Espérance Sportive de Tunis Handball (

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Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...

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Tunis Tunis (, ') is the capital city, capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as "Grand Tunis", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. , it is the third-largest city in the Maghreb region (after Casabl ...

, that plays in Tunisian Professional Handball League. The club holds 36 domestic league titles, setting a world record, as well as various continental and regional titles.

History

The most titled club in the country, Espérance Sportive de Tunis joined the national division at the end of the 1958–1959 season with a squad led by Moncef Hajjar, Lamine Kallel, Chedly Ben Slimane, and Mongi Haddad. Subsequently, the team won its first title in 1963 by defeating Al Mansoura Chaabia of Hammam Lif in the cup final. Among its key players were Moncef Hajjar, Mounir Jelili, Moncef Besbes, Fawzi Sbabti, Faouzi Ksouri, Khaled Achour, Zouheir Khenissi, Habib Yagouta, Sami Agrebi, Mohamed Madi, Karim Zaghouani, Issam Tej, Wissem Hmam, Jaleleddine Touati, Mahmoud Gharbi, and Heykel Megannem. Espérance's dominance extended to the Arab Club Championship, where they won the first four editions before boycotting the competition for non-sporting reasons. The club also boasts three African Cup Winners' Cups (won in 2003, 2014, and 2015), one African Champions League title (won in 2013), and two African Super Cups (won in 2014 and 2016). The team participated in the

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in 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2022.

Honours

National titles

* Tunisian Handball League :(36) (Record) :Champions : 1966–67, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1994–95, 1996–97, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2022–23, 2023–24. * Tunisian Handball Cup :(30) (Record) ::Champions : 1959–60, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 2001–02, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2012–13, 2017–18, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24. * Tunisian Handball Super Cup :(2) ::Winners : 1999–00, 2001–02 * Federation Cup :(1) ::Winners : 2019

International titles

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Champions :

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Runners-up : 1993, 2005,

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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African Handball Cup Winners' Cup :(4) :* Gold medal africa

Champions : 2003,

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, 2024 :* Silver medal africa

Runners-up : 2004,

African Handball Super Cup :(2) :* Gold medal africa

Winners:

Runners-up : 2004 , 2025

Regional titles

* Arab Handball Championship of Champions :(7) :: Simple gold cup

Champions : 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 2018, 2021,

Runners-up : 1980, 2001 * Arab Handball Championship of Winners' Cup :(1) :: Simple gold cup

Champions :

* Arab Handball Super Cup :(1) :: Simple gold cup

Champions : 2019 *

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: Winners (19): 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1994–95, 2004–05, 2012–13 * Triple : Winners (1): 2012–13

Worldwide

* Super Globe ** Fifth-Place (3):

** Sixth-Place (1):

Team

Current squad

Notable players

Wissem Hmam Wissem Hmam (; born 21 April 1981) is a Tunisian handball player. Hmam was ranked as the top scorer in the 2005 World Men's Handball Championship, 2005 World Championship, scoring a total of 81 goals and helping Tunisia reach the semifinals in t ...

* Heykel Megannem * Mahmoud Gharbi * Jaleleddine Touati * Makrem Jerou * Kamel Alouini

External links

Official websiteOfficial Facebook Page
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