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Rabah Madjer won 6 titles, all with
FC Porto including the
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Rafik Djebbour won eight titles in two countries, Greece and Cyprus. File:Algérie - Arménie - 20140531 - Hilal Soudani.jpg|
El Arabi Hillel Soudani won nine titles, eight of them with
Dinamo Zagreb. File:Madjid Bougherra 2011 2.jpg|
Madjid Bougherra Won six titles, all with
Glasgow Rangers. File:Dnepr-Napoli (1).jpg|
Faouzi Ghoulam won three titles, one with
Saint-Étienne and two with
Napoli. File:CSKA Sporting (12).jpg|
Islam Slimani won two titles with
Sporting CP and is considered the most expensive Algerian player. File:Riyad Mahrez.jpg|
Riyad Mahrez won the
Premier League title twice and the
PFA Players' Player of the Year. File:Brahim Hemdani, Nou Camp.JPG|
Brahim Hemdani won all four titles with
Glasgow Rangers and reached twice the final of
UEFA Cup in
2004 and
2008. File:Zenit-Valencia (3).jpg|
Sofiane Feghouli 243 Match play and scored 42 goals in six seasons with
Valencia. File:Shahter-Portu (5).jpg|
Yacine Brahimi The first Algerian player to score a
hat-trick in the
UEFA Champions League. File:Sofiane Hanni 2018.jpg|
Sofiane Hanni won two titles with
Anderlecht. File:Karim Ziani 2.jpg|
Karim Ziani The former star of the Algeria national team and
Marseille won a single title with
Sochaux. File:Algérie - Arménie - 20140531 - Mehdi Lacen.jpg|
Medhi Lacen the most Algerian player to play in the
Spanish league with 254 game in nine seasons. File:Djamel Mesbah – A.C. Milan.jpg|
Djamel Mesbah won a single title with
FC Basel and turn professional with Italian giant
AC Milan.
Algerian descent players played for other national teams in
Algeria. Due to Algeria's historic ties with
France, there have been a number of Algerian players playing professionally in the French leagues, while the
France national team has included players of
Algerian heritage, most notably
Zinedine Zidane,
Karim Benzema and
Samir Nasri. •
Zinedine Yazid Zidane () was born on 23 June 1972 in
La Castellane,
Marseille, in
Southern France. Zidane is of
Algerian
Kabyle descent. His parents, Smaïl and Malika, emigrated to
Paris from the village of
Aguemoune in the Berber-speaking region of
Kabylie in northern
Algeria in 1953 before the start of the
Algerian War. The family, which had settled in the city's tough northern districts of
Barbès and
Saint-Denis, found little work in the region •
Karim Benzema was born in the city of
Lyon, France, to French nationals of Algerian descent. As a practicing
Muslim, he observes fasting during the Islamic holy month of
Ramadan. His grandfather, Da Lakehal Benzema, lived in the village of Tigzirt, located in the northern town of
Beni Djellil in
Algeria before migrating to Lyon, where he eventually settled in the 1950s. Benzema's father, Hafid, was born in Tigzirt, while his mother, Wahida Djebbara, was born and raised in Lyon; her family originated from
Oran. Benzema is the third youngest in the family and grew up with eight other siblings in
Bron, an eastern suburb of Lyon. The former currently plies his trade at the amateur level with Vaulx-le-Velin in the Division d'Honneur, the sixth division of French football, while the latter plays in the youth academy of a club in the family's hometown of Bron. •
Samir Nasri () was born in
Septèmes-les-Vallons, a northern suburb of
Marseille, to French nationals of
Algerian descent. His mother, Ouassila Ben Saïd, and father, Abdelhafid Nasri, were both born in France; his father being born and raised in Marseille, while his mother being from nearby
Salon-de-Provence. Nasri's grandparents emigrated to France from Algeria. His mother is a
housewife and his father previously worked as a
bus driver before becoming his son's personal manager. At the start of his football career, Nasri initially played under his mother's surname, Ben Saïd, before switching to Nasri, his father's surname, following his selection to the
France under-16 team. He is the eldest of four children and is a non-practising Muslim. •
Nabil Fekir Having earned one cap at
under-21 level for his native France, Fekir had been named in his ancestral
Algeria's squad for friendlies against
Oman and
Qatar in March 2015. However, he withdrew to take part in the French squad for friendlies against
Brazil and
Denmark. He made his debut on 26 March against the former at the
Stade de France, replacing
Antoine Griezmann for the final 16 minutes of a 1–3 defeat. He scored his first goal on 7 June, concluding a 3–4 home friendly defeat to
Belgium. On 4 September, in a 1–0 away friendly win over
Portugal, he ruptured three ligaments in his right knee, putting him out for an estimated six months. •
Karim Boudiaf () was born in France, and is of Moroccan-Algerian descent. On December 22, 2009, Boudiaf was called up to the
Algeria Under-23 national team for a training camp in
Algiers. Boudiaf acquired Qatari nationality and was called up to the
Qatar national football team on November 13, 2013. He was capped in an unofficial friendly exhibition match against Saudi club
Al Hilal. He made his official debut for the team on 25 December in the 2014 WAFF Championship in a 1–0 win against
Palestine. •
Boualem Khoukhi () was born and raised in Algeria. On November 9, 2010, Khoukhi was called up for the first time to the
Algeria under–23 national team for a pair of friendlies against
Tunisia. The
Qatar Football Association attempted to naturalize Khoukhi shortly after he arrived in Qatar, however, he refused and claimed that he would not be naturalized for any amount of money. He stated his desire was to play with the senior Algeria national team. Subsequently, he received Qatari citizenship in order to assist in his club's foreign player quota. Despite his call up to Algeria's olympic team, he was called up to the
Qatar B team on November 13, 2013, by compatriot
Djamel Belmadi. When questioned about Khoukhi's call-up to the squad, Belmadi claimed that Khoukhi was naturalized prior to his call-up in order for his team, Al Arabi, to overcome the foreign player quota. Belmadi stated he was surprised when the
QFA revealed Khoukhi was eligible to be called up to the Qatar national team. He made his official debut for the team on December 25 in the 2014 WAFF Championship in a 1–0 win against
Palestine. •
Houssem Aouar () is eligible to feature for
Algeria despite playing for the French youth teams at the U17 and U21 levels. In 2018, he was reported considering to represent Algeria at international level following a talk with former Lyon and current
Real Madrid striker
Karim Benzema. In January 2019, manager of Algeria
Djamel Belmadi confirmed that he would visit Aouar and present the vision and project of the Desert Foxes in hope of convincing him to play in the upcoming
Africa Cup of Nations. On 26 August 2020, Aouar received his first call-up for France to prepare for
2020–21 UEFA Nations League matches against
Sweden and
Croatia in early September. He made his debut on 7 October 2020 in a friendly against
Ukraine. After years of back and forth rumours on his nationality change. In March 2023, Aouar switched his international allegiance from his birth country of France to the country of his parents, Algeria. In an interview with the
Algerian Football Federation, he said, "the president held out his hand to me and it seemed like it was just meant to be. I had a second chance and I jumped on it." He also added that he "regretted" having played for France, saying that he felt he "hadn't made the best choice". ==European League==