Club Sportif Constantinois النادي الرياضي القسنطيني

Club Sportif Constantinois (Arabic: النادي الرياضي القسنطيني‎), also known as CS Constantine or simply CSC for short, is an Algerian football club based in Constantine, Algeria. The club was founded in 1898, and its colours are green and black. The footballing club is believed to be the first team founded in Algeria.

CSC are known as The Smurfs (Arabic: السنافر‎), and nicknamed as The Dean (Arabic: العميد‎.)

Their home stadium, Stade Mohamed Hamlaoui, has a capacity of 40,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.

History

CS Constantine was officially founded under the name of Club Sportif Constantinois in 1898. It was also named Chabab Mecanique de Constantine from 1977 to 1987.

Tassili Airlines the airlines firm of the petroleum company Sonatrach sponsored the club from 2012 to 2016. And since 2016, the club was sponsored by the Entreprise Nationale des Travaux aux Puits (ENTP), another firm of Sonatrach.

The 1990s and the first title of the championship

For the second time in its history, the CSC succeeded in qualifying for the semi-final of the Algerian Cup in 1992, and lost to ASO Chlef (after shots on goal), at the Stade du 5 Juillet 1962. Two years later, the club snatched the title of league champion 2 for the 4th time, in this season the club dominated the D2 championship including the famous Constantine derby, the CSC beating the MO Constantine twice (3- 0 then 2-0). Promoted for the umpteenth time in 1994, the CSC won its first title in the history of Champion of Algeria during the 1996–97 season, with talented and experienced players at the national level (Isaad Bourahli nicknamed the fox of the surfaces from the 1990s. Moudoud Kaoua, Reda Matem, Salim Laib, Hassen Ghoula and Sid Ahmed Benamara: international players and others). The same season, the CSC is a finalist in the international Black Stars tournament in Paris, after the semi-final victory over the Senegalese cl

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