Espérance Tunis

Espérance Tunis
Basic data
Surname	Espérance Sportive de Tunis
Seat	Tunis , Tunisia
founding	January 15, 1919
Colours	red-yellow-black
president	Hamdi Meddeb
Website	est.org.tn
First soccer team
Head coach	Moïne Chaâbani
Venue	Stade El Menzah / Stadium of January 14th
Places	45,000 / 65,000
league	Ligue Professionelle 1
2018/2019	1st place ( master )
home Away Alternatively

Espérance Sportive de Tunis ( Arabic الترجي الرياضي التونسي, DMG at-taraǧī ar-riyāḍī at-tūnisī ), Espérance Tunis for short or just Espérance , is a sports club from Tunis , the capital of Tunisia . The club was founded on January 15, 1919 and has played at the Stade El Menzah stadium ever since . With 28 national championships and 15 cup victories, it is the most successful Tunisian football club. The city rival Club Africain is considered the historically largest contender . The derby is the biggest game in Tunisian club football.

history

Mohamed Zaoui and Hédi Kallel founded the association Café de l'Espérance in a café together with the Frenchman Louis Montassier, who became the club's first president . L'Espérance Sportive de Tunis was officially registered on January 15, 1919. The club colors were initially white and green. In 1920 a young high school student, Chadly Zouiten , joined the club , bringing a set of red and yellow stripe jerseys; since then these have been the club colors of L'Espérance. Zouiten became club president in 1923 and remained so for four decades. During his presidency, the club's football team initially played lower class until they were promoted to the top division, the Division d'Honneur , in 1936 . This season, L'Espérance also reached the Tunisian Cup final, but had to admit defeat Stade Gaulois de Tunis . In 1939 they won their first title: L'Espérance won the cup by beating Étoile Sportive du Sahel 3-1 in the final . The CAF Champions League was won in 1994 and 2011, the Afro-Asian Cup in 1995 and the African Cup Winners' Cup in 1998 .

Although Espérance had become Tunisian national champion again in 2006, Hamdi Kasraoui was only one player from this club in the squad of the Tunisian national team under coach Roger Lemerre at the 2006 World Cup .

Football department

Achievements and titles

• Tunisian Championship ( 29 )
  • Champion: 1942, 1959, 1960, 1970, 1975, 1976, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019
• Tunisian Cup ( 15 )
  • Winners: 1938, 1957, 1964, 1979, 1980, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1997, 1999, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2016
  • Finalist: 1959, 1969, 1971, 1976, 2004, 2005
• Tunisian Super Cup ( 3 )
  • Winner: 1960, 1993, 2001
• CAF Champions League ( 4 )
  • Winner: 1994, 2011 , 2018 , 2018/19
  • Finalist: 1999, 2000, 2010 , 2012
• African Cup Winners' Cup ( 1 )
  • Winner: 1998
  • Finalist: 1987
• CAF Cup ( 1 )
  • Winner: 1997
• CAF Super Cup ( 1 )
  • Winner: 1995
  • Finalist: 1999
• Afro-Asian Cup ( 1 )
  • Winner: 1995
• Arab Champions League ( 3 )
  • Winner: 1993, 2009, 2017
  • Finalist: 1986, 1995
• Arab Super Cup ( 1 )
  • Winner: 1996

President

Since its inception, the association has had fourteen presidents:

1919–1920: Louis Montassier 1920–1923: Mohamed Malki 1924-1925: Chedly Zouiten 1925-1926: Mohamed Zouaoui 1926-1930: Mustapha Kaak 1930–1963: Chedly Zouiten

1963–1968: Mohamed Ben Smaïl 1968-1971: Ali Zouaoui 1971–1981: Hassen Belkhodja 1981-1984: Naceur Knani 1984–1985: Abdelhamid Achour 1985-1986: Moncef Zouhir

1986–1987: Mondher Znaïdi 1987-1989: Hédi Jilani 1989-2004: Slim Chiboub 2004-2007: Aziz Zouhir 2007-20 ...: Hamdi Meddeb

Trainer

1942–1960: Hachmi Chrif ( Tunisia )  1960–1970: Draoua Cheikh ( Tunisia )  1970–1975: Abderrhman Ben Ezzedine ( Tunisia )  1975–1985: Hmid Dhib ( Tunisia )  1985–1988: Amarildo Tavares ( Brazil )  1988–1991: Antoni Piechniczek ( Poland )  1991–1993: Fladislav Zmoda ( Poland )  1993–1993: Pod Devorni ( Poland )  1993–1996: Faouzi Benzarti ( Tunisia )  1996–1997: Khaled Ben Yahya ( Tunisia )  1998–2002: Youssef Zouaoui ( Tunisia )  2002–2004: Michel Decastel ( Switzerland )  2004–2005: Claude Andrey ( Switzerland )  2005–2006: Khaled Ben Yahya ( Tunisia )  2006–2007: Jacques Duguépéroux ( France )  2007–2007: Faouzi Benzarti ( Tunisia )

2007–2007: Ali Ben Neji and Laarbi Zouaoui ( Tunisia )  2007–2007: Carlos Roberto Ferreira Cabral ( Brazil )  2007–2008: Youssef Zouaoui ( Tunisia )  2008–2008: Carlos Roberto Ferreira Cabral ( Brazil )  2008–2009: José De Moraïs ( Portugal )  2009–2010: Faouzi Benzarti ( Tunisia )  2010–2013: Nabil Maaloul ( Tunisia )  2013–2014: Sébastien Desabre ( France )  2014–2014: Ruud Krol ( Netherlands )  2014–2014: Sébastien Desabre ( France )  2014–2015: Khaled Ben Yahia ( Tunisia )  2015–2015: José Anigo ( France )  2015–2017: Ammar Souayah ( Tunisia )  2017-2018: Faouzi Benzarti ( Tunisia )  2018–2018: Khaled Ben Yahia ( Tunisia )  2018–20 ...: Moïne Chaâbani ( Tunisia )

Handball department

→ Main article : Espérance Sportive de Tunis (handball)

The club is Tunisia's most successful handball club in terms of the number of titles it has won. The world-class handball players Wissem Hmam , Heykel Megannem and Issam Tej emerged from the handball department . Successes:

• Meister (32): 1967, 1969, 1971–1985, 1991–1993, 1995, 1997, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2012–2014, 2016, 2017, 2019
• Cup (26): 1960, 1970–1976, 1978–1986, 1992–1995, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2013, 2018
• Supercup (1): 2002
• CAHB Champions League (1): 2013
• Africa Supercup (2): 2014, 2016
• CAHB Winners' Cup (3): 2003, 2014, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The titles won before independence in 1956 are not included in the calculation.

Web links

• Official website (French)