The JS Kabylie Chronicle
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at JS Kabylie
Aly Abeid was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The step up is real for Yakoub Guellati
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Match12 Sep 2026
JS Kabylie see off USM Khenchela
Three points for JS Kabylie, 2‑0 the final word against USM Khenchela in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Abdennour Iheb Belhocini at his very best
Marked 8.39. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at JS Kabylie.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at JS Kabylie
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
A satisfied Abderrahmane Bennacer
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Abderrahmane Bennacer could afford to be generous.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Koceila Ait Idir falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The form table has caught Chemseddine Nessakh
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
A reunion for Mohamed Réda Hamidi
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Paradou in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
In brief
- Player ratings Célestin Écua leaves them behind him
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Abdelmoumen Benchabane
- Player ratings Billal Messaoudi was unplayable