Tunisia men's national volleyball team
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Nickname(s)نسور قرطاج
(Eagles of Carthage)
(Eagles of Carthage)
AssociationTunisian Volleyball Federation
ConfederationCAVB
Head coach
Camillo Placì
Camillo Placì | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | نسور قرطاج (Eagles of Carthage) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Association | Tunisian Volleyball Federation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Confederation | CAVB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach | Camillo Placì | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIVB ranking | 37  (5 October 2025)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Summer Olympics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 7 (First in 1972) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | 9th (1984) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Championship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 12 (First in 1962) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | 12th (2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 9 (First in 1969) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | 8th : (1981, 1991) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| African Championship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 22 (First in 1967) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result |  (1967, 1971, 1979, 1987, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2017, 2019, 2021) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Honours
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The Tunisia men's national volleyball team (Arabic: منتخب تونس لكرة الطائرة), nicknamed Les Aigles de Carthage (The Eagles of Carthage or The Carthage Eagles), represents Tunisia in international volleyball competitions and friendly matches. The team has won a medal in almost every continental championships they participated since 1967 (except in 2009 and 2023). Eleven-time African Championship winners (1967, 1971, 1979, 1987, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2017, 2019, 2021), Tunisia have participated in seven Olympics, with a best finish of ninth at Los Angeles 1984.[citation needed]
Olympic Games
| Olympic Games record | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Rank | GP | MW | ML | SW | SL | |||
 1964 |
Did not qualify | |||||||||
 1968 |
Withdrew | |||||||||
 1972 |
Preliminary round | 12th | 6 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 18 | |||
 1976 |
Did not qualify | |||||||||
 1980 |
Withdrew | |||||||||
 1984 |
Preliminary round | 9th | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 14 | |||
 1988 |
Preliminary round | 12th | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 21 | |||
 1992 |
Did not qualify | |||||||||
| 1996 |
Preliminary round | 11th | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 15 | |||
 2000 |
Did not qualify | |||||||||
 2004 |
Preliminary round | 11th | 5 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 15 | |||
 2008 |
Did not qualify | |||||||||
 2012 |
Preliminary round | 11th | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 15 | |||
 2016 |
Did not qualify | |||||||||
| 2020 |
Preliminary round | 11th | 5 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 15 | |||
 2024 |
Did not qualify | |||||||||
| 2028 |
To be determined | |||||||||
| 2032 | ||||||||||
| Total | Preliminary round | 7/17 | 38 | 1 | 37 | 13 | 113 | |||
World Championship
| FIVB World Championships record | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Rank | GP | MW | ML | SW | SL | |||
 1949 |
Did not enter | |||||||||
 1952 | ||||||||||
| 1956 | ||||||||||
 1960 | ||||||||||
| 1962 |
Withdrew | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 12 | ||||
| 1966 |
Did not enter | |||||||||
 1970 |
Group stages | 22nd | 11 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 28 | |||
| 1974 |
Group stages | 18th | 11 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 28 | |||
| 1978 |
Group stages | 24th | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 27 | |||
 1982 |
Group stages | 21st | 9 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 20 | |||
 1986 |
Did not qualify | |||||||||
 1990 | ||||||||||
| 1994 | ||||||||||
 1998 | ||||||||||
| 2002 |
Group stages | 19th | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | |||
| 2006 |
Second round | 15th | 9 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 22 | |||
| 2010 |
Group stages | 19th | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | |||
 2014 |
Group stages | 21st | 5 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 15 | |||
| 2018 |
Group stages | 23rd | 5 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 15 | |||
 2022 |
Round of 16 | 16th | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |||
 2025 |
Round of 16 | 12th | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | |||
| 2027 |
to be determined | |||||||||
 2029 | ||||||||||
| Total | 12/22 | 77 | 16 | 61 | 71 | 200 | ||||
World Cup
| World Cup record | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Rank | GP | MW | ML | SW | SL | ||||
| 1965 |
Did not qualify | ||||||||||
 1969 |
11th | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 18 | |||||
| 1977 |
Did not qualify | ||||||||||
| 1981 |
8th | 7 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 21 | |||||
| 1985 |
Did not qualify | ||||||||||
| 1989 | |||||||||||
| 1991 |
8th | 8 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 16 | |||||
| 1995 |
12th | 11 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 33 | |||||
| 1999 |
12th | 11 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 33 | |||||
| 2003 |
11th | 11 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 30 | |||||
| 2007 |
12th | 11 | 1 | 10 | 12 | 32 | |||||
| 2011 |
Did not qualify | ||||||||||
| 2015 |
12th | 11 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 33 | |||||
| 2019 |
12th | 11 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 31 | |||||
| Total | 10/15 | 85 | 8 | 86 | 55 | 242 | |||||
World League
| World League record | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Rank | GP | MW | ML | SW | SL | ||||
| 1990 |
1990 to 2013 Did not participate | ||||||||||
| 2013 | |||||||||||
| 2014 |
G3 GS | 27th | 6 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 17 | ||||
| 2015 |
G3 GS | 30th | 6 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 16 | ||||
| 2016 |
G3 GS | 33rd | 6 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | ||||
| 2017 |
G3 GS | 30th | 6 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 12 | ||||
| Total | 4/28 | 24 | 9 | 15 | 36 | 58 | |||||
Challenger Cup
| FIVB Challenger Cup record | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Rank | GP | MW | ML | SW | SL | ||||
 2018 |
Did not enter | ||||||||||
| 2019 | |||||||||||
| 2020 |
Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic | ||||||||||
| 2021 | |||||||||||
| 2022 |
Quarter-finals | 6th | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| 2023 |
Quarter-finals | 8th | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | ||||
| 2024 |
Did not qualify | ||||||||||
| Total | Quarter-finals | 2/5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | ||||
African Championship
Champions Runners up Third place
- Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.
| African Volleyball Championship record | |||||||||||
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| Year | Round | Rank | GP | MW | ML | SW | SL | ||||
 1967 |
Champions | 1st | 3 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 0 | ||||
 1971 |
Champions | 1st | 5 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 3 | ||||
| 1976 |
Runners-up | 2nd | 5 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 4 | ||||
 1979 |
Champions | 1st | 3 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 0 | ||||
| 1983 |
Runners-up | 2nd | 6 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 6 | ||||
| 1987 |
Champions | 1st | 5 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 2 | ||||
 1989 |
Did not compete | ||||||||||
| 1991 |
Third place | 3rd | 5 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 6 | ||||
 1993 |
Runners-up | 2nd | 5 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 5 | ||||
| 1995 |
Champions | 1st | 5 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 2 | ||||
 1997 |
Champions | 1st | 5 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 2 | ||||
| 1999 |
Champions | 1st | 4 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 2 | ||||
| 2001 |
Did not compete | ||||||||||
| 2003 |
Champions | 1st | 5 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 4 | ||||
| 2005 |
Runners-up | 2nd | 6 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 6 | ||||
 2007 |
Runners-up | 2nd | 6 | 5 | 1 | 17 | 3 | ||||
 2009 |
Group stages | 5th | 6 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 7 | ||||
| 2011 |
Third place | 3rd | 5 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 7 | ||||
| 2013 |
Runners-up | 2nd | 5 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 8 | ||||
| 2015 |
Runners-up | 2nd | 6 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 9 | ||||
| 2017 |
Champions | 1st | 6 | 6 | 0 | 18 | 4 | ||||
| 2019 |
Champions | 1st | 6 | 6 | 0 | 18 | 3 | ||||
 2021 |
Champions | 1st | 6 | 6 | 0 | 18 | 2 | ||||
| 2023 |
Quarter-finals | 5th | 7 | 6 | 1 | 19 | 3 | ||||
| Total | 11 Titles | 22/24 | 114 | 98 | 16 | 326 | 88 | ||||
Arab Championship
| Arab Championship record | |||||||||||
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| Year | Round | Rank | GP | MW | ML | SW | SL | ||||
 1977 |
Did not compete | ||||||||||
 1980 |
Champions | 1st | |||||||||
| 1984 |
Champions | 1st | |||||||||
 1986 |
Did not compete | ||||||||||
 1988 |
Champions | 1st | |||||||||
| 1992 |
Did not compete | ||||||||||
 1994 |
Third place | 3rd | |||||||||
| 1996 |
Champions | 1st | |||||||||
| 1998 |
Runners-up | 2nd | |||||||||
| 2000 |
Champions | 1st | |||||||||
| 2002 |
Champions | 1st | |||||||||
| 2006 |
Champions | 1st | 6 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 8 | ||||
| 2008 |
Runners-up | 2nd | 5 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 5 | ||||
| 2012 |
Champions | 1st | 5 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 2 | ||||
| 2014 |
Did not compete | ||||||||||
| 2016 | |||||||||||
| 2018 | |||||||||||
| 2024 |
Third place | 3rd | |||||||||
| Total | 7 titles | 12/17 | |||||||||
Mediterranean Games
| Mediterranean Games record | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Rank | GP | MW | ML | SW | SL | ||||
 1959 |
Did not compete | ||||||||||
| 1963 | |||||||||||
| 1967 | |||||||||||
 1971 |
Semi-finals | 4th | |||||||||
| 1975 |
Did not compete | ||||||||||
 1979 | |||||||||||
| 1983 | |||||||||||
| 1987 |
Group stages | 5th | |||||||||
| 1991 |
Did not compete | ||||||||||
| 1993 | |||||||||||
| 1997 | |||||||||||
| 2001 |
Runners-up | 2nd | 5 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 4 | ||||
| 2005 |
Semi-finals | 4th | 5 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | ||||
| 2009 |
Semi-finals | 4th | 6 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 10 | ||||
| 2013 |
Runners-up | 2nd | 5 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 8 | ||||
| 2018 |
Quarter-finals | 6th | 6 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| 2022 |
Quarter-finals | 6th | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | ||||
| 2026 |
Future event | ||||||||||
| Total | Runners-up | 8/17 | 32 | 18 | 13 | 63 | 49 | ||||
- * Since 2001.
All-Africa Games
| African Games record | |||||||||||
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| Year | Round | Rank | GP | MW | ML | SW | SL | ||||
 1965 |
Runners-up | 2nd | |||||||||
 1969 |
Disrupted by military coup | ||||||||||
| 1973 |
Runners-up | 2nd | |||||||||
| 1978 |
Champions | 1st | |||||||||
 1987 |
Did not compete | ||||||||||
| 1991 |
Third place | 3rd | |||||||||
 1995 |
Did not compete | ||||||||||
| 1999 | |||||||||||
| 2003 | |||||||||||
| 2007 |
Runners-up | 2nd | 7 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 8 | ||||
 2011 |
Did not compete | ||||||||||
| 2015 | |||||||||||
| 2019 | |||||||||||
 2023 |
Future event | ||||||||||
| Total | 1 Title | 5/11 | |||||||||
Pan Arab Games
| Pan Arab Games record | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Rank | GP | MW | ML | SW | SL | |
| 1957 |
Champions | 1st | ||||||
| 1961 |
Cancelled | |||||||
 1965 |
Did not compete | |||||||
 1976 |
Cancelled | |||||||
| 1985 |
Champions | 1st | ||||||
| 1992 |
Did not compete | |||||||
| 1997 | ||||||||
| 1999 |
Champions | 1st | ||||||
| 2004 |
Third place | 3rd | ||||||
| 2007 |
Group stages | 5th | ||||||
| 2011 |
Did not compete | |||||||
| 2023 | ||||||||
| Total | 3 titles | 5/10 | ||||||
Afro-Arab Volleyball Friendship Cup
| Afro-Arab Volleyball Friendship Cup record | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Rank | GP | MW | ML | SW | SL | ||||
| 1981 |
Champions | 1st | |||||||||
| Total | 1 title | 1/1 | |||||||||
Maghreb Volleyball Championship
| Maghreb Volleyball Championship record | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Rank | GP | MW | ML | SW | SL | ||||
| 1967 |
Champions | 1st | |||||||||
| 1968 |
Champions | 1st | |||||||||
| 1969 |
Champions | 1st | |||||||||
| 1970 |
Champions | 1st | |||||||||
| 1971 |
Champions | 1st | |||||||||
| 1972 |
Champions | 1st | |||||||||
| 1973 |
Champions | 1st | |||||||||
| Total | 7 titles | 7/7 | |||||||||
Others
Gold: 1 time: The Cup of the President of Kazakhstan :2012- Gold: 1 time: Rashed International Tournament (Dubai) :2012
Silver: 1 time: Torneo Internazionale Del Due Mari (Italy) :2023- 11th: Cup of the five continents in Montevideo (Uruguay) :1969
- 16th: Men's European Volleyball Championship in Prague (Czechoslovakia) :1958
Current roster
The following is the Tunisian roster in the 2022 World Championship.[2][3]
Head coach: Antonio Giacobbe
| No. | Name | Date of birth | Height | Weight | Spike | Block | 2022–23 club |
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| 2 | Ahmed Kadhi | 19 April 1989 | 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) | 99 kg (218 lb) | 345 cm (136 in) | 318 cm (125 in) | ES Tunis |
| 3 | Khaled Ben Slimene (C) | 14 December 1994 | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | 78 kg (172 lb) | 290 cm (110 in) | 285 cm (112 in) | ES Tunis |
| 6 | Mohamed Ali Ben Othmen Miladi | 12 May 1991 | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | 73 kg (161 lb) | 315 cm (124 in) | 289 cm (114 in) | ES Tunis |
| 7 | Elyes Karamosli | 22 August 1989 | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) | 99 kg (218 lb) | 330 cm (130 in) | 320 cm (130 in) | ES Tunis |
| 8 | Yassine Abdelhedi | 28 October 1999 | 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) | 83 kg (183 lb) | 352 cm (139 in) | 335 cm (132 in) | Sahel Koweit |
| 9 | Omar Agrebi | 26 August 1992 | 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) | 82 kg (181 lb) | 325 cm (128 in) | 310 cm (120 in) | CS Sfaxien |
| 10 | Hamza Nagga | 29 May 1990 | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | 84 kg (185 lb) | 335 cm (132 in) | 311 cm (122 in) | ES Sahel |
| 12 | Rami Bennour | 23 December 1991 | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | 79 kg (174 lb) | 311 cm (122 in) | 280 cm (110 in) | CS Sfaxien |
| 13 | Selim Mbareki | 6 March 1996 | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) | 79 kg (174 lb) | 320 cm (130 in) | 305 cm (120 in) | ES Tunis |
| 16 | Mahdi Ben Tahar | 17 September 2004 | 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) | 90 kg (200 lb) | 345 cm (136 in) | 315 cm (124 in) | CS Sfaxien |
| 18 | Ali Bongui | 14 August 1996 | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | 75 kg (165 lb) | 225 cm (89 in) | 325 cm (128 in) | CS Sfaxien |
| 19 | Aymen Bouguerra | 1 November 2001 | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | 70 kg (150 lb) | 325 cm (128 in) | 350 cm (140 in) | Narbonne Volley |
| 20 | Saddem Hmissi | 16 February 1991 | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | 75 kg (165 lb) | 312 cm (123 in) | 285 cm (112 in) | ES Tunis |
| 21 | Taieb Korbosli | 5 June 1993 | 1.88 cm (1 in) | 75 kg (165 lb) | 280 cm (110 in) | 270 cm (110 in) | ES Tunis |
All Time Head coaches
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