It already existed at that time, in the late fifties, a similar competition called "Algeria Cup football", which was played solely between Algerian clubs but settlers.

These small competitions désignèrent unofficial champions because regulatory bodies came much later in France (USFSA in 1913 and FFFA in 1919) where chaos reigned for several football federations coexisted.

Each of these leagues organized football championships (between 1920 and 1959) on different levels including the highest honor was called Division (DH ).

It retained its trophy season and saw the honor of defending his due by being automatically qualified for the next edition accompanied by another club in the league.

The Forconi Cup was a competition organized by the League Algiers Football Association model cut , and departmental or regional dimension.

Each of these leagues organized the winners of the playoffs at the end of play-off to qualify for the finals to determine the first champion of Algeria nationwide.

Alongside the championship, the young Algerian Football Federation chaired by Dr. Mohand Amokrane Maouche, launches another nationwide competition.

Mahieddine Meftah holds the record for most Algerian Cup winner's medals, with seven: Two with JS Kabylie (1992 and 1994) and five with USM Alger (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2004).

The record for most winner's medals for a manager is Abdelkader Amrani Five times with four different clubs they are WA Tlemcen (1998), ASO Chlef (2005,2023), MO Béjaïa (2015) and CR Belouizdad (2019).

Each club in the final receives 30 winners or runners-up medals to be distributed among players, staff, and officials.