Club Africain ( ar, النادي الإفريقي) is a

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club from

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. The club competes in the

Championnat National A The Championnat National A (CNA) is the highest tier professional basketball league in Tunisia. Established in 1956, the league currently features 10 teams. Étoile Sportive de Radès is the record holder for most titles, with a total of thirteen. ...

. The team has won the national championship four times, the last time being in 2016. Notable players of the team include senior men's Tunisian national basketball team members

Mourad El Mabrouk Mourad El Mabrouk (born 19 October 1986) is a Tunisian professional basketball player who currently plays for Jalaa of the Syrian Basketball League (SBL). Professional career El Mabrouk has played with Club Africain in the Tunisian League. In ...

Marouan Kechrid Marouan Kechrid (born 2 June 1981) is a Tunisian-French former basketball player and current coach. After starting his career with JS Kairouan, Kechrid played the majority of his career in Tunisia and won five CNA championships over an eighteen ...

, Marouen Lahmar, and Naim Dhifallah.

History

The basketball section of

Club Africain Club Africain ( ar, النادي الإفريقي) is a Tunisian football club based in Tunis that competes in the Tunisian Championship. It fields several sports teams, including football, handball, basketball, swimming and volleyball. The foot ...

was established in 1956. The team entered the first-level

in the 1979–80 season. Three years later, in 1982, the club won its first trophy when it captured the

Tunisian Cup The Tunisian Cup , officially named the President's Cup, is the official competition of the Cup in Tunisian football and is considered the second most important local title after the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1. The first cup competition was h ...

. Rival ES Radès was defeated in the final with a score of 86–71. In 1999, a second Tunisian Cup was won after US Monastir was narrowly edged in the final, 72–69. Two years later, the third Cup was captured after beating Monastir again. In 2004, Club Africain won its first Championnat National A championship, after defeating

JS Kairouan Jeunesse Sportive Kairouanaise ( ar, الشبيبة الرياضية القيروانية) or JSK is a football club from Kairouan in Tunisia. Founded in 1942, the team plays in green and white colours. Their ground is Stade Hamda Laouani, whi ...

in the final, 88–87. Naim Dhifallah scored a buzzer-beater with 0.9 seconds on the clock to bring the team its first national title. Four years later, in 2008, Club Africain made its debut at the international stage when it played in the Zone 4 qualifiers for the 2008 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup. In 2014, the team hosted the FIBA Africa Champions Cup and eventually captured the third place in the tournament.

Honours

* Tunisian League (4): 2003–04, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16 *

(6) : 1981–82, 1998–99, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2013–14, 2014–15 *

Tunisian super Cup The Tunisian Super Cup ( ar, كأس السوبر التونسي) or the Tunisia Premier Cup ( ar, كأس تونس الممتازة) was previously called the Tunisian Cup Winners' Cup. It is a Tunisian football competition organized by the Tunis ...

(3) : 2002–03, 2003–04, 2013–14 * Tunisian Federation Cup (4) : 1995, 1998, 2017, 2018

Players

Current roster

Coaches

References

External links

AfricaBasket.com Team PageClub Africain on Instagram
{{DEFAULTSORT:Club Africain (basketball)) Basketball teams established in 1956 Basketball teams in Tunisia

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...