Tunisia men's national handball team

Tunisia men's national handball team
Medal record
Representing Tunisia
Handball
African Championship
African Games
Mediterranean Games
Pan Arab Games

Tunisia
Information
Nickname	The eagles of Carthage; ( نسور قرطاج)
Association	Tunisian Handball Federation
Coach	Sami Saïdi
Assistant coach	Amor Khedira; Mohamed Riadh Sanaa
Captain	Marouen Maggaiz
Most caps	Issam Tej (316)
Most goals	Issam Tej (824)
Colours
Home	Away
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	4 (First in 1972)
Best result	8th (2012)
World Championship
Appearances	15 (First in 1967)
Best result	4th (2005)
African Championship
Appearances	24 (First in 1974)
Best result	Champions (1974, 1976, 1979, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2018)
	Last updated on Unknown.

The Tunisian national handball team (Arabic: منتخب تونس لكرة اليد‎), nicknamed Les Aigles de Carthage (The Eagles of Carthage or The Carthage Eagles), is the national handball team of Tunisia. It is governed by the Tunisian Handball Federation and takes part in international handball competitions.

The Tunisian handball League was established in 1953. In 1957, the Tunisian handball Federation was founded, and was later admitted into the International Handball Federation in 1962.

The Tunisian national handball team has participated in several handball world championships. In 2005 Tunisia finished in 4th place; becoming the second non-European team to reach the World Championship semi-finals after Egypt who was able to reach the semi-final match in 2001. The Tunisian national handball team won the African Cup for a record 10 times. The Tunisians won the 2018 African Cup in Gabon by defeating Egypt in the final match. Egypt and Algeria are Tunisia's main rivals in the African continent.

The national squad is primarilly and usually composed of players from Espérance Tunis, Club Africain and Étoile du Sahel; these teams being the traditional powerhouses of the Tunisian handball scene, as well players competing in Europe mainly in France.

Competitive record

Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place

Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.

Olympic Games

Tunisia in the Olympic Games
Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1936 Berlin	Did not enter
Not held from 1948 to 1968
1972 Munich	Match for 15th place	16th of 16	5	0	0	5	72	118	−46
1976 Montreal	Withdrawn after two games
1980 Moscow	Did not qualify
1984 Los Angeles
1988 Seoul
1992 Barcelona
1996 Atlanta
2000 Sydney	Match for 9th place	10th of 12	6	1	0	5	130	141	−11
2004 Athens	Did not qualify
2008 Beijing	Did not qualify
2012 London	Quarter-finals	8th of 12	6	2	0	4	144	150	−6
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Group stage	12th of 12	5	0	1	4	118	145	−27
2020 Tokyo	Did not qualify
Total	4/14	0 Titles	22	3	1	18	464	554	−90

World Championship

Tunisia in the World Championships
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L
Germany 1938	Did not enter
Sweden 1954	Did not enter
Germany 1958	Did not enter
Germany 1961	Did not enter
Czechoslovakia 1964	Did not enter
Sweden 1967	Group stage	15th place	3	0	0	3
France 1970	Did not enter
East Germany 1974	Did not qualify
Denmark 1978	Did not qualify
Germany 1982	Did not qualify
East Germany 1986	Did not qualify
Czechoslovakia 1990	Did not qualify
Sweden 1993	Did not qualify
Iceland 1995	Quarter-finals	15th place	7	2	0	5
Japan 1997	Quarter-finals	16th place	6	2	0	4
Egypt 1999	Quarter-finals	12th place	6	2	1	3
France 2001	Quarter-finals	10th place	6	3	0	3
Portugal 2003	Quarter-finals	14th place	7	2	0	5
Tunisia 2005	Semi-final	4th place	10	5	3	2
Germany 2007	Quarter-finals	11th place	8	3	0	5
Croatia 2009	Group stage	17th place	9	5	0	4
Sweden 2011	Group stage	20th place	7	1	0	6
Spain 2013	Quarter-finals	11th place	6	3	0	3
Qatar 2015	Quarter-finals	15th place	6	2	1	3
France 2017	Group stage	19th place	7	2	2	3
/ Denmark/Germany 2019	Main round	12th place	8	3	0	5
Egypt 2021	Presidents Cup	25th place	7	4	1	2
/ Poland/Sweden 2023	To be determined
// Croatia/Denmark/Norway 2025
Germany 2027
Total		15/27	97	37	7	53

Tunisia did not compete From 1938 to 1964 and 1970 to 1993.
Red border color indicates tournament was held on home :soil.

African Championship

Tunisia in the African Championship
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L
Tunisia 1974	Final	Champions	3	3	0	0
Algeria 1976	Final	Champions	4	4	0	0
Congo 1979	Final	Champions	5	5	0	0
Tunisia 1981	Semi-final	Third place
Egypt 1983	Semi-final	Third place
Angola 1985	Final	Runners-up
Morocco 1987	Semi-final	Third place
Algeria 1989	Semi-final	Third place
Egypt 1991	Semi-final	Third place
Ivory Coast 1992	Final	Runners-up
Tunisia 1994	Final	Champions
Benin 1996	Final	Runners-up
South Africa 1998	Final	Champions	6	5	0	1
Algeria 2000	Semi-final	Third place	6	3	1	2
Morocco 2002	Final	Champions	5	5	0	0
Egypt 2004	Final	Runners-up	7	6	0	1
Tunisia 2006	Final	Champions	7	7	0	0
Angola 2008	Final	Runners-up	5	4	0	1
Egypt 2010	Final	Champions	8	8	0	0
Morocco 2012	Final	Champions	8	8	0	0
Algeria 2014	Final	Runners-up	8	7	0	1
Egypt 2016	Final	Runners-up	8	7	0	1
Gabon 2018	Final	Champions	7	6	1	0
Tunisia 2020	Final	Runners-up	7	6	0	1
Total	24/24	10 Titles

African Games

Tunisia in the African Games
Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1965 Brazzaville	Semi-final	3rd of 8
1973 Lagos	Did not participate
1978 Algiers	Final	2nd of 6
1987 Nairobi	Did not participate
1991 Cairo	Did not participate
1995 Harare	withdrew
1999 Johannesburg	Did not participate
2003 Abuja	Did not participate
2007 Algiers	Semi-final	3rd of 7
2011 Maputo	Did not participate
2015 Brazzaville	Did not participate
2019 Casablanca	Did not participate
Total	3/12	0 Titles

Mediterranean Games

Tunisia in the Mediterranean Games
Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1967 Tunis	Third place	3rd of 3
1971 İzmir	Tournament canceled
1975 Algiers	4th place	4th of 5
1979 Split	Third place	3rd of 7
1983 Casablanca	4th place	4th of 8
1987 Latakia	Did not participate
1991 Athens	Did not participate
1993 Languedoc-Roussillon	Did not participate
1997 Bari	Eighth place	8th of 13
2001 Tunis	Runners-up	2nd of 8
2005 Almería	Third place	3rd of 10
2009 Pescara	Third place	3rd of 9
2013 Mersin	Seven Place	7th of 10
2018 Tarragona	Runners-up	2nd of 13
2021 Oran	Not yet qualified
Total	9/12	0 Title

Pan Arab Games

Tunisia in the Pan Arab Games
Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1961 Casablanca	Did not participate
1965 Cairo	Did not participate
1976 Damascus	Did not participate
1985 Rabat	Final	Champions
1992 Damascus	Semi-final	Third place
1997 Beirut	Tournament canceled
1999 Amman	Did not participate
2004 Algiers	Tournament canceled
2007 Cairo	Did not participate
2011 Doha	Semi-final	Third place
Total	3/10	1 Titles

Others

World cup:
- Runners-up (1): 2006
Championnat maghrébin des nations:
- Champions (3): 1969 1971 1973
Yellow Cup:
- Champions (4): 2007 2015 2016 2019
- Runners-up (4): 2002 2003 2004 2020
- Third Place (2): 2008 2010
Challenge Marrane:
- Champions (1): 2008
Paris Ile-de-France tournament:
- Champions (1): 2005
- Third Place (4): 1998 2002 2007 2013
Spain international tournament
- Third Place (3): 1999 2002 2012
Four Nations Tournament
- Runners-up (1): 2015
Air Caraïbes Cup
- Runners-up (1): 2019

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2021 World Men's Handball Championship.[1][2]

Head coach: Sami Saïdi

No.	Pos.	Name	Date of birth (age)	Height	App.	Goals	Club
6	P	Ghazi Ben Ghali	(1999-03-28) 28 March 1999	1.98 m	2	0	Étoile du Sahel
7	RW	Ramzi Majdoub	(1993-05-09) 9 May 1993	1.88 m	34	73	Espérance de Tunis
8	LB	Rami Fekih	(2000-05-31) 31 May 2000	2.02 m	0	0	AS Téboulba
12	GK	Marouen Maggaiz	(1983-07-28) 28 July 1983	1.92 m	203	2	Club Africain
15	CB	Khaled Haj Youssef	(1989-01-12) 12 January 1989	1.89 m	107	62	Al Sadd SC
19	LB	Mosbah Sanaï	(1991-03-26) 26 March 1991	1.91 m	128	365	Club Africain
22	LB	Youssef Maaref	(1996-07-21) 21 July 1996	1.95 m	26	18	Espérance de Tunis
27	RW	Issam Rzig	(1989-09-14) 14 September 1989	1.82 m	17	45	Étoile du Sahel
28	LB	Hazem Bacha	(2001-12-08) 8 December 2001	2.05 m	0	0	Espérance de Tunis
39	CB	Mohamed Soussi	(1993-01-17) 17 January 1993	1.94 m	113	189	Tremblay-en-France
55	LW	Ghassen Toumi	(1997-06-14)14 June 1997 (aged 23)	1.80 m	0	0	Club Sportif de Sakiet Ezzit
66	P	Islem Jbeli	(1998-12-13) 13 December 1998	1.93 m	0	0	AS Hammamet
69	P	Jihed Jaballah	(1989-07-29) 29 July 1989	2.04 m	74	147	HT Tatran Prešov
71	CB	Mohamed Darmoul	(1998-02-04) 4 February 1998	1.83 m	12	16	Étoile du Sahel
77	LB	Skander Zaïdi	(1997-04-23) 23 April 1997	1.97 m	42	66	Espérance de Tunis
88	GK	Marwen Soussi	(1988-06-21) 21 June 1988	1.94 m	13	0	Club Sportif de Sakiet Ezzit
92	LB	Oussama Jaziri	(1992-11-06) 6 November 1992	1.91 m	42	74	Al Ahly
94	GK	Mehdi Harbaoui	(1996-09-11) 11 September 1996	1.96 m	0	0	Sélestat Alsace Handball
96	RB	Anouar Ben Abdallah	(1996-06-20) 20 June 1996	1.86 m	31	39	HT Tatran Prešov
97	RB	Achraf Margheli	(1997-05-22) 22 May 1997	1.93 m	0	0	Al-Khaleej

Head coaches

Period	Head Coach
1957–1962	Yves Boulogne
1962	Michel Djulizibaric
1962–1966	Mohamed Louahchy
1966–1968	Constantin Popa & Haralambie Firan
1968–1972	Haralambie Firan
1973–1975	Ion Popescu
1976–1979	Saïd Amara
1979–1982	Hachemi Razgallah
1982–1983	Guennadi Antchenko
1983–1985	Reiner Ganschow

Period	Head Coach
1985–1987	Sayed Ayari
1987–1989	Moncef Hajjar
1989–1990	Saïd Amara
1990–1991	Lamjed Amroussi
1991–1994	Hachemi Razgallah
1994–1996	Sayed Ayari & Saïd Amara
1996–1997	Saïd Amara
1997	Brahim Agrebi
1997–1998	Noureddine Ben Ameur
1998–2003	Sayed Ayari & Saïd Amara

Period	Head Coach
2003	Sayed Ayari
2004	Zoran Živković
2004–2008	Sead Hasanefendić
2008–2009	Zoran Živković
2009	Sayed Ayari
2009–2014	Alain Portes
2014–2015	Sead Hasanefendić
2015–2016	Sylvain Nouet
2016–2017	Hafedh Zouabi
2017–2020	Toni Gerona
2020–	Sami Saïdi

Notable players

Hamza Majed
Makrem Missaoui
Marouen Maggaiz
Makrem Jerou
Heykel Megannem
Issam Tej
Sobhi Sayed
Sobhi Syoud
Wassim Helal
Wissem Hmam
Wissem Bousnina
Anouar Ayed
Marouène Bel Hadj
Selim Hedoui
Mahmoud Gharbi
Hatem Harakati
Jaleleddine Touati
Aymen Hammed
Bassem Mrabet
Kamel Alouini

References

"Préparation mondial Egypte 2021 : Hosni et Chouiref écartés" (in French). handball.tn. 3 January 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
"Team Roster Tunisia" (PDF). ihf.info. 15 January 2021. Retrieved 15 January 2021.

External links

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[1] "Préparation mondial Egypte 2021 : Hosni et Chouiref écartés" (in French). handball.tn. 3 January 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2021.

[2] "Team Roster Tunisia" (PDF). ihf.info. 15 January 2021. Retrieved 15 January 2021.

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