2023–24 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1

Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1
Season	2023–24
Dates	19 August 2023 – 20 June 2024
Champions	Espérance de Tunis (33rd title)
Relegated	AS Marsa
Champions League	Espérance de Tunis; US Monastir
Confederation Cup	CS Sfaxien; Stade Tunisien
Matches played	171
Goals scored	324 (1.89 per match)
Top goalscorer	Boubacar Traoré; Taieb Ben Zitoun; Rodrigo Rodrigues; (10 goals each)
Biggest home win	US Ben Guerdane 5–0 EGS Gafsa; (3 January 2024)
Biggest away win	EGS Gafsa 0–3 Étoile du Sahel; (3 September 2023); AS Marsa 0–3 US Monastir; (11 November 2023); US Tataouine 0–3 US Monastir; (27 December 2023); AS Marsa 0–3 Olympique Béja; (26 May 2024)
Highest scoring	CA Bizertin 4–2 ES Métlaoui; (30 December 2023)
Longest winning run	Espérance de Tunis; (9 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Espérance de Tunis; (17 matches)
Longest winless run	AS Marsa; ES Métlaoui; (11 matches each)
Longest losing run	AS Soliman; (7 matches)
	← 2022–23 2024–25 →

The 2023–24 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 (Tunisian Professional League) season was the 98th season of top-tier football in Tunisia.

Étoile du Sahel were the defending champions from the previous season. On 15 June 2024, Espérance de Tunis were officially confirmed as champions with one game to spare following their 2–0 win against US Monastir, securing a record-extending 33rd title.

Teams[edit]

14 teams contested the league.

Tunis teams:

Locations of the 2023–24 Ligue 1 teams

Group A

Group B

Stadiums and locations[edit]

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AS Marsa	Tunis (La Marsa)	Stade Abdelaziz Chtioui	6,500
AS Soliman	Soliman	Stade Municipal de Soliman	3,000
Club Africain	Tunis (Bab Jedid)	Stade Hammadi Agrebi	60,000
CA Bizertin	Bizerte	Stade du 15 Octobre	20,000
CS Sfaxien	Sfax	Stade Taïeb Mhiri	22,000
EGS Gafsa	Gafsa	Stade Olympique de Gafsa	7,000
ES Métlaoui	Métlaoui	Stade Municipal de Métlaoui	6,000
Étoile du Sahel	Sousse	Stade Olympique de Sousse	42,000
Espérance de Tunis	Tunis (Bab Souika)	Stade Hammadi Agrebi	60,000
Olympique Béja	Béja	Stade Boujemaa Kmiti	15,000
Stade Tunisien	Tunis (Le Bardo)	Hédi Enneifer Stadium	11,000
US Ben Guerdane	Ben Guerdane	Stade du 7 Mars	10,000
US Monastir	Monastir	Stade Mustapha Ben Jannet	20,000
US Tataouine	Tataouine	Stade Nejib Khattab	5,000

Competition[edit]

First round[edit]

The draw of the first round was held on 1 August 2023.^[2]

Group A[edit]

Table[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Étoile du Sahel	12	7	4	1	15	5	+10	25	Advance to the playoff
2	Stade Tunisien	12	7	3	2	18	10	+8	24^[a]
3	Club Africain	12	7	3	2	14	7	+7	24^[a]
4	US Ben Guerdane	12	4	3	5	13	11	+2	15	Advance to the playout
5	Olympique Béja	12	4	2	6	8	14	−6	14
6	EGS Gafsa	12	3	3	6	9	18	−9	12
7	AS Soliman	12	1	0	11	7	19	−12	3

Source: Tunisian Football Federation
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.
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Ranked on head-to-head points: Stade Tunisien 4, Club Africain 1.

Results[edit]

Home \ Away	ASS	CA	EGSG	ESS	OB	ST	USBG
AS Soliman		1–2	0–2	1–2	2–0	1–2	0–1
Club Africain	1–0		0–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	2–0
EGS Gafsa	1–0	0–1		0–3	1–0	1–3	1–1
Étoile du Sahel	3–0	1–1	2–1		0–0	0–0	1–0
Olympique Béja	2–1	0–1	1–0	2–1		0–1	1–1
Stade Tunisien	1–0	2–1	2–2	0–1	3–0		2–1
US Ben Guerdane	2–1	0–1	5–0	0–0	0–1	2–1

Source: Tunisian Football Federation
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Clubs season-progress[edit]

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
AS Soliman	L	E	L	L	L	L	L	L	E	W	L	L	L	L
Club Africain	W	D	E	D	D	W	W	W	W	E	L	L	W	W
EGS Gafsa	E	D	L	D	W	L	D	E	L	L	L	W	W	L
Étoile du Sahel	L	W	W	D	E	W	W	D	D	W	W	E	D	W
Olympique Béja	W	L	W	E	W	W	L	D	L	L	E	D	L	L
Stade Tunisien	W	W	L	D	D	L	E	W	W	W	W	W	D	E
US Ben Guerdane	L	L	W	W	L	E	D	L	D	L	W	D	E	W

Source: Tunisian Football Federation
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Lose; E = Exempt

Group B[edit]

Table[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Espérance de Tunis	12	10	2	0	20	5	+15	32	Advance to the playoff
2	US Monastir	12	8	2	2	22	9	+13	26
3	CS Sfaxien	12	6	2	4	12	4	+8	20
4	CA Bizertin	12	4	4	4	12	13	−1	16	Advance to the playout
5	ES Métlaoui	12	2	3	7	10	20	−10	9^[a]
6	US Tataouine	12	2	3	7	6	17	−11	9^[a]
7	AS Marsa	12	1	2	9	4	18	−14	5

Source: Tunisian Football Federation
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.
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Ranked on head-to-head points: ES Métlaoui 4, US Tataouine 1.

Results[edit]

Home \ Away	ASM	CAB	CSS	ESM	EST	USM	UST
AS Marsa		0–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	0–3	0–1
CA Bizertin	3–1		0–0	4–2	0–2	0–2	1–0
CS Sfaxien	3–0	2–0		2–0	0–1	0–0	3–0
ES Métlaoui	0–1	1–1	1–0		0–2	0–3	1–0
Espérance de Tunis	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–2		2–0	3–0
US Monastir	3–1	1–0	1–0	3–2	1–2		3–0
US Tataouine	1–0	1–2	0–1	0–0	1–1	2–2

Source: Tunisian Football Federation
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Clubs season-progress[edit]

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
AS Marsa	L	L	L	D	E	L	D	L	L	L	L	E	L	W
CA Bizertin	L	L	E	D	W	D	L	D	L	E	W	W	W	D
CS Sfaxien	W	W	W	L	L	E	L	D	W	W	W	L	E	D
ES Métlaoui	W	E	L	W	L	D	D	D	E	L	L	L	L	L
Espérance de Tunis	W	D	W	E	W	W	W	W	W	W	E	W	W	D
US Monastir	E	W	W	D	W	L	W	E	W	W	W	W	L	D
US Tataouine	L	D	L	D	L	W	E	D	L	L	L	L	W	E

Source: Tunisian Football Federation
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Lose; E = Exempt

Goals scored per round[edit]

Playoff[edit]

The draw of the playoff was held on 14 January 2024.^[3]

Table[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Espérance de Tunis (C)	10	6	3	1	13	7	+6	24^[a]	Qualification for the Champions League
2	US Monastir	10	3	5	2	8	5	+3	16^[b]	Qualification for the Champions League
3	CS Sfaxien	10	2	6	2	6	5	+1	13^[c]	Qualification for the Confederation Cup
4	Stade Tunisien	10	1	8	1	5	5	0	13^[b]	Qualification for the Confederation Cup
5	Étoile du Sahel	10	0	7	3	4	7	−3	10^[a]
6	Club Africain	10	1	5	4	4	11	−7	9^[c]

Source: Tunisian Football Federation
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
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Étoile du Sahel and Espérance de Tunis were added 3 points (1sts of the groups in the first round).
^ ^a ^b Stade Tunisien and US Monastir were added 2 points (2nds of the groups in the first round).
^ ^a ^b Club Africain and CS Sfaxien were added 1 point (3rds of the groups in the first round).

Results[edit]

Home \ Away	CA	CSS	ESS	EST	ST	USM
Club Africain		1–3	0–0	1–2	0–0	1–0
CS Sfaxien	0–0		0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1
Étoile du Sahel	0–0	1–2		0–1	0–0	0–0
Espérance de Tunis	1–0	1–1	3–2		2–0	2–0
Stade Tunisien	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–0		0–0
US Monastir	4–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–1

Source: Tunisian Football Federation
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Clubs season-progress[edit]

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Club Africain	D	W	L	D	D	L	L	L	D	D
CS Sfaxien	D	D	L	D	D	W	D	L	W	D
Étoile du Sahel	D	L	D	D	D	D	L	D	L	D
Espérance de Tunis	W	W	W	D	D	L	W	W	W	D
Stade Tunisien	L	D	D	D	D	W	D	D	D	D
US Monastir	D	L	W	D	D	D	W	W	L	D

Source: Tunisian Football Federation
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Lose

Positions by round[edit]

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Club Africain	4	2	3	3	3	6	6	6	6	6
CS Sfaxien	5	4	6	6	6	4	4	4	3	3
Étoile du Sahel	2	3	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5
Espérance de Tunis	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Stade Tunisien	6	6	5	5	5	2	3	3	4	4
US Monastir	3	5	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2

	Leader
	2024–25 CAF Champions League
	2024–25 CAF Confederation Cup

Source: Tunisian Football Federation

Goals scored per round[edit]

Playout[edit]

The draw of the playout was held on 14 January 2024.^[3]

Table[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	Olympique Béja	14	8	3	3	21	9	+12	30^[a]
2	CA Bizertin	14	6	5	3	17	10	+7	27^[b]
3	EGS Gafsa	14	5	4	5	11	11	0	21^[c]
4	US Tataouine	14	5	4	5	11	16	−5	21^[c]
5	ES Métlaoui	14	4	5	5	15	17	−2	20^[a]
6	US Ben Guerdane	14	4	3	7	12	15	−3	19^[b]
7	AS Soliman	14	6	1	7	13	15	−2	19
8	AS Marsa (R)	14	5	1	8	13	20	−7	16	Relegation to Ligue 2

Source: Tunisian Football Federation
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.
(R) Relegated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ES Métlaoui and Olympique Béja were added 3 points (5ths of the groups in the first round).
^ ^a ^b CA Bizertin and US Ben Guerdane were added 4 points (4ths of the groups in the first round).
^ ^a ^b EGS Gafsa and US Tataouine were added 2 points (6ths of the groups in the first round).

Results[edit]

Home \ Away	ASM	ASS	CAB	EGSG	ESM	OB	USBG	UST
AS Marsa		0–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	0–3	2–1	3–1
AS Soliman	1–0		1–0	2–0	2–2	3–1	0–1	1–3
CA Bizertin	1–0	2–0		2–2	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–0
EGS Gafsa	1–0	1–0	1–0		1–0	1–2	0–0	3–1
ES Métlaoui	3–1	1–0	2–2	1–1		2–1	3–1	0–0
Olympique Béja	3–0	3–0	0–0	0–0	2–1		2–1	3–0
US Ben Guerdane	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	0–1		0–0
US Tataouine	2–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	2–1

Source: Tunisian Football Federation
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Clubs season-progress[edit]

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
AS Marsa	L	W	L	L	L	L	W	W	L	W	L	L	D	W
AS Soliman	W	L	W	W	L	L	L	L	L	L	W	W	W	D
CA Bizertin	W	D	W	L	W	W	L	D	W	D	D	L	D	W
EGS Gafsa	D	L	L	W	L	W	L	L	W	W	D	W	D	L
ES Métlaoui	L	D	W	L	W	L	W	D	D	L	W	L	D	D
Olympique Béja	L	D	D	W	W	W	W	W	L	W	L	W	W	W
US Ben Guerdane	D	W	L	D	L	L	L	W	W	D	L	W	L	L
US Tataouine	W	D	D	D	W	W	W	L	D	L	W	L	L	L

Source: Tunisian Football Federation
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Lose

Relegation decider match[edit]

On 14 June 2024, the Tunisian Football Federation decided to increase the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 teams number from 14 to 16, and decided to hold a match between those ranked 7th and 8th of the playout, AS Soliman and AS Marsa, on 19 June to find out the identity of the team relegated to the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 2.

19 June 2024

16:00

AS Soliman	1–0	AS Marsa
S. Mejri 36' (pen.)	Report

Stade Chedly Zouiten, Tunis

Attendance: 0 (close doors)

Referee: Badis Ben Salah

Season statistics[edit]

Top scorers[edit]

Rank	Goalscorer	Club	Goals
1	Boubacar Traoré	USM	10
	Taieb Ben Zitoun	CAB
	Rodrigo Rodrigues	EST
4	Nassim Sioud	USBG	8
5	Ahmed Amri	OB	7
6	Rayen Hamrouni	ASS	6
	Chance Leroy Mondzenga	ESM
	Kingsley Eduwo	CA
	Houssem Habbassi	USBG

Final ranking[edit]

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Espérance de Tunis (C)	22	16	5	1	33	12	+21	56	Qualification for the Champions League
2	US Monastir	22	11	7	4	30	14	+16	42	Qualification for the Champions League
3	CS Sfaxien	22	8	8	6	18	9	+9	33	Qualification for the Confederation Cup
4	Stade Tunisien	22	8	11	3	23	15	+8	37	Qualification for the Confederation Cup
5	Étoile du Sahel	22	7	11	4	19	12	+7	35
6	Club Africain	22	8	8	6	18	18	0	33

7	Olympique Béja	26	12	5	9	29	23	+6	44
8	CA Bizertin	26	10	9	7	29	23	+6	43
9	EGS Gafsa	26	7	8	11	20	29	–9	33
10	US Tataouine	26	7	7	12	17	33	–16	30
11	ES Métlaoui	26	6	8	12	25	37	–12	29
12	US Ben Guerdane	26	8	6	13	25	26	–1	34
13	AS Soliman	26	7	1	18	20	34	–14	22
14	AS Marsa (R)	26	5	3	18	17	38	–21	21	Relegation to Ligue 2

(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Hat-tricks[edit]

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Nassim Sioud⁴	US Ben Guerdane	EGS Gafsa	5–0 (H)	3 January 2024

⁴ – Player scored four goals.

Scoring[edit]

First goal of the season:
Bilel Mejri for Stade Tunisien against AS Soliman (19 August 2023)

Number of teams by Governorate[edit]

Position	Governorate	Number	Teams
1	Tunis	4	AS Marsa, Club Africain, Espérance de Tunis, Stade Tunisien
2	Gafsa	2	EGS Gafsa, ES Métlaoui
3	Sfax	1	CS Sfaxien
	Nabeul		AS Soliman
	Sousse		Étoile du Sahel
	Bizerte		CA Bizertin
	Monastir		US Monastir
	Medenine		US Ben Guerdane
	Béja		Olympique Béja
	Tataouine		US Tataouine

References[edit]

^ "19 أوت 2023: موعد انطلاق الرابطة المحترفة الأولى للموسم الرياضي 2023–2024". Tunisian Football Federation (in Arabic). 22 June 2023.
^ "نتائج قرعة رزنامة بطولة الرابطة المحترفة الأولى للموسم الرياضي 2023 - 2024". Tunisian Football Federation (in Arabic). 1 August 2023.
^ ^a ^b "قرعة مرحلتي التتويج وتفادي النزول من بطولة تونس في سهرة يوم الأحد المقبل مباشرة على قناة الحوار التونسي". Elhiwar Ettounsi (in Arabic). 9 January 2024.

External links[edit]

Fédération Tunisienne de Football

[table_hth_CA0.064650505811279-3] Ranked on head-to-head points: Stade Tunisien 4, Club Africain 1.

[table_hth_ESM0.093268815005789-4] Ranked on head-to-head points: ES Métlaoui 4, US Tataouine 1.

[table_hth_ESS0.90955965123584-6] Étoile du Sahel and Espérance de Tunis were added 3 points (1sts of the groups in the first round).

[table_hth_ST0.90955965123584-7] Stade Tunisien and US Monastir were added 2 points (2nds of the groups in the first round).

[table_hth_CA0.90955965123584-8] Club Africain and CS Sfaxien were added 1 point (3rds of the groups in the first round).

[table_hth_ESM0.41666493397982-9] ES Métlaoui and Olympique Béja were added 3 points (5ths of the groups in the first round).

[table_hth_CAB0.41666493397982-10] CA Bizertin and US Ben Guerdane were added 4 points (4ths of the groups in the first round).

[table_hth_EGSG0.41666493397982-11] EGS Gafsa and US Tataouine were added 2 points (6ths of the groups in the first round).

[1] "19 أوت 2023: موعد انطلاق الرابطة المحترفة الأولى للموسم الرياضي 2023–2024". Tunisian Football Federation (in Arabic). 22 June 2023.

[2] "نتائج قرعة رزنامة بطولة الرابطة المحترفة الأولى للموسم الرياضي 2023 - 2024". Tunisian Football Federation (in Arabic). 1 August 2023.

[Playoff_&_Playout_draw-5] "قرعة مرحلتي التتويج وتفادي النزول من بطولة تونس في سهرة يوم الأحد المقبل مباشرة على قناة الحوار التونسي". Elhiwar Ettounsi (in Arabic). 9 January 2024.

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2023–24 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1

Teams[edit]

Stadiums and locations[edit]

Competition[edit]

First round[edit]

Group A[edit]

Table[edit]

Results[edit]

Clubs season-progress[edit]

Group B[edit]

Table[edit]

Results[edit]

Clubs season-progress[edit]

Goals scored per round[edit]

Playoff[edit]

Table[edit]

Results[edit]

Clubs season-progress[edit]

Positions by round[edit]

Goals scored per round[edit]

Playout[edit]

Table[edit]

Results[edit]

Clubs season-progress[edit]

Relegation decider match[edit]

Season statistics[edit]

Top scorers[edit]

Final ranking[edit]

Hat-tricks[edit]

Scoring[edit]

Number of teams by Governorate[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]