Ahmed Zabana by the President of the deceased Republic, Mohamed Boudiaf, on the occasion of the Algerian Cup final of the same year won by JS Kabylie against ASO Chlef.

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Managed since the country’s independence by OPOW, the stadium has benefited from several renovation operations. During the 1974-1975 season, he was coated in synthetic lawn.

In March 1988, the stadium equipped a natural lawn lawn and later sheltered the return match MC Oran and Raja of Casablanca (Morocco) on behalf of the final of the African Cup of Champions Clubs in 1989. But the poor maintenance of the lawn due to the mismanagement and neglect of sport managers pushed them to replace it with synthetic lawn again ^{[ 3 ]} . In 2002, he was closed again for renovation work after having been selected for the women’s football meetings of the 2004 Panarabic Games.

In January 2008, he underwent renovations to make him compatible with the practice of XV rugby. It was endowed with an artificial fifth lawn ( 5 ^{It is} ) Generation, lighting, a new electronic display table, repairs of pipes and catering of the stands to open in September 2009.

In 2013, it was renovated twice, the first before the 2014 Junior Junior Nations Cup that Oran jointly organized with Aïn Témouchent. The second consisted of the installation of new seats.

In 2019, the Algerian Ministry of Sports decided again the lawn of the Zabana stadium into natural lawn, in preparation for the organization of the African Nations Championship 2022 ^{[ 4 ]} as well as those of the Mediterranean Games of 2022 ^{[ 5 ]} .

Before the independence of Algeria, the Ahmed-Zabana stadium which was the largest stadium in the country housed most of the important and international meetings. Afterwards, the big meetings were relocated to the stadium of August 20, 1955 before the inauguration of the stadium of 5-July-1962 the June 17, 1972 which has become since the country’s main grounds.

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Final of the 1958-1959 Champion Club Cup: Real Madrid and Stade de Reims [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Among the major sheltered events: the tournaments bringing together the two finalists of the 1958-1959 European Champion Clubs Cup: Real Madrid and the Stade de Reims .

A big gala match between Real Madrid, reigning European champion, and the Stade de Reims the finalist.

Composition of the two teams [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Real Madrid: Alonzon, Attenza, Marquitos, Santamaría, Zárga, Santisteban, Lesmes, Di Stéfano, Joeitos, Mateos, Kopa, Gento, Puskás.

Stade of Reims: Colonna, Giraudo, Vincent, Rodzik, Leblond, Lamartine, Fontaine, Bliard, Penverne, Piantoni, Jonquet.

Friendly match, the June 17, 1965 : Algeria – Brazil [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The friendly match of the century in Algeria between Algeria teams in Brazil was played at the municipal stadium (Ahmed Zabana) in front of 60,000 spectators. Algerian President Ahmed Ben Bella, himself a former player of Olympique de Marseille, was present to greet the world champions of the Brazil team.

Composition of the two teams [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Brazil : Manga – Djalma Santos, Bellini, Orlando Peçanha, Altair – Dudu I, Ademir da Guia (Gérson) – Garrincha, Flávio, Pelé (Bianchini), Rinaldo, Vavá. ENTEîneur: Vicente Feola.

Algeria : Zerga – meksou, bououba, zitouni, Salem – Lekkak, Defunn – Soukhane, Mekhloufi, Oudjani, Mattem (Firuk), Nassou, Hachouf, Attoui, Bouhizeb, Ould -Bey. Entraîneur: Abderrahmane Ibrir. Arbitration de M. Antonio Piaz (Espagne)

Friendly match of February 9, 1969 : Algeria – FC Santos [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

King Pelé returned for the second time to Oran after his first match played in 1965 with the Brazil team but this time with the Brazilian club Santos FC, winner of the Copa Libertadores of South America and who again faced the ‘Algerian team.

Composition of the two teams [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Algeria : Abrouk, hadefi, Attoui, Seridi, Khiari, Bourouba, beroudji, Selmi, Khaalem (freha), saaeb, Achour.

Santos FC: Claudio, Edu, Lima, Pelé, Maria, Tothino …

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