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Tunisia men's national handball team

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Tunisia
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Information
NicknameThe eagles of Carthage
(نسور قرطاج)
AssociationTunisian Handball Federation
CoachPatrick Cazal
Assistant coachWissem Hmam
Mohamed Riadh Sanaa
Most capsIssam Tej (316)
Most goalsOussama Boughanmi (865)
Colours
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Team colours
Team colours
Team colours
1st
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2nd
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances4 (First in 1972)
Best result8th (2012)
World Championship
Appearances16 (First in 1967)
Best result4th (2005)
African Championship
Appearances26 (First in 1974)
Best resultGold 1st (1974, 1976, 1979, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2018)
Last updated on Unknown.
Tunisia men's national handball team
Medal record
Representing  Tunisia
Handball
African Championship
Gold medal – first place 1974 Tunisia
Gold medal – first place 1976 Algeria
Gold medal – first place 1979 Congo
Gold medal – first place 1994 Tunisia
Gold medal – first place 1998 South Africa
Gold medal – first place 2002 Morocco
Gold medal – first place 2006 Tunisia
Gold medal – first place 2010 Egypt
Gold medal – first place 2012 Morocco
Gold medal – first place 2018 Gabon
Silver medal – second place 1985 Angola
Silver medal – second place 1992 Ivory Coast
Silver medal – second place 1996 Benin
Silver medal – second place 2004 Egypt
Silver medal – second place 2008 Angola
Silver medal – second place 2014 Algeria
Silver medal – second place 2016 Egypt
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tunisia
Bronze medal – third place 1981 Tunisia
Bronze medal – third place 1983 Egypt
Bronze medal – third place 1987 Morocco
Bronze medal – third place 1989 Algeria
Bronze medal – third place 1991 Egypt
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Algeria
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Egypt
African Games
Silver medal – second place 1978 Algiers Team
Bronze medal – third place 1965 Brazzaville Team
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Algiers Team
Mediterranean Games
Silver medal – second place 2001 Tunis Team
Silver medal – second place 2018 Tarragona Team
Bronze medal – third place 1967 Tunis Team
Bronze medal – third place 1979 Split Team
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Almería Team
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Pescara Team
Pan Arab Games
Gold medal – first place 1985 Rabat Team
Bronze medal – third place 1992 Damascus Team
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Doha Team

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 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 Nations Championship for a record 10 times (1974, 1976, 1979, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2018). The Tunisians won the 2018 African Championship in Gabon by defeating Egypt in the final match.

History

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Tunisia is the most successful team in the African Nations Championship with ten titles won in 1974, 1976, 1979, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2012 and 2018, and played in the final eight times in 1985, 1992, 1996, 2004, 2008, 2014, 2016 and 2020. They also won a bronze medal six times in 1981, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1991 and 2000.

At the World Championships, in 2005 it obtained the best performance obtained by an African country, a fourth place, thus equaling Egypt (place obtained in 2001).

During the 2005–06 season, Heykel Megannem was voted the best player in the French championship, with Wissem Hmam and Issam Tej also being in the standard team, respectively as left-back and pivot.

Following the 2009 world championship, the federation sidelined Issam Tej for "indiscipline, insolence and recidivism" and Makram Missaoui for "having refused to resume play against Poland", while Maher Kraiem was suspended for three months for “misconduct”.

The team is coached by the Croatian Sead Hasanefendić until June 2008, before being replaced by the Serb Zoran Živković from 24 October 2008. However, the federation dismisses him following the poor performance of the team during the 2009 world championship. He was replaced by the Tunisian Sayed Ayari and then, in June 2009, by the Frenchman Alain Portes, who signed a three-year contract.

In 2013, Alain Portes' contract was not being renewed, so he took over from Olivier Krumbholz at the head of the French women's team and was replaced by Sead Hasanefendić, back at the head of the national team for the following three seasons. In 2020, coach Toni Gerona is dismissed.

Infrastructure

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The El Menzah Sports Palace, built in 1967, is the hall of the national team. Built for the 2005 World Men's Handball Championship, of which it hosted the final and all of Tunisia's matches, the Salle Omnisport de Radès now hosted most of the national team's matches.

Honours

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Official competitions

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African Nations Championship

African Games

Mediterranean Games

Pan Arab Games

Minor tournaments

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World cup

  • Silver Runners-up:  2006

Yellow Cup

  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Champions:  2007, 2015, 2016, 2019
  • 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runners-up:  2002, 2003, 2004, 2020
  • 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Third Place:  2008, 2010

Paris Ile-de-France tournament

  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Champions:  2005
  • 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Third Place:  1998, 2002, 2007, 2013

Championnat maghrébin des nations

  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Champions :  1969, 1971, 1973

Tunisia international tournament

  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Champions:  2015, 2017, 2021

Four Nations Cup Poland

  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Champions:  2021, 2022

Three Nations Cup Tunisia

  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Champions:  2023

Challenge Marrane

  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Champions:  2008

Four Nations Tournament

  • 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runners-up:  2015

Air Caraïbes Cup

  • 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runners-up:  2019

Spain international tournament

  • 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Third Place:  1999, 2002, 2012

Competitive record

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  Champions    Runners-up    Third place    Fourth place  

  • Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.

Olympic Games

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Olympic Games
Games Round Position Pld W D L GF GA GD
Germany 1936 Part of France
Not held from 1948 to 1968
West Germany 1972 Match for 15th place 16th 5 0 0 5 72 118 −46
Canada 1976 Withdrawn after two games
Soviet Union 1980 Did not qualify
United States 1984
South Korea 1988
Spain 1992
United States 1996
Australia 2000 Match for 9th place 10th 6 1 0 5 130 141 −11
Greece 2004 Did not qualify
China 2008
United Kingdom 2012 Quarter-finals 8th 6 2 0 4 144 150 −6
Brazil 2016 Group stage 12th 5 0 1 4 118 145 −27
Japan 2020 Did not qualify
France 2024
Total 4/15 0 Titles 22 3 1 18 464 554 −90

World Championship

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World Championships
Year Round Position Pld W D L
Germany 1938 Did not enter
Sweden 1954
West Germany 1958
West Germany 1961
Czechoslovakia 1964
Sweden 1967 Group stage 15th 3 0 0 3
France 1970 Did not enter
East Germany 1974
Denmark 1978
West Germany 1982
East Germany 1986
Czechoslovakia 1990
Sweden 1993
Iceland 1995 Quarter-finals 15th 7 2 0 5
Japan 1997 Quarter-finals 16th 6 2 0 4
Egypt 1999 Quarter-finals 12th 6 2 1 3
France 2001 Quarter-finals 10th 6 3 0 3
Portugal 2003 Quarter-finals 14th 7 2 0 5
Tunisia 2005 Fourth place 4th 10 5 3 2
Germany 2007 Quarter-finals 11th 8 3 0 5
Croatia 2009 Group stage 17th 9 5 0 4
Sweden 2011 Group stage 20th 7 1 0 6
Spain 2013 Quarter-finals 11th 6 3 0 3
Qatar 2015 Quarter-finals 15th 6 2 1 3
France 2017 Group stage 19th 7 2 2 3
DenmarkGermany 2019 Main round 12th 8 3 0 5
Egypt 2021 Presidents Cup 25th 7 4 1 2
PolandSweden 2023 Presidents Cup 25th 7 4 1 2
CroatiaDenmarkNorway 2025 Qualified
Germany 2027 To be determined
FranceGermany 2029
DenmarkIcelandNorway 2031
Total Fourth place 17/21 104 41 8 55
  • Tunisia did not compete From 1938 to 1964 and 1970 to 1993.
  • Red border color indicates tournament was held on home :soil.

African Championship

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African Championship
Year Round Position Pld W D L
Tunisia 1974 Champions 1st 3 3 0 0
Algeria 1976 Champions 1st 4 4 0 0
Republic of the Congo 1979 Champions 1st 5 5 0 0
Tunisia 1981 Third place 3rd 3 2 1 0
Egypt 1983 Third place 3rd 6 4 0 2
Angola 1985 Runners-up 2nd 5 3 0 2
Morocco 1987 Third place 3rd 5 3 0 2
Algeria 1989 Third place 3rd 5 3 0 2
Egypt 1991 Third place 3rd 6 3 1 2
Ivory Coast 1992 Runners-up 2nd 5 3 1 1
Tunisia 1994 Champions 1st 6 6 0 0
Benin 1996 Runners-up 2nd 6 5 0 1
South Africa 1998 Champions 1st 6 5 0 1
Algeria 2000 Third place 3rd 6 3 1 2
Morocco 2002 Champions 1st 5 5 0 0
Egypt 2004 Runners-up 2nd 7 6 0 1
Tunisia 2006 Champions 1st 7 7 0 0
Angola 2008 Runners-up 2nd 5 4 0 1
Egypt 2010 Champions 1st 8 8 0 0
Morocco 2012 Champions 1st 8 8 0 0
Algeria 2014 Runners-up 2nd 8 7 0 1
Egypt 2016 Runners-up 2nd 8 7 0 1
Gabon 2018 Champions 1st 7 6 1 0
Tunisia 2020 Runners-up 2nd 7 6 0 1
Egypt 2022 Fourth place 4th 5 3 0 2
Egypt 2024 Third place 3rd 6 5 0 1
Total Champions 26/26 152 124 5 23

African Games

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African Games
Year Round Position Pld W D L
Republic of the Congo 1965 Third place 3rd 5 2 1 2
Nigeria 1973 Did not participate
Algeria 1978 Runners-up 2nd 5 4 0 1
Kenya 1987 Did not participate
Egypt 1991
Zimbabwe 1995 Withdrew
South Africa 1999 Did not participate
Nigeria 2003
Algeria 2007 Third place 3rd 4 2 0 2
Mozambique 2011 Did not participate
Republic of the Congo 2015
Morocco 2019
Total Runners-up 3/12 14 8 1 5

Mediterranean Games

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Mediterranean Games
Year Round Position Pld W D L
Tunisia 1967 Third place 3rd 3 1 0 2
Turkey 1971 Tournament canceled
Algeria 1975 Fourth place 4th 4 1 0 3
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1979 Third place 3rd 4 2 0 2
Morocco 1983 Fourth place 4th
Syria 1987 Did not participate
Greece 1991
France 1993
Italy 1997 Eighth place 8th 5 1 0 4
Tunisia 2001 Runners-up 2nd 5 4 0 1
Spain 2005 Third place 3rd 5 4 0 1
Italy 2009 Third place 3rd 6 4 0 2
Turkey 2013 Group stage 7th 5 2 1 2
Spain 2018 Runners-up 2nd 5 4 0 1
Algeria 2022 Fifth Place 5th 5 3 0 2
Total Runners-up 11/14

Pan Arab Games

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Arab Games
Year Round Position Pld W D L
Morocco 1961 Did not participate
United Arab Republic 1965
Syria 1976
Morocco 1985 Champions 1st
Syria 1992 Third place 3rd
Lebanon 1997 Tournament canceled
Jordan 1999 Did not participate
Algeria 2004 Tournament canceled
Egypt 2007 Did not participate
Qatar 2011 Third place 3rd
Total Champions 3/10

Other records

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Other records
Year Round Position
1969 Maghreb Nations Championship Final Champions
1971 Maghreb Nations Championship Final Champions
1973 Maghreb Nations Championship Final Champions
1998 Paris Ile-de-France tournament Semi-final Third place
1999 Spain international tournament Semi-final Third place
2002 Paris Ile-de-France tournament Semi-final Third place
2002 Yellow Cup Final Runners-up
2002 Spain international tournament Semi-final Third place
2003 Yellow Cup Final Runners-up
2004 Yellow Cup Final Runners-up
2005 Paris Ile-de-France tournament Final Champions
2006 World cup Final Runners-up
2007 Paris Ile-de-France tournament Semi-final Third place
2007 Yellow Cup Final Champions
2008 Challenge Marrane Final Champions
2008 Yellow Cup Semi-final Third place
2010 Yellow Cup Semi-final Third place
2012 Spain international tournament Semi-final Third place
2013 Paris Ile-de-France tournament Semi-final Third place
2015 Yellow Cup Final Champions
2015 Tunisia international tournament Final Champions
2015 Four Nations Tournament Final Runners-up
2016 Yellow Cup Final Champions
2017 Tunisia international tournament Final Champions
2019 Yellow Cup Final Champions
2019 Air Caraïbes Cup Final Runners-up
2020 Yellow Cup Final Runners-up
2021 Tunisia international tournament Final Champions
2021 Four Nations Cup Poland Final Champions
2022 Four Nations Cup Poland Final Champions

Team

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Current squad

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Squad for the 2023 World Men's Handball Championship.[1][2]

Head coach: Patrick Cazal

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club
1 GK Assil Nemli (2000-09-01) 1 September 2000 (age 24) 2.00 m 6 1 Tunisia Espérance de Tunis
6 P Ghazi Ben Ghali (1999-03-28) 28 March 1999 (age 25) 1.98 m 21 18 Tunisia Étoile du Sahel
10 CB Bilel Abdelli (1995-08-04) 4 August 1995 (age 29) 1.90 m 19 39 Tunisia Espérance de Tunis
17 LB Oussama Rmiki (1996-10-08) 8 October 1996 (age 28) 1.92 m 2 2 Tunisia Club Africain
22 LB Youssef Maaraf (1996-07-21) 21 July 1996 (age 28) 1.95 m 52 87 Qatar Al Arabi
25 CB Abdelhak Ben Salah (1990-04-25) 25 April 1990 (age 34) 1.84 m 58 120 Tunisia Espérance de Tunis
27 RW Issam Rzig (1989-09-14) 14 September 1989 (age 35) 1.81 m 49 180 Tunisia Étoile du Sahel
28 LB Hazem Bacha (2001-12-08) 8 December 2001 (age 23) 2.05 m 18 33 Tunisia Espérance de Tunis
29 RW Tarek Jallouz (1993-11-01) 1 November 1993 (age 31) 1.83 m 22 35 Tunisia Espérance de Tunis
55 LW Ghassen Toumi (1997-06-14) 14 June 1997 (age 27) 1.84 m 33 70 Tunisia Espérance de Tunis
57 RB Noureddine Maoua (1998-09-05) 5 September 1998 (age 26) 1.86 m 23 24 Kuwait Al Salmiya
61 GK Yassine Belkaied (2000-10-19) 19 October 2000 (age 24) 1.97 m 17 2 Slovenia RK Celje
69 P Jihed Jaballah (1989-07-29) 29 July 1989 (age 35) 2.04 m 103 211 Kuwait Al-Kuwait SC
71 CB Mohamed Darmoul (1998-02-04) 4 February 1998 (age 26) 1.83 m 44 145 Germany GWD Minden
94 GK Mehdi Harbaoui (1996-09-11) 11 September 1996 (age 28) 1.96 m 27 0 Spain CD Bidasoa
96 RB Anouar Ben Abdallah (1996-06-20) 20 June 1996 (age 28) 1.88 m 50 73 Kuwait Kazma
98 P Islem Jbeli (1998-12-13) 13 December 1998 (age 26) 1.93 m 12 13 Tunisia Espérance de Tunis

Head coaches

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Period Head Coach Honours
1957–1962 France Yves Boulogne —
1962 France Michel Djulizibaric —
1962–1966 Tunisia Mohamed Louahchy —
1966–1968 Romania Constantin Popa & Romania Haralambie Firan —
1968–1972 Romania Haralambie Firan —
1973–1975 Romania Ion Popescu Gold 1974
1976–1979 Tunisia Saïd Amara Gold 1976
1979–1982 Tunisia Hachemi Razgallah Gold1979
1982–1983 Soviet Union Guennadi Antchenko Bronze 1981
1983–1985 East Germany Reiner Ganschow Bronze 1983 Silver 1985
1985–1987 Tunisia Sayed Ayari Bronze 1987 Bronze 1989
1987–1989 Tunisia Moncef Hajjar —
1989–1990 Tunisia Saïd Amara —
1990–1991 Tunisia Lamjed Amroussi Bronze 1991
1991–1994 Tunisia Hachemi Razgallah Silver 1992
1994–1996 Tunisia Sayed Ayari & Tunisia Saïd Amara Gold 1994 Silver 1996 Gold 1998
1996–1997 Tunisia Saïd Amara —
1997 Tunisia Brahim Agrebi —
1997–1998 Tunisia Noureddine Ben Ameur —
1998–2003 Tunisia Sayed Ayari & Tunisia Saïd Amara Bronze 2000 Gold 2002
2003 Tunisia Sayed Ayari —
2004 Serbia Zoran Živković Silver 2004
2004–2008 Croatia Sead Hasanefendić Gold 2006 Silver 2008
2008–2009 Serbia Zoran Živković —
2009 Tunisia Sayed Ayari —
2009–2014 France Alain Portes Gold 2010 Gold 2012
2014–2015 Croatia Sead Hasanefendić Silver 2014
2015–2016 France Sylvain Nouet Silver 2016
2016–2017 Tunisia Hafedh Zouabi —
2017–2020 Spain Toni Gerona Gold 2018 Silver 2020
2020–2022 Tunisia Sami Saïdi —
2022– France Patrick Cazal Bronze 2024

Notable players

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See also

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Other handball codes

References

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  1. ^ "Mondial Pologne/Suède 2023 : la liste de la Tunisie pour le mondial" (in French). handball.tn. 9 January 2023. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Team Roster Tunisia" (PDF). ihf.info. 13 January 2023. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
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