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Mouloudia Club d’Oran (نادي مولودية وهران‎) referred to as MC Oran or MCO for short, also known as Mouloudia d’Oran, is a football club based in Oran, Algeria.

Founded in 1946, the club was known as Mouloudia Chaâbia d’Oran from 1971 to 1977 and Mouloudia Pétroliers d’Oran (مولودية نفط وهران‎) from 1977 to 1987. The club colours are red and white. It play in Stade Ahmed Zabana.

Until 2008, MC Oran was the only club in Algeria to have participated in every single season of the first division since its inception in 1962. However, the club was relegated at the end of the 2007–08 season but returned after just one season in the Algerian Championnat National 2.

The Mouloudia Club d’Oran began on May 14, 1946, when nationalists activists created the team of Mouloudia Club d’Oran, a Muslim club in the district of El Hamri (former Lamur) in Oran to compete with European clubs at a time when Algeria was a French district (French Algeria). Mohamed Bessol, one of the founding members was a player, coach, and general secretary of the club until 1967. Other founding members were Ali Bentouti, Omar Abouna, Redouane Serik Boutaleb, and also Mohamed Serradj, Ali Tounsi, Belaid Bachir, Bensenouci Mahi, Bloufa Benhadad, Mahmoud Benahmed, Miloud Bendraou, Miloud Cherigui, Ali Aroumia, Kada Fali.

The founding ceremony of Mouloudia was assisted by Sheikh Said Zamouchi, delegated by Sheikh Si Tayeb Al Mahaji (imam, writer and member of the Association des oulémas musulmans algériens) led by Sheikh Abdelhamid Ben Badis.

The name of the Mouloudia was inspired from the celebration of Mawlid (prophet Muhammad’s birth), the date of its creation coincided with this celebration.

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Mouloudia Club d’Oran began his first competition, in the 1946-1947 season in the third division of the regional championship of the League of Oran (3F/O) after inscription in the France Football Federation. The course of the club from 1946 to 1956 is unknown. And from 1956 to 1962 (the independence year of Algeria), MC Oran block all its sports activities by order of the FLN.

The Mouloudia Club d’Oran start in the first competition of Algeria independent in 1962–63 season, it qualified for the final tournament of the championship of the first two seasons 1962–63 and 1963–64 which were composed of three groups (Algiers, Oran and Constantine), he finished second in the group of Oran in both seasons, unfortunately not a qualifying place for the semi-finals, but this place already earned him a status of a great club. In the following seasons, it will be runner-up twice consecutively in 1968 and 1969 and Abdelkader Freha was top scorer in both seasons.

The club has a great history, especially during the golden years (’70, ’80 and the ’90), many great Algerian football players and even Africa played with the team, like Abdelkader Freha, Sid Ahmed Belkedrouci, Miloud Hadefi, Lakhdar Belloumi, Tedj Bensaoula, Karim Maroc, Tahar Cherif El-Ouazzani, Abdelhafid Tasfaout …etc. During all this time, the club had won many national and international titles.

The club changed the name in 1977 into Mouloudia Pétroliers d’Oran because Naftal sponsoring until 1988, the year when the team changed name definiletly into Mouloudia Club d’Oran.

In the early 2000s, the club had a lot of conflicts especially in administration and management. During this period, the club has not won any title and he often plays the maintenance against relegation.

In 27 September 2012, the National Society of Marketing and Distribution of Petroleum Products Naftal return to sponsoring the MC Oran after an absence of 24 years. As past, Naftal will sponsoring the all sport’s sections of the Mouloudia Club d’Oran. This initiative is a part of the development of national sport, especially that MC Oran is one of the largest national and continental omnisports club.

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