US Monastir

US Monastirienne

Union Sportive Monastirienne
Full name	Union Sportive Monastirienne
Nickname(s)	Abna Ribat
Founded	March 17, 1923
Ground	Stade Mustapha Ben Jannet Monastir, Tunisia
Ground Capacity	25,000
Chairman	Ahmed Belli
Manager	Mourad Okbi
League	Ligue 2
Home colours Away colours

Union Sportive Monastirienne (Arabic: الاتحاد الرياضي المنستيري‎‎, often referred to as USM or USMo), is a football club from Monastir in Tunisia. Founded in 1923 under the name Ruspina Sports, it was renamed Union Sportive Monastirienne in 1942. The new name reflects the union between Ruspina Sports and other clubs in town (swimming, petanque, etc.) and the Nationalists union of Monastir (like Mustapha Ben Jannet). The team plays in blue and white colors, on its own Mustapha Ben Jannet stadium (capacity of 20,000). They train in the El Moraudi club hotel port El Kantaoui.

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US Monastir's alternate logo used in the away shirt.

Players

Current Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Hichem Zahani 3 DF Ahmed Ayadi 4 DF Amine Kamoun 5 MF Hatem Ait Lachkar 6 FW Junior Karamoko 7 DF Wajdi Saidani 9 FW Marouane Troudi 10 MF Zied Machmoum 11 MF Wajdi Jabbari 15 DF Mohamed Houssem Slimène 16 GK Makram Bediri

No. Position Player 18 FW Salim Bouafif 19 MF Hossine Messadi 21 DF Rami Belhaj Salem 23 MF Dape Marius Gnabouyou 24 DF Wael Sammoud 25 DF Abdallah Berrabeh 27 MF Ali Gharbi 28 FW Hamza Messadi 29 MF Mehdi Zaouali 31 DF Aymen Ben Amor 33 MF Claude Signone

Former Managers

• Hassouna Denguezli (1957–58)
• Slaïem (1958–59)
• Mokhtar Ben Nacef (1959–60)
• Rudi Gutendorf (1960–61)
• Ahmed Benfoul (1961–62)
• Loscey (1962–67)
• Ameur Hizem (1967–68)
• Mostpha Jouili (1968–70)
• Georgeovic (1970–72)
• Hamadi Hnia (1972–73)
• Ahmed Chkir (1973–74)
• Mostpha Jouili (1974–75)
• Kamel Benzarti (1975–76)
• Ameur Hizem (1976–78)
• Hedhili Ammar, Khmaies Chkir,
  Zouhaier Jaafar (1978–79)
• Faouzi Benzarti (1979–82)
• Schult (1982–83)

• Radu, Ameur Hizem (1983–84)
• Abdelhamid Zouba, Lotfi Benzarti (1984–85)
• Lotfi Benzarti (1985–87)
• Ameur Dhib (1987–88)
• Gerhard (1988–89)
• Dominique Bathenay, Nouri Besbes,
  Salah Gdich (1989–90)
• Hawner Tchilin (1990–91)
• Bouzid Chniti, Ridha El May (1991–92)
• Faouzi Benzarti (1992–93)
• Ameur Hizem, Lotfi Rhim, Hédi Kouni,
  Kamel Chebli (1993–94)
• Ridha El May, Zouhaier Jaafar (1994–95)
• Salah Gdich (1995–96)
• Jean-Yves Chay, Youssef Soriati (1996–97)
• Lotfi Benzarti (1997–99)
• Habib Mejri, Mokhtar Tlili (1999–00)
• Ali Fergani (2000–01)

• Faouzi Benzarti (2001–04)
• Lotfi Rhim (2004–05)
• Faouzi Benzarti (2005–06)
• Kais Yaacoubi, Samir Jouili (2006–07)
• Tony Hey (June 1, 2007–Aug 30, 2007)
• Lotfi Rhim (2007–08), (July 1, 2008–June 4, 2009)
• Samir Jouili, Henri Depireux (2009–10)
• Lotfi Rhim (Dec 16, 2009–April 16, 2010)
• Jalel Kadri, Faycal Ezzidi (2010–11)
• Rachid Belhout (July 19, 2011–Dec 18, 2011)
• Dragan Cvetković (Jan 4, 2012–Sept 30, 2012)
• Chiheb Ellili (July 1, 2012–April 4, 2013)
• Lotfi Benzarti (July 10, 2013–Oct 10, 2013)
• Oussama Melliti (interim) (Oct 11, 2013–Nov 11, 2013)
• Faouzi Benzarti (Nov 11, 2013–Dec 5, 2013)
• Mourad Okbi (Dec 7, 2013–)

External links

• (Fr), (Ar) Official website