Tunisia National Football Team

The Tunisia national football team, 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 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 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.

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

Sadly in the most recent 2006 African cup of nations the eagles lost out to Nigera in a heart breaking penalty shoot out in the quarters.

World Cup record

* 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 - Quarter Finals :-(

African Nations Cup record

* 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 - Quarter Finals :-(

Selected Players

* Francileudo dos Santos
* Wissem Abdi
* Radhi Ja?di
* Hatem Trabelsi
* Ziad Jaziri
* Hamed Namouchi
* Slim ben-Achour
* José Clayton
* Haykel Gmamdia
* Chokri el-Ouaer
* Adel Sellimi
* Riadh Bouazizi
* Raouf Bouzaiene
* Kais Ghodhbane
* Adel Chedli
* Mehdi Nafti
* Jawhar Mnari
* Mokhtar Dhouib
* Ali Kaabi
* Skander Souayah
* Nejib Ghommidh
* Ali Boumnijel

Information from English Wikipedia

Key Info

Tunisia

Colors shirts, shorts and low white. Change: with dominant red.
Nickname Eagles of Carthage
Selector Roger Lemerre

Record of selections

Tarak Dhiab: 107

Top Scorer: Ezzedine Chakroun
First official matchJune 25, 1957 Tunisia 2 - 1 Algeria

Biggest victory September 17, 2000
Tunisia 7 - 0 Togo
and March 26, 2005
Tunisia 7 - 0 Malawi

Biggest defeat July 24, 1960
Hungary 10 - 1 Tunisia

World cup
Final phases: 3
Best result: 1st round in 1978, 1998 and 2002

Cup of Africa
Best result: Winner in 2004