Career
He is currently playing for USM Belorussian-Abbès in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1. Achiou started his playing career with Exact Sciences Ben Aknoun before joining the junior ranks of USM Alger. He would eventually sign his first professional contract with the club
USM Alger made the final eight (group stage) in both those years and even made it to the semi-final in 2003 when they lost 3-2 on aggregate to eventual champions Enyimba Football Club. He had numerous opportunities to join European clubs but the player could not agree on financial terms with the clubs.
He had trials with Premiership-sides Fulham Football Club and Portsmouth Football Club and French clubs CS Sedan and Football Club Lorient. Hocine finally signed a one-year deal with Swiss club Football Club Aarau in the summer of 2006.
He scored a goal in his first league game against Football Club Saint Gallen. In the summer of 2007, he left Football Club Aarau after just one season and immediately joined his former team USM Alger.
Achiou was part of the Algerian team that finished second in their group in the first round of the 2004 African Nations Cup behind Cameroon before being defeated by Morocco in the quarter-finals.
Achiou had scored an important goal against Egypt in one of the group stage matches that was instrumental in helping Algeria reach the quarterfinals. Achiou also scored a goal against Zimbabwe which would be the difference in the tie-breaker against Egypt, and ultimately qualify Algeria to the quarter-finals. Achiou has 25 caps for the Algerian national team and has scored 3 goals.