EGS Gafsa

El Gawafel de Gafsa

Full name	El Gawafel Sportives de Gafsa
Nickname(s)	El Falluja
Founded	1967
Ground	Gafsa Olympic Stadium Gafsa, Tunisia
Capacity	7,000
Chairman	Ridha Mhamedi
Manager	Jamel Khecharem
League	Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1
2023–24	Ligue 1, 9th of 14
Website	http://egsgafsa.com
Home colours Away colours

El Gawafel Sportives de Gafsa (Arabic: القوافل الرياضية بقفصة) , known as EGS Gafsa or simply EGSG for short, is a Tunisian football club based in Gafsa. The club was founded in 1967 and its colours are green and yellow. Their home stadium, Gafsa Olympic Stadium, has a capacity of 7,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1.

Official honours

Type	Competition	Titles	Winning Seasons
Domestic	Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 2	1	2022-23

Performance in CAF competitions

• CAF Confederation Cup: 1 appearance

2007 – Intermediate Round

Evolution

• 1968–69 : Division III (South-West)
• 1969–70 : Division II
• 1970–72 : Division III (South-West)
• 1972–76 : Division II (Centre-South)
• 1976–78 : Division III (South-West)
• 1978–80 : Division II (Centre-South)
• 1980–83 : Division III (South-West)
• 1983–88 : Division II (South)
• 1988–90 : Division I (Centre-South)
• 1990–91 : Honor Division
• 1991–93 : Division I (Centre-South)
• 1993–96 : Honor Division
• 1996–00 : Honor Division (South)
• 2000–05 : League II
• 2005–2016 : League I
• 2016-23 : League II
• 2023–?? : League I

Former coaches

Noureddine Ben Ammar (1968–69) Omrane Fitouri (1969–71) Abdelwahab Lahmar (1971–72) Abdelhafidh Arfa (1972–74) Omrane Fitouri (1974) Abdelhafidh Arfa (1974–77) Abdelwahab Lahmar (1977–78) Amor Bellil (1978–79) Mustapha Jouili (1979–80) Sassi Belhoula (1980–81) Abdelhafidh Arfa (1981–82) Abid Mchala (1982–83) Abdelwahab Lahmar (1983–84) Mohamed El Abed (1984–85) Abdelhafidh Arfa (1985–86) Noureddine Ben Ammar (1986) Mohamed El Abed (1986–87) Sassi Belhoula (1987) Laaribi (1987–88) Abdeljelil Ben Miled (1988) Ezzedine Khémila (1988) Mohamed Salah Jedidi (1988–89) Mohamed El Abed (1989–90) Rojkov (1990–91) Fakher Trigui (1991)

Hassen Feddou (1991–92) Ezzedine Khémila (1992–93) Abderrahmane Rahmouni (1993) Abdelhafidh Arfa (1993–94) Ezzedine Khémila (1994–95) Wahid Hidoussi (1995–96) Belhassen Meriah (1996) Abdelaziz Seddik (1996–97) Georgi Guyrov (1997–98) Hédi Kouni (1998) Ammar Souayah (1998–99) Ezzedine Khémila (1999) Youssef Seriati (1999) Moncef Arfaoui (1999) Abdelhafidh Arfa (1999) Mohamed El Abed (1999–00) Georgi Guyrov (2000) Abderrahmane Rahmouni (2000) Ezzedine Khmila (2000–01) Farhat Zarrouk (2001) Momarton (2001–02) Moncef Arfaoui (2002) Mahmoud Ouertani (2002) Sassi Belhoula (2002–03) Mohamed Henkouche (2003)

Ezzedine Khémila (2003) Abdelwahab Lahmar (2003–04) Jalel Kadri (2004–05) Amor Meziane (2005) Farid Ben Belgacem (2005–08) Khaled Ben Yahia (2008) Ezzedine Khémila (2008) Samir Jouili (2008) Abdelaziz Khrouf (2008) Moncef Arfaoui (2008) Mohamed Kouki (2009) Ghazi Ghrairi (June 27, 2009 – Oct 26, 2009) Sami Radhouani (2009–10) Farid Ben Belgacem (June 5, 2010 – Jan 4, 2011) Khaled Ben Sassi (Jan 6, 2011 – June 30, 2011) K. Zouaghi (interim) (Sept 18, 2011 – Dec 12, 2011) Khaled Ben Yahia (Dec 12, 2011 – Oct 3, 2012) Patrick Liewig (Oct 20, 2012 – Nov 28, 2012) Farhat Zarrouk (interim) (Nov 29, 2012 – Dec 9, 2012) Ezzedine Khemila (Dec 10, 2012 – April 1, 2013) Habib Mejri (April 2, 2013 – June 30, 2013) Khaled Ben Yahia (July 9, 2013 – Feb 9, 2014) Lotfi Kadri (Feb 11, 2014 – Feb 17, 2014) Habib Mejri (Feb 19, 2014 – June 30, 2014) Khaled Ben Yahia (July 13, 2014 – Aug 16, 2014)

External links

• Official site
• Fans site