Tunisia_men's_national_handball_team

Tunisia men's national handball team

Tunisia men's national handball team

Handball team representing Tunisia

This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see Tunisia women's national handball team.

The Tunisian national handball team (Arabic: منتخب تونس لكرة اليد), nicknamed Les Aigles de Carthage (The Eagles of Carthage or The Carthage Eagles), is the national handball team of Tunisia. It is governed by the Tunisian Handball Federation and takes part in international handball competitions.

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The Tunisian Handball League was established in 1953. In 1957, the Tunisian Handball Federation was founded and was later admitted into the International Handball Federation in 1962.

The Tunisian national handball team has participated in handball world championships. In 2005 Tunisia finished in 4th place; becoming the second non-European team to reach the World Championship semi-finals after Egypt who was able to reach the semi-final match in 2001. The Tunisian national handball team won the African Nations Championship for a record 10 times (1974, 1976, 1979, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2018). The Tunisians won the 2018 African Championship in Gabon by defeating Egypt in the final match.

History

Tunisia is the most successful team in the African Nations Championship with ten titles won in 1974, 1976, 1979, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2012 and 2018, and played in the final eight times in 1985, 1992, 1996, 2004, 2008, 2014, 2016 and 2020. They also won a bronze medal six times in 1981, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1991 and 2000.

At the World Championships, in 2005 it obtained the best performance obtained by an African country, a fourth place, thus equaling Egypt (place obtained in 2001).

During the 2005–06 season, Heykel Megannem was voted the best player in the French championship, with Wissem Hmam and Issam Tej also being in the standard team, respectively as left-back and pivot.

Following the 2009 world championship, the federation sidelined Issam Tej for "indiscipline, insolence and recidivism" and Makram Missaoui for "having refused to resume play against Poland", while Maher Kraiem was suspended for three months for “misconduct”.

The team is coached by the Croatian Sead Hasanefendić until June 2008, before being replaced by the Serb Zoran Živković from 24 October 2008. However, the federation dismisses him following the poor performance of the team during the 2009 world championship. He was replaced by the Tunisian Sayed Ayari and then, in June 2009, by the Frenchman Alain Portes, who signed a three-year contract.

In 2013, Alain Portes' contract was not being renewed, so he took over from Olivier Krumbholz at the head of the French women's team and was replaced by Sead Hasanefendić, back at the head of the national team for the following three seasons. In 2020, coach Toni Gerona is dismissed.

Infrastructure

The El Menzah Sports Palace, built in 1967, is the hall of the national team. Built for the 2005 World Men's Handball Championship, of which it hosted the final and all of Tunisia's matches, the Salle Omnisport de Radès now hosted most of the national team's matches.

Honours

Official competitions

African Nations Championship

African Games

Mediterranean Games

Pan Arab Games

  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Champions: 1985
  • 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Third Place: 1992, 2011

Minor tournaments

World cup

  • Silver Runners-up:  2006

Yellow Cup

  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Champions:  2007, 2015, 2016, 2019
  • 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runners-up:  2002, 2003, 2004, 2020
  • 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Third Place:  2008, 2010

Paris Ile-de-France tournament

  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Champions:  2005
  • 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Third Place:  1998, 2002, 2007, 2013

Championnat maghrébin des nations

  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Champions :  1969, 1971, 1973

Tunisia international tournament

  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Champions:  2015, 2017, 2021

Four Nations Cup Poland

  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Champions:  2021, 2022

Challenge Marrane

  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Champions:  2008

Four Nations Tournament

  • 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runners-up:  2015

Air Caraïbes Cup

  • 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runners-up:  2019

Spain international tournament

  • 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Third Place:  1999, 2002, 2012

Three Nations Cup Tunisia

  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Champions:  2023

Competitive record

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  • Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.

Olympic Games

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World Championship

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  • Tunisia did not compete From 1938 to 1964 and 1970 to 1993.
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Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2023 World Men's Handball Championship.[1][2]

Head coach: Patrick Cazal

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Notable players

See also

Other handball codes

References

  1. [1]
    "Mondial Pologne/Suède 2023 : la liste de la Tunisie pour le mondial" (in French). handball.tn. 9 January 2023. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  2. [2]
    "Team Roster Tunisia" (PDF). ihf.info. 13 January 2023. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
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