Tunisian Cup
Football tournament
The Tunisian Cup (Arabic : كأس تونس ), formerly known as Tunisian President Cup (1956–2011), is the premier knockout football competition in Tunisian football , organized annually by the Tunisian Football Federation (FTF), which is considered the second most important national title after the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 . The reigning champions are Stade Tunisien ,[ 1] who won their seventh title at the 2023–24 season .[ 2]
The first edition took place during the 1922–23 season under the French protectorate organized by the Tunisian Football League (an offshoot of the French Football Federation ). The first final after independence, which took place at the end of the 1955–56 season, was won by Stade Tunisien . The cup is therefore organized every year, with the exception of the 1977–78 season due to the participation of the Tunisia national team ’s in the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina, and the 2001–02 edition which is not not completed due to the national team's participation in the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The final match has been held generally since 2001 at the Hammadi Agrebi Stadium in Radès . A new Tunisian Cup Trophy is adopted whenever a team triumphs the same Trophy three times, the current cup has been taken since 2020.[ 3]
Espérance Sportive de Tunis is the most successful team with a record 15 titles. As for Étoile Sportive du Sahel , it has occupied second place fifteen times, the last of which was during the 2018–19 season . Club Africain is the team that has played in the most finals (27 times), as well as the team that retained the title for four consecutive seasons (1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69 and 1969–70) . Coach Mokhtar Tlili has won the tournament a record three times with Espérance de Tunis (2) and CA Bizertin (1), while player Sadok Sassi has won the title a record 8 times with Club Africain .
From the start of the 2020s, the management of the Tunisian Football Federation decided to play the final match outside the capital Tunis and move it to regions, such as Monastir in the final of the 2019–20 season and Djerba in the final of the 2020–21 season .
Eight teams from the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 (the teams that finished last season between seventh and twelfth place, in addition to the two teams promoted from the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 2 ) enter the competition in the 32 round, followed by the other six teams in the next round. The Tunisian Cup champion qualifies directly for the CAF Confederation Cup . However, if the cup champion is the champion of the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 that season or a participant in the CAF Champions League , the club that played the final is the one who replaces it in the external competition. A new Tunisian Cup Trophy is adopted whenever a team triumphs the same Trophy three times.
Trophy presentation
Taieb Jebali of Stade Tunisien receives the cup from President Habib Bourguiba in the final of the 1959–60 edition.
From independence until 1987, Habib Bourguiba presented the cup to the winning team after each final. Since coming to power after the 1987 coup d'état , Zine El Abidine Ben Ali played the same role until his overthrow during the Tunisian revolution in 2011.[ 4]
From 2011 to 2014, the President of the Republic did not hand over the cup. After coming to power, Beji Caid Essebsi (winner of the 2014 Tunisian presidential election ) presented the cup to the 2014–15 , 2015–16 , 2016–17 and 2017–18 editions.[ 5]
After the death of Caïd Essebsi, interim president Mohamed Ennaceur presented the trophy at the end of the 2018–19 final.[ 6] Since Kais Saied assumed the presidency in October 2019, he has not attended the final or presented the cup. From 2020 to 2023, all those who held the position of Minister of Youth and Sports presented the cup with the president of the Tunisian Football Federation , Wadie Jary.[ 7]
During the 2023–24 final, at the request of the President of the Republic, Kais Saied ,[ 8] the Prime Minister , Ahmed Hachani presented the cup to the winning team.[ 9]
Denominations
From independence in 1956 until the Tunisian revolution in 2011, the tournament was called the "Tunisian President Cup". Since 2011, the competition has been called the "Tunisian Cup". In August 2019, the 2018–19 edition bears the name of former president Beji Caid Essebsi , and the following four editions bear the name of national figures on the occasion of their death anniversary (Habib Bourguiba in 2019–20 , Salah Ben Youssef in 2020–21 , Farhat Hached in 2021–22 and Hedi Chaker in 2022–23 ).[ 10]
On 7 February 2024, the Tunisian Football Federation named the Tunisian Cup The His Excellency the President of the Republic Cup,[ 11] before the start of the 2023–24 edition , returning the name of the competition to what it was before the Tunisian revolution . This decision sparked public controversy.[ 12] On 9 February, President Kais Saied , during his meeting with Minister of Youth and Sports Kamel Deguiche, decided to change the name of the tournament to the Tunisian Cup and rejected the new name, indicating that the era of personalization of power had passed forever. The report was published on the official page of the Presidency of the Republic on Facebook .[ 13] After that, the TFF retracted the new name and kept the name of the Tunisian Cup.
Finals
The lists of finals are shown in the following tables:[ 14] [ 15]
Pre-independence
N°
Season
Winner
Score
Runner-up
Date
Venue
Ref
1
1922–23
Avant-garde
1–0
Racing Club
27 May 1923
[ 16]
2
1923–24
Racing Club
2–1
Sporting Club de Ferryville
30 March 1924
[ 17]
3
1924–25
Stade gaulois
2–0
Sporting Club
29 March 1925
[ 18]
4
1925–26
Racing Club
2–1
Football Club de Bizerte
14 March 1926
Vélodrome Stadium
[ 19]
5
1926–27
Stade gaulois
2–0
Sporting Club
13 February 1927
Vélodrome Stadium
[ 20]
—
1927–28
No Competition
—
1928–29
6
1929–30
US Tunisienne
2–1
Sporting Club
24 May 1930
Vélodrome Stadium
[ 21]
7
1930–31
US Tunisienne
Round-robin
Métlaoui Sports / US Béja
1931
Vélodrome Stadium
[ 22]
8
1931–32
Racing Club
1–1 (5–0 R )
Sporting Club
1932
Vélodrome Stadium
[ 23]
9
1932–33
US Tunisienne
2–1 (a.e.t. )
Stade gaulois
7 May 1933
Vélodrome Stadium
[ 24]
10
1933–34
US Tunisienne
1–1 (2–1 R )
Vaillante-Sporting Club de Ferryville
1934
Vélodrome Stadium
[ 25]
11
1934–35
US Tunisienne
3–0
Sporting Club de Tunis
1935
Vélodrome Stadium
[ 26]
12
1935–36
Italia de Tunis
1–0
Jeunesse de Hammam Lif
14 June 1936
Tunis municipal stadium
[ 27]
13
1936–37
Stade gaulois
1–0
Espérance de Tunis
9 May 1937
Tunis municipal stadium
[ 28]
14
1937–38
Sporting Club
0–0 (2–0 R )
Racing Club
9 May–15 May 1938
Tunis municipal stadium
[ 29]
15
1938–39
Espérance de Tunis
4–1
Étoile du Sahel
28 May 1939
Tunis municipal stadium
[ 30]
—
1939–40
No Competition
—
1940–41
16
1941–42
US Ferryville
4–1
US Béja
28 April 1942
Vélodrome Stadium
[ 31]
—
1942–43
No Competition
—
1943–44
17
1944–45
Olympique de Tunis
0–0 (1–0 R )
Espérance de Tunis
1945
Vélodrome Stadium
[ 32]
18
1945–46
PFC Bizerte
3–1
Étoile du Sahel
1946
[ 33]
19
1946–47
CS Hammam-Lif
2–1
Espérance de Tunis
4 May 1947
[ 34]
20
1947–48
CS Hammam-Lif
2–0
PFC Bizerte
1948
Geo André Stadium
[ 35]
21
1948–49
CS Hammam-Lif
1–0
CA Bizertin
1949
Geo André Stadium
[ 36]
22
1949–50
CS Hammam-Lif
3–0
Étoile du Sahel
1950
Geo André Stadium
[ 37]
23
1950–51
CS Hammam-Lif
2–0
CA Bizertin
6 May 1951
Geo André Stadium
[ 38]
—
1951–52
No Competition
—
1952–53
24
1953–54
CS Hammam-Lif
1–0
Étoile du Sahel
1954
Geo André Stadium
[ 39]
25
1954–55
CS Hammam-Lif
2–1
Sfax Railway Sports
1 May 1955
Geo André Stadium
[ 40]
Post-independence
Replays : Replays were used to determine the winner of the knockout tournament when the first leg ended in a draw. If the second match remained tied, the team that played the most corners was considered the winning team. This rule was applied twice in the history of the Tunisian Cup finals in 1970 and 1976, and the matches were replayed after a draw 7 times.
Penalty shoot-out : The penalty shoot-out law was applied in the 16-final round of the Tunisian Cup in the 1976–77 edition in the match that brought together the EO La Goulette et du Kram and Stade Tunisien , which prevailed 4–3. For the final matches, 9 matches were decided by penalty shoot-outs. The first was the 1984 final between the champion, AS Marsa , and the runner-up, CS Sfaxien .
Notes
^ The 2011–12 season suspended in 2012 and resumed in 2013.
Statistcs
Current trophy since 2020.
Trophy between 1995 and 2010.
Club
Winners
Runners-up
Total finals
Seasons won
Espérance de Tunis
15
11
26
1938–39, 1956–57, 1963–64, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1985–86, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1996–97, 1998–99, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2010–11, 2015–16
Club Africain
13
14
27
1964–65, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1975–76, 1991–92, 1997–98, 1999–00, 2016–17 , 2017–18
Étoile du Sahel
10
15
25
1958–59, 1962–63, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1980–81, 1982–83 , 1995–96, 2011–12, 2013–14 , 2014–15
CS Hammam-Lif
9
1
10
1946–47, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1984–85, 2000–01
CS Sfaxien
7
7
14
1970–71, 1994–95, 2003–04, 2008–09, 2018–19 , 2020–21 , 2021–22
Stade Tunisien
7
4
11
1955–56, 1957–58, 1959–60, 1961–62, 1965–66, 2002–03, 2023–24
AS Marsa
5
9
14
1960–61, 1976–77, 1983–84, 1989–90, 1993–94
US Tunisienne
5
0
5
1929–30, 1930–31, 1932–33, 1933–34, 1934–35
CA Bizertin
3
4
7
1981–82, 1986–87, 2012–13
Olympique Béja
3
2
5
1992–93, 2009–10, 2022–23
Stade gaulois
3
0
3
1924–25, 1926–27, 1936–37
Racing Club
2
0
2
1923–24, 1931–32
Sporting Club
2
0
2
1925–26, 1937–38
US Monastir
1
1
2
2019–20
Avant Garde
1
0
1
1922–23
Italia de Tunis
1
0
1
1935–36
US Ferryville
1
0
1
1941–42
Olympique de Tunis
1
0
1
1944–45
PFC Bizertin
1
0
1
1945–46
CO Transports
1
0
1
1987–88
Espérance de Zarzis
1
0
1
2004–05
Most titled Managers
Mokhtar Tlili has won the tournament ten times, a record number, with Espérance de Tunis (2) and CA Bizertin (1).
Name
Titles
Club(s)
Winning Years
Mokhtar Tlili
3
Espérance de Tunis , CA Bizertin
1978–79, 1979–80, 1981–82
Rachid Turki
2
Stade Tunisien
1955–56, 1961–62
Ammar Nahali
Stade Tunisien
1959–60, 1965–66
Andrej Prean Nagy
Club Africain
1968–69, 1969–70
Jamel Eddine Bouabsa
Club Africain
1971–72, 1972–73
Abdelmajid Chetali
Étoile du Sahel
1973–74, 1974–75
Mohsen Habacha
Étoile du Sahel
1980–81, 1982–83
Dietscha Stefanovic
Club Africain , CS Hammam-Lif
1975–76, 1984–85
Ali Selmi
AS Marsa
1983–84, 1993–94
Youssef Zouaoui
CA Bizertin , Espérance de Tunis
1986–87, 1998–99
René Exbrayat
Club Africain
1997–98, 1999–00
Khaled Ben Yahia
Espérance de Tunis
1996–97, 2005–06
Ammar Souayah
CS Hammam-Lif , Espérance de Tunis
2000–01, 2015–16
Hammadi Daou
CS Sfaxien , Stade Tunisien
2020–21 , 2023–24
Most titled players
See also
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