The stadium was inaugurated on 6 July 2001 under the name Stade 7 November in the framework of the 2000–01
Tunisian Cup final between
CS Hammam-Lif and
Étoile du Sahel (1–0). Hammadi Agrebi Stadium hosted the largest sporting events in Tunisia, most notably the
2001 Mediterranean Games, in which the
Tunisian national team won the gold medal of the
football tournament after winning the final match 1–0 over
Italy. It also hosted six matches of the
2004 African Cup of Nations, which
Tunisia won after its 2–1 victory over the
Morocco in the
final match. Six matches of the final leg of the
CAF Champions League were played on the stadium. In 2006, between the
CS Sfaxien and the Egyptian
Al-Ahly SC, and in the years
2010,
2011,
2012,
2018 and
2019, during which it faced
Esperance de Tunis, respectively,
TP Mazembe,
Wydad AC twice and
Al-Ahly SC twice. Two matches of the first leg of the
CAF Confederation Cup final were played on the stadium. In
2011 between
Club Africain and
Maghreb de Fès, in
2013 between
CS Sfaxien and
TP Mazembe. Two matches of the
CAF Super Cup were played on the stadium: the
2008 edition between
Étoile du Sahel and
CS Sfaxien, and the
2012 edition between Esperance de Tunis and
Maghreb de Fès. The
French Professional Football League, which wanted to relocate the
Trophée des champions between
Olympique de Marseille and
Paris Saint-Germain, announced that the
2010 edition will take place at the stadium on 28 July 2010. In October 2015, the
government of Habib Essid sparked a great controversy and opposition reactions against the backdrop of announcing its intention to mortgage the stadium, before retracting under public pressure. The stadium obtained the first class certificate from the International Athletics Federation, as the stadium most conforms to the standards and specifications in its field. In May 2020, the stadium was ranked tenth in the world, according to a poll by the Spanish newspaper
Marca for the most beautiful stadiums in the world, with 14,000 votes. The stadium recorded the largest number of audiences, estimated at sixty thousand spectators, on two occasions, the first in the
final match of the
2004 African Cup of Nations between
Tunisia and the
Morocco, and the second on 22 May 2008 in the match between
Club Africain and
Espérance Sportive de Zarzis within the framework of the
2007–08 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1. ==Name==