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Paradou AC

Full name	Paradou Athletic Club
Founded	16 August 1994
Ground	Omar Benrabah Stadium
Capacity	11,000
President	Kheiredine Zetchi[1]
Head Coach	Corentin Martins[2]
League	Ligue 1
2022–23	Ligue 1, 9th of 16
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Paradou Athletic Club (Arabic: نادي أتليتيك بارادو), known as Paradou AC or simply PAC for short, is an Algerian football club based in Algiers. The club was founded in 1994 by members of the Hydra AC junior team, the club colours are blue and yellow. Their home stadium, Ahmed Fellak Stadium, has a capacity of some 5,000 spectators but the club receives its opponents in Omar Benrabah Stadium. The club is currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.

In May 2017, Paradou AC returned to the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 after a 10 years absence.

The ambition of a group of friends was to create a space where young people could meet in search of leisure, hobbies especially after hard days of schooling, mostly studying. After careful consideration and various proposals, it was decided to set up a classic football team and the name of Paradou Athletic Club (by abbreviation PAC) was chosen. As for the colors of the club the choice was made in a really anecdotal way, indeed several proposals were made but none was unanimous. We were in the midst of a discussion when the Swedish ambassador passed in his vehicle with his country's flag, the idea immediately emerged. (Yellow and blue). A first meeting of the founding members was held at the COLOMBA restaurant, were present: Mahi Ali, Mahi Mohamed, Kabla Kamel, Kabla Rezki, Kheiredine Zetchi, Oudghiri Ahmed, Mahi Abdelfettah, Zetchi Hassen, Kabla Toufik, Hammouche Abdennour, Chitour Omar, Oudghiri Rafik, Guecem Kamel, Bouhellal Kamel. A few people who contributed to the creation of the club also participated in this "Collation" meeting. The Paradou AC epic began in September 1994 with an Algiers Wilaya Cup match at the Ben Aknoun stadium which ended in a 3–2 victory, a victory foreshadowing a bright future. This is how the administrative procedures to obtain approval were carried out by law with all the authorities concerned. This document was issued on August 16, 1994 under number 359. As soon as it was obtained, the managers of the club set about setting up the Senior teams and the young categories and set training as an objective.^[3]

The founding members of the Paradou Athlétic Club, including the brothers Kheiredine and Hassen Zetchi, have taken care to structure this club with rigorous management since its creation and to make it, as far as possible, an example, by developing moral values such as brotherhood, humanity, respect for others which are the basis of any success of a high level athlete. From its first sporting season 1994–95, the Paradou AC reached all levels until it ended up in 2005 in Ligue 1 and ended up making a place for itself among all Algerian clubs and gaining respect thanks to its career. After three years in DNA, Paradou AC has finally found the elite and is back playing in Ligue 2 as a professional. Several players trained by Paradou AC, whose vocation it is, have made and still make the heyday of certain D1 clubs, such as Lamouri Djediat, Mokhtar Benmoussa, Hocine El Orfi, Saad Tedjar, Billel Ouali and Hichem Nekkache.^[4]

• Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2
  • Champion (1): 2016–17

Algerian teams are limited to three foreign players. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player;

As of 18 September 2023^{[update][5][6]} Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ALG Mohamed Hady Sahnoun 2 DF  ALG Mohamed Réda Hamidi 3 MF  ALG Zakaria Boukebal 4 DF  ALG Idir Mokeddem 5 DF  ALG Youcef Douar 6 DF  ALG Ahmed Ait Abdesslem 9 MF  ALG Abdelhek Belmaziz 10 MF  ALG Mohamed Boukerma 11 FW  ALG Adel Belkacem Bouzida 12 MF  ALG Hicham Messiad 14 FW  ALG Zerroug Boucif 15 FW  ALG Chouaib Boulkaboul 16 GK  ALG Mokhtar Ferrahi

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  ALG Abdeldjalil Tahri 20 MF  ALG Abderrahmane Berkoune 21 FW  ALG Aymen Zakaria Sais 22 DF  ALG Abdellah Bendouma 23 GK  ALG Toufik Moussaoui (captain) 24 MF  ALG Sid Ali Kherbouche 25 DF  ALG Fouad Kermiche 26 MF  ALG Taha Yassine Tahar 27 FW  ALG Djaber Kaassis 28 FW  ALG Ben Ahmed Kohili 77 FW  ALG Adil Boulbina 78 FW  ALG Yacine Titraoui 88 FW  ALG Mustapha Soukkou

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

In 2007, Paradou AC launched their academy in a partnership with JMG Academy, run by Frenchman Jean-Marc Guillou.^[7] The cost of the academy is estimated to be about 600 000 € over 7 years, including the purchase of land at a site in Tessala El Merdja (in the outskirts of Alger), and construction of housing and facilities for the players and staff. Since its creation, the academy has had a tremendous amount of success. The current team is made up of players aged 13 to 15 years old, and they have regularly beaten much older teams, while playing without shoes or a goalie.^[8] The team is coached by Olivier Guillou and Djamel Aïch.^[9][10]

Player	Pos	Club	League	Transfer fee	Source
Hicham Boudaoui	MF	Nice	Ligue 1	4,000,000 €	[11]
Youcef Atal	DF	KV Kortrijk	Belgian First Division A	550,000 €	[12]
Farid El Mellali	FW	Angers	Ligue 1	Free transfer	[13][14]
Ramy Bensebaini	DF	Rennes	Ligue 1	2,000,000 €	[15]
Adem Zorgane	MF	Charleroi	Belgian First Division A	1,000,000 €	[16]
Abdelkahar Kadri	MF	Kortrijk	Belgian First Division A	500,000 €	[17][18]
Ahmed Nadhir Benbouali	FW	Charleroi	Belgian First Division A		[19]

Player	Pos	Club	League	Transfer fee	Source
Raouf Benguit	MF	Espérance ST	Ligue Professionnelle 1	742,000 $	[20]

Paradou AC international footballers
Name	Position	Date of first cap	Debut against	Date of last cap	Final match against	Caps	Ref
Youcef Atal	DF	6 Jun 2017	Guinea	11 Jun 2017	Togo	2	[21]
Hicham Boudaoui	MF	27 Dec 2018	Qatar	7 Jul 2019	Guinea	5	[22]
Farid El Melali	FW	22 Mar 2018	Tanzania	27 Mar 2018	Iran	2	[23]
Allan Okello	FW	16 Nov 2020	South Sudan	14 Nov 2021	Mali	6	[24]
Haithem Loucif	DF	27 Dec 2018	Qatar	22 Mar 2019	Gambia	2	[25]
Zakaria Naidji	FW	22 Mar 2019	Gambia	22 Mar 2019	Gambia	1	[26]

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