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.

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 a tough group 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.^[8] In the second match, the Tunisians resisted until the 74th minute, where they conceded three goals from the German team to end the match,^[9] while in the third match they managed to beat Australia 2–0,^[10] to leave good impressions.

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]

• 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