North African Championship

ULNA Champions League

The Last Trophy (1946-1956)
Founded	1920
Abolished	1956
Region	North Africa
Number of teams	6 teams
Last champions	ESFM Guelma
Most successful club(s)	SC Bel Abbès (7 times)

The North African Championship, commonly referred as ULNA Champions League is an old football competition organized in North Africa since 1920 to 1956, it pits only the champions of the North African Leagues against each other at the end of the season to set the African Champion. It disappears at the end of the 1955-1956 edition.^[1]

Winners of unofficial edition

Was organized by the Union of French Athletic Sports Societies (UFASS).

• 1912 : FC Blida (Blida)
• 1913 : SC Bel Abbès (Sidi Bel Abbès)
• 1914 : Gallia Sports Alger (Algiers)

Winners of the official competition

Was organized by the Union of North-African Football Leagues, hosted by the FIFA.

Year	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Attendance
1920	Racing Club Tunis	2 – 1	AS Marine Oran	..., Algiers
1921	AS Marine Oran	3 – 1	FC Blida	..., Algiers
1922	SC Bel Abbès	4 – 1	RC Philippeville	..., Philippeville
1923	FC Blida	1 – 0	SC Bel Abbès	..., Algiers
1924	SC Bel Abbès	3 – 1	FC Blida	..., Algiers
1925	SC Bel Abbès	2 – 0	Stade Gaulois Tunis	Stade des Oliviers, Sidi Bel Abbès
1926	SC Bel Abbès	3 – 0	SC Tunis	..., Tunis
1927	SC Bel Abbès	3 – 0	JS Philippeville	Stade des Oliviers, Sidi Bel Abbès
1928	Gallia Sports Alger	3 – 2 (aet)	SC Bel Abbès	..., Algiers
1929	FC Blida	1 – 0 (aet)	Gallia Sports Alger	..., Algiers
1930	AS Saint Eugène	3 – 0	OM Rabat	Stade Belvédère, Rabat
1931	CDJ Oran	3 – 2 (aet)	CS Marocain	Stade Alenda, Oran
1932	USM Casablanca	4 – 1	Gallia Club Oran	Stade Philip, Casablanca
1933	USM Casablanca	3 – 0	USM Oran	Stade Alenda, Oran
1934	USM Casablanca	2 – 0	US Tunis	Stade Philip, Casablanca
1935	RU Alger	2 – 1	USM Oran	..., Algiers
1936	Gallia Club Oran	5 – 0	AS Saint Eugène	Stade Alenda, Oran
1937	Gallia Sports Alger	3 – 2	CDJ Oran	..., Algiers
1938	JAC Bône	3 – 1	USM Casablanca	Stade Municipal Paul Pantaloni, Bône
1939	RU Alger	2 – 1	USM Casablanca	..., Algiers
1940	not held [n 1]
1941	not held [n 1]
1942	USM Casablanca	4 – 1	CDJ Oran	Stade Philip, Casablanca
1943	not held [n 1]
1944	not held [n 1]
1945	not held [n 1]
1946	FC Oran	2 – 1	USM Casablanca	Stade Vincent Monréal, Oran
1947	Gallia Sports Alger	2 – 0	SC Bel Abbès	..., Algiers
1948	Wydad AC	4 – 2	USA Casablanca	Stade Philip, Casablanca
1949	Wydad AC	3 – 0	MO Constantine	Stade Philip, Casablanca
1950	Wydad AC	4 – 0	USM Oran	Stade Vincent Monréal, Oran
1951	Gallia Sports Alger	1 – 0	CS Hammam-Lif	..., Algiers
1952	USM Casablanca	2 – 0	AS Saint Eugène	..., Algiers
1953	SC Bel Abbès	4 – 0	FC Blida	Stade Vincent Monréal, Oran
1954	SC Bel Abbès	6 – 1	CS Hammam-Lif	Stade Vincent Monréal, Oran
1955	ESFM Guelma	2 – 1 (aet)	Wydad AC	Stade Philip, Casablanca
1956	not held

Winners by team

Num	Club	Winners	Runners-up
1	SC Bel Abbès	7 (1922, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1953, 1954)	3 (1923, 1928, 1947)
2	USM Casablanca	5 (1932, 1933, 1934, 1942, 1952)	3 (1938, 1939, 1946)
3	Gallia Sport d'Alger	4 (1928, 1937, 1947, 1951)	1 (1929)
4	Wydad AC	3 (1948, 1949, 1950)	1 (1955)
5	FC Blida	2 (1923, 1929)	3 (1921, 1924, 1953)
6	RU Alger	2 (1935, 1939)	0
7	AS Saint Eugène	1 (1930)	2 (1936, 1952)
	CDJ Oran	1 (1931)	2 (1937, 1942
9	Gallia Club Oran	1 (1936)	1 (1932)
10	Racing Club Tunis	1 (1920)	0
	AS Marine Oran	1 (1921)	0
	JAC Bône	1 (1938)	0
	FC Oran	1 (1946)	0
	ES Guelma	1 (1955)	0
15	USM Oran	0	3 (1933, 1935, 1950)
16	USA Casablanca	0	2 (1948, 1949)
	CS Hammam-Lif	0	2 (1951, 1954)
18	RC Philippeville	0	1 (1922)
	Stade Gaullois Tunis	0	1 (1925)
	SC Tunis	0	1 (1926)
	JS Phillipville	0	1 (1927)
	OM Rabat	0	1 (1930)
	Stade Marocain	0	1 (1931)
	US Tunisienne	0	1 (1934)

NTB:

• ES Guelma (ex. ESFM Guelma)

Winners by nation

Num	Nation	Winners	Runners-up
1	Oran (department)	11	9
2	Alger (department)	9	7
3	Morocco	8	7
4	Constantine (department)	2	2
5	Tunisia	1	2

Notes

External links

• The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundatation

This page was last edited on 5 January 2024, at 06:07