Club des Joyeusetés d'Oran

1927

1934

The football section of Club des Joyeusetés d'Oran was founded in 1897. The club was originally for Europeans.
In the colonial era Fédération française de football administered the local league and cup competitions (Ligue d'Oranie de Football Association and Coupe d'Oranie).
There were inter colonial tournaments also; Championnat d'Afrique du Nord de football  (Coupe Steeg) and La Coupe d'Afrique du nord.
CDJ enjoyed considerable success in these tournaments in the pre- 1937 era:

Championnat d'Oranie	1913-14, 1927-28, 1929-30, 1930-31, 1933-34, 1936-37
Coupe d'Oranie	1926-27, 1927-28, 1928-29
Championnat d'Afrique du Nord	1931
Coupe d'Afrique du Nord	1931, 1933, 1934, 1935.

Racing Club de Tunis

Initially founded as Football Club de Tunis in 1904, Racing is Tunisia's oldest club.
The first league in Tunisia was inaugurated in 1907.
Initially 5 clubs participated: Racing Club de Tunis, Football Club de Tunis (not connected with the club of 1904), Sporting Club de Tunis, Lycée Carnot and Collège Sadiki (the last 2 were school sides).
During the following 2 years membership of the league changed, and no champion was decided until 1909. By this time the league had grown to 7 members , Sporting, Racing and Football being joined by Emile Loubet Club, S.C. Bizerte, Alliance Sportive and British Football Club.
Racing eventually emerged as champions, defeating Sporting in a play off.
Tunisian football lapses into obscurity then until 1920, when Racing won a precursor of the Coupe d'Afrique du Nord (contested by teams from Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco). No Tunisian side succeeded in official Coupe d'Afrique du Nord tournaments.
Racing won their domestic league in 1921-22, and were runners up to the splendidly named Avant Garde in the first edition of the Tunisian Cup in 1922-23.

Sporting Club Bel-Abbès

Sidi Bel Abbès is situated to the south of the port of Oran in Algeria. It was in Oran that football was first played in north Africa, with  Club Athlétique Oranais (later Club Athlétique Liberté Oranais ) being founded in 1897.
Clubs from different regions of North Africa played each other as early as 1904.
 SC Bel-Abbès was founded in 1906.
Football in Algeria came under the auspices of L'Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques (USFSA). In 1910 the  USFSA  instituted an African Championship for clubs from various parts of Algeria and Tunisia. The results  of these early 'African' championships are largely unknown.

In 1920 the  Ligue d'Oran was formed. 
Sporting Club Bel-Abbès dominated the Ligue d'Oran , winning 7 seasons in a row (1921-1922, 1922-1923, 1923-1924, 1924-1925, 1925-1926, 1926-1927,1927-1928). 
 Championnat d'Afrique du Nord de football (the Steeg Cup) began in 1920. SC Bel-Abbès were winners in 1922, 1924, 1925, 1926 and 1927.