Tunisia national rugby union team

Tunisia

Nicknames	نسور قرطاج (The Carthage Eagles)
Union	Tunisian Rugby Federation
Head coach	Danie de Villiers
Captain	Hedi Souid
First colours Second colours
World Rugby ranking
Current	38 (as of 04 April 2022)
First international
Netherlands 12 - 0 Tunisia (1 July 1979)
Biggest win
Tunisia 52 - 5 Kenya (20 September 1997)
Biggest defeat
Namibia 118 - 0 Tunisia (23 June 2018)
World Cup
Appearances	0

The Tunisia national rugby union team is a third tier rugby union nation. They first started competing in 1979 and they competed in the African qualification for the 2007 Rugby World Cup.

Tunisia also competes annually in the Africa Cup.

History

Main article: Rugby union in Tunisia

Tunisia played their first match on July 1 of 1979 where they faced the Netherlands, losing 12 points to nil. Subsequent matches were played against Yugoslavia, Spain and West Germany.

Tunisia continued to play these sides throughout the early 1980s. Their first win came in 1982, when they beat Portugal, defeating them, 16 points to 13. A period from 1982 through to 1983 saw the team undefeated for a number of games. Tunisia went on to find fair success during the middle of the decade, winning a host of games. Tunisia played some of the stronger rugby union nations towards the end of the decade, for example, Italy, Romania and the United States, though Tunisia lost these matches, they performed well in many.

Tunisia went on to find moderate success throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s. They saw similar results through the latter stages of the 1990s, winning a fair amount of their games, they competed mainly against Zimbabwe and the Netherlands among others.

Tunisia participated in round 2 of the 2007 Rugby World Cup Africa qualification.

Tunisia participated for qualification for the 2011 Rugby World Cup again via Africa qualification coming second to Namibia losing 22-10. Therefore, eligible for qualifying via the inter-continental route, Tunisia lost on the first hurdle to Romania 56-13

Overall Record

Team	Mat	Won	Lost	Draw	%	For	Aga	Diff
Algeria	3	1	2	0	33.00	40	37	+3
Andorra	4	3	1	0	75.00	80	48	+32
Arabian Gulf	2	1	1	0	50.00	36	34	+2
Barbarians	1	0	1	0	0.00	10	33	-23
Belgium	8	5	2	1	68.75	119	110	+9
Cameroon	2	2	0	0	100.00	36	15	+21
Czech Republic	5	3	2	0	60.00	95	62	+33
Denmark	1	1	0	0	100.00	19	13	+6
France	4	0	4	0	0.00	15	200	-185
French Military	1	0	1	0	0.00	0	58	-58
Germany	4	2	2	0	50.00	53	58	-5
Hong Kong	2	1	1	0	50.00	41	34	+7
Italy	3	0	3	0	0.00	19	60	-41
Italy A	1	0	1	0	0.00	8	51	-43
Ivory Coast	8	2	5	1	31.25	75	137	-62
Kenya	7	3	4	0	42.85	194	141	+53
Latvia	1	1	0	0	100.00	31	20	+11
Luxembourg	1	1	0	0	100.00	32	5	+27
Morocco	20	4	14	2	25.00	212	324	-112
Namibia	11	3	8	0	42.85	159	368	-212
Netherlands	5	1	4	0	20.00	53	86	-33
Poland	5	2	3	0	40.00	75	76	-1
Portugal	9	6	3	0	66.66	128	120	+8
Romania	5	1	4	0	20.00	42	189	-147
Russia	4	0	4	0	0.00	51	78	-27
Senegal	2	2	0	0	100.00	23	17	+6
Serbia	5	3	2	0	60.00	108	51	+57
South Africa Under-23s	1	0	1	0	0.00	15	47	-32
Spain	5	1	4	0	20.00	51	141	-90
Spain Under-23s	1	0	1	0	0.00	3	7	-4
Sweden	1	1	0	0	100.00	25	6	+19
Switzerland	2	2	0	0	100.00	44	6	+38
Uganda	2	2	0	0	100.00	79	30	+49
United Arab Emirates	1	1	0	0	100.00	18	7	+11
United States	1	0	1	0	0.00	13	47	-34
Zimbabwe	5	0	3	2	60.00	77	142	-65
Total	137	55	78	4	66.79	2004	2575	-571

World Cup Record

World Cup record									World Cup Qualification record
Year	Round	P	W	D	L	F	A		P	W	D	L	F	A
1987		Did not qualify							-
1991									3	2	0	1	41	43
1995									2	0	0	2	21	25
1999									4	2	0	2	92	77
2003									5	3	0	2	99	110
2007									4	2	0	2	91	67
2011									7	4	0	3	175	151
2015									2	1	0	1	56	57
2019									13	6	0	7	264	581
2023	To be determined								To be determined
Total	0/9	0	0	0	0	0	0	40	20	0	20	839	1111

Africa Cup Record

Africa Cup record
Year	Round	P	W	D	L	F	A
- 2000	Round 1	2	0	0	2	29	52
- 2001	Round 1	4	0	1	3	28	104
- 2002	Runner-up	4	3	0	1	83	77
- 2003	Round 1	2	0	0	2	0	42
- 2004	Round 1	3	1	0	2	26	28
- 2005	Round 1	2	0	0	2	18	27
- 2006	Round 1	4	2	0	2	91	67
- 2007	Round 1	2	1	0	1	25	22
- 2008-09	Runner-up	6	4	0	2	162	95
- 2010	cancelled
- 2011	Runner-up	1	0	0	1	7	16
- 2012	Round 1	2	0	0	2	38	61
- 2013	Division 1B Runner-up	2	1	0	1	56	57
- 2014	Division 1B winner	2	2	0	0	48	20
- 2015	Division 1A 4th	3	0	0	3	37	87
- 2016	Division 1B winner	3	3	0	0	107	30
- 2017	Gold Cup 4th	5	2	0	3	91	272
- 2018	Gold Cup 4th	5	2	0	3	66	279
- 2019	cancelled
- 2019–20	cancelled
2021-22		Withdrew
Total	20/20	52	21	1	30	912	1336

Current squad

Players called up to Tunisia 2021 Africa Cup preparation squad.

• Head Coach:
• Assistant Coach:
• Assistant Coach:
• Assistant Coach:

Forwards

Player	Position	Club

Backs

Player	Position	Club

External links

• Tunisia at Rugbydata.com