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JS Kabylie
Sign in to saveAlso known as JSK, J.S.K, Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie, JSK 1946, J.S.K 1946, JSKabylie, J.S. 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
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports team
- Sport
- Soccer
- League
- Algerian Ligue 1
- Stadium
- Stade Hocine-Aït-Ahmed
- Country
- Algeria
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “JS Kabylie” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.