ES Sétif

Entente Sportive Sétifienne (Arabic: الوفاق الرياضي السطايفي), known as Entente de Sétif, commonly referred to as ES Sétif or ESS for short, is an Algerian professional football club based in Sétif. The club was founded in 1958 and its colours are black and white. Their home stadium, the 8 May 1945 Stadium, has a capacity of 18,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.

ES Sétif

Full name	Entente Sportive Sétifienne
Nickname(s)	E.S.S El Kahla (The Black One) L’Entente Les Aigles Noirs (Black eagles)
Short name	ESS, SET
Founded	1958; 66 years ago (1958), as Entente Sportive de Sétif
Ground	8 May 1945 Stadium
Capacity	25,000[1][2]
Owner	Sonelgaz
President	Abdelhamid Rais[3]
Manager	Ammar Souayah[4]
League	Ligue 1
2023–24	Ligue 1, 5th of 16
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

ESS is one of the most successful clubs in Algeria, having won the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 eight times and the Algerian Cup a record of eight times. They are also one of only three Algerian clubs to have won the CAF Champions League, winning it twice in 1988 and 2014. They have also won the Arab Champions League twice, in 2007 and 2008, as well as three North African Cups in 2009 and 2010. In 2015, they became the first Algerian club to win the CAF Super Cup since the creation of the competition in 1993.

ES Sétif became CAF Champions League champion by defeating DR Congo's AS Vita Club in the 2014 final; and the reigning CAF Super Cup champions, by beating Egypt's Al Ahly in the 2015 Super Cup^[5] and the reigning Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 champions.

History

The club was founded in 1958 by Ali Benaouda and Ali Layass as Entente Sportive Sétifienne (ESS), the name was later changed to Entente Pétroliers Sétifienne (EPS) in 1977, and again in 1984 it became known as Entente Plastique Sétifienne (EPS) and was then later changed back to Entente Sportive Sétifienne (ESS).^[6]

The first colours of the club were green and the white, and following a confrontation with the French Army in a match with FC Gadir on May 8, 1945, colours changed to black and white as mourning for the events on this day. The Guessab Stadium was the original name for the club's home.

ES Sétif is one of the prestigious top flight Algerian clubs. The club has won the Algerian Cup 8 times, and is the only Algerian team to have won the Afro-Asia cup, in 1989 in Qatar.

Since its foundation, ES Sétif has had 19 presidents, the first being Ibrahim Dokomi.^{[citation needed]} The current president is Hassan Hammar.

African success

In 1988, ES Sétif won the African Cup of Champions Clubs by beating Iwuanyanwu Nationale of Nigeria 4–1 on aggregate in the final.^[7] After losing the first leg 1–0 in Liberty Stadium, Ibadan, ES Sétif scored 4 goals in the return leg in Constantine to lift the trophy. ES Sétif were playing in the Algerian second division at time and are the only club in Africa to date to have won the African Cup of Champions Clubs while not being in the top flight.

By winning the 1988 African Cup of Champions Clubs, ES Sétif qualified for the 1989 Afro-Asian Club Championship, where they faced Al-Sadd of Qatar, winners of the 1988–89 Asian Club Championship. ES Sétif won both legs, 2–0 at home and 3–1 in Doha, to lift the trophy.^[8] They are the only Algerian club to have won the competition.

On June 29, 2010, ES Sétif became the first fully professional club in Algeria.^[9]

On August 8, 2010, ES Sétif defeated CS Sfaxien of Tunisia 1–0 to win the first-ever edition of the UNAF Super Cup.^[10]

Crest

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Shirt sponsor & kit manufacturer

Kit suppliers
Dates	Supplier
2020–2021	Umbro

Shirt sponsors
Dates	Sponsor
2007–17	Djezzy GSM
2017–2020	Kia Motors Ooredoo
2020–2021	ROWE OILS GICA [fr]

Honours

Type	Competition	Titles	Winning Seasons
Domestic	Ligue 1	8	1968, 1987, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017
	Algerian Cup	8	1963, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1980, 1989, 2010, 2012
	Algerian Super Cup	2	2015, 2017
Continental	African Champions League	2	1988, 2014
	African Super Cup	1	2015
Intercontinental	Afro-Asian Cup	1	1989
Regional	Arab Club Champions Cup	2	2007, 2008
	North African Cup of Champions	1	2009
	North African Cup Winners Cup	1	2010
	North African Super Cup	1	2010

Performance in CAF competitions

ES Sétif 1989–90 with From Left to Right:
Stand Up : Serrar - Boulehdjilet - Osmani - Nabti - Zorgane - Bernaoui.
Sitting Bendjabellah - Rahmani - Adjissa - Gharib - Adjas.
This team participated in the 1988 African Cup of Champions Clubs.

ES Sétif whose team has regularly taken part in Confederation of African Football (CAF) competitions. Qualification for Algerian clubs is determined by a team's performance in its domestic league and cup competitions, ES Sétif have regularly qualified for the primary African competition, the African Cup, by winning the Ligue Professionnelle 1. ES Sétif have also achieved African qualification via the Algerian Cup and have played in the former African Cup Winners' Cup. The first match was against Kampala City FC and it ended in a 1–0 loss, As for the biggest win was in 1991 against ASC Linguère 7–1, and biggest loss was against Union Douala 5–0 in 1981.

After six years of absence, ES Setif returned to continental competitions, this time in the African Cup of Champions Clubs, for the first time The following year and in the same competition, despite falling to the second division, Les Aigles Noirs managed to achieve the title for the first time against Iwuanyanwu Nationale of Nigeria and after the defeat in the First leg 1–0, they achieved an overwhelming victory in the Second leg 4–0 in a match that took place at Stade du 17 Juin in Constantine, After that, they met with Al Sadd SC in the final of the Afro-Asian Club Championship, and won the title for the first time, which is the only one of its kind in the history of Algerian football. In 1991 ES Sétif participated in the last continental participation in the twentieth century, where it reached the semi-finals, and in the Second round, Malik Zorgane scored the first hat-trick for ES Sétif against SC Gagnoa.

Total standings of African Cup participations (1963 to 2022–23)

Pos.	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	CSC		CCL		CCWC		CAC		CCC
								Pa.	Pld	Pa.	Pld	Pa.	Pld	Pa.	Pld	Pa.	Pld
1	JS Kabylie	213	107	38	68	265	184	2	2	17	122	2	14	4	30	5	45
2	ES Sétif	145	61	37	47	219	162	1	1	12	94	2	12	−	−	5	36
3	USM Alger	145	69	34	42	233	143	1	1	9	80	5	25	1	6	4	34
4	CR Belouizdad	79	32	20	27	96	76	−	−	6	50	2	10	−	−	4	20
5	MC Alger	72	31	13	28	110	92	−	−	7	48	1	4	−	−	4	20
6	MC Oran	48	19	10	19	70	52	−	−	3	20	3	12	2	8	2	8

Pos. = Position; Pld = Matches played; W = Won; D = Drawn; L = Lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pa. = Participation; Pld = Matches played
CSC = CAF Super Cup; CCL = CAF Champions League; CCWC = CAF Cup Winners' Cup;
CAC = CAF Cup; CCC = CAF Confederation Cup

• CAF Champions League: 12 appearances

1987 – Second Round 1988 – Champion 1989 – First Round 2008 – First Round 2010 – Quarter-finals

2011 – Third Round 2013 – Third Round 2014 – Champion 2015 – Group Stage 2016 – Group Stage -Disqualified

2018 – Semi-finals 2022 – Semi-finals

• CAF Confederation Cup: 5 appearances

2009 – Finalist 2011 – Second Round of 8 2012 – First Round

2013 – Group Stage 2021 – Group Stage

• CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 2 appearances

1981 – Quarter-finals 1991 – Semi-finals

• CAF Super Cup: 1 appearance

2015 – Champion

Players

Algerian teams are limited to three foreign players. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player;

Current squad

As of 5 February 2024^[update].^[11][12] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ALG Mohamed Lotfi Anis Osmani 2 DF  ALG Drice Chaabi (captain) 3 DF  ALG Abdelmoumen Chikhi 4 DF  ALG Ahmed Guettaf 5 DF  ALG Mohamed Khoutir Ziti 6 MF  ALG Amir Yahia 7 FW  ALG Salah Bouchama 9 FW  ALG Saïd Bouchoucha 10 MF  MLI Salam Jiddou 11 FW  ALG Ramdane Hitala 12 DF  ALG Tarek Aggoun 13 DF  ALG Yacine Zeghad 14 FW  ALG Abdesslem Bouchouareb

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 MF  ALG Sami Guediri 16 DF  MLI Moriba Diarra 17 FW  ALG Abdelmalek Oukil (on loan from MC Alger) 18 MF  ALG Taher Benkhelifa 20 FW  ALG Aimen Lahmeri (on loan from JS Saoura) 21 MF  ALG Zineddine Benboulaid 22 DF  ALG Belkacem Brahimi 23 GK  ALG Imad Benchlef 24 MF  ALG Amir Nouri 25 GK  ALG Zakaria Saidi 26 FW  ALG Abdelaziz Moulay 27 FW  ALG Walid Zamoum 65 DF  ALG Imad Reguieg

Reserve Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 32 MF  ALG Bassem Mechaar 61 FW  ALG Mohamed Messaoud Salem 68 DF  ALG Rachid Boumessous

No. Pos. Nation Player 71 DF  ALG Abderrazak Mohra 88 FW  ALG Youcef Aouissi 90 FW  ALG Rafik Douib

Personnel

Current technical staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Ammar Souayah
Assistant coach	Hafedh Guitouni
Goalkeeping coach	Sofiane Kaouane
Fitness coach	Arezki Boukhlef

Management

Position	Staff
President	Abdelhamid Rais
Director General	Nabil Gouasmia
Sporting Director	Dhia Eddine Boulahdjilet
Financial Director

Notable players

Below are the notable former players who have represented ES Sétif in league and international competition since the club's foundation in 1958. 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 ES Sétif or following his departure.

For a complete list of ES Sétif players, see Category:ES Sétif players

Algeria Nacer Adjissa Laid Belhamel Isâad Bourahli Faouzi Chaouchi Abdelmoumene Djabou Lamouri Djediat Farès Fellahi Abderahmane Hachoud Lazhar Hadj Aïssa Samir Hadjaoui Nabil Hemani

Algeria Messaoud Koussim Abdelkader Laïfaoui Khaled Lemmouchia Kheïreddine Madoui Hocine Metref Antar Osmani Slimane Raho Abdelhamid Salhi Abdelhakim Serrar Abdelmalek Ziaya Malik Zorgane

Africa Francis Ambané Rémi Adiko Serey Die

Managerial history

Dates[13]	Name
1962–63	Mokhtar Aribi
1964–67	Abdelhamid Kermali
1972–73	Mokhtar Aribi Benhamou
1978–79	Victor
1987–88	Bilov
1989–90	Bouzid Cheniti Hadj Noureddine
1992–93	Mokhtar Aribi Said Hadj Mansour
1993–94	Abdelhamid Kermali
1994–95	Boulahdjilat Bouzid Cheniti
1997–98	Bikart Abdelkrim Khalfa
2001–02	Safih Noureddine Saâdi
Sept 2, 2004 – Jan 23, 2005	Abdelkrim Bira
Jan 25, 2005 – Jun 1, 2006	Hervé Revelli
Jun 18, 2005– Nov 30, 2005	Hocine Zekri
Dec 12, 2005 – Jan 28, 2007	Rachid Belhout
Feb 1, 2007 – July 5, 2007	Rabah Saâdane
July 11, 2007 – Sept 18, 2007	Charles Roessli
Sept 20, 2007 - Nov 3, 2007	Noureddine Saâdi
Dec 3, 2007 – June 30, 2008	Bernard Simondi
Sept 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009	Azzedine Aït Djoudi
Oct 8, 2009 – Aug 18, 2010	Noureddine Zekri
Aug 19, 2010 – Dec 31, 2010	Giovanni Solinas
Jan 13, 2011 – June 30, 2011	Giovanni Dellacasa
Sept 22, 2011 – June 16, 2012	Alain Geiger
July 1, 2012 – Sept 8, 2013	Hubert Velud
Sept 8, 2013 – Sept 26, 2013	Kheirredine Madoui (interim)
Sept 27, 2013 – Dec 8, 2013	Jean-Christian Lang
Dec 8, 2013 – July 5, 2014	Rabah Saâdane
July 8, 2014–;– December, 2015	Kheirredine Madoui
Dec, 2015 – May 27, 2016	Alain Geiger
Jun 1, 2016 – Dec 10, 2016	Abdelkader Amrani
Dec 11, 2016 – Dec 31, 2016	Malik Zorgane
Jan, 2017 – Dec 17, 2017	Kheireddine Madoui
Dec 18, 2016 – Dec 31, 2017	Malik Zorgane
Jan, 2018 – Apr, 2018	Abdelhak Benchikha
Apr, 2018 – Jun, 2018	Malik Zorgane
Jun 1, 2018 – Nov 23, 2018	Rachid Taoussi
Nov 25, 2018 – Feb 5, 2019	Noureddine Zekri
Feb 7, 2019 – May 30, 2019	Nabil Neghiz
Jun, 2019 – Oct 17, 2019	Kheireddine Madoui
Oct 26, 2019 – Feb 28, 2022	Nabil Kouki
Feb 28, 2022 – Apr 17, 2022	Rédha Bendris
Apr 17, 2022 – Jun 17, 2022	Darko Nović
Jul 14, 2022 – Nov 20, 2022	Hossam El Badry
Nov 27, 2022 – Jan 8, 2023	Khaled Lemmouchia (interim)
Jan 8, 2023 – Feb 19, 2023	Chiheb Ellili
Feb 25, 2023 – Jul 15, 2023	Billel Dziri
Aug 6, 2023 – Sep 12, 2023	Abdelkader Amrani
Sep 13 2023 – Feb 9, 2024	Franck Dumas
Feb 10, 2024 –	Ammar Souayah

List of managers

Information correct as of 9 February 2024. Only competitive matches are counted.

Key

*	Caretaker manager

Name	From	To	Matches	Won	Drawn	Lost	Win%
Mokhtar Arribi	1961	1964
Mokhtar Arribi	1965	1969
Mokhtar Arribi	1979	1981
Mokhtar Arribi	1983	1984
Mokhtar Arribi	1986	1989
Abdelkrim Bira	2 September 2004	23 January 2005
Hervé Revelli	25 January 2005	1 June 2006
Hocine Zekri	18 June 2006	30 November 2006
Rachid Belhout	12 December 2006	28 January 2007
Rabah Saâdane	1 February 2007	5 July 2007
Charles Roessli	11 July 2007	18 September 2007
Noureddine Saâdi	20 September 2007	3 November 2007
Bernard Simondi	3 December 2007	30 June 2008
Rachid Belhout		22 September 2009[14]
Ali Mechiche	20 September 2009	8 December 2009[15]
Noureddine Zekri	8 October 2009	18 August 2010
Giovanni Solinas	19 August 2010	31 December 2010
Giovanni Dellacasa	13 January 2011	30 June 2011
Alain Geiger	22 September 2011[16]	16 June 2012	36	22	5	9	61.11
Hubert Velud	4 July 2012[17]	7 September 2013	48	27	9	12	56.25
Kheirredine Madoui *	8 September 2013	26 September 2013	3	2	0	1	66.67
Jean-Christian Lang	27 September 2013	7 December 2013[18]	9	4	4	1	44.44
Rabah Saâdane	8 December 2013[19]	5 July 2014	27	14	7	6	51.85
Kheirredine Madoui	8 July 2014	7 November 2015[20]	70	26	28	16	37.14
Alain Geiger	14 November 2015[21]	27 May 2016	27	12	9	6	32.43
Abdelkader Amrani	1 June 2016	14 December 2016	15	7	4	4	46.67
Kheïreddine Madoui	24 December 2016	17 December 2017[22]	35	8	8	4	22.86
Malik Zorgane *	17 December 2017[22]	29 December 2017	1	1	0	0	100
Abdelhak Benchikha	30 December 2017[23]	25 April 2018	17	6	4	7	35.29
Malik Zorgane *	25 April 2018	June 2018	5	0	1	4	0
Rachid Taoussi	1 June 2018[24]	23 November 2018[25]	25	11	6	8	44
Noureddine Zekri	24 November 2018[26]	5 February 2019[27]	9	5	1	3	55.56
Nabil Neghiz	7 February 2019[28]	30 May 2019	15	7	3	5	46.67
Kheirredine Madoui	22 July 2019[29]	12 October 2019[30]	7	2	1	4	28.57
Nabil Kouki	26 October 2019[31]	27 February 2022	89	46	23	20	51.69
Darko Novic	17 April 2022[32]	17 June 2022[33]	14	6	3	5	42.86
Hossam El Badry	13 July 2022[34]	20 November 2022[35]	10	5	3	2	50
Khaled Lemmouchia *	27 November 2022[36]	8 January 2023	6	2	2	2	33.33
Chiheb Ellili	8 January 2023[37]	19 February 2023[38]	3	1	0	2	33.33
Billel Dziri	25 February 2023[39]	15 July 2023	12	3	4	5	25
Abdelkader Amrani	6 August 2023[40]	12 September 2023[41]	0	0	0	0	0
Franck Dumas	13 September 2023[42]	9 February 2024[43]	17	9	3	5	52.94
Ammar Souayah	10 February 2024[44]	9 July 2024[45]	15	6	4	5	40
Rédha Bendris	10 July 2024[46]

Rival clubs

• MC Alger (Rivalry)
• CR Belouizdad (Rivalry)
• CS Constantine (Derby)
• MC El Eulma (Derby)
• CA Bordj Bou Arreridj (Derby)
• MO Béjaïa (Rivalry)

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External links

• ES Sétif on Facebook