JS Kabylie

Algerian football club based in Tizi Ouzou

Key facts

Full name: Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie , llemẓiyen inaddalen n leqvayel , ⵉⵍⵎⵣⵢⵏ ⵉⵏⴰⴷⴰⵍⵏ ⵏ ⵍⵇⵠⴰⵢⵍ
Nicknames: La JSK (The JSK), Les Canaris (The Canaries), Les Lions du Djurdjura (Izmawen n Ǧeṛǧeṛ/The Djurdjura Lions)
Short name: JSK , JS Kabylie
Founded: 2 August 1946 ; 79 years ago ( 2 August 1946 ) (as Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie )
Stadium: Hocine Aït Ahmed Stadium
Capacity: 50,766
Owner: Mobilis
President: Adel Boudedja
Head coach: Rabah Bensafi
League: Ligue 1
2024 25: Ligue 1 , 2nd of 16
Website: jskabylie .dz

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Current season

Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie (Kabyle: Ilemẓiyen inaddalen n leqvayel; Tamazight: ⵉⵍⵎⵣⵢⵏ ⵉⵏⴰⴷⴰⵍⵏ ⵏ ⵍⵇⵠⴰⵢⵍ; Arabic: شبيبة القبائل), known as JS Kabylie or simply JSK, is an Algerian professional football club based in Tizi Ouzou, Kabylia. The club is named after the cultural, natural and historical region (Kabylia) that is home to the Kabyle Berber people speaking Kabyle (the ⵊ ⵙ ⴽ in the center of the club's logo represents J S K in the Tifinagh alphabet and the Yaz (ⵣ) at the bottom of the club's logo is the most famous Amazigh (Berber) symbol considered to be the symbol of the Berber language and culture in North Africa, which gives a representation of the free person). The club was founded in 1946 and its colours are yellow and green. The club currently plays in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1, the top tier of Algerian football. Since the start of the 2024–25 season, the club has played its home games at the Hocine Aït Ahmed Stadium. Previously, the club had played at Tizi Ouzou's 1 November 1954 Stadium from 1978 to 2024.