Tunisia national under-20 football team
The Tunisia national under-20 football team (Arabic: منتخب تونس تحت 20 سنة لكرة القدم), nicknamed Les Aigles de Carthage (The Eagles of Carthage or The Carthage Eagles), belongs to the Tunisian Football Federation. Since 1977 the team has played eight times in the African Youth Championship, UNAF U-20 Tournament and twice in the FIFA U-20 World Cup (then known as the "FIFA World Youth Championship").
| Nickname(s) | نسور قرطاج (The Carthage Eagles) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Association | Tunisian Football Federation | ||
| Other affiliation | UAFA (Arab Nations) | ||
| Confederation | CAF (Africa) | ||
| Sub-confederation | UNAF (North Africa) | ||
| Head coach |  Montasser Louhichi | ||
| Home stadium | Hammadi Agrebi Stadium | ||
| FIFA code | TUN | ||
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| First international | |||
Tunisia 0–6 Mexico  (Tunis, Tunisia;27 June 1977) | |||
| Biggest win | |||
Tunisia 5-0 Libya .svg.png.webp){kind=small} (Tunis, Tunisia;20 July 2002) | |||
| Biggest defeat | |||
| Tunisia 0–6 Mexico (Tunis, Tunisia;27 June 1977) | |||
| African Youth Championship | |||
| Appearances | 7 (first in 1979) | ||
| Best result | Runners-up (1):  1985 | ||
| UNAF U-20 Tournament | |||
| Appearances | 13 (first in 2005) | ||
| Best result | Champions (8):  :2005, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 | ||
| Arab Cup U-20 | |||
| Appearances | 4 (first in 2012) | ||
| Best result | Champions (1): :2012 | ||
| FIFA U-20 World Cup | |||
| Appearances | 2 (first in 1977) | ||
| Best result | Group stage (1977, 1985) | ||
History
Competition records
Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place
- Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.
FIFA U-20 World Cup record
| FIFA U-20 World Cup | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appearances: 3 | ||||||||
| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA |
| 1977 | Group stage | 14th | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
 1979 | Did not qualify | |||||||
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} 1981 | ||||||||
| 1983 | ||||||||
 1985 | Group stage | 16th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
 1987 | Did not qualify | |||||||
 1989 | ||||||||
 1991 | ||||||||
| 1993 | ||||||||
 1995 | ||||||||
 1997 | ||||||||
 1999 | ||||||||
 2001 | ||||||||
 2003 | ||||||||
 2005 | ||||||||
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} 2007 | ||||||||
 2009 | ||||||||
 2011 | ||||||||
 2013 | ||||||||
 2015 | ||||||||
 2017 | ||||||||
 2019 | ||||||||
| 2023 | Qualified | |||||||
| Total | Group stage | 3/23 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 13 |
Africa U-20 Cup of Nations record
| Africa U-20 Cup of Nations | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appearances: 7 | ||||||||
| Year | Round | Position | GP | W | D | L | GS | GA |
 1979 | Second round | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1981 | Second round | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1983 | First round | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1985 | Final | 2nd | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1987 | Quarter-finals | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1989 | First round | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1991 | Withdrew after qualification | |||||||
 1993 | did not qualify | |||||||
| 1995 | ||||||||
 1997 | ||||||||
 1999 | ||||||||
 2001 | ||||||||
 2003 | ||||||||
 2005 | ||||||||
 2007 | ||||||||
 2009 | ||||||||
 2011 | ||||||||
 2013 | ||||||||
 2015 | ||||||||
 2017 | ||||||||
 2019 | ||||||||
 2021 | Semi finals | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2023 | Semi finals | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 |
| Total | Runners-up | 7/22 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Arab Cup U-20 record
| Arab Cup U-20 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appearances: 4 | ||||||||
| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA |
| 2011 | did not participate | |||||||
 2012 | Champions | 1st | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 9 |
| 2014 | Cancelled | |||||||
| 2020 | Runners-up | 2nd | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 |
| 2021 | Semi-finals | 4th | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
| 2022 | Quarter-finals | 5th | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
| Total | Best: Champions | 4 / 5 | 19 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 39 | 16 |
UNAF U-20 Tournament record
| UNAF U-20 Tournament | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appearances: 13 | ||||||||
| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA |
| 2005 | Champions | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2006 | Third Place | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2007 | Champions | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2008 | Runner-up | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2009 | Champions | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 2010 | Runner-up | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
 2011 | did not participate | |||||||
| 2012 | Champions | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2012 | Fifth Place | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2014 | Fourth Place | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2015 | Runner-up | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2016 | canceled | |||||||
| 2019 | Champions | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2020 | Champions | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | Champions | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2022 | Champions | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Total | 14/15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Current squad
The following players were called up for the 2021 UNAF U-20 Tournament.[1]
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Club | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | GK | Raed Gazeh | ||||
| 22 | GK | Bechir Abbasi | ||||
| 1 | GK | Wassim Maghzouani | ||||
| 24 | DF | Mohamed Amine Khechiche | ||||
| 5 | DF | Iskander Mzoughi | ||||
| 4 | DF | Makrem Sghaier | ||||
| 2 | DF | Mahmoud Gharbel | ||||
| 25 | DF | Heni Ben Salah | ||||
| 3 | DF | Rayen Hadded | ||||
| 26 | MF | Khalil Elloumi | ||||
| 21 | MF | Firas Mehdouani | ||||
| 22 | MF | Firas Ben Njima | ||||
| 6 | MF | Gaith Wahbi | ||||
| 8 | MF | Yassine Dridi | ||||
| 19 | MF | Baraket Hmidi | ||||
| 17 | MF | Malek Mehri | ||||
| 7 | FW | Aziz Abid | ||||
| 15 | FW | MaKolm Hmidi | ||||
| 18 | FW | Mouhamed Dhaoui | ||||
| 10 | FW | Rayen Hamrouni | ||||
| 11 | FW | Hedi Jertila | ||||
| 12 | FW | Adem Gareb | ||||
| 9 | FW | Youssef Snana | ||||
| 14 | Salah Barhoumi | |||||
Honours
See also
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