Tunisia national football team

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Nickname
Les Aigles de Carthage/The Eagles of Carthage
Association
Fédération Tunisienne de Football
Current coach
Robert Lemerre
Most capped player
Tarak Dhiab
Highest goalscorer
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First International
Tunisia 2 - 1 Algeria (Tunisia; 25 June, 1957)
Largest win
Tunisia 7 - 0 Togo (Tunis, Tunisia; 7 January, 2000)
Largest defeat
Hungary 10 - 1 Tunisia (Hungary; 24 July, 1960)
World Cup
Finals appearances: 3 (First: 1978) Best result: Round 1, 1978, 1998, 2002
African Nations Cup
Finals appearances: 11 (First: 1962) Best result: Champions, 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 qualified for three World Cups, the first one in 1978, but never made 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)

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