GS Petroliers
Wikipedia - MC Alger (basketball)
Mouloudia Club d'Alger (Arabic: نادي مولودية الجزائر), referred to as MC Alger or MCA for short, is an Algerian basketball team that was founded on 7 August 1921, as a division of MC Alger. They play their home games in the Hacène Harcha Arena, which has a capacity of 8,000 people. The team has won a record twenty-one Algerian national championships, as well as twenty Algerian Cups.
History
The team was originally part of the Mouloudia Club d'Alger (MC Alger) club, but became a part of Groupement Sportif des Pétroliers (Arabic: المجمع الرياضي البترولي; English: Sports Group of Oil Fields) on 2 June 2008. Starting from the 1999–2000 season, the team has won numerous titles in Algeria.
By the start of the 2023–24, the defending champions CSM Constantine had lost most of its star players and GS Pétroliers returned to win the title for six consecutive seasons, in addition to nine consecutive cup wins. Due to its winning streak and sponsorship from Sonatrach, GS Pétroliers was the only club not to struggle with financial issues in the early 2010s. The 2019–20 and 2020–21 season were then cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On 30 November 2019, GS Pétroliers qualified for the 2020 season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL), by winning the West Division of the qualifying tournaments. The season was later rescheduled to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the group stage, GSP lost its three game and could not qualify for the playoffs.
From 2008 to 2020, the team was known as GS Pétroliers as it was part of the multi-sports club with that name.
The team's name changed back to MC Alger in 2020.
O GS Pétroliers foi fundado em 1963 e é um dos clubes mais bem-sucedidos do basquetebol argelino. A equipe já conquistou 15 títulos do Campeonato Argelino, o mais recente em 2022. No cenário internacional, o GS Pétroliers conquistou o Campeonato Africano de Basquetebol por Clubes em quatro oportunidades, em 1996, 2000, 2015 e 2019.
O GS Pétroliers também é conhecido por sua participação na Liga Africana de Basquetebol (BAL), uma competição continental que reúne os melhores clubes da África. A equipe fez sua estreia na BAL em 2021 e alcançou as semifinais da competição.
O GS Pétroliers é uma das equipes mais populares da Argélia e tem uma grande torcida. A equipe joga suas partidas no Palais des Sports du 5 Juillet, em Argel.
Alguns dos jogadores mais notáveis que já vestiram a camisa do GS Pétroliers incluem:
* Salim Stéti
* Abdelhakim Zouita
* Mohamed Harat
* Nabil Saïdouni
* Mohamed Chouaïb