Tunisia national football team - Definition and Overview

Tunisia

Tunisia_FA.gif Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname	Les Aigles de Carthage (The Eagles of Carthage)
Association	Fédération Tunisienne de Football
Coach	Robert Lemerre
Most caps	Tarak Dhiab
Top scorer	?
Home colours 　 Away colours
First International Tunisia 2 - 1 Algeria (Tunisia; 25 June, 1957)
Largest win Tunisia 7 - 0 Togo (Tunis, Tunisia; 7 January, 2000)
Worst defeat Hungary 10 - 1 Tunisia (Hungary; 24 July, 1960)
World Cup
Appearances	3 (First in 1978)
Best result	Round 1, 1978, 1998, 2002
African Nations Cup
Appearances	11 (First in 1962)
Best result	Winners, 2004

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 three World Cup tourneys, the first one in 1978, but have yet to make it out of the first round.

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

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

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

External links

• RSSSF archive of results (http://www.rsssf.com/tablest/tun-intres.html)