Union Sportive Médina d'Alger is an Algerian association football club based in Algiers, that competes in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1. The club was formed in Algiers in 1937 as Union Sportive Musulmane d'Alger before it was renamed Union Sportive Médina d'Alger in 1962. the team changed its name, one more time in 1977 to be named that time Union sportive kahraba d'Alger, in 1987 the club name was changed again to Union d'Alger until 1989 faced with a major financial and economic crisis, the Algerian government in place in 1989 decides to abandon the 1977 reform. they recovered their old name Union Sportive Médina d'Alger. Before independence, the team played in many degrees in Ligue d'Alger, third, second, and first division, but they had never played in Honor Division the highest
