Tunisia is the most successful team in the
African Nations Championship with ten titles won in
1974,
1976,
1979,
1994,
1998,
2002,
2006,
2010,
2012 and
2018, and played in the final eight times in
1985,
1992,
1996,
2004,
2008,
2014,
2016 and
2020. They also won a bronze medal six times in
1981,
1983,
1987,
1989,
1991 and
2000. At the
World Championships, in
2005 it obtained the best performance obtained by an African country, a fourth place, thus equaling
Egypt (place obtained in
2001). During the 2005–06 season,
Heykel Megannem was voted the best player in the
French championship, with
Wissem Hmam and
Issam Tej also being in the standard team, respectively as left-back and pivot. Following the
2009 world championship, the federation sidelined Issam Tej for "indiscipline, insolence and recidivism" and
Makram Missaoui for "having refused to resume play against
Poland", while Maher Kraiem was suspended for three months for “misconduct”. The team is coached by the Croatian
Sead Hasanefendić until June 2008, before being replaced by the Serb
Zoran Živković from 24 October 2008. However, the federation dismisses him following the poor performance of the team during the 2009 world championship. He was replaced by the Tunisian Sayed Ayari and then, in June 2009, by the Frenchman
Alain Portes, who signed a three-year contract. In 2013, Alain Portes' contract was not being renewed, so he took over from
Olivier Krumbholz at the head of the French women's team and was replaced by
Sead Hasanefendić, back at the head of the national team for the following three seasons. In 2020, coach
Toni Gerona is dismissed. ==Infrastructure==