Abdelmoumen Benchabane

Goalkeeper - JS Kabylie
23 Sep 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Abdelmoumen Benchabane

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The JS Kabylie Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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 ahead

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

Back issues
5 Edition

The JS Kabylie Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Alexis Guendouz agrees terms with Al Ahly

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around JS Kabylie people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Oualid Malki puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at JS Kabylie, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A falling-out at JS Kabylie

Ryad Boudebouz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Nwanna Okechukwu

JS Kabylie asked and Wadi Degla said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Kévin Boma is in the works

JS Kabylie have made the call to Red Bull Salzburg. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Looking ahead

Looking ahead: ES Ben Aknoun at home

A side in position 14 visits next. The result will not make anybody’s season and it could quietly break the shape of one, which is why the manager has been watching the video since Sunday.

In brief

4 Edition

The JS Kabylie Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

JS Kabylie say no — this time

The offer from MC Alger for Alexis Guendouz was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Abdelmoumen Benchabane asks to leave JS Kabylie

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Ryad Boudebouz in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at JS Kabylie this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Amine Saïd

JS Kabylie asked and Clermont Foot said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

JS Kabylie try to borrow Shikabala El Nenny

Masr El Makasa have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad

A row about effort at JS Kabylie

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Koceila Ait Idir was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief