List of Tunisia national football team managers

The Tunisia national football team manager was first established in 1956 following the appointment of the country's first national team manager Rachid Turki.[1]

Roger Lemerre, the coach who won the only African Cup Tunisia had.

Thirty-six men have occupied the post since its inception; three of those were in short-term caretaker manager roles: Faouzi Benzarti in two terms (one game in charge in 1994 and four games in 2010), Sami Trabelsi (six games in 2011 until he was appointed full-time) and Ruud Krol (two games).

Roger Lemerre held the position for the longest to date with a tenure of six years leading the team in 67 matches, more than any other manager in Tunisia's history. He is also the most successful manager after winning the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations, reaching 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup and qualifying for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Yugoslav coach Milan Kristić became the first foreign manager of the team in 1960.

France has the largest number of managers to have coached Tunisia, with six managers.

Position

Role

The Tunisia manager's role means he has sole responsibility for all on-the-field elements of the Tunisian team. Among other activities, this includes selecting the national team squad, the starting team, captain, tactics, substitutes and penalty-takers.

The coach has a relative freedom to choose his staff as some of coaches refused to coach the Tunisian national team due to the Tunisian Football Federation’s refusal to appoint foreign assistant coaches. This was the case with Jacques Santini in 2008 and Raymond Domenech. However, the Tunisian Football Federation agreed to Henryk Kasperczak's proposal in 2015 to appoint Frenchman Patrick Hesse to the team.

Appointment

The process of appointing a new Tunisia manager is undertaken by a FTF committee, which is composed of board members and other high-ranking FTF officials.

List

As of 29 March 2022 after match against Mali.

Manager	Period	Pld	Won	Drawn	Lost	Win%	Results
Rachid Turki	1956–1957	0	0	0	0	0.00%	N/A
Hechmi Cherif Larbi Soudani Habib Draoua	1957–1960	15	7	2	6	46.67%	N/A
Milan Kristić	1960–1961	23	5	4	14	21.74%	1960 Olympic Games – Group stage 1962 FIFA World Cup – Failed to qualify
Frane Matošić	1961–1962	6	1	2	3	16.67%	AFCON 1962 – Third place
André Gérard	1963–1965	34	15	9	10	44.12%	1963 Arab Cup – Champions
Mokhtar Ben Nacef	1965–1968	15	5	8	2	33.33%	AFCON 1965 – Runners-up AFCON 1968 – Failed to qualify
Radojica Radojičić	1968–1970	9	2	3	4	22.22%	N/A
Sereta Begović	1969	5	0	4	1	0.00%	1970 FIFA World Cup – Failed to qualify
Ameur Hizem (1)	1970–1974	33	16	6	11	48.48%	1974 FIFA World Cup – Failed to qualify
André Nagy	1974–1975	10	4	1	5	40.00%	N/A
Abdelmajid Chetali	1975–1978	52	18	18	16	34.61%	AFCON 1976 – Failed to qualify AFCON 1978 – Fourth Place 1978 FIFA World Cup – Group stage
Ameur Hizem (2)	1978–1979	3	1	1	1	33.33%	N/A
Hmid Dhib	1979–1980	14	3	3	5	21.43%	1982 FIFA World Cup – Failed to qualify
Ryszard Kulesza	1981–1983	25	10	5	10	40.00%	AFCON 1982 – Group stage AFCON 1984 – Failed to qualify
Youssef Zouaoui (1)	1984–1986	26	13	3	8	54.16%	AFCON 1986 – Failed to qualify 1986 FIFA World Cup – Failed to qualify
Jean Vincent	1986–1987	10	1	2	7	10.00%	AFCON 1988 – Failed to qualify
Taoufik Ben Othman	1987–1988	16	4	3	9	25.00%	N/A
Antoni Piechniczek (1)	1988	9	3	3	3	33.33%	1988 Olympic Games – Group stage
Mokhtar Tlili	1988–1989	14	3	4	7	21.43%	AFCON 1990 – Failed to qualify
Antoni Piechniczek (2)	1989	8	2	2	4	25.00%	1990 FIFA World Cup – Failed to qualify
Mrad Mahjoub	1990–1993	26	8	13	5	30.77%	AFCON 1992 – Failed to qualify 1994 FIFA World Cup – Failed to qualify
Youssef Zouaoui (2)	1993–1994	13	4	6	3	30.77%	N/A
Faouzi Benzarti (1)	1994	1	0	1	0	0.00%	AFCON 1994 – Group stage
Henryk Kasperczak (1)	1994–1998	59	30	11	18	50.84%	AFCON 1996 – Runners-up 1996 Olympic Games – Group stage AFCON 1998 – Quarter-finals 1998 FIFA World Cup – Group stage
Francesco Scoglio	1998–2001	32	19	8	5	59.73%	AFCON 2000 – Fourth Place
Eckhard Krautzun	2001	7	4	2	1	57.14%	2002 FIFA World Cup – Group stage
Henri Michel	2001–2002	6	2	2	2	33.33%	AFCON 2002 – Group stage
Ammar Souayah	2002	6	0	3	3	0.00%	N/A
Roger Lemerre	2002–2008	67	40	15	12	59.70%	AFCON 2004 – Champions 2005 Confederations Cup – Group stage AFCON 2006 – Quarter-finals 2006 FIFA World Cup – Group stage AFCON 2008 – Quarter-finals
Humberto Coelho	2008–2009	15	5	4	3	33.33%	CHAN 2009 – Failed to qualify 2010 FIFA World Cup – Failed to qualify
Faouzi Benzarti (2)	2009–2010	4	0	3	1	0.00%	AFCON 2010 – Group stage
Bertrand Marchand	2010	6	3	1	2	50.00%	N/A
Sami Trabelsi	2010–2013	32	13	9	10	40.63%	CHAN 2011 – Champions AFCON 2012 – Quarter-finals AFCON 2013 – Group stage
Nabil Maâloul (1)	2013	7	2	3	2	28.57%	CHAN 2014 – Failed to qualify
Ruud Krol	2013	2	0	1	1	0.00%	2014 FIFA World Cup – Failed to qualify
Georges Leekens	2014–2015	19	7	8	4	36.84%	AFCON 2015 – Quarter-finals
Henryk Kasperczak (2)	2015–2017	26	12	5	10	46.15%	CHAN 2016 – Quarter-finals AFCON 2017 – Quarter-finals
Nabil Maâloul (2)	2017–2018	13	6	4	3	46.15%	2018 FIFA World Cup – Group stage
Faouzi Benzarti (3)	2018	3	3	0	0	100.00%	N/A
Alain Giresse	2018–2019	12	5	4	3	41.67%	AFCON 2019 – Fourth Place
Mondher Kebaier	2019–2022	33	21	4	8	63.63%	CHAN 2020 – Qualified but withdrew 2021 Arab Cup – Runners-up AFCON 2021 – Quarter-finals
Jalel Kadri[2]	2022–	2	1	1	0	50.00%	2022 FIFA World Cup – Qualified

Statistics

Faouzi Benzarti is the only coach to take charge of Tunisia in 3 terms.

	Manager	Stats
First coach	Rachid Turki	1956
Longest period	Roger Lemerre	5 years, 280 days
Shortest period	Faouzi Benzarti (1)	4 days
Most matches	Roger Lemerre	67 matches
Less matches	Faouzi Benzarti (1)	1 match
Most wins	Roger Lemerre	40 wins
Most defeats	Henryk Kasperczak (1)	18 defeats
Highest win%	Faouzi Benzarti (3)	100.00%
Lowest win%	Sereta Begović Ammar Souayah Faouzi Benzarti (1&2) Ruud Krol	0.00%

Coaches by nationality

Country	Managers
Tunisia	17
France	6
Poland	3
Serbia	3
Algeria	1
Belgium
Croatia
Germany
Hungary
Italy
Netherlands
Portugal

References

"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-23. Retrieved 2008-06-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
"Tunisia appoint Jalel Kadri as new coach after dismissing Mondher Kebaier". 31 January 2022.

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[1] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-23. Retrieved 2008-06-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[2] "Tunisia appoint Jalel Kadri as new coach after dismissing Mondher Kebaier". 31 January 2022.