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JS Saoura
Club · Algeria · Ligue 1
«The Eagles»
The name they chose, Saoura, comes from the valley that runs through the province. JSB and ESD had merged back in 1968.
Promotion came fast. JS Saoura won its regional group in 2008–09, then the inter-regional group the year after, then the national group the year after that, climbing three divisions in three seasons to reach the top flight. Ligue 1 itself has been harder to crack outright — the club finished runner-up in 2015–16, again in 2017–18, and again in 2025–26, without turning any of those close finishes into a title. The same 2015–16 season also brought a run to the Algerian Cup final, lost there too. In the Sahara, that run of near-misses sits alongside a rarer distinction: in 2017 Abderrahmane Bourdim scored the club's first goal in the CAF Champions League, the kind of marker that matters more to a team from Béchar than to clubs used to continental football.
Latest results
All matches| 13 Sep | CAF Champions League |
Horoya
A
|
1:3 | L |
| 4 Sep | CAF Champions League |
Horoya
H
|
1:0 | W |
| 5 Jun | Ligue 1 |
CS Constantine
H
|
3:1 | W |
| 20 May | Ligue 1 |
El Bayadh
A
|
0:0 | D |
| 12 May | Ligue 1 |
CR Belouizdad
H
|
0:0 | D |
| 7 May | Ligue 1 |
Mostaganem
A
|
4:0 | W |
Standing
Ligue 1| # | Team | M | W | D | L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 |
 ASO Chlef
|
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3:6 | 1 |
| 13 |
 MC Alger
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
| 14 |
JS Saoura
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:0 | 0 |
| 15 |
 ES Sétif
|
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0:2 | 0 |
| 16 |
 JS El Biar
|
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0:4 | 0 |
Team statistics
matches counted in total: 223| Metric | Total | Home | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matches | 223 | 111 | 112 |
| Scored | 304 | 207 | 97 |
| Conceded | 202 | 71 | 131 |
| Scored per game | 1.4 | 1.9 | 0.9 |
| Conceded per game | 0.9 | 0.6 | 1.2 |
| Difference | +102 | +136 | −34 |
Fixtures of JS Saoura
-
18 Sep · 16:00
JS El Biar
A
Ligue 1
-
19 Sep · 16:00
Oued Akbou
H
Ligue 1
-
22 Sep · 18:00
US Biskra
A
Ligue 1
-
13 Sep
Horoya
A
1:3
L
-
4 Sep
Horoya
H
1:0
W
-
5 Jun
CS Constantine
H
3:1
W
-
20 May
El Bayadh
A
0:0
D
-
12 May
CR Belouizdad
H
0:0
D
-
7 May
Mostaganem
A
4:0
W
-
17 Apr
Khenchela
H
3:0
W
-
11 Apr
Paradou AC
A
1:1
D
Honours of JS Saoura
- Ligue Inter-Régions (Groupe Ouest) 2010 1
- Ligue Nationale (Groupe Centre-Ouest) 2011 1
- Ligue Régional I (Groupe Béchar) 2009 1
- Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 2016, 2018, 2026 3
- Algerian Cup 2016 1
Transfers
TransfersArrivals
- Abdelhak Cherir JS Kabylie 26/27
- Billal Messaoudi KV Kortrijk 21/22
- Marwane Khelif JS Saoura U21 20/21
- Billal Messaoudi WA Tlemcen 18/19
- Mohamed Amine Madani USM Alger 17/18
- Billal Messaoudi USM Alger U21 17/18
Departures
- Marwane Khelif MC Algiers 24/25
- Billal Messaoudi KV Kortrijk 22/23
- Billal Messaoudi KV Kortrijk 21/22
- Mohamed Amine Madani USM Alger 18/19
- Billal Messaoudi WA Tlemcen 18/19