Ali Maâloul

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Ali Maâloul

Maâloul with Tunisia at the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Personal information
Full name	Ali Maâloul[1]
Date of birth	(1990-01-01) 1 January 1990 (age 32)
Place of birth	Sfax, Tunisia
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s)	Left-back
Club information
Current team	Al Ahly
Number	21
Youth career
2001–2009	CS Sfaxien
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2009–2016	CS Sfaxien	157	(31)
2016–	Al Ahly	114	(23)
National team‡
2013–	Tunisia	74	(2)
Honours Representing  Tunisia Men's football FIFA Arab Cup Runner-up 2021 Qatar
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 26 December 2021 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18 December 2021

Ali Maâloul (born 1 January 1990; Arabic: علي معلول) is a Tunisian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Al Ahly and the Tunisia national team.

Club career[]

Maâloul in formed and made his debut with CS Sfaxien. Since 2009, the player has joined the team and has been competing for his place in the starting lineup.

Slowly, Maâloul took on more games, honed his skills more and had clear offensive characteristics. From season to season he took his foot in the starting line-up to become one of the pillars of his team and one of the pillars of the Tunisia national team, especially with his skill to carry fixed balls and register free kicks. Since the 2014–15 season, Maâloul becme the first captain of CS Sfaxien.

In the 2015–16 season, Maâloul became the scorer of the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 with 14 goals in round 20, a record that has not been matched by any defender in the history of the Tunisian league. No defender has scored more than nine goals per season.

As of 25 July 2016, Maâloul joined the Egyptian club Al Ahly for a period of four years.

International career[]

On 6 July 2013, Maâloul played his first match with Tunisia against Morocco, in the qualifiers for the 2014 African Nations Championship (1–0 defeat).^[2] He also participated in two editions of the Africa Cup of Nations, in 2015 and 2017. In the 2015 edition, he played four matches, losing Tunisia in the quarter-finals to Equatorial Guinea in extra time. In the 2017 edition, he plays three matches, with Tunisia reaching the quarter-finals again against Burkina Faso.

Maâloul also participated with the Tunisian national team in the 2016 African Nations Championship. He played three matches in this tournament, in which Tunisia will lose in the quarter-finals against Mali. He also participated with the Tunisian national team in the 2018 FIFA World Cup,^[3] which was organized in Russia.^[4] He played two matches, against England (2–1 defeat) and Belgium (5–2 defeat).

Career statistics[]

Club[]

As of 26 December 2021

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			Domestic Cup		Continental		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
CS Sfaxien	2008–09	Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1	2	0	0	0	—		0	0	2	0
	2009–10		15	0	2	0	13	0	—		30	0
	2010–11		20	1	0	0	—		—		20	1
	2011–12		28	2	1	0	—		—		29	2
	2012–13		13	1	0	0	4	0	5	0	22	1
	2013–14		29	8	4	1	12	3	1	1	46	13
	2014–15		23	3	2	0	4	1	—		29	4
	2015–16		27	16	0	0	—		—		27	16
	Total		157	31	9	1	33	4	6	1	205	37
Al Ahly SC	2015–16	Egyptian Premier League	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	3	0
	2016–17		23	1	4	0	12	2	0	0	39	3
	2017–18		13	0	0	0	9	1	1	0	23	1
	2018–19		26	8	1	0	8	2	1	0	36	10
	2019–20		23	5	2	0	9	3	1	0	35	8
	2020–21		23	5	1	0	4	1	4	0	32	6
	2021–22		6	4	0	0	2	1	1	0	8	5
	Total		114	23	9	0	46	10	8	0	177	33
Career total			271	54	18	1	79	14	14	1	382	70

International[]

As of 18 December 2021^[5]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Tunisia	2013	1	0
	2014	7	0
	2015	12	0
	2016	11	0
	2017	11	0
	2018	8	0
	2019	9	0
	2020	4	1
	2021	11	1
Total		74	2

As of 18 December 2021

Scores and results list Tunisia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Maâloul goal.

List of international goals scored by Ali Maâloul

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	9 October 2020	Stade Olympique de Radès, Radès, Tunisia	Sudan	2–0	3–0	Friendly
2	16 November 2021	Stade Olympique de Radès, Radès, Tunisia	Zambia	3–0	3–1	2022 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours and achievements[]

CS Sfaxien

• Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1: 2012–13
• CAF Confederation Cup: 2013
• North African Cup Winners Cup: 2009

Al Ahly

• Egyptian Premier League: 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20
• Egypt Cup: 2016–17, 2019–20
• Egyptian Super Cup: 2017, 2018–19
• CAF Champions League: 2019–20, 2020–21
• CAF Super Cup: 2021 (May), 2021 (December)
• FIFA Club World Cup: Third-Place 2020, Third-Place 2021

Individual

• Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 top goalscorer: 2015–16
• CAF Team of the Year: 2017
• IFFHS Men’s CAF Team of The Year: 2020, 2021

References[]

External links[]

• Ali Maâloul at Soccerway