Tunisia national football team

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Tunisia

Nickname(s)

Les Aigles de Carthage
(The Eagles of Carthage)

Association

Fédération Tunisienne
de Football

Confederation

CAF (Africa)

Head coach

Roger Lemerre

Captain

Riadh Bouazizi

Most caps

Sadok Sassi "Attouga"

Top scorer

Ezzedine Chakroun

Home stadium

Stade 7 November

FIFA code

TUN

FIFA ranking

Highest FIFA ranking

19 (February 1998)

Lowest FIFA ranking

47 (November 2007)

Elo ranking

Highest Elo ranking

24 (June 1978)

Lowest Elo ranking

103 (July 1988)





Home colours





Away colours

First international

Tunisia 1 - 2 Algeria

(Tunisia; 25 June 1957)

Biggest win

Tunisia 7 - 0 Togo

(Tunis, Tunisia; 7 January 2000)

Tunisia 7 - 0 Malawi

(Tunis, Tunisia; 26 March 2005)

Biggest defeat

Hungary 10 - 1 Tunisia

(Hungary; 24 July 1960)

World Cup

Appearances

4 (First in 1978)

Best result

Round 1, 1978, 1998, 2002, 2006

African Nations Cup

Appearances

12 (First in 1962)

Best result

First place, 2004

Confederations Cup

Appearances

1 (First in 2005)

Best result

1st round, 2005

The Tunisia national football team (Arabic: منتخب تونس لكرة القدم), 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.

1 Last and next games
2 World Cup record
3 African Nations Cup record
4 Famous and Retired Players
5 2006 World Cup Squad
- 5.1 2006 World Cup Information
6 External links

Last game: Austria 0-0 Tunisia - Vienna, Austria - 21 November 2007. (Friendly)

Next game: Tunisia - Zambia - Tunis, Tunisia - 06 January 2008. (Friendly)

1930 to 1958 - Did not enter
1962 - Did not qualify
1966 - Withdrew
1970 - Did not qualify
1974 - Did not qualify
1978 - Round 1
1982 to 1994 - Did not qualify
1998 - Round 1
2002 - Round 1
2006 - Round 1

1957 - Did not enter
1959 - Did not enter
1962 - Third place
1963 - Round 1
1965 - Second place
1968 - Did not qualify
1970 to 1974 - Did not enter
1976 - Did not qualify
1978 - Fourth place
1980 - Withdrew
1982 - Round 1
1984 to 1992 - Did not qualify
1994 - Round 1
1996 - Second place
1998 - Quarterfinals
2000 - Fourth place
2002 - Round 1
2004 - Champions
2006 - Quarterfinals
2008 - Qualified

Head coach: Roger Lemerre

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB/Age	Caps	Club
1	GK	Ali Boumnijel	13 April 1966	50	Club Africain
2	FW	Karim Essediri	29 July 1979	8	Lillestrøm Sportsklubb
3	DF	Karim Haggui	21 January 1984	28	Bayer Leverkusen
4	DF	Alaeddine Yahia	26 September 1981	14	Saint-Étienne
5	FW	Ziad Jaziri	12 July 1978	63	Troyes
6	DF	Hatem Trabelsi	25 January 1977	58	Al-Hilal
7	FW	Haykel Guemamdia	22 December 1981	14	Strasbourg
8	MF	Mehdi Nafti	28 November 1978	31	Birmingham City
9	FW	Yassine Chikhaoui	2 September 1986	2	Étoile du Sahel
10	MF	Kaies Ghodhbane	7 January 1976	91	Konyaspor
11	FW	Santos	20 March 1979	28	FC Toulouse
12	MF	Jaouhar Mnari	8 November 1976	39	1. FC Nürnberg
13	MF	Riadh Bouazizi	8 April 1973	87	Kayserispor
14	MF	Adel Chedli	16 September 1976	40	1. FC Nürnberg
15	DF	Radhi Jaidi	30 August 1975	91	Birmingham City
16	GK	Adel Nefzi	16 March 1974	0	US Monastir
17	FW	Chaouki Ben Saada	1 July 1984	11	SC Bastia
18	DF	David Jemmali	13 December 1974	3	Girondins Bordeaux
19	DF	Anis Ayari	16 February 1982	25	FC Lorient
20	MF	Hamed Namouchi	12 January 1984	16	FC Lorient
21	DF	Karim Saidi	24 March 1983	15	US Lecce
22	GK	Hamdi Kasraoui	18 January 1983	6	Espérance de Tunis
23	MF	Sofiene Melliti	18 August 1978	14	Gaziantepspor

Issam Jomaa had to withdraw through injury, and was replaced by Chaouki Ben Saada on 7th June

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.