CS Sfaxien

CS Sfaxien

Full name	Club Sportif Sfaxien
Nickname(s)	Juventus Al Arab (Juventus of The Arabs)
Founded	28 mai 1928 (as Club Tunisien)
Ground	Stade Taïeb Mhiri Sfax, Tunisia (Capacity: 20,000)
Chairman	Moncef Sallemi
Manager	Reinhard Stumpf
League	CLP-1
Home colours Away colours

Club Sportif Sfaxien (Arabic: النادي الرياضي الصفاقسي‎, often referred to as CSS) is a multi-sport club from Sfax in Tunisia.

History

The club was founded in 1928 as Club Tunisien, playing in green and red stripes. The team was promoted to the Tunisian First Division in 1947. In 1950, the first supporters group was founded by Béchir Fendri, and in 1962 the club was renamed "Club Sportif Sfaxien" and team colours were changed to the current black and white stripes.

CSS celebrated their half-centenary in 1978 by winning the Tunisian League title, largely thanks to the impressive performances of their Tunisian internationals, notably Hamadi Agrebi, Mohamed Ali Akid and Mokhtar Dhouib.

In November 1998, CSS captured the CAF Cup for the first time, beating Senegal's ASC Jeanne d'Arc in the final.

In more recent times, CSS reached the final of the CAF Champions League 2006 but were narrowly beaten in dramatic fashion, with a late second leg goal condemning them to a 2-1 aggregate defeat against Al Ahly of Egypt.

CSS won the 2007 CAF Confederation Cup. A 4-2 first leg victory in Sudan against Al Merreikh preceded a 1-0 second leg win, with CSS lifting the trophy in front of their own fans at the Stade Taïeb Mhiri. In November 2008, CSS faced local rivals Etoile du Sahel (ESS) in the final of the CAF Confederation Cup. CSS became the most successful club in recent history of the tournament when a 0-0 draw in Sfax was followed by a 2-2 draw in Sousse, sending the cup back to Sfax for the second year in a row.

Club Sportif Sfaxien is considered by the IFFHS as one of the five best teams in Africa in this century.

CS Sfaxien's active sections
Football	Basketball	Volleyball
Rugby	Weightlifting	Boxing
Judo

Crests

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  CSS logo from 1962.

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  CSS logo for the press & the media since 2000.

Achievements

Performance in national & domestic competitions

• Tunisian League: 7

1969, 1971, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1995, 2005

• Tunisian President Cup: 4

1971, 1995, 2004, 2009

• Tunisian League Cup: 1

2003

Performance in CAF competitions

• CAF Champions League: 2 appearance

2006 - Runner-up

• CAF Cup: 1 appearance

1998 - Winner

• CAF Confederation Cup: 3 appearances

2007 - Winner

2008 - Winner

2010 - Runner-up

• CAF Super Cup: 2 appearances

2008 - Runner-up

2009 - Runner-up

• African Cup of Champions Clubs: 2 appearances

1984 - First Round

1996 - Semi-Finals

Performance in Nord African competitions

• North African Cup Winners Cup: 1

2009 - Winner

• Maghreb Champions Cup: 0

Runner-up: 1970, 1971

Performance in UAFA competitions

• Arab Champions League: 2

2000, 2004

Runner-up : 2005

• Abha International Tournament: 1

1999

Players

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Jassem Khalloufi 2 DF Fateh Gharbi 3 MF Haithem Mrabet 4 MF Chaker Barguaoui 5 DF Rabii Ouerghemmi 8 DF Maman Youssoufou 9 MF Saiefallah Yahyaoui 10 MF Ali Maaloul 11 FW Salema Kasdaoui 12 MF Mohamed Ali Moncer 13 MF Chadi Hammami 14 MF Ghazi Challouf 15 FW Uche Agba

No. Position Player 16 GK Selim Rebai 17 MF Moez Aloulou 19 FW Rabie Msallemi 20 FW Idrissa Kouyate 20 FW Ibrahim Khalil Sylla 22 MF Maher Haddad 25 DF Mahmoud Ben Salah 26 MF Naby Soumah 30 DF Amine Abbes 31 DF Hichem Abbes 32 GK Raouf Ratouli 33 DF Hamdi Rouid TBA FW Daouda Kamilou

Notable former players

Goalkeepers Naceur Bedoui Abdelwahed Ben Abdallah Khaled Fadhel Sahbi Sebai Defenders Wissem Abdi Ilyes Ben Salah Mokhtar Dhouib Abdallah Hajri Imed Ketata Raouf Najar Habib Tounsi Hatem Trabelsi Nizar Trabelsi Sami Trabelsi

Midfielders Tarak Taieb Papa Malick Ba Hammadi Agrebi Hafed Ben Salah Anis Boujelbene Monji Dalhoum Sofiène Fkih Ali Graja Alaya Sassi Skander Souayah Chokri Trabelsi

Forwards Mourad Jahmoun Blaise Lelo Mbele Apoko Joetex Asamoah Frimpong Tenema N'Diaye Mohamed Ali Akid Amor Ben Tahar Imed Ben Younes Mohamed Salah Meftah

Managers

1947-48 : Taoufik Ben Slama 1948-49 : Xavier Scotto 1949-50 : Marc Orsoni 1950-51 : Ehms 1951-52 : Gallo 1953-55 : Habib Marzouk 1955-57 : Mohamed Najjar 1957-58 : Habib Marzouk, Habib Fendri 1958-59 : Mongi Keskes 1959-60 : Mokhtar Arribi, Saïd Haddad (Interim) 1960-61 : Mokhtar Arribi, Habib Marzouk 1961-66 : Milan Kristic 1966-68 : Branislav 1968-71 : Popadic 1971-72 : Georgevic 1972-73 : Popadic 1973-74 : Ammar Nahali 1974-75 : Rado Radocijic 1975-76 : Rado Radocijic, Habib Jerbi

1976-78 : Popov 1978-79 : Rado Radocijic 1979-80 : Mongi Delhoum 1980-81 : Michael Pfeiffer 1981-82 : Mucha, Stevans 1982-84 : Popov 1984-85 : Kneier, Popov 1985-86 : Popov, Ahmed Ouannes 1986-87 : Hervé Revelli, Ryszard Kulesza 1987-88 : Mokhtar Tlili 1988-89 : Gregors Georgevic 1989-90 : Peter Kaminov, Rado Radocijic, Aladjov, Habib Jerbi 1990-91 : Kneier, Mongi Delhoum 1991-92 : Mongi Delhoum, Habib Jerbi, Jamaleddine Ayadi 1992-93 : Amor Dhib 1993-94 : Amor Dhib, José Paolo Rubim 1994-95 : José Paolo Rubim

1995-96 : Ferreira, Werner Olk, José Paolo Rubim 1996-97 : José Paolo Rubim, Faouzi Benzarti puis Eckhard Krautzun 1997-98 : Yuri Sebastienko, Habib Mejri puis Eckhard Krautzun 1998-99 : Eckhard Krautzun 1999-00 : Dos Santos, Khaled Ben Yahya 2000-01 : Miodrag Ješić, Riadh Charfi 2001-02 : Sylvester Takac, Milos, Manuel Amoros 2002-03 : Otto Pfister 2003-04 : Mrad Mahjoub 2004-06 : Michel Decastel 2006-07 : Mrad Mahjoub 2007-08 : Michel Decastel, Khaled Ben Yahya 2008-09 : Ghazi Ghrayri 2009-10 : Azzedine Aït Djoudi then Luka Peruzović 2010-11 : Pierre Lechantre 2011-2.. : Nabil Kouki

Presidents

1928-31 : Zouhair Ayadi 1931-32 : Ali Cherif 1932-34 : Messaoud Ben Saad 1934-36 : Ahmed Bouslama 1936-38 : Abderrahmane Aloulou 1938-46 : Mohamed Elloumi 1946-48 : Habib Meziou 1948-50 : Abdelkader Jemal 1950-51 : Abdelaziz Hammami 1951-53 : Tahar Elleuch 1953-54 : Tahar Gargouri 1954-55 : Mohamed Halouani

1955-56 : Ahmed Akrout 1956-61 : Habib Larguech 1961-64 : Abdesselem Kallel 1964-65 : Mohamed Driss 1965-66 : Taoufik Zahaf 1966-67 : Hédi Bouricha 1967-70 : Taoufik Zahaf 1970-72 : Ahmed Fourati 1972-75 : Taoufik Zahaf 1975-76 : Mohamed Mezghanni 1976-78 : Taoufik Zahaf 1978-79 : Ismaïl Baklouti

1979-80 : Hédi Bouricha 1980-88 : Abdelaziz Ben Abdallah 1988-89 : Mohamed Aloulou 1989-90 : Taoufik Zahaf 1990-92 : Ismaïl Baklouti 1992-96 : Abdelaziz Ben Abdallah 1996-98 : Jamel Arem 1998-02 : Lotfi Abdennadher 2002-08 : Slaheddine Zahaf 2008-10 : Moncef Sellami 2010-12 : Naoufel Zahaf

External links

• (French) Official site