In the 2012–13 season, CS Constantine competed in the Ligue 1 for the 17th season, as well as the Algerian Cup. On July 13, Roger Lemerre signed a one-year coaching contract, with an option for an additional year. According to CS Constantine's investment manager, Mohamed Boulhabib, the former France national team coach is expected to begin his work on the eve of a friendly match against OGC Nice on July 28 in Constantine.

Squad list Players and squad numbers last updated on 18 November 2010.Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Nat. Name Position Date of birth (age) Signed from Goalkeepers16 Lounès Gaouaoui GK AS Khroub1 Abderaouf Natèche GK NA Hussein Dey92 Cyrille Boukhit GK Rodez AF Mohamed Seghir Ferradji GK CA Bordj Bou Arréridj Defenders29 Abderraouf Zarabi LB JS Kabylie5 Youcef Nehari CB MC Saida46 Abdelkader Messaoudi CB USM Annaba21 Yahia Djilali CB AS Khroub2 Amine Boulahia RB JSM Béjaïa28 Amer Belakhdar LB JSM Béjaïa9 Adlen Griche CB USM El Harrach Midfielders4 Yazid Mansouri CM Al-Sailiya SC6 Gilles Ngomo DM AS Khroub8 Karim Nait Yahia RM AS Khroub17 Reda Benhadj Djillali DM Najran SC86 Bilal Bahloul LM JSM Béjaïa20 Fouad Allag DM NA Hussein Dey10 Karim Benounes AM Egri FC15 Antar Boucherit DM JSM Béjaïa77 Yacine Bezzaz (C.) LM USM Alger26 Aziz Tafer DM Gloria Buzău Forwards7 Ayoub Ferhat RW MO Constantine11 Mohamed Tiaïba ST MC El Eulma14 Hamza Boulemdaïs ST JS Kabylie25 Nabil Hemani ST JS Kabylie19 Abdenour Hadiouche ST JS Kabylie14 Mehdi Kerrouche ST Swindon Town

Transfers In Summer DatePlayerMoving fromFeeSource 25 June 2012 DF Youcef Nehari MC Saïda Undisclosed 25 June 2012 GK Abderaouf Natèche NA Hussein Dey Undisclosed 25 June 2012 DF Abdelkader Messaoudi USM Annaba Undisclosed 25 June 2012 MF Antar Boucherit JSM Béjaïa Undisclosed 26 June 2012 FW Hamza Boulemdaïs JS Kabylie Undisclosed 29 June 2012 DF Amine Boulahia JSM Béjaïa Undisclosed 1 July 2012 MF Reda Benhadj Djillali Najran SC Return from loan 1 July 2012 DF Amer Belakhdar JSM Béjaïa Undisclosed 1 July 2012 GK Mohamed Seghir Ferradji CA Bordj Bou Arréridj Undisclosed 1 July 2012 MF Fouad Allag NA Hussein Dey Undisclosed 1 July 2012 MF Karim Benounes Egri FC Free transfer 1 July 2012 FW Mehdi Kerrouche Swindon Town Free transfer 12 July 2012 FW Nabil Hemani JS Kabylie Undisclosed 17 July 2012 DF Adlen Griche USM El Harrach Undisclosed 1 August 2012 MF Aziz Tafer Gloria Buzău Undisclosed

Winter DatePlayerMoving fromFeeSource 1 January 2013 MF Bilal Bahloul JSM Béjaïa Undisclosed 6 January 2013 FW Mohamed Tiaiba MC El Eulma Undisclosed 7 January 2013 FW Abdenour Hadiouche JS Kabylie Free transfer 10 January 2013 DF Abderraouf Zarabi MC Oran Undisclosed 15 January 2013 GK Lounès Gaouaoui AS Khroub Free transfer 16 January 2013 MF Billal Sebaihi USM El Harrach Loan

Out Summer DatePlayerMoving toFeeSource 5 June 2012 DF Mohamed Khoutir Ziti ES Sétif Undisclosed 1 July 2012 DF Zineddine Mekkaoui JS Kabylie Free transfer 1 July 2012 MF Bilal Bahloul JSM Béjaïa Undisclosed 3 July 2012 GK Amara Daïf USM Alger Free transfer

Winter DatePlayerMoving toFeeSource 27 April 2013 DF Abderraouf Zarabi PK-35 Vantaa Free transfer 27 April 2013 MF Karim Benounes PK-35 Vantaa Free transfer

Pre-season and friendlies

Competitions Overview

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" |- !rowspan=2|Competition !colspan=8|Record !rowspan=2|Started round !rowspan=2|Final position / round !rowspan=2|First match !rowspan=2|Last match |- ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! |- | Ligue 1

| 3rd | 15 September 2012 | 21 May 2013 |- | Algerian Cup

| Round of 64 | Quarter-final | 14 December 2012 | 29 March 2013 |- ! Total

Ligue 1

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

Algerian Cup

Squad information

Appearances and goals {| class="wikitable mw-datatable sortable nowrap" style="text-align:center; font-size:96%;" ! rowspan="2" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center;"|No. ! rowspan="2" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center;"| ! rowspan="2" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center;"|Player ! rowspan="2" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center;"| ! colspan="3" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center;"| ! colspan="3" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center;"| ! colspan="3" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center;"|Total |- !!!!!style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| !!!!!style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| !!!!! |-bgcolor=efefef class="sortbottom" |colspan=19" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center" |Goalkeepers |- |1 |GK |style="text-align:left"|Abderaouf Natèche |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |25||24||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|-14 |4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|-5 |29||28||-19

|16 |GK |style="text-align:left"|Lounès Gaouaoui |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|-0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|-0 |2||2||-0 |-bgcolor=efefef class="sortbottom" |colspan=19" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center"|Defenders |- |46 |DF |style="text-align:left"|Abdelkader Messaoudi |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |9||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |2||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |11||6||0 |- |28 |DF |style="text-align:left"|Amer Belakhdar |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |23||19||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|3 |4||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |27||20||3 |- |9 |DF |style="text-align:left"|Adlen Griche |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |23||22||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |26||25||0 |- |2 |DF |style="text-align:left"|Amine Boulahia |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |24||23||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|3 |4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |28||27||0 |- |5 |DF |style="text-align:left"|Youcef Nehari |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |9||8||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1 |11||10||1

|DF |style="text-align:left"|Réda Haouche |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |3||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |3||2||0 |- |21 |DF |style="text-align:left"|Yahia Djilali |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |21||21||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|2 |4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |25||25||2 |-bgcolor=efefef class="sortbottom" |colspan=19" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center"|Midfielders |- |4 |MF |style="text-align:left"|Yazid Mansouri |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |6||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |6||6||0 |- |77 |MF |style="text-align:left"|Yacine Bezzaz |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |23||23||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|6 |3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1 |26||26||7 |- |20 |MF |style="text-align:left"|Fouad Allag |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |22||16||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1 |4||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |26||19||1 |- |15 |MF |style="text-align:left"|Antar Boucherit |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |29||28||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1 |4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1 |33||32||2

|17 |MF |style="text-align:left"|Reda Benhadj Djillali |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |11||7||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |11||7||1

|6 |MF |style="text-align:left"|Gilles Ngomo |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |21||20||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |24||23||0 |- |26 |MF |style="text-align:left"|Aziz Tafer |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |16||13||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |18||15||0 |- |8 |MF |style="text-align:left"|Karim Nait Yahia |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |21||17||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1 |3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1 |24||20||2

|MF |style="text-align:left"|Charaf Eddine Kassis |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |2||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |3||0||0

|86 |MF |style="text-align:left"|Bilal Bahloul |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |13||12||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |2||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |15||12||0 |-bgcolor=efefef class="sortbottom" |colspan=19" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center"|Forwards

|7 |FW |style="text-align:left"|Ayoub Ferhat |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |20||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1 |1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |21||5||1 |- |11 |FW |style="text-align:left"|Mohamed Tiaiba |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |12||7||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|4 |2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1 |14||9||5

|25 |FW |style="text-align:left"|Nabil Hemani |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |18||9||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|3 |22||13||3 |- |19 |FW |style="text-align:left"|Abdenour Hadiouche |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |14||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|3 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |14||6||3 |- |14 |FW |style="text-align:left"|Hamza Boulemdaïs |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |29||27||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|10 |3||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|3 |32||29||13 |-bgcolor=efefef class="sortbottom" |colspan=19" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center"|Players transferred out during the season |- style="font-style:italic" |NA |GK |style="text-align:left"|Mohamed Seghir Ferradji |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|-6 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|-0 |4||4||-6 |- style="font-style:italic" |29 |DF |style="text-align:left"|Abderraouf Zarabi |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |3||3||0 |- style="font-style:italic" |10 |MF |style="text-align:left"|Karim Benounes |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |2||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |2||0||0 |- class="sortbottom" !colspan=4 style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|Total !colspan=2|30||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|37 !colspan=2|4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|11 !colspan=2|34||48

Goalscorers Includes all competitive matches. No.Nat.PlayerPos.TOTAL14 Hamza Boulemdaïs ST 10 3 1377 Yacine Bezzaz LM 6 1 711 Mohamed Tiaiba ST 4 1 519 Abdenour Hadiouche ST 3 0 328 Amer Belakhdar LB 3 0 32 Amine Boulahia RB 3 0 325 Nabil Hemani ST 0 3 321 Yahia Djilali CB 2 0 215 Antar Boucherit DM 1 1 28 Karim Nait Yahia RM 1 1 220 Fouad Allag DM 1 0 117 Reda Benhadj Djillali DM 1 0 17 Ayoub Ferhat RW 1 0 15 Youcef Nehari CB 0 1 1Own Goals 1 0 1Totals 37 11 48

References