ES Sétif
Entente Sportive Sétifienne (Arabic: الوفاق الرياضي السطايفي), known as Entente de Sétif, commonly referred to as ES Sétif or ESS for short, is an Algerian professional football club based in Sétif. The club was founded in 1958 and its colours are black and white. Their home stadium, the 8 May 1945 Stadium, has a capacity of 18,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.
| Full name | Entente Sportive Sétifienne | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | E.S.S El Kahla (The Black One) L’Entente Les Aigles Noirs (Black eagles) | |||
| Short name | ESS, SET | |||
| Founded | 1958, as Entente Sportive de Sétif | |||
| Ground | 8 May 1945 Stadium | |||
| Capacity | 25,000 | |||
| Owner | Sonelgaz | |||
| President | Abdelhamid Rais | |||
| Manager | Ammar Souayah | |||
| League | Ligue 1 | |||
| 2022–23 | Ligue 1, 6th of 16 | |||
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ESS is one of the most successful clubs in Algeria, having won the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 eight times and the Algerian Cup a record of eight times. They are also one of only three Algerian clubs to have won the CAF Champions League, winning it twice in 1988 and 2014. They have also won the Arab Champions League twice, in 2007 and 2008, as well as three North African Cups in 2009 and 2010. In 2015, they became the first Algerian club to win the CAF Super Cup since the creation of the competition in 1993.
ES Sétif became CAF Champions League champion by defeating DR Congo's AS Vita Club in the 2014 final; and the reigning CAF Super Cup champions, by beating Egypt's Al Ahly in the 2015 Super Cup and the reigning Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 champions.