LIGUE 1: 2019-20

US BEN GUERDANE

Avoided relegation on goal difference last season after a final day 1-0 win over Metlaoui which is now being investigated for match fixing.

CA BIZERTIN

Four-time Ligue 1 winners from the northernmost city in Africa, they were the first Tunisian club to win a CAF title, taking the 1988 Cup-winners Cup.

CS CHEBBA

Based on the north coast and doing well this season after winning promotion last year.

CLUB AFRICAIN

Tunisia’s second-oldest side have won 13 Ligue 1 titles and the African Cup of Champions Clubs in 1991. They retain the biggest support among Tunisian football fans.

ESPERANCE SPORTIVE DE TUNIS

Founded in January 1919, Tunisia’s oldest club have won four Champions League/Cup of Champions Clubs. Known in Arabic as “El Taraji” after the coffeehouse where the club’s founders often used to meet.

ETOILE SPORTIVE DU SAHEL

Winners of 10 domestic titles, the Champions League in 2007 and the African Cup-winners Cup/Confederation Cup four times. They were Ligue 1 winners in 2016 and runners-up last season.

CS HAMMAN-LIF CLUB

From a coastal town near Tunis, they are four-time Ligue 1 winners but their last title was in 1956. Promoted in 2018 as winners of the Ligue 2 playoff, they are struggling this season.

JS KAIROUAN

Founded in 1942, their only title win was back in 1977. ES METLAOUI

Founded in 1956 but their last success was winning Ligue 2 in 2013. US MONASTIR

Founded in 1923 as Ruspina Sports and changed names in 1942. After political and financial problems last year they are mounting a surprise title challenge this time around.

CS SFAXIEN

Champions League finalists in 2006, they won the last of their eight Ligue 1 titles in 2013. Club chairman Moncef Khemakhem was suspended for life in 2017 for twice pinching the buttocks of an assistant referee but remains in power.

AS SOLIMAN

Founded in 1960 and promoted last season as winners of Ligue 2. STADE TUNISIEN

From Bardo near Tunis, they were one of the country’s best sides from the 1950s to the 1970s but the last of their four titles was in 1965.

US TATAOUINE

They won promotion to Ligue 1 for the first time in 2016 but were immediately relegated. Bounced straight back last year as winners of Ligue 1 but are in trouble again.