Boumedienne Allam

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Boumedienne Allam (born Avignon, 19 November 1979) is a French-born Algerian rugby union player. He plays as a number eight.

After his young years at Apt (1994-1996) and Cavaillon (1996-1997), he become famous as a RC Toulon player (1997-2000), were he won the Cup of France Frantz Reichel, in 1998. He moved to RC Narbonne (2000-2003), and latter to Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby (2003-2004) and to FC Auch (2004-2005). After a season at FC Barcelona, in Spain (2005-2006), he moved back to France, were he's now playing for Blagnac SCR.

He first played for France U-21 squad, winning the Six Nations Tournament of that category, in 2000. He was a member of the historical first game of Argelia national rugby union team, in 24 February 2007.