Tunisia men's national handball team

This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see Tunisia women's national handball team.

Tunisia
Information
Nicknameنسور قرطاج
(Eagles of Carthage)
AssociationTunisian Handball Federation
CoachMohamed Ali Sghir
Assistant coachWissem Hmam
Mohamed Riadh Sanaa
Most capsIssam Tej (316)
Most goalsOussama Boughanmi (865)
Colours
1st
2nd
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances4 (First in 1972)
Best result8th (2012)
World Championship
Appearances17 (First in 1967)
Best result4th (2005)
African Championship
Appearances26 (First in 1974)
Best result 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
1974 Tunisia
1976 Algeria
1979 Congo
1994 Tunisia
1998 South Africa
2002 Morocco
2006 Tunisia
2010 Egypt
2012 Morocco
2018 Gabon
1985 Angola
1992 Ivory Coast
1996 Benin
2004 Egypt
2008 Angola
2014 Algeria
2016 Egypt
2020 Tunisia
1981 Tunisia
1983 Egypt
1987 Morocco
1989 Algeria
1991 Egypt
2000 Algeria
2024 Egypt
African Games
1978 Algiers Team
1965 Brazzaville Team
2007 Algiers Team
Mediterranean Games
2001 Tunis Team
2018 Tarragona Team
1967 Tunis Team
1979 Split Team
2005 Almería Team
2009 Pescara Team
Pan Arab Games
1985 Rabat Team
1992 Damascus Team
2011 Doha Team

The Tunisia men's national handball team, (Arabic: منتخب تونس لكرة اليد), nicknamed Eagles of Carthage, is the national hanhandball team of Tunisia. It is controlled by the Tunisian Handball Federation (THF) and takes part in international handball competitions. The Tunisian Handball League was created in 1953. In 1957, the Tunisian Handball Federation was founded and then admitted to the International Handball Federation in 1962.

The Tunisian national team participates in several world championships. In 2005 World Championship, Tunisia finished fourth, becoming the second non-European team to reach the semi-finals of the world championship after Egypt, which reached the semi-finals in 2001. The Tunisian team won the African Championship for a record ten titles (1974, 1976, 1979, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2018). Egypt and Algeria are Tunisia's main rivals on the African continent.

The national team is mainly and generally composed of players from Espérance Sportive de Tunis, Club Africain and Étoile Sportive du Sahel, these teams being the traditional locomotives of the national handball scene, as well as players playing in Europe, mainly in France.

History

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

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

Official competitions

African Nations Championship

African Games

Mediterranean Games

Pan Arab Games

  • Champions: 1985
  • Third Place: 1992, 2011

Minor tournaments

World cup

  • Runners-up:  2006

Yellow Cup

  • Champions:  2007, 2015, 2016, 2019
  • Runners-up:  2002, 2003, 2004, 2020
  • Third Place:  2008, 2010

Paris Ile-de-France tournament

  • Champions:  2005
  • Third Place:  1998, 2002, 2007, 2013

Championnat maghrébin des nations

  • Champions :  1969, 1971, 1973

Tunisia international tournament

  • Champions:  2015, 2017, 2021

Four Nations Cup Poland

  • Champions:  2021, 2022

Three Nations Cup Tunisia

  • Champions:  2023

Challenge Marrane

  • Champions:  2008

Four Nations Tournament

  • Runners-up:  2015

Air Caraïbes Cup

  • Runners-up:  2019

Spain international tournament

  • Third Place:  1999, 2002, 2012

Competitive record

  Champions    Runners-up    Third place    Fourth place  

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

Olympic Games

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

World Championship

World Championships
Games Round Position Pld W D L GF GA GD
1938 Part of France
1954
1958 Did not enter
1961
1964
1967 Group stage 15th 3 0 0 3 23 66 −43
1970 Did not enter
1974
1978
1982
1986
1990
1993
1995 Quarter-finals 15th 7 2 0 5 160 183 −23
1997 Quarter-finals 16th 6 2 0 4 106 128 −22
1999 Quarter-finals 12th 6 2 1 3 133 142 −9
2001 Quarter-finals 10th 6 3 0 3 140 136 +4
2003 Quarter-finals 14th 7 2 0 5 178 186 −8
2005 Fourth place 4th 10 5 3 2 311 252 +59
2007 Quarter-finals 11th 8 3 0 5 237 237 0
2009 Group stage 17th 9 5 0 4 264 250 +14
2011 Group stage 20th 7 1 0 6 168 193 −25
2013 Quarter-finals 11th 6 3 0 3 146 153 −7
2015 Quarter-finals 15th 6 2 1 3 152 161 −9
2017 Group stage 19th 7 2 2 3 209 202 +7
2019 Main round 12th 8 3 0 5 205 238 −33
2021 Presidents Cup 25th 7 4 1 2 209 182 +27
2023 Presidents Cup 25th 7 4 1 2 208 196 +12
2025 Qualified
2027 To be determined
2029
2031
Total Fourth place 17/21 110 43 9 58 2849 2905 −56
  • Tunisia did not compete From 1938 to 1964 and 1970 to 1993.
  • Red border color indicates tournament was held on home :soil.

African Championship

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

African Games

African Games
Year Round Position Pld W D L
1965 Third place 3rd 5 2 1 2
1973 Did not participate
1978 Runners-up 2nd 5 4 0 1
1987 Did not participate
1991
1995 Withdrew
1999 Did not participate
2003
2007 Third place 3rd 4 2 0 2
2011 Did not participate
2015
2019
Total Runners-up 3/12 14 8 1 5

Mediterranean Games

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

Pan Arab Games

Arab Games
Year Round Position Pld W D L
1961 Did not participate
1965
1976
1985 Champions 1st
1992 Third place 3rd
1997 Tournament canceled
1999 Did not participate
2004 Tournament canceled
2007 Did not participate
2011 Third place 3rd
Total Champions 3/10

Other records

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

Current squad

Squad for the 2025 World Men's Handball Championship.[1]

Head coach: Mohamed Sghir[2]

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 31 29 Al-Gharafa
16 GK Mohamed Sfar (1990-01-04) 4 January 1990 1.94 m 44 0 Espérance de Tunis
17 RB Oussama Hosni (1992-09-17) 17 September 1992 1.92 m 130 162 RK Eurofarm Pelister
22 LB Youssef Maaraf (1996-07-21) 21 July 1996 1.95 m 100 185 Al Safa
23 LW Oussama Rmeiki (1996-10-08) 8 October 1996 1.92 m 42 67 Club Africain
25 CB Abdelhak Ben Salah (1990-04-25) 25 April 1990 1.84 m 84 170 Espérance de Tunis
28 LB Hazem Bacha (2001-12-08) 8 December 2001 2.05 m 33 66 Espérance de Tunis
29 RW Tarek Jallouz (1993-11-01) 1 November 1993 1.83 m 38 58 Espérance de Tunis
31 LB Mohamed Frad (1993-09-25) 25 September 1993 1.87 m 20 20 Kazma
33 RB Yassine Ben Salem (2003-01-11) 11 January 2003 1.92 m 13 24 C' Chartres Métropole Handball
39 CB Rayen Zariat (2003-01-11) 11 January 2003 1.90 m 15 12 Shabab Al Ahli Club
55 LW Ghassen Toumi (1997-06-14) 14 June 1997 1.84 m 70 159 Espérance de Tunis
61 GK Yassine Belkaied (2000-10-19) 19 October 2000 1.97 m 38 3 Fenix Toulouse Handball
72 P Mohamed Ben Hammouda (2002-12-07) 7 December 2002 1.92 m 7 5 Association Sportive d'Hammamet
93 GK Fradj Ben Tekaya (1998-04-29) 29 April 1998 1.91 m 5 0 BM Ciudad Encantada
96 RB Anouar Ben Abdallah (1996-06-20) 20 June 1996 1.86 m 80 167 Kazma
97 RB Achref Marghli (1997-05-22) 22 May 1997 1.93 m 18 21 RK Vardar
98 P Islem Jbeli (1998-12-13) 13 December 1998 1.93 m 39 72 Espérance de Tunis

Head coaches

Period Head Coach Honours
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 1974
1976–1979 Saïd Amara 1976
1979–1982 Hachemi Razgallah 1979
1982–1983 Guennadi Antchenko 1981
1983–1985 Reiner Ganschow 1983 1985
1985–1987 Sayed Ayari 1987 1989
1987–1989 Moncef Hajjar —
1989–1990 Saïd Amara —
1990–1991 Lamjed Amroussi 1991
1991–1994 Hachemi Razgallah 1992
1994–1996 Sayed Ayari & Saïd Amara 1994 1996 1998
1996–1997 Saïd Amara —
1997 Brahim Agrebi —
1997–1998 Noureddine Ben Ameur —
1998–2003 Sayed Ayari & Saïd Amara 2000 2002
2003 Sayed Ayari —
2004 Zoran Živković 2004
2004–2008 Sead Hasanefendić 2006 2008
2008–2009 Zoran Živković —
2009 Sayed Ayari —
2009–2014 Alain Portes 2010 2012
2014–2015 Sead Hasanefendić 2014
2015–2016 Sylvain Nouet 2016
2016–2017 Hafedh Zouabi —
2017–2020 Toni Gerona 2018 2020
2020–2022 Sami Saïdi —
2022– Patrick Cazal 2024

Notable players

See also

Other handball codes

References

  1. ^ "Tunisie – Hand : Avant-dernier stage pour le sept national avant le Mondial 2025" (in French). lapresse.tn. Retrieved 24 December 2024.
  2. ^ "Team Roster Tunisia" (PDF). ihf.info. 14 January 2025. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
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