CR Belouizdad Football Club: CRB Squad, Players, Honours and the Belcourt Story

CR Belouizdad are a football club from Algiers, founded on 15 July 1962 and known across Africa as CRB or Chabab Riadhi Belouizdad. They play at the 20 August 1955 Stadium, hold the record of 9 Algerian Cups and won four league titles in a row from 2019-20 to 2022-23. For South African readers, this is the same kind of soccer story as a leading South African Premiership club, with the honours dated and the CAF record told in full.

CRB are covered here by who they are, where they play, what they have won and why they matter in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda. The fixtures, results and live squad data sit in the modules above, and they update after every match.

Who Are CR Belouizdad, Known as CRB or Chabab?

CR Belouizdad are one of the big clubs of Algiers, and the letters stand for Chabab Riadhi Belouizdad. The club began life as Chabab Riadhi de Belcourt, named after their home district, and supporters across North Africa shorten it to CRB or simply Chabab. Their colours are red and white, and the traditional home shirt is white with a red V across the front, which makes them easy to pick out on a small screen in a crowded viewing centre.

Who Coaches CR Belouizdad, and Where Is the Latest News?

CRB's live club module identifies the head coach, while the accompanying news feed carries appointments, transfers and squad announcements. Keeping coaching details in that module allows changes at the Algiers club to be reflected without dating the club's history. For CRB's participation in African competitions this season, consult the competition labels attached to their fixtures.

How Do You Follow CRB Fixtures, Results and the Table From Africa?

Browse Cr Belouizdad fixtures for CRB's domestic schedule and African ties, arranged by date. Each kick off has four time references: WAT, EAT, SAST and GMT. Beside CRB's table, South African readers may recognise the term log. Compare matches played as well as points when assessing CRB's standing, since outstanding fixtures affect comparisons between clubs.

How Is the CR Belouizdad Squad Set Out?

CRB's squad module pairs each registered player with a position, shirt number and nationality. Read the nationality column to identify Algerian players and footballers representing other countries, including any compatriots from Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana or Uganda. Among the players the club itself holds up, Hacène Lalmas is widely regarded as the great legend, and Islam Slimani is one of the best known names to have worn the shirt.

What Have CR Belouizdad Won?

CR Belouizdad have won 10 Algerian league titles and hold the record of 9 Algerian Cups, the most recent of them in 2023-24. The league titles came in four clear spells: back to back in 1964-65 and 1965-66, again in 1968-69 and 1969-70, then 1999-2000 and 2000-01, before the modern run. That run is the one most readers in Kenya, Ghana and Uganda ask about. CRB won the title in 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23, four seasons in a row, which is the kind of dominance Ghanaian readers will recognise from Kotoko in their best years.

Beyond the league and cup, CRB won the Algerian Super Cup in 1995 and 2019 and the Algerian League Cup in 1999-2000. They also hold the record for the Maghreb Champions Cup, winning it three times in a row in 1970, 1971 and 1972. It could be argued that this regional treble matters more than it looks on paper. It shows that the side of the early 1970s was the strongest in the Maghreb, not just in Algeria, and the table below sets every honour out with its years.

From Belcourt in 1962 to Four Titles in a Row: The History in Brief

CR Belouizdad were founded on 15 July 1962, ten days after Algerian independence, and that timing is the heart of the club's story. Two Belcourt clubs, Widad Riadhi de Belcourt and Club Athlétique de Belcourt, merged to form Chabab Riadhi de Belcourt, and Djelloul Boukida served as the first president from 1962 to 1967. For readers anywhere on the continent who know their own country's independence story, a club born in the same month as a new nation carries a weight that a simple founding date does not.

CRB have played home games at the 20 August 1955 Stadium since their founding, a ground listed with a capacity of about 15,000. The club uses Nelson Mandela Stadium for some home matches, with its capacity listed at about 40,784. The smaller stadium connects CRB's matchgoing history to their beginnings in 1962.

Why Do CR Belouizdad Matter Across Africa?

CR Belouizdad matter across Africa because of their CAF record, and above all because they reached the CAF Champions League quarter-finals in three straight seasons, 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23. Before that, their best African run was the semi-finals of the 1996 African Cup Winners' Cup, where AC Sodigraf knocked them out. That 1996 semi-final remains a landmark in CRB's African history. A Champions League semi-final would be the next step beyond those three quarter-finals, and one good tie could carry them further.

South Africa is where the interest runs strongest, and most of it comes through the CAF draw. Supporters of Sundowns, Pirates and Chiefs follow CRB as one of the main Algerian clubs their sides could meet in the Champions League, and a group containing a North African champion is usually read as the hardest kind. Bafana supporters will also know the wider Algerian game well. Kenyan readers can think of CRB in the way Gor Mahia fans think about their own CAF campaigns, and Ugandan readers in the way KCCA approach theirs: long trips, tight away legs and home nights that decide everything.

Islam Slimani is among the club's notable players. Nigerian readers can use the nationality column in CRB's squad module to identify any Nigerian representatives, then consult the player profiles for their individual careers.

Who Are CR Belouizdad's Biggest Rivals?

The traditional rivals of CR Belouizdad are MC Alger, USM Alger and NA Hussein Dey, all clubs from the capital. That makes the Algiers derbies the matches that matter most in the domestic calendar, a little like the feeling in Lagos when two local sides share a city and a week of arguments before kick off. Each rivalry has its own flavour, but they share the same stakes: bragging rights in the city and, often, points that shape the title race. When you read the results module, the derby scores are the ones supporters remember long after the season ends.

Which CR Belouizdad Games Matter Most, and What Time Do They Kick Off?

The CR Belouizdad games that matter most are the CAF Champions League and Confederation Cup ties, followed by the Algiers derbies and any Algerian Cup final. CAF ties carry the most interest outside Algeria, because they bring CRB face to face with clubs from Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda in the draw. A cup run also carries particular significance for CRB, whose nine Algerian Cups form a competition record. Competition labels distinguish CRB's league fixtures from domestic cup matches and African ties.

For a CRB fixture starting at 21:00 in Algiers, the equivalent viewing times are 20:00 GMT in Accra, 21:00 WAT in Lagos, 22:00 SAST in Johannesburg and 23:00 EAT in both Nairobi and Kampala. Reading those four clocks together helps Chabab followers fit an Algerian evening fixture around their own viewing plans. CRB's broadcast listings identify viewing options by country and competition, with availability also varying by season.