Algeria's national football team coach, Vladimir Petkovi\u0107, has unveiled the highly anticipated 27-player squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, scheduled to take place from June 11 to July 19, 2026. The announcement was made during a press conference held at the "Mohamed Sellah" conference hall at the Nelson Mandela Stadium in Baraki.<\/p>\n
Set to compete in Group J, alongside reigning champions Argentina, Jordan, and Austria, the Algerian squad will face their group stage opponents on June 17, 23, and 28, respectively. The team has commenced its preparation camp at the National Technical Center (CTN) in Sidi Moussa and will further refine their tactics through two friendly matches. The first friendly is scheduled against the Netherlands on June 3 in Rotterdam, followed by a match against Bolivia on June 10 in Kansas City, USA.<\/p>\n
The selected 27 players include:<\/p>\n
Goalkeepers: Luca Zidane (FC Granada\/Spain), Oussama Benbot (USM Alger), Abdellatif Ramdane (MC Alger), and Melvin Mastil (FC Stade Nyonnais\/Switzerland).<\/p>\n
Defenders: Achraf Abada (USM Alger), Rayan A\u00eft-Nouri (Manchester City\/England), Zin\u00e9dine Bela\u00efd (JS Kabylie), Rafik Belghali (Hellas Verona\/Italy), Ramy Benseba\u00efni (Borussia Dortmund\/Germany), Mehdi Dorval (SSC Bari\/Italy), A\u00efssa Mandi (Lille OSC\/France), Jaouen Hadjam (BSC Young Boys\/Switzerland), and Mohamed Amine Touga\u00ef (ES Tunis\/Tunisia).<\/p>\n
Midfielders: Hicham Boudaoui (OGC Nice\/France), Ramiz Zerrouki (FC Twente\/Netherlands), Yacine Titraoui (SC Charleroi\/Belgium), Nabil Bentaleb (Lille OSC\/France), Ibrahim Maza (Bayer Leverkusen\/Germany), Houssem Aouar (Al-Ittihad Jeddah\/Saudi Arabia), and Fares Cha\u00efbi (Eintracht Frankfurt\/Germany).<\/p>\n
Forwards: Mohamed Amine Amoura (VfL Wolfsburg\/Germany), Adil Boulbina (Al-Duhail\/Qatar), Riyad Mahrez (Al-Ahli SC\/Saudi Arabia), Anis Hadj Moussa (Feyenoord\/Netherlands), Amine Gouiri (Olympique Marseille\/France), Ahmed Benbouali (FC Gyori\/Hungary), and Fares Ghedjemis (Frosinone\/Italy).<\/p>\n
Related topics:<\/strong> Algeria World Cup 2026, Petkovi\u0107 squad, Algerian national football team, World Cup qualifiers, Algeria football news, Algeria<\/p>\n DZWatch provides English-language coverage of Algeria-focused developments for international readers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Algeria’s national football team coach Vladimir Petkovi\u0107 announces the 27-player squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, detailing the selected players and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}