CS Sfaxien

CS Sfaxien

Nickname(s)	Juventus El Arab (Juventus of The Arabs)
Short name	CSS
Founded	28 May 1928; 93 years ago (1928-05-28)
Ground	Stade Taïeb Mhiri Sfax, Tunisia
Capacity	11,000
Chairman	Moncef Khemakhem
Coach	Giovanni Solinas
League	CLP-1
2020–21	5th
Website	Club website
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Club Sportif Sfaxien (Arabic: النادي الرياضي الصفاقسي) is a Tunisian professional association football club founded in 1928.

History[]

The club was founded in 1928 as Club Tunisien, playing in green and red stripes. The team was promoted to the Tunisian First Division in 1947. In 1950, the first supporters group was founded by Béchir Fendri, and in 1962 the club was renamed " Club Sportif Sfaxien " and team colours were changed to the current black and white stripes.

CSS celebrated their half-centenary in 1978 by winning the Tunisian League title, largely thanks to the impressive performances of their Tunisian internationals, notably Hammadi Agrebi, Mohamed Ali Akid and Mokhtar Dhouib. In November 1998, CSS captured the CAF Cup for the first time, beating Senegal's ASC Jeanne d'Arc in the final.

In more recent times, CSS reached the final of the CAF Champions League 2006 but were narrowly beaten in dramatic fashion, with a late second leg goal condemning them to a 2–1 aggregate defeat against Al Ahly of Egypt.

In September 2014, CSS reached the semi-finals of the CAF Champions League 2014 but they were beaten with a 2–1 score in both away and home matches against AS Vita Club.

In May 2015, CSS got disqualified from The CAF Champions League 2015 after a loss with 1–0 in their away match against Mouloudia Chabab El Eulma(Algeria) and then CSS won their match in Sfax with 1–0 at the Stade Taïeb Mhiri but they got disqualified since they lost by penalties (7–6).

CSS won the 2007 CAF Confederation Cup. A 4–2 first-leg victory in Sudan against Al Merreikh preceded a 1–0 second leg win, with CSS lifting the trophy in front of their own fans at the Stade Taïeb Mhiri. In November 2008, CSS faced local rivals Etoile du Sahel (ESS) in the final of the CAF Confederation Cup. CSS became the most successful club in recent history of the tournament when a 0–0 draw in Sfax was followed by a 2–2 draw in Sousse, sending the cup back to Sfax for the second year in a row.

2009 saw the club win the Tunisian Cup.^[1]

In 2013, CSS won CAF Confederation Cup for the 3rd time in their history facing TP Mazembe in the final with 2–0 in Rades then a 2–1 defeat in Lubumbashi with a late goal from Fakhreddine Ben Youssef.

Club Sportif Sfaxien is considered by the IFFHS as one of the five best teams in this century.

Club Sfaxien participated in the 2017 CAF Confederation Cup.^[2]

In the 2018–19 the club won the Tunisian Cup again.^[3] The club won the Tunisian FA Cup for a sixth time on 28 June 2021.^[4]

Players[]

Current squad[]

As of 23 November, 2021

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  TUN Mohamed Hedi Gaaloul 2 DF  TUN Mohamed Ben Ali 3 DF  TUN Mohamed Nasraoui 4 DF  TUN Nour Zamen Zammouri 5 DF  TUN Ghaith Maaroufi 7 FW  LBY Mohammed Soulah 9 MF  IRQ Hussein Ali 10 FW  TUN Aymen Harzi 11 FW  TUN Hazem Haj Hassen 12 MF  TUN Haroun Ben Ameur 13 MF  TUN Abdallah Amri 14 MF  TUN Fares Neji 15 MF  TUN Walid Karoui 16 GK  TUN Sabri Ben Hassen

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 FW  TUN Bechir Ghariani 18 DF  TUN Alaa Ghram 20 MF  ALG Malik Raiah 21 DF  TUN Houssem Dagdoug 22 FW  TUN Firas Chaouat 23 MF  TUN Chadi Hammami 24 MF  CIV Chris Kouakou 28 DF  TUN Mohamed Hamrouni 29 FW  TUN Achref Habbassi 30 GK  TUN Aymen Dahmen 32 DF  GUI Naby Camara 33 FW  ALG Hichem Nekkache — FW  MTN Ismail Diakhité

Honours[]

Source: soccerway.com^[5]

Domestic competitions[]

• Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1:

Winners (8): 1968–69, 1970–71, 1977–78, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1994–95, 2004–05, 2012–13

• Tunisian Cup:

Winners (6): 1970–71, 1994–95, 2003–04, 2008–09, 2018–19, 2020–21

• Tunisian League Cup:

Winners (1): 2003

African competitions[]

• CAF Confederation Cup

Winners (3): 2007, 2008, 2013

• Runners-up: 2010

• CAF Cup

Winners (1): 1998

• CAF Super Cup:

  Runners-up: 2008, 2009, 2014

• CAF Champions League:

  Runners-up: 2006

Regional competitions[]

• Arab Club Champions Cup

Winners (2): 2000, 2003–04

• North African Cup Winners Cup

Winners: 2009

Performance in CAF competitions[]

• African Cup of Champions Clubs / CAF Champions League:

The club have many appearances in African Cup of Champions Clubs in 1984 & 1996 and in CAF Champions League from 2006 till 2021

• CAF Confederation Cup:

• CAF Super Cup: 3 appearances

2008 – Runner-up

2009 – Runner-up

2014 – Runner-up

• CAF Cup: 1 appearance

1998 – Winner

Managers[]

Presidents[]

1912–31: Zouhair Ayadi 1931–32: Ali Cherif 1932–34: Messaoud Ben Saad 1934–36: Ahmed Bouslama 1936–38: Abderrahmane Aloulou 1938–46: Mohamed Elloumi 1946–48: Habib Meziou 1948–50: Abdelkader Jemal 1950–51: Abdelaziz Hammami 1951–53: Tahar Elleuch 1953–54: Tahar Gargouri 1954–55: Mohamed Halouani 1955–56: Ahmed Akrout]

1956–61: Habib Larguech 1961–64: Abdesselem Kallel 1964–65: Mohamed Driss 1965–66: Taoufik Zahaf 1966–67: Hédi Bouricha 1967–70: Taoufik Zahaf 1970–72: Ahmed Fourati 1972–75: Taoufik Zahaf 1975–76: Mohamed Mezghanni 1976–78: Taoufik Zahaf 1978–79: Ismaïl Baklouti 1979–80: Hédi Bouricha 1980–88: Abdelaziz Ben Abdallah

1988–89: Mohamed Aloulou 1989–90: Taoufik Zahaf 1990–92: Ismaïl Baklouti 1992–96: Abdelaziz Ben Abdallah 1996–98: Jamel Arem 1998-02: Lotfi Abdennadher 2002–08: Slaheddine Zahaf 2008–10: Moncef Sellami 2010–11: Naoufel Zahaf 2011–12: Moncef Sellami 2012–16: Lotfi Abdennadher 2016–  : Moncef Khemakhem

Rival Clubs[]

• ES Tunis (Rivalry)
• Club Africain (Rivalry)
• Étoile Sportive du Sahel (Rivalry)

See also[]

• CS Sfaxien (volleyball)
• CS Sfaxien Women's Volleyball
• CS Sfaxien Women's Basketball

References[]

External links[]

• www.sofascore.com