BY: Dr. Hana Saada
With rising incitement and unrest in Ligue 1 Mobilis stadiums, Sadi urges club presidents to restore order, defend ethics, and uphold the spirit of Algerian football in a decisive championship phase.
Algiers, Algeria | April 20th, 2025 — In response to an alarming surge in violence and hate speech erupting across stadiums during Ligue 1 Mobilis matches, the President of the Algerian Football Federation (FAF), Walid Sadi, has summoned all Ligue 1 club presidents to an emergency meeting scheduled for Tuesday. This decisive move, announced on Sunday via an official communiqué on the FAF website, reflects the mounting urgency to prevent further deterioration in the national football scene.
“The President of the Algerian Football Federation, Mr. Walid Sadi, is convening an emergency meeting this Tuesday with all the presidents of the professional league clubs. This meeting comes in a context marked by a troubling escalation of violence and inflammatory rhetoric in the stadiums,” the statement reads.
The situation has grown increasingly tense as the league approaches its final and most critical stretch. With passions running high and stakes intensifying, acts of aggression, public disorder, and verbal incitement have threatened not only the integrity of the championship but the very values upon which Algerian football is built.
Sadi’s intervention comes at a pivotal moment when institutional authority must be asserted to uphold discipline, ethical standards, and collective responsibility among all stakeholders—from club executives to fans, players, and officials.
“As the championship nears its final phase, the responsibility of each actor in national football is more engaged than ever to ensure the proper conduct of the competition in accordance with the rules and values of sport,” the FAF emphasized in its communique.
The FAF reaffirmed its unwavering commitment to sporting ethics and fair play, calling for unity, restraint, and a heightened sense of responsibility from all parties involved. Sadi’s appeal is as much a warning as it is a call to conscience: that the game must not become hostage to extremism, sectarianism, or chaos.
