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Tunisia
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)Les Aigles de Carthage
(The Eagles of Carthage)
AssociationFédération Tunisienne
de Football
ConfederationCAF (Africa)
Head coachFrance Roger Lemerre
CaptainRiadh Bouazizi
Most capsSadok Sassi "Attouga"
Top scorerEzzedine Chakroun
Home stadiumStade 7 November
FIFA codeTUN
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current47
Highest19 (February 1998)
Lowest47 (November 2007)
First international
Tunisia Tunisia 1 - 2 Algeria Algeria
(Tunisia; 25 June, 1957)
Biggest win
Tunisia Tunisia 7 - 0 Togo Togo
(Tunis, Tunisia; 7 January, 2000)
Tunisia Tunisia 7 - 0 Malawi Malawi
(Tunis, Tunisia; 26 March, 2005)
Biggest defeat
Hungary Hungary 10 - 1 Tunisia Tunisia
(Hungary; 24 July, 1960)
World Cup
Appearances4 (first in 1978)
Best resultRound 1, 1978, 1998, 2002, 2006
African Nations Cup
Appearances12 (first in 1962)
Best resultFirst place, 2004
Confederations Cup
Appearances1 (first in 2005)
Best result1st round, 2005

The Tunisia national football team (Template:Lang-ar), nicknamed Les Aigles de Carthage (The Eagles of Carthage), is the national team of Tunisia and is controlled by the Fédération Tunisienne de Football. They have qualified for four FIFA World Cups, the first one in 1978, but have yet to make it out of the first round. Nevertheless, they created history in that 1978 tournament in Argentina by becoming the first African side to win a World Cup match, beating Mexico 3-1. They also held defending champions West Germany to a goalless draw before bowing out. It took them 20 years to return to the finals but they have since qualified for the past three tournaments in succession, in 1998, 2002 and 2006. They were the only African team to appear at 2002 and 2006. 2002 qualifiers Senegal, Cameroon, Nigeria and South Africa were replaced by Ivory Coast, Angola, Ghana and Togo who would all qualify for the first time. Tunisia were knocked out of the 2006 World Cup after coming third in their group after drawing with Saudi Arabia and suffering successive loses to Spain and Ukraine.

Tunisia also won the African Nations Cup in 2004, when they hosted the tournament.


World Cup record

African Nations Cup record

Famous and Retired Players

2006 World Cup

At first many Tunisians criticized the coach for not putting in Selim Benachour who many considered the best player for the country who currently plays for Vitoria SC

Tunisia managed to draw their opening game against Saudi Arabia. They took the lead at half time thanks to Ziad Jaziri, but Tunisia didn't start well in the second half and Saudi Arabia equalized from Yasser Al-Qahtani. Substitute Sami Al-Jaber came on and scored with 4 minutes to go to put the Saudi's 2-1 up, but in added time Bolton defender Radhi Jaidi headed in an equalizer.

Tunisia lost their second match to Spain. Jaouhar Mnari put Tunisia in the lead with a goal in the eighth minute that kept them up until halftime. However, Spain came back in the second half scoring an equalizer that came from Raúl(72') and two additional goals from Fernando Torres(76', pen 90') that defeated Tunisia with a final score of 3-1.

Tunisia lost their last group match to Ukraine with a 1-0 defeat effectively ending their 2006 World Cup. Andriy Shevchenko(70') scored the only goal from a penalty kick.


Current Squad

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK Hamdi Kasraoui 18 January, 1983 6 0 Tunisia Espérance de Tunis
1GK Aymen Mathlouthi 14 September, 1984 Tunisia Etoile du Sahel
1GK Adel Nefzi 16 March, 1974 0 0 Tunisia Club Africain
2DF Wisam El-Abdi 2 April, 1979 Egypt Zamalek
2DF Tijani Belaid 6 September, 1987 2 0 Czech Republic Slavia Praha
2DF Saber Ben Frej 3 July, 1979 Tunisia Etoile du Sahel
2DF Wissem El Bekri 16 June, 1984 Tunisia Espérance de Tunis
2DF Radhouane Falhi 25 March, 1984 0 0 Tunisia Etoile du Sahel
2DF Saïf Ghezal 30 June, 1981 Tunisia Etoile du Sahel
2DF Karim Haggui 21 January, 1984 42 5 Germany Bayer Leverkusen
2DF Radhi Jaidi 30 August, 1975 92 6 England Birmingham City
2DF David Jemmali 13 December, 1974 3 0 France Girondins Bordeaux
2DF Mehdi Meriah 5 June, 1979 Tunisia Etoile du Sahel
2DF Chaker Zouaghi 10 January, 1985 Russia Lokomotiv Moscow
3MF Mohamed Ali Nafkha 25 January, 1986 0 0 Tunisia Etoile du Sahel
3MF Yassin Mikari 9 January, 1983 Switzerland Grasshopper Zürich
3MF Mejdi Traoui 13 December, 1983 Tunisia Etoile du Sahel
3MF Kamel Zaiem 25 June, 1983 Tunisia Espérance de Tunis
1 1GK Ali Boumnijel 13 April 1966 50 Tunisia Club Africain
2 4FW Karim Essediri 29 July1979 8 Norway Lillestrøm Sportsklubb
4 2DF Alaeddine Yahia 26 September 1981 14 France Saint-Étienne
5 4FW Ziad Jaziri 12 July1978 63 France Troyes
6 2DF Hatem Trabelsi 25 January 1977 58 Saudi Arabia Al-Hilal
7 4FW Haykel Guemamdia 22 December1981 14 France Strasbourg
8 3MF Mehdi Nafti 28 November1978 31 England Birmingham City
9 4FW Yassine Chikhaoui 2 September1986 2 Tunisia Étoile du Sahel
10 3MF Kaies Ghodhbane 7 January1976 91 Turkey Konyaspor
11 4FW Santos 20 March1979 28 France FC Toulouse
12 3MF Jaouhar Mnari 8 November1976 39 Germany 1. FC Nürnberg
13 3MF Riadh Bouazizi 8 April1973 87 Turkey Kayserispor
14 3MF Adel Chedli 16 September1976 40 Germany 1. FC Nürnberg
17 4FW Chaouki Ben Saada 1 July1984 11 France SC Bastia
19 2DF Anis Ayari 16 February1982 25 France FC Lorient
20 3MF Hamed Namouchi 12 January1984 16 France FC Lorient
21 2DF Karim Saidi 24 March 1983 15 Italy US Lecce
23 3MF Sofiene Melliti 18 August1978 14 Turkey Gaziantepspor

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