Djamel Belmadi

Djamel Belmadi is an Algerian football manager and former player who was born in Champigny-sur-Marne, France, on 25 March 1976.¹² A midfielder capped twenty times by Algeria, he became the manager who led Algeria to the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations title, and he returned to Al-Duhail in Qatar in 2025.¹

Belmadi was born in Champigny-sur-Marne, in the south-eastern suburbs of Paris, to Algerian parents from Aïn Tedles near Mostaganem.¹ Some editions of his biography give his birth date as 27 March 1976, a value drawn from Wikidata; the English, French and Arabic article texts give 25 March, which is the date recorded here.¹²

Belmadi came through Paris Saint-Germain and made his first-team debut in January 1996, then played for Martigues, Marseille and Cannes, with a loan at Celta Vigo.¹ A loan to Manchester City in 2003 was followed by spells with Al-Ittihad and Al-Kharaitiyat in Qatar, two seasons at Southampton and a final spell at Valenciennes before he retired in 2009.¹ He won twenty caps for Algeria between 2000 and 2004 and played at the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations.¹

Belmadi's first head-coach role was at Lekhwiya in Qatar, where he won the Qatar Stars League in each of his first two seasons.¹ He then coached Qatar's B team to the 2014 WAFF Championship and the senior Qatar team to the 2014 Gulf Cup, before returning to Lekhwiya — rebranded Al-Duhail — in 2015.¹ Appointed Algeria's head coach in August 2018, he led the team to the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations title in Egypt, Algeria's second; after group-stage exits at the 2021 and 2023 editions and a failed 2022 World Cup qualification, his contract was terminated in January 2024.¹ He returned to Al-Duhail as head coach in June 2025.¹

This section presents the positions found in the sources; it is not a verdict by the museum. Neither article states Belmadi's religion: the word Muslim does not occur in the English article, and the Arabic article's infobox has no religion field and its text makes no statement.¹² As no source names a faith or a school for him personally, his faith is recorded in the museum's data as unknown.¹²

• Djamel Belmadi — English Wikipedia¹
• Djamel Belmadi — Arabic Wikipedia²