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; Jeunesse Kairouanaise
Champions League	Espérance de Tunis; Étoile du Sahel
Confederation Cup	Union de Ben Guerdane; Club Sfaxien (as Tunisian Cup winners)
Matches played	182
Goals scored	376 (2.07 per match)
Top goalscorer	Aymen Sfaxi; (9 goals)
Biggest home win	Étoile du Sahel 5–1 Jeunesse Kairouanaise; (7 April 2021)
Biggest away win	Jeunesse Kairouanaise 0–4 Stade Tunisien ; (20 December 2020); Jeunesse Kairouanaise 0–4 Club 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	Jeunesse Kairouanaise; (26 matches)
Longest losing run	Jeunesse Kairouanaise; (9 matches)
	← 2019–20 2021–22 →

The 2020–21 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 (Tunisian Professional League) season was the 95th season of top-tier football in Tunisia. Espérance de 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

Locations of the 2020–21 Ligue 1 teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Avenir de Rejiche	Rejiche	Stade Municipal de Rejiche	3,000
Avenir de Soliman	Soliman	Stade Municipal de Soliman	3,000
Club Africain	Tunis	Stade Hammadi Agrebi	65,000
Club Bizertin	Bizerte	Stade 15 Octobre	20,000
Club Sfaxien	Sfax	Stade Taïeb Mhiri	22,000
Étoile de Métlaoui	Métlaoui	Stade Municipal de Métlaoui	6,000
Étoile du Sahel	Sousse	Stade Bou Ali Lahouar	6,500
Espérance de Tunis	Tunis	Stade Hammadi Agrebi	65,000
Jeunesse Kairouanaise	Kairouan	Stade Ali Zouaoui	15,000
Olympique Béja	Béja	Stade Boujemaa Kmiti	10,000
Stade Tunisien	Tunis (Le Bardo)	Stade Chedly Zouiten	20,000
Union de Ben Guerdane	Ben Guerdane	Stade du 7 Mars	10,000
Union Monastirienne	Monastir	Stade Mustapha Ben Jannet	25,000
Union de Tataouine	Tataouine	Stade Nejib Khattab	5,000

Personnel and kits


Teams	Managers	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Avenir de Rejiche	Saïd Saïbi		Kampio	Booga, Vitalait
Avenir de Soliman	Yamen Zelfani	Rached Arfaoui	New Balance	Délice
Club Africain	Montassar Louichi	Wissem Ben Yahia	Umbro	Qatar Airways, ZEN , Ooredoo
Club Bizertin	Larbi Zouaoui	Halim Darragi	Uhlsport	Délice
Club Sfaxien	José Murcia	Aymen Dahmen	Macron	Tunisie Cables
Étoile du Sahel	Lassad Dridi	Yassine Chikhaoui	Macron	Warda
Étoile de Métlaoui	Kais Yâakoubi		Sportiga
Espérance de Tunis	Mouin Chaâbani	Khalil Chemmam	Umbro	Délice, Tunisie Télécom
Olympique Béja	Chaker Meftah		Uhlsport	Boga, Délic Danone, Ooredoo
Jeunesse Kairouanaise	Mourad Okbi		New Balance	Boga, Sabrine
Stade Tunisien	Nassif Bayaoui	Ali Jemal	Legea	Sabrine
Union de Ben Guerdene	Hassen Gabsi	Yassine Boufalgha	Kampio	Coca-Cola
Union Monastirienne	Afouène Gharbi	Zied Machmoum	Hummel	Saida, BIAT
Union de 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
Club Sfaxien	Faouzi Benzarti	club changing	15 November 2020	Pre-season	Anis Boujelbene	15 November 2020
Club Bizertin	Mokhtar Trabelsi	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	Nassif Bayaoui	4 January 2021
Étoile du Sahel	Jorvan Vieira		11 January 2021	6th	Lassaad Dridi	11 January 2021
Avenir de 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 Yâakoubi	resignation	14 February 2021	13th	Montasser Louhichi	12 February 2021
Club 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
Union Monastirienne	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
DR 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 de Tunis (C)	26	19	3	4	37	16	+21	60	Qualification for Champions League
2	Étoile du Sahel	26	15	5	6	46	26	+20	50	Qualification for Champions League
3	Union de Ben Guerdane	26	10	11	5	25	16	+9	41	Qualification for Confederation Cup
4	Avenir de Soliman	26	11	7	8	35	34	+1	40
5	Club Sfaxien	26	10	10	6	29	16	+13	40	Qualification for Confederation Cup as Tunisian Cup winners
6	Avenir de Rejiche	26	9	9	8	27	23	+4	36
7	Club Africain	26	7	12	7	26	30	−4	33
8	Union de Tataouine	26	8	9	9	24	30	−6	33
9	Étoile de Métlaoui	26	8	8	10	17	21	−4	32
10	Union Monastirienne	26	8	7	11	28	29	−1	31
11	Club Bizertin	26	8	7	11	21	27	−6	31
12	Olympique Béja	26	7	10	9	25	26	−1	31
13	Stade Tunisien (R)	26	6	11	9	22	22	0	29	Relegation to Ligue 2
14	Jeunesse Kairouanaise (R)	26	0	3	23	14	60	−46	3	Relegation to Ligue 2

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.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ASR	ASS	CA	CAB	CSS	ESM	ESS	EST	JSK	OB	ST	USBG	USM	UST
Avenir de 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
Avenir de 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
Club 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
Club 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
Étoile de 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 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 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
Jeunesse Kairouanaise	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
Union de 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
Union Monastirienne	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
Union de 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

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

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
Avenir de 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
Avenir de 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
Club 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
Club 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
Étoile de 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 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 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
Jeunesse Kairouanaise	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
Union de 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
Union Monastirienne	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
Union de 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

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	Aymen Sfaxi	ESS	9
2	Alia Sylla	UST	8
2	Souleymane Coulibaly	ESS	8
4	Idriss Mhirsi	USM	7
	Nidhal Ben Salem	ASR
	Firas Chaouat	CSS
	Tayeb Meziani	ESS
	Aboubacar Diarra	ASR
	Jacques Bessan	OB
	Taha Yassine Khenissi	EST

Hat-tricks

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Tayeb Meziani	Étoile du Sahel	Union de Tataouine	1-3 (A)	21 March 2021

Number of teams by Governorate

Position	Governorate	Number	Teams
1	Tunis	3	Espérance de Tunis, Club Africain, Stade Tunisien
2	Sousse	1	Étoile du Sahel
	Sfax		Club Sfaxien
	Bizerte		Club Bizertin
	Monastir		Union Monastirienne
	Mahdia		Avenir de Rejiche
	Nabeul		Avenir de Soliman
	Tataouine		Union de Tataouine
	Medenine		Union de Ben Guerdane
	Kairouan		Jeunesse Kairouanaise
	Béja		Olympique Béja
	Gafsa		Étoile de Métlaoui

Awards

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

Month	Player of the Month
Month	Player	Club
December	Hamdou Elhouni	Espérance de Tunis
January	Souleymane Coulibaly	Étoile du Sahel
February	Mohammed Soulah	Club Sfaxien
March	Mohamed Ali Ben Romdhane	Espérance de 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

External links

Fédération Tunisienne de Football

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