2007 Teams - JS Kabylie Team Profile

JS Kabylie are one of only two African clubs who have won all of Africa’s annual club competitions, alongside the Tunisia’s Esperance. JSK, then known as JE Tizi Ouzou, were African Champions Cup winner in 1981 and after they had changed their name added the 1990 edition to their bow.

Success in the African Cup Winners’ Cup came five years later and then followed a strong of three successive CAF Cup success from 2000 to 2002, which allowed them to keep the Moshood Abiola trophy.

The club were founded in 1946 by the Berber community in Kabylie but suspended their activities during the country’s liberation war from the French.

They tasted first domestic success in 1973 and have since won a further 12 championships, the last in 2006 when they narrowly pipped USM Alger to the title.

They were runners-up to Entente Setif in the 2006/2007 campaign. JSK have also been Algerian cup winners on four occasions but the last was over a decade ago.

The club supplied three players to each of Algeria’s squads at the 1982 and 1986 World Cup finals, including captain Ali Fergani, one of the countries most famous footballers. But JSK’s best known player is the midfielder Moussa Saib, who later played at Valencia, Auxerre and for English club Tottenham Hotspur.

Saib returned to play for JSK in the closing stages of his career and also briefly coached the club.