Montassar Talbi
Footballer (born 1998)
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Montassar Omar Talbi (Arabic: مُنْتَصِر عُمَر الطَّالِبِيّ; born 26 May 1998) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Ligue 1 club Lorient. Born in France, he plays for the Tunisia national team.
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Talbi with Rubin Kazan in 2021 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Montassar Omar Talbi[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 26 May 1998[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Paris, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Centre-back | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Lorient | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2006 | Paris FC | ||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2010 | Les Lilas | ||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2017 | Espérance de Tunis | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Espérance de Tunis | 14 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2021 | Çaykur Rizespor | 49 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Benevento | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | Rubin Kazan | 25 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Lorient | 93 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Tunisia U23 | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021– | Tunisia | 59 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 21:31, 10 May 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 23:00, 27 December 2025 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Club career
Born in France, Talbi began playing football with the youth academies of Paris FC and FC Les Lilas. His family had to move back to Tunisia, and at the age of 12 Talbi moved to the academy of Espérance de Tunis, and moved up through the youth levels.[3] Talbi made his professional debut with ES Tunis in a 0–0 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 tie with CS Sfaxien on 2 April 2017.[4] On 20 June 2018, Talbi signed with Çaykur Rizespor in the Turkish Süper Lig.[5]
On 9 August 2021, he signed a four-year contract with Russian Premier League club FC Rubin Kazan.[6]
On 18 July 2022, Talbi signed a five-year contract with Lorient in France.[7]
International career
Talbi is a youth international for the Tunisia 23s and made his debut in a 2–0 friendly loss to the Italy 23s on 15 October 2018.[8][9] He debuted with the senior Tunisia national team in a 2–1 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualification win over Equatorial Guinea on 28 March 2021.[10]
He was later included for the squad of the 2021 FIFA Arab Cup, despite not being released by the Russian club. He reunited with the team following Rubin's 2–0 away defeat to Krylia Sovetov Samara and made his debut in the cup in the semi-finals against Egypt, which was won by Tunisia 1–0.[citation needed]
Career statistics
- As of 10 May 2025
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Espérance de Tunis | 2016–17 | Tunisian Ligue 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7[a] | 0 | 6[b] | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| 2017–18 | Tunisian Ligue 1 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3[c] | 0 | 17 | 1 | |
| Total | 14 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 32 | 1 | ||
| Çaykur Rizespor | 2018–19 | Süper Lig | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | — | — | 5 | 1 | ||
| 2019–20 | Süper Lig | 27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 29 | 0 | |||
| 2020–21 | Süper Lig | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 23 | 1 | |||
| Total | 49 | 1 | 8 | 1 | — | — | 57 | 2 | ||||
| Rubin Kazan | 2021–22 | Russian Premier League | 25 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 27 | 0 | ||
| Total | 25 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 27 | 0 | ||||
| Lorient | 2022–23 | Ligue 1 | 38 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 41 | 1 | ||
| 2023–24 | Ligue 1 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 25 | 0 | |||
| 2024–25 | Ligue 2 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 31 | 1 | |||
| Total | 93 | 2 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 97 | 2 | ||||
| Career total | 181 | 4 | 16 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 213 | 5 | ||
- Appearances in the CAF Champions League
- Appearances in the championship group play-offs
- Appearances in the Arab Club Champions Cup
International goals
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1. | 27 September 2022 | Parc des Princes, Paris, France |  Brazil | 1–1 | 1–5 | Friendly |
| 2. | 20 June 2023 | 19 May 1956 Stadium, Annaba, Algeria |  Algeria | 1–0 | 1–1 | |
| 3. | 14 November 2025 | Hammadi Agrebi Stadium, Radès, Tunisia |  Jordan | 2–2 | 3–2 | |
| 4. | 27 December 2025 | Fez Stadium, Fez, Morocco |  Nigeria | 1–3 | 2–3 | 2025 Africa Cup of Nations |
Honours
Espérance de Tunis
Lorient
Tunisia
- Kirin Cup Soccer: 2022
- FIFA Arab Cup runner-up: 2021
Individual
- Tunisian Footballer of the Year: 2023
- UNFP Ligue 2 Team of the Year: 2024–25[12]
