2019–20 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1

Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1
Season	2019–20
Dates	24 August 2019 – 13 September 2020
Champions	Espérance Sportive de Tunis (30th title)
Matches played	182
Goals scored	390 (2.14 per match)
Top goalscorer	Anthony Okpotu; (13 goals)
Biggest home win	Espérance Sportive de Tunis 7–1 JS Kairouan ; (31 December 2019)
Biggest away win	Stade Tunisien 0–4 US Monastir ; (23 February 2020); US Ben Guerdane 0–4 CS Sfaxien; (22 August 2020)
Highest scoring	Espérance Sportive de Tunis 7–1 JS Kairouan ; (31 December 2019)
Longest winning run	Espérance Sportive de Tunis; (7 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Espérance Sportive de Tunis; (26 matches)
Longest winless run	US Tataouine; (10 matches)
Longest losing run	AS Soliman; JS Kairouan; (6 matches)
	← 2018–19 2020–21 →

The 2019–20 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 (Tunisian Professional League) season is the 94th season of top-tier football in Tunisia.

The season was suspended in March 2020, due to COVID-19 pandemic in Tunisia, then resumed in August 2020.^[1]

Teams[]

A total of 14 teams will contest the league.

Stadiums and locations[]

Locations of the 2019–20 Ligue 1 teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AS Soliman	Soliman	Stade municipal de Soliman	3,000
Club Africain	Tunis	Stade Olympique de Radès	60,000
CA Bizertin	Bizerte	Stade 15 Octobre	20,000
CS Chebba	Chebba	Stade de Chebba	3,000
CS Hammam-Lif	Hammam-Lif	Stade Bou Kornine	8,000
CS Sfaxien	Sfax	Stade Taïeb Mhiri	22,000
ES Métlaoui	Métlaoui	Stade Municipal de Métlaoui	5,000
Étoile Sportive du Sahel	Sousse	Stade Olympique de Sousse	25,000
Espérance Sportive de Tunis	Tunis	Stade Olympique de Radès	60,000
JS Kairouan	Kairouan	Stade Ali Zouaoui	15,000
Stade Tunisien	Le Bardo	Stade Chedli Zouiten	20,000
US Ben Guerdane	Ben Guerdane	Stade du 7 Mars	10,000
US Monastir	Monastir	Stade Mustapha Ben Jannet	20,000
US Tataouine	Tataouine	Stade Nejib Khattab	5,000

League table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Espérance Sportive de Tunis (C)	26	18	8	0	41	12	+29	62	Qualification for Champions League
2	CS Sfaxien	26	15	6	5	33	19	+14	51	Qualification for Champions League
3	US Monastir	26	12	9	5	36	19	+17	45	Qualification for Confederation Cup
4	Étoile Sportive du Sahel	26	12	7	7	37	25	+12	43	Qualification for Confederation Cup
5	Club Africain	26	13	7	6	28	14	+14	40^[a]
6	Stade Tunisien	26	10	6	10	26	27	−1	36
7	US Ben Guerdane	26	8	10	8	26	31	−5	34
8	CS Chebba	26	7	9	10	33	33	0	30
9	AS Soliman	26	8	4	14	29	32	−3	28
10	US Tataouine	26	6	10	10	21	28	−7	28
11	ES Métlaoui	26	6	7	13	23	34	−11	25
12	CA Bizertin	26	5	8	13	18	35	−17	23
13	CS Hammam-Lif	26	5	7	14	20	40	−20	22	Relegation to Ligue 2
14	JS Kairouan	26	6	4	16	19	41	−22	22	Relegation to Ligue 2

Source: les-sports.info (in French)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) total goals; 6) fairplay ranking; 7) playoff.
(C) Champion
Notes:

^ Club Africain were deducted 6 points.

Results[]

Home \ Away	ASS	CA	CAB	CSC	CSHL	CSS	ESM	ESS	EST	JSK	ST	USBG	USM	UST
AS Soliman		2–0	2–0	4–2	1–2	1–2	1–0	2–0	0–1	2–0	2–0	0–2	1–2	1–1
Club Africain	2–0		2–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–3	0–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	0–1	1–1
CA Bizertin	2–1	0–1		2–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–2	0–2	1–0	1–4	0–0	2–1	1–2
CS Chebba	3–3	0–2	0–0		3–0	2–2	2–0	1–2	1–2	4–1	2–0	3–1	2–3	0–0
CS Hammam-Lif	1–1	0–1	2–1	1–2		2–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–2	0–2	1–2	1–1	2–1
CS Sfaxien	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–0		2–0	2–1	0–2	2–1	1–2	2–0	1–0	1–0
ES Métlaoui	3–1	0–2	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–1		1–0	1–2	2–0	2–1	0–1	2–2	1–0
Étoile Sportive du Sahel	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–0	4–0	1–1	5–1		1–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	2–0
Espérance Sportive de Tunis	2–1	2–1	3–1	1–1	2–0	0–0	2–1	1–0		7–1	2–1	4–1	1–0	1–1
JS Kairouan	1–2	1–1	3–0	1–3	2–0	2–3	1–0	1–3	0–0		0–1	0–1	0–0	0–0
Stade Tunisien	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	3–1	0–0	0–1		1–1	0–4	2–0
US Ben Guerdane	2–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	4–2	0–4	2–2	1–1	0–0	0–1	2–2		0–2	2–2
US Monastir	0–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–2	0–1	3–0	1–0	1–1		1–1
US Tataouine	1–0	0–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–1	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–3

Source: les-sports.info (in French)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round[]

Team ╲ 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
AS Soliman	2	3	6	7	8	11	11	12	10	12	10	10	8	8	9	8	9	8	8	9	9	9	8	9	9	10
Club Africain	1	1	1	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	5
CA Bizertin	7	12	8	9	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	11	11	12	13	13	13	14	13	13	14	14	13	14	11	12
CS Chebba	9	9	12	8	11	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	9	8	9	8	9	9	8	8	8	9	8	8	8
CS Hammam-Lif	7	9	12	14	9	10	10	10	11	13	13	13	13	10	10	11	12	11	14	14	13	12	14	12	13	14
CS Sfaxien	9	6	4	5	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
ES Métlaoui	12	14	10	11	13	13	12	11	13	11	11	12	12	13	14	14	11	13	11	11	11	10	11	11	12	11
Étoile Sportive du Sahel	2	4	7	6	5	6	7	7	6	6	5	6	6	6	6	6	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	4
Espérance Sportive de Tunis	5	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
JS Kairouan	9	6	9	12	12	12	13	13	12	10	12	9	10	11	12	12	14	10	12	12	12	13	12	13	14	13
Stade Tunisien	14	13	14	10	7	7	6	6	7	7	6	5	4	4	4	4	6	6	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	6
US Ben Guerdane	5	8	5	4	6	5	4	5	5	5	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	7	7	7	7	7
US Monastir	2	4	3	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	3	3	3	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
US Tataouine	12	9	11	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	11	10	10	12	10	10	10	11	10	10	10	9

	Leader
	2020–21 CAF Champions League
	2020–21 CAF Confederation Cup
	Relegation to Ligue Professionnelle 2 2019-20

Source: les-sports.info (in French)

Clubs season-progress[]

Team ╲ 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
AS Soliman	W	D	L	L	L	L	L	L	W	L	W	D	W	W	L	W	L	D	L	L	W	L	W	D	L	L
Club Africain	W	W	W	L	W	W	W	W	L	W	D	W	D	L	D	W	D	W	D	D	W	D	L	W	L	L
CA Bizertin	D	L	W	L	L	W	L	L	W	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	D	D	D	D	L	D	W	D	W	L
CS Chebbien	L	D	L	W	L	W	W	D	L	L	L	W	L	D	W	L	W	L	L	W	D	D	D	D	D	D
CS Hammam-Lif	D	L	L	L	W	D	L	D	L	L	L	W	L	W	D	L	L	D	L	L	D	W	L	W	D	L
CS Sfaxien	L	W	W	W	W	L	W	W	W	D	L	L	W	W	W	W	D	D	D	W	W	L	W	D	W	D
ES Métlaoui	L	L	W	L	L	L	D	D	L	W	D	L	L	L	L	L	W	L	W	D	D	W	L	D	L	W
Étoile Sportive du Sahel	W	D	L	W	W	L	L	W	D	D	W	L	D	D	W	W	W	W	D	D	L	W	L	L	W	W
Espérance Sportive de Tunis	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	W	W	D	D	D	W	D	D	W	W	D
JS Kairouan	L	W	L	L	L	L	L	L	W	W	L	W	L	L	L	L	L	W	D	L	D	L	W	D	L	D
Stade Tunisien	L	D	L	W	W	W	W	D	L	D	W	W	W	W	L	L	L	L	L	D	L	W	D	D	L	W
US Ben Guerdane	W	L	W	W	L	W	W	L	D	D	D	L	L	W	W	D	D	D	W	W	L	L	D	L	D	D
US Monastir	W	D	W	W	W	D	D	W	W	W	L	D	W	L	L	W	D	W	W	D	D	D	L	L	W	D
US Tataouine	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	D	L	L	W	L	W	D	W	D	D	L	W	D	D	D	W	D	D	W

Source: les-sports.info (in French)
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Lose

Season statistics[]

Top scorers[]

Rank	Goalscorer	Club	Goals
1	Anthony Okpotu	US Monastir	13
2	Bassirou Compaoré	Club Africain	8
3	Mohamed Ali Amri	US Monastir	7
3	Rached Arfaoui	AS Soliman	7
5	Anice Badri	ES Tunis	6
5	Guy Mbenza	Stade Tunisien	6

Hat-tricks[]

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Guy Mbenza	Stade Tunisien*	Étoile Sportive du Sahel	3–1	15 December 2019	^[2]

Media coverage[]

Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 Media Coverage
Country	Television Channel	Matches
Tunisia	El Wataniya 1 El Wataniya 2	From 2 to 5 Matches per round
Qatar	Al-Kass Sports Channel	Main Matches

References[]

^ "Tunisian 2019-20 Ligue 1 season could resume in August – FTF". Goal.com. 8 May 2020.
^ "Stade Tunisien 3 Étoile Sportive du Sahel 1". soccerway.com.

External links[]

[table_hth_CA0.12947887514228-2] Club Africain were deducted 6 points.

[1] "Tunisian 2019-20 Ligue 1 season could resume in August – FTF". Goal.com. 8 May 2020.

[3] "Stade Tunisien 3 Étoile Sportive du Sahel 1". soccerway.com.

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