Tunisia at the FIFA Confederations Cup

Tunisia has participated one times in the FIFA Confederations Cup in 2005, as a representative from Africa after winning the 2004 African Cup of Nations. From its only participation, the team was content with the group stage. The team played in Group A against Argentina, Germany and Australia. The team lost to Argentina 1–2 and Germany 0–3, while it defeated Australia 2–0.

FIFA Confederations Cup record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	Squad	Ref
1992	Did not qualify
1995
1997
1999
2001
2003
2005	Group stage	6th	3	1	0	2	3	5	Squad	[1]
2009	Did not qualify
2013
2017
Total	Group stage	1/10	3	1	0	2	3	5	—	—

Part	Year	No.	Stage	Date	Opponent	Result	Tunisia scorers	Ref
1	2005	1	Group stage	15 June 2005	Argentina	1–2	Guemamdia 72' (pen.)	[2][3]
		2	Group stage	18 June 2005	Germany	0–3	—	[4][5]
		3	Group stage	21 June 2005	Australia	2–0	Santos 26', 70'	[6][7]

The Tunisian team, winning their first African Cup of Nations title, enabled them to qualify for the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup in Germany, where they participated in Group A including hosts Germany, Argentina and Australia. The opening match of this tournament was between Tunisia and Argentina, Tunisia lost by a narrow margin 1–2, Haykel Guemamdia scored Tunisia's goal.^[8] In the second match, the Tunisians resisted until the 74th minute, where they conceded three goals from the German team,^[9] while in the third match they managed to beat Australia 2–0 with Francileudo Santos double, to leave good impressions.^[10]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany (H)	3	2	1	0	9	5	+4	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Argentina	3	2	1	0	8	5	+3	7
3	Tunisia	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	3
4	Australia	3	0	0	3	5	10	−5	0

15 June 2005

18:00

Argentina	2–1	Tunisia
Riquelme 33' (pen.) Saviola 57'	Report	Guemamdia 72' (pen.)

RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne

Attendance: 28,033

Referee: Roberto Rosetti (Italy)

18 June 2005

18:00

Tunisia	0–3	Germany
	Report	Ballack 74' (pen.) Schweinsteiger 80' Hanke 88'

RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne

Attendance: 44,377

Referee: Peter Prendergast (Jamaica)

21 June 2005

20:45

Australia	0–2	Tunisia
	Report	Santos 26', 70'

Zentralstadion, Leipzig

Attendance: 23,952

Referee: Carlos Chandía (Chile)

•   – Positive balance
•   – Neutral balance
•   – Negative balance

Versus	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Def	First match date	Last match date
Argentina	1	0	0	1	1	2	–1	15 June 2005	15 June 2005
Australia	1	1	0	0	2	0	+2	21 June 2005	21 June 2005
Germany	1	0	0	1	0	3	–3	18 June 2005	18 June 2005
Total	3	1	0	2	3	5	–2	15 June 2005	18 June 2005

  – Best goalscorer(s) of the tournament

  – Best goalscorer(s) of the team

Man of the match

• 2005: Francileudo Santos (vs. Australia; Group A)^[11]

2005 FIFA Confederations Cup
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• Tunisia at the FIFA World Cup
• Tunisia at the Africa Cup of Nations
• Tunisia at the African Nations Championship
• Tunisia at the FIFA Arab Cup