[2] On 5 February 1894, Club des Joyeusetés d'Oran, was founded in the neighborhood El-Derb of Oran.
The Algerian Football Federation was founded in 1963 in order to organise national competitions and international matches.
The 1982 African Super Cup is a match which took place on January 25, 1982 during the Tournament of Fraternity in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
[5] The newspaper France Football commented on this event of the birth of the brand new African Super Cup.
This team saw its period of greatest success in the 1980s with great players such Lakhdar Belloumi, Rabah Madjer, Salah Assad.
[8][9] Due to Algeria's historic ties with France, there have been a number of Algerian players playing professionally in the French leagues, while the France national team has included players of Algerian heritage, most notably Zinedine Zidane, Karim Benzema and Samir Nasri.