2020–21 Espérance Sportive de Tunis season

In the 2020–21 season, Espérance Sportive de Tunis is competing in the Ligue 1 for the 66th season, as well as the Tunisian Cup. It is their 66th consecutive season in the top flight of Tunisian football. They will be competing in Ligue 1, the Champions League and the Tunisian Cup.

Espérance Sportive de Tunis

2020–21 season
President	Hamdi Meddeb
Head coach	Moïne Chaâbani
Stadium	Stade Hammadi Agrebi
Ligue 1	Pre-season
Tunisian Cup	Round of 32
Super Cup	Final
Champions League	First round

Squad list

Players and squad numbers last updated on 18 September 2020.
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Nat.	Position	Name	Date of Birth (Age)	Signed from
Goalkeepers
1		GK	Moez Ben Cherifia	24 June 1991 (aged 29)	Youth system
19		GK	Rami Jridi	25 April 1985 (aged 35)	CS Sfax
Defenders
4		CB	Amine Ben Hamida	15 December 1995 (aged 25)	AS Soliman
6		CB	Mohamed Ali Yacoubi	5 October 1990 (aged 30)	US Quevilly-Rouen
12		CB	Khalil Chemmam	24 July 1987 (aged 33)	Youth system
22		RB	Sameh Derbali	23 November 1986 (aged 34)	Al Ahli SC
23		LB	Ilyes Chetti	22 January 1995 (aged 25)	JS Kabylie
26		LB	Houcine Rabii	8 November 1991 (aged 29)	ES Zarzis
30		CB	Abdelkader Bedrane	2 April 1992 (aged 28)	ES Sétif
			Malek Charfi	1 February 1997 (aged 23)	ES Métlaoui
		CB	Mohamed Amine Tougai	22 January 2000 (aged 20)	NA Hussein Dey
Midfielders
15		DM	Fousseny Coulibaly	10 August 1989 (aged 31)	Stade tunisien
17		LW	Hamdou Elhouni	12 February 1994 (aged 26)	Chaves
29		CM	Youssef Mosrati	6 December 1999 (aged 21)	Youth system
18		CB / DM	Raouf Benguit	5 April 1996 (aged 24)	Paradou AC
27		CM	Mohamed Ali Ben Romdhane	6 September 1999 (aged 21)	Youth system
28		DM	Mohamed Amine Meskini	5 June 1997 (aged 23)	CS Hammam-Lif
Forwards
11		FW	Taha Yassine Khenissi	6 January 1992 (aged 28)	CS Sfax
13		RW	Raed Fedaa	20 May 1997 (aged 23)	Youth system
16		FW	Zied Berrima	4 September 2001 (aged 19)	Youth system
29		FW	Junior Lokosa	23 August 1993 (aged 27)	Kano Pillars
25		RW	Fedi Ben Choug	12 March 1995 (aged 25)	CA Bizertin
		LW	Maher Ben Seghaier	22 April 1996 (aged 24)	CA Bizerte
4		ST / LW	Abderrahmane Meziane	7 March 1994 (aged 26)	Al Ain

Pre-season

12 November 2020 Friendly	Espérance de Tunis	2–2	Stade Tunisien	Tunis
14:00		Report		Stadium: Parc Hassen Belkhodja Attendance: 0 (close doors)

15 November 2020 Friendly	Espérance de Tunis	2–1	Tunisia under-20	Tunis
14:00		Report		Stadium: Stade El Menzah Attendance: 0 (close doors)

21 November 2020 Friendly	Espérance de Tunis	3–1	Olympique Béja	Tunis
14:00	Khenissi  10' (pen.) Ben Romdhane  25'	Report	Yacoubi  80' (o.g.)	Stadium: Stade El Menzah Attendance: 0 (close doors)

Competitions

Overview

Competition	Record								Started round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Ligue 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	—	N/A	To be confirmed	In Progress	In Progress
Tunisian Cup	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	—	Round of 32	To be confirmed	In Progress	In Progress
Super Cup	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	—	Final	To be confirmed	In Progress
Champions League	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	—	First round	To be confirmed	In Progress	In Progress
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	—

Updated to match played 3 June 2020
Source: Competitions

League table

2020–21 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Last updated: 25 September 2020.
Source: Competitive matches

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Ground
Result
Position

Updated to match(es) played on 22 September 2020. Source: Competitive matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss

6 December 2020 Round 1	Espérance de Tunis	2–2	AS Soliman	Rades
15:00	Elhouni  7' Coulibaly  84'	Soccerway report	Durugbor  62' Brini  69'	Stadium: Stade Hammadi Agrebi Attendance: 0 (close doors) Referee: Haythem Guirat

13 December 2020 Round 2	US Monastir	0–1	Espérance de Tunis	Monastir
14:00		Soccerway report	Elhouni  72'	Stadium: Stade Mustapha Ben Jannet Attendance: 0 (close doors) Referee: Walid Jeridi

17 December 2020 Round 3	Espérance de Tunis	1–0	US Tataouine	Rades
16:00	Nagguez  75'	Soccerway report		Stadium: Stade Hammadi Agrebi Attendance: 0 (close doors) Referee: Haythem Kossaï

27 December 2020 Round 4	US Ben Guerdane	0–1	Espérance de Tunis	Ben Guerdane
14:00		Soccerway report	Ben Romdhane  61'	Stadium: Stade du 7 Mars Attendance: 0 (close doors) Referee: Mejdi Belhaj Ali

1 January 2021 Round 5	Espérance de Tunis	2–0	Étoile Sportive du Sahel	Rades
16:00	Marzouki  28' Chaalali  90+3'	Soccerway report		Stadium: Stade Hammadi Agrebi Attendance: 0 (close doors) Referee: Walid Jeridi

10 January 2021 Round 7	Espérance de Tunis	2–0	AS Rejiche	Rades
14:00	Ben Choug  45' Marzouki  63'	Soccerway report		Stadium: Stade Hammadi Agrebi Attendance: 0 (close doors) Referee: Oussama Razgallah

13 January 2021 Round 8	CS Sfaxien	2–0	Espérance de Tunis	Sfax
14:00	Karoui  36' Kingsley  79'	Soccerway report		Stadium: Stade Taïeb Mhiri Attendance: 0 (close doors) Referee: Amir Loussif

23 January 2021 Round 9	Espérance de Tunis	2–1	Stade Tunisien	Rades
15:00	Khenissi  37', 56'	Soccerway report	Abata  62'	Stadium: Stade Hammadi Agrebi Attendance: 0 (close doors)

26 January 2021 Round 10	Olympique Béja	1–4	Espérance de Tunis	Béja
14:00	Bessan  35'	Soccerway report	Benguit  10' Khenissi  49', 43' Badri  90+1'	Stadium: Stade Boujemaa Kmiti Attendance: 0 (close doors) Referee: Haythem Kossaï

31 January 2021 Round 11	Espérance de Tunis	1–0	Club Africain	Rades
16:00	Badri  76'	Soccerway report		Stadium: Stade Hammadi Agrebi Attendance: 0 (close doors) Referee: Amir Loussif

3 February 2021 Round 12	Espérance de Tunis	1–0	CA Bizertin	Tunis
15:00	Ben Romdhane  47'	Soccerway report		Stadium: Stade El Menzah Attendance: 0 (close doors) Referee: Nasrallah Jaouadi

2020 Round 6	JS Kairouan	–	Espérance de Tunis
16:00		[ Soccerway report]		Attendance: 0 (close doors)

2021 Round 13	ES Métlaoui	–	Espérance de Tunis
16:00		Soccerway report

2021 Round 14		–
16:00		[ Soccerway report]

2021 Round 15		–
16:00		[ Soccerway report]

2021 Round 16		–
16:00		[ Soccerway report]

2021 Round 17		–
16:00		[ Soccerway report]

2021 Round 18		–
16:00		[ Soccerway report]

2021 Round 19		–
16:00		[ Soccerway report]

2021 Round 20		–
16:00		[ Soccerway report]

2021 Round 21		–
16:00		[ Soccerway report]

2021 Round 22		–
16:00		[ Soccerway report]

2021 Round 23		–
16:00		[ Soccerway report]

2021 Round 24		–
16:00		[ Soccerway report]

2021 Round 25		–
16:00		[ Soccerway report]

2021 Round 26		–
16:00		[ Soccerway report]

Tunisian Super Cup

2021	US Monastir	–	Espérance de Tunis
15:00

Champions League

First round

23 December 2020 First leg	Al Ahly Benghazi	0–0	Espérance de Tunis	Cairo (Egypt)[note 1]
18:00 UTC+2		Report		Stadium: Petro Sport Stadium Attendance: 0 (close doors) Referee: Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)

6 January 2021 Second leg	Espérance de Tunis	3–2	Al Ahly Benghazi	Rades
15:00 UTC+1	Chaalali  15' (pen.) Ben Romdhane  63' Marzouki  86'	Report	Alnaeli  60' Alshaafi  76' (pen.)	Stadium: Stade Hammadi Agrebi Attendance: 0 (close doors) Referee: Mahmoud El Banna (Egypt)

Group stage

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		EST	ZAM	MCA	TEU
1	Espérance de Tunis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to knockout stage		—	5–6 Mar	9–10 Apr	13 Feb
2	Zamalek	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			16–17 Mar	—	12 Feb	9–10 Apr
3	MC Alger	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			23 Feb	2–3 Apr	—	16–17 Mar
4	Teungueth	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			2–3 Apr	23 Feb	5–6 Mar	—

First match(es) will be played on 12 February 2021. Source: Soccerway

12 February 2021 Matchday 1	Espérance de Tunis	v	Teungueth	Rades
--:-- UTC+1		Report		Stadium: Stade Hammadi Agrebi Attendance: 0 (close doors)

23 February 2021 Matchday 2	MC Alger	v	Espérance de Tunis	Algeirs
--:-- UTC+1		Report		Stadium: Stade du 5 Juillet Attendance: 0 (close doors)

5 March 2021 Matchday 3	Espérance de Tunis	v	Zamalek	Rades
--:-- UTC+1		Report		Stadium: Stade Hammadi Agrebi Attendance: 0 (close doors)

16 March 2021 Matchday 4	Zamalek	v	Espérance de Tunis	Cairo
--:-- UTC+2		Report		Stadium: Petro Sport Stadium Attendance: 0 (close doors)

2 April 2021 Matchday 5	Teungueth	v	Espérance de Tunis	Thiès
--:-- UTC±0		Report		Stadium: Stade Lat-Dior Attendance: 0 (close doors)

9 April 2021 Matchday 6	Espérance de Tunis	v	MC Alger	Rades
--:-- UTC+1		Report		Stadium: Stade Hammadi Agrebi Attendance: 0 (close doors)

Squad information

Playing statistics

As of 23 September 2019

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Ligue 1		Tunisian Cup		Champions League		Tunisian Super Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK		Moez Ben Cherifia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	GK		Rami Jridi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
5	DF		Chamseddine Dhaouadi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	DF		Mohamed Ali Yacoubi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	DF		Khalil Chemmam	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	DF		Amine Ben Hamida	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	DF		Sameh Derbali	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	DF		Abdelkader Bedrane	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	DF		Mohamed Amine Tougai	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	DF		Raed Fedaa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	DF		Farouk Mimouni	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Midfielders
3	MF		Kwame Bonsu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	MF		Fousseny Coulibaly	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	MF		Hamdou Elhouni	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	MF		Raouf Benguit	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	MF		Ilyes Chetti	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	MF		Mohamed Ali Ben Romdhane	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	MF		Mohamed Amine Meskini	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MF		Youssef Mosrati	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	MF		Fedi Ben Choug	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	MF		Houcine Errabei	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Forwards
2	FW		Mohamed Ali Ben Hammouda	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	FW		Ibrahim Ouattara	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	FW		Taha Yassine Khenissi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	FW		Youssef Abdelli	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	FW		Zied Berrima	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	FW		Abderrahmane Meziane	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	FW		Maher Ben Seghaier	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	FW		Badra Mouelhi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	FW		Anice Badri	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	FW		Basit Abdul Khalid	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	FW		William Togui	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Players transferred out during the season

Last updated: 8 June 2019
Source: fr.soccerway.com

Goalscorers

Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted alphabetically by surname when total goals are equal.

No.	Nat.	Player	Pos.	L 1	TC	SC	CL 1	TOTAL
7		Alaeddine Marzouki	AM	2	0	0	1	3
17		Hamdou Elhouni	LW	2	0	0	0	2
25		Ghailene Chaalali	AM	1	0	0	1	2
5		Mohamed Ali Ben Romdhane	CM	1	0	0	1	2
15		Fousseny Coulibaly	DM	1	0	0	0	1
21		Hamdi Nagguez	RB	1	0	0	0	1
24		Fedi Ben Choug	RW	1	0	0	0	1
Own Goals				0	0	0	0	0
Totals				9	0	0	3	12

Transfers

In

Date	Pos	Player	From club	Transfer fee	Source
2 July 2020	RB	Hamdi Nagguez	Sūduva	Free transfer	[1]
10 July 2020	CM / AM	Ghailene Chaalali	Yeni Malatyaspor	Free transfer	[2]
28 August 2020	AM	Alaeddine Marzouki	CS Sfaxien	Free transfer	[3]
27 October 2020	GK	Farouk Ben Mustapha	Al Shabab	Free transfer	[4]
20 November 2020	FW	Nassim Ben Khalifa	Grasshopper	Free transfer	[5]
18 January 2021	FW	Anice Badri	Al-Ittihad	Free transfer	[6]
25 January 2021	FW	Basit Abdul Khalid	FK Makedonija	Free transfer	[7]
31 January 2021	FW	William Togui	Mechelen	Loan for six months	[8]

Out

Date	Pos	Player	To club	Transfer fee	Source
2 September 2020		Rayen Mzoughi	US Tataouine	Free transfer
13 September 2020	CB	Chamseddine Dhaouadi	Al-Shamal	Free transfer	[9]
30 September 2020	RB	Iheb Mbarki	Wadi Degla	Free transfer	[10]
16 October 2020		Kabil Othmani	AS Soliman	Free transfer
22 October 2020	LW	Billel Bensaha	MC Alger	Loan for one year	[11]
24 October 2020	FW	Naceur Atoui	AS Soliman	Free transfer	[12]
24 October 2020	MF	Alaâ Ben Salah	AS Soliman	Free transfer	[12]
24 October 2020	DF	Rayen Yaakoubi	AS Soliman	Free transfer
24 October 2020	RW	Youssef Abdelli	US Monastir	Free transfer
9 November 2020	FW	Ibrahim Ouattara	Al-Ahly SC	Loan for one year	[13]
12 November 2020	CB	Afif Jebali	ES Métlaoui	Loan for one year	[14]
4 December 2020	DM	Kwame Bonsu	Cleopatra FC	Free transfer	[15]

Notes

1. Teams from Libya play their home matches outside the country due to security concerns from the ongoing civil war.

References

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