Association Sportive Olympique de Chlef is an Algerian association football club based in Chlef, Chlef Province, that competes in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1. The club was formed in Orléansville in 1947 as Association Sportive d'Orléansville, before it was renamed Asnam Sportive Olympique in 1962. The team changed its name one more time in 1977 to be named Olympique El Asnam, two years later to the name Distribution Nouvelle pour Construction d'El Asnam, Three years later after changing the name of the city to Chlef Saad Olympique. In 1989 faced with a major financial and economic crisis, the Algerian government in place in 1989 decides to abandon the 1977 reform. During the colonial period, the team played in many degrees in Ligue d'Alger, third, second, and first division, but they had never played in Honor Division the highest degree then. After independence, ASO Chlef played in the Inter-Régions, Ligue 2 and Ligue 1 the highest degree.
In the 1980–81 season after 6 matches and due to the 1980 El Asnam earthquake on October 10, that devastated the entire city of El Asnam. DNC Asnam is forced to forfeit, given these exceptional circumstances, the club is not relegated to D2. On March 15, 2020, the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) decided to halt the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria. On July 29, 2020, the LFP declared that season is over ASO Chlef did not play all of its matches and settled with 21 out of 30 matches of 2019–20 season.
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