Farid El Melali (Arabic: فَرِيْد الْمَلَالِيّ; born 5 May 1997) is an Algerian professional footballer who plays for Ligue 1 club Angers.

[1] Only used as a substitute in his first season, he scored his first goal for the club on 24 August 2019 in the fourth minute of a 3–0 home win over FC Metz,[2] and followed it a week later with another goal in a 2–0 victory against Dijon FCO also at the Stade Raymond Kopa;[3] the following 19 January he netted twice in the first half of a 4–1 win at FC Rouen in the last 32 of the Coupe de France.

[9] El Melali made his debut for Algeria on 18 August 2017 in a 1–1 draw with Libya in 2018 African Nations Championship qualification, as a 75th-minute substitute for Mohamed Madani.

[11] He later apologized for his behavior, as he wrote: "In the past few days, I've lived through very hard and stressful period, whether mentally or physically, I've been criticized and toughly judged.

[13] In October, he was given a six-month prison sentence suspended for 18 months, fined €2,000 and made to pay compensation of €1,600 and €2,300 to two victims.