2020–21 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1

Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1
Season	2020–21
Dates	6 December 2020 – 19 May 2021
Champions	Espérance de Tunis (31st title)
Relegated	Stade Tunisien; JS Kairouan
Champions League	Espérance de Tunis; Étoile du Sahel
Confederation Cup	US Ben Guerdane; CS Sfaxien (as Tunisian Cup winners)
Matches played	182
Goals scored	376 (2.07 per match)
Top goalscorer	; (9 goals)
Biggest home win	Étoile du Sahel 5–1 JS Kairouan; (7 April 2021)
Biggest away win	JS Kairouan 0–4 Stade Tunisien ; (20 December 2020); JS Kairouan 0–4 CS Sfaxien; (3 February 2021)
Highest scoring	Étoile du Sahel 4–4 Olympique Béja; (19 May 2021)
Longest winning run	Espérance de Tunis; (9 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Club Africain; (14 matches)
Longest winless run	JS Kairouan; (26 matches)
Longest losing run	JS Kairouan; (9 matches)
	← 2019–20 2021–22 → All statistics correct as of 27 June 2021.

The 2020–21 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 (Tunisian Professional League) season was the 95th season of top-tier football in Tunisia. Espérance Tunis were the champions, winning the title for the fifth consecutive season and the 31st time in their history (a national record).

Teams[]

A total of 14 teams contested the league.^[1]

Stadiums and locations[]

ASR

Locations of the 2020–21 Ligue 1 teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AS Rejiche	Rejiche	Stade municipal de Rejiche	3,000
AS Soliman	Soliman	Stade municipal de Soliman	3,000
Club Africain	Tunis	Stade Olympique de Radès	65,000
CA Bizertin	Bizerte	Stade 15 Octobre	20,000
CS Sfaxien	Sfax	Stade Taïeb Mhiri	22,000
ES Métlaoui	Métlaoui	Stade Municipal de Métlaoui	6,000
Étoile Sportive du Sahel	Sousse	Stade Olympique de Sousse	28,000
Espérance Sportive de Tunis	Tunis	Stade Olympique de Radès	65,000
JS Kairouan	Kairouan	Stade Ali Zouaoui	15,000
Olympique Béja	Béja	Boujemaa Kmiti Stadium	10,000
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	25,000
US Tataouine	Tataouine	Stade Nejib Khattab	5,000

Personnel and kits[]


Teams	Managers	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
AS Rejiche	Saïd Saïbi		Kampio	Booga, Vitalait
AS Soliman	Yamen Zelfani	Rached Arfaoui	New Balance	Délice
CA Bizerte	Larbi Zouaoui	Halim Darragi	Uhlsport	Délice
Club Africain	Montassar Louichi	Wissem Yahia	Umbro	Qatar Airways, ZEN , Ooredoo
CS Sfaxien	José Murcia	Aymen Dahmen	Macron	Tunisie Cables
ES Sahel	Lassad Dridi	Yassine Chikhaoui	Macron	Warda
ES Métlaoui	Kaïs Yaâkoubi		Sportiga
ES Tunis	Moïne Chaâbani	Khalil Chemmam	Umbro	Délice, Tunisie Télécom
Olympique Béja	Chaker Meftah		Uhlsport	Boga, Délic Danone, Ooredoo
JS Kairouan	Mourad Okbi		New Balance	Boga, Sabrine
Stade tunisien		Ali Jemal	Legea	Sabrine
US Ben Guerdene	Hassen Gabsi	Yassine Boufalgha	Kampio	Coca-Cola
US Monastir	Afouène Gharbi	Zied Machmoum	Hummel	Saida, BIAT
US Tataouine	Hammadi Daou		Legea	Coca-Cola, Hayet

Managerial changes[]

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
CS Sfaxien	Faouzi Benzarti	club changing	15 November 2020	Pre-season	Anis Boujelbene	15 November 2020
CA Bizerte		sacked	23 December 2020	14th	Larbi Zouaoui	23 December 2020
Club Africain	Lassaad Dridi	resignation	3 January 2021	11th	Kais Yâakoubi	1 February 2021
Stade tunisien	Anis Boussaïdi	sacked	4 January 2021	7th		4 January 2021
ES Sahel	Jorvan Vieira		11 January 2021	6th	Lassaad Dridi	11 January 2021
AS Soliman	Sami Gafsi		14 January 2021	7th	Yemen Zelfani	11 January 2021
Olympique Béja	Chaker Meftah		26 January 2021	9th	Khaled Ben Yahia	27 January 2021
Club Africain	Kais Yaâkoub	resignation	14 February 2021	13th	Montasser Louhichi	12 February 2021
CS Sfaxien	Anis Boujelbene	resignation	4 March 2021	3rd	José Murcia	4 March 2021
Olympique Béja	Khaled Ben Yahia	sacked	14 March 2021	10th	Chiheb Ellili	15 March 2021
US Monastir	Lassaad Chabbi	resignation	4 April 2021	7th	Afouène Gharbi	6 April 2021

Foreign players[]


Nationality	Number of Players
Algeria	20
Ivory Coast	8
Libya	8
Guinea	5
Mali	4
Ghana	4
Cameroon	3
Nigeria	3
Brazil	2
RD Congo
Bénin
France
Morocco
Senegal
Niger	1
Mauritania
Sweden
Switzerland
Venezuela

League table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Espérance Sportive de Tunis	26	19	3	4	37	16	+21	60	Qualification for Champions League
2	Étoile Sportive du Sahel	26	15	5	6	46	26	+20	50	Qualification for Champions League
3	US Ben Guerdane	26	10	11	5	25	16	+9	41	Qualification for Confederation Cup
4	AS Soliman	26	11	7	8	35	34	+1	40
5	CS Sfaxien	26	10	10	6	29	16	+13	40	Qualification for Confederation Cup as Tunisian Cup winners
6	AS Rejiche	26	9	9	8	27	23	+4	36
7	Club Africain	26	7	12	7	26	30	−4	33
8	US Tataouine	26	8	9	9	24	30	−6	33
9	ES Métlaoui	26	8	8	10	17	21	−4	32
10	US Monastir	26	8	7	11	28	29	−1	31
11	CA Bizertin	26	8	7	11	21	27	−6	31
12	Olympique Béja	26	7	10	9	25	26	−1	31
13	Stade Tunisien	26	6	11	9	22	22	0	29	Relegation to Ligue 2
14	JS Kairouan	26	0	3	23	14	60	−46	3	Relegation to Ligue 2

Updated to match(es) played on 27 June 2021. Source: soccerway.com
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.

Results[]

Home \ Away	ASR	ASS	CA	CAB	CSS	ESM	ESS	EST	JSK	OB	ST	USBG	USM	UST
AS Rejiche		3–1	1–1	1–0	3–3	1–0	0–1	0–1	2–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–0
AS Soliman	2–1		2–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–2	2–1	1–0	1–2	2–2	0–0	3–1
Club Africain	1–1	2–1		1–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	4–2	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–3	2–2
CA Bizertin	1–1	2–1	1–1		1–1	1–1	1–2	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–2	2–1
CS Sfaxien	1–0	0–1	3–0	0–0		2–1	1–2	2–0	2–0	0–0	3–0	1–1	2–1	1–2
ES Métlaoui	0–3	2–1	0–0	1–0	0–1		1–1	1–2	2–0	0–2	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–0
Étoile Sportive du Sahel	2–0	2–0	2–2	4–0	0–1	2–0		2–0	5–1	4–4	1–0	2–1	3–1	0–0
Espérance Sportive de Tunis	2–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–2	2–0		3–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–0
JS Kairouan	0–1	2–3	1–2	1–4	0–4	1–1	1–3	0–3		0–1	0–4	1–3	0–1	0–1
Olympique Béja	0–0	2–2	2–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–4	1–1		1–1	1–1	3–0	0–1
Stade Tunisien	0–0	1–1	0–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	2–2		0–0	0–0	2–3
US Ben Guerdane	2–1	2–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	0–0		3–2	1–1
US Monastir	2–3	2–2	0–1	2–2	0–0	1–0	3–1	0–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	0–0		4–0
US Tataouine	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–3	1–3	3–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	3–1

Updated to match(es) played on 19 May 2021. Source: soccerway.com
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
ASR	1	4	9	7	5	6	5	4	4	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	6	5	5	6	6	6	6
ASS	5	10	8	9	8	9	7	6	5	4	5	6	6	6	6	7	6	7	7	7	6	6	5	4	4	4
CA	2	9	10	10	11	11	11	12	13	13	13	13	13	12	13	13	12	12	12	12	12	10	9	9	10	7
CAB	11	14	14	14	13	13	13	12	12	12	12	12	12	13	12	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	12
CSS	2	3	1	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5
ESM	9	9	7	6	8	6	8	7	6	8	10	11	11	11	10	11	11	11	11	11	9	9	10	12	11	9
ESS	2	1	4	2	5	6	6	5	5	4	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
EST	5	4	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
JSK	11	10	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
OB	5	11	11	8	6	7	7	8	6	8	8	9	8	8	8	6	8	10	10	8	8	8	8	8	9	11
ST	5	7	1	4	5	6	5	7	9	8	8	9	9	9	11	9	9	8	8	9	10	11	11	10	12	13
USBG	9	5	6	8	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
USM	11	13	13	12	12	12	9	10	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	7	6	6	5	7	7	7	7	7	10
UST	14	13	12	11	10	9	11	10	10	11	11	11	10	10	9	10	10	9	9	10	11	12	12	11	8	8

	Leader
	2021–22 CAF Champions League
	2021–22 CAF Confederation Cup
	Relegation to Ligue Professionnelle 2 2021-22

Updated to match(es) played on 19 May 2021. Source: besoccer.com

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 Rejiche	W	D	L	D	W	L	W	L	W	W	W	W	L	D	D	D	D	W	L	L	W	L	D	W	L	D
AS Soliman	D	L	W	L	W	L	W	W	W	W	L	D	W	L	D	L	W	L	W	D	W	L	W	W	W	D
Club Africain	W	D	L	D	L	L	D	D	L	L	L	L	D	W	D	D	D	W	D	W	D	W	W	D	D	W
CA Bizertin	L	L	L	W	D	L	D	W	D	L	D	L	W	L	W	D	L	L	W	L	W	D	D	W	W	W
CS Sfaxien	W	D	W	L	W	W	L	W	D	W	D	W	W	D	L	D	D	L	L	D	D	D	W	L	W	D
ES Métlaoui	D	L	W	W	D	W	D	W	W	L	L	W	L	D	D	D	D	W	D	L	W	D	L	L	W	W
Étoile Sportive du Sahel	W	W	L	W	L	L	D	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	L	W	W	W	D	W	W	L	L	D
Espérance Sportive de Tunis	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	W	W	D	W	W	D	L	L
JS Kairouan	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L
Olympique Béja	D	D	W	W	D	D	W	L	L	L	L	W	L	D	W	D	D	L	L	W	L	W	L	D	D	D
Stade Tunisien	D	W	W	D	L	D	W	D	L	D	L	L	D	D	L	W	D	W	D	D	L	L	D	W	L	L
US Ben Guerdane	D	W	D	L	W	D	W	D	W	D	W	L	W	D	W	W	L	L	W	D	D	W	D	D	W	L
US Monastir	L	L	D	L	D	D	W	D	W	W	W	W	D	D	L	L	W	W	D	W	L	L	L	L	L	D
US Tataouine	L	D	L	D	D	W	D	D	L	L	L	W	W	D	W	L	D	W	L	L	D	D	L	W	W	W

Updated to match(es) played on 19 May 2021. Source:^{[citation needed]}
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Lose

Season statistics[]

Goals scored per round[]

This graph represents the number of goals scored during each round:

Top scorers[]

Rank	Goalscorer	Club	Goals
1		ESS	9
2	Alia Sylla	UST	8
2	Souleymane Coulibaly	ESS	8
4	Idriss Mhirsi	USM	7
		ASR
	Firas Chaouat	CSS
	Tayeb Meziani	ESS
	Aboubacar Diarra	ASR
	Jacques Bessan	OB
	Taha Yassine Khenissi	EST

Updated to games played on 19 May 2021 soccerway.com

Number of teams by Governorate[]

Position	Governorate	Number	Teams
1	Tunis	3	ES Tunis, Club africain, Stade tunisien
2	Sousse	1	ES Sahel
	Sfax		CS Sfax
	Bizerte		CA Bizerte
	Monastir		US Monastir
	Mahdia		AS Rejiche
	Nabeul		AS Soliman
	Tataouine		US Tataouine
	Medenine		US Ben Guerdane
	Kairouan		JS Kairouan
	Béja		Olympique Béja
	Gafsa		ES Métlaoui

Awards[]

Each month Internet users vote for the player of the month sponsored by Foot24 and Coca-Cola.

Monthly[]

Month	Player of the Month
Month	Player	Club
December	Hamdou Elhouni	ES Tunis
January	Souleymane Coulibaly	ES Sahel
February	Mohammed Soulah	CS Sfaxien
March	Mohamed Ali Ben Romdhane	ES Tunis
April	Hamza Agrebi	Club Africain
May	Saber Khalifa	Club Africain

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
Saudi Arabia	ART	From 2 to 5 Matches per round

References[]

^ "Regular Season". Retrieved 9 February 2021.

External links[]

Fédération Tunisienne de Football

[1] "Regular Season". Retrieved 9 February 2021.

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