Tunisian Football Federation

It established in 1957. It became a member in the FIFA in 1960, and in the same year it also became a member of CAF association. It organises the football league, the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1, the Tunisia national football team and the Tunisia women's national football team. It is based in Tunis.

Tunisian Football Federation

CAF
Founded	29 March 1957; 67 years ago (1957-03-29)
Location	El Menzah, Tunis, Tunisia
FIFA affiliation	1960
CAF affiliation	1960
UAFA affiliation	1976
UNAF affiliation	2005
President	Vacant
Vice-President	Wacef Jelail
Website	http://www.ftf.org.tn

It was during a meeting held on 9 November 1909 by a provisional committee bringing together sports societies that the first statutes of an official championship were adopted. It was from the 1921−1922 season that the Tunisian championship was regularly organized under the name of “honor division championship”. The Tunisian Cup starts a year later.

As soon as independence was proclaimed in 1956, Tunisian football leaders took the necessary steps to create an exclusively national body to replace the Tunisian Football League (an offshoot of the French Football Federation).

These steps lead to the creation of the Tunisian Football Federation which was approved on 29 March 1957.

Current title holders

Conflict with CS Chebba (2020–2021)

The Tunisian Football Federation freezes the activities of CS Chebba on 17 October 2020, a decision which follows a dispute between the two parties, the club having been ordered to pay a fine of 200,000 dinars. Faced with the non-payment of this amount, the decision is taken by the Federation to exclude the club from all national championships from the 2020–21 season and to organize a play-off round to identify the team which will replace it. . At the end of this tournament, it is JS Kairouan which remains among the elite despite a perfect tie with the CS Hammam-Lif. Indeed, it is the criterion of the best fair play ranking which decided between the two teams. On 11 September 2021, the club returned to the championship following a vote by the ordinary general assembly of the Federation.

Threatening to be excluded of 2022 FIFA World Cup

At the end of October 2022, an internal dispute concerning the Minister of Youth and Sports, Kamel Deguiche, and the president of the federation, Wadie Jary, threatens Tunisia's participation in the World Cup. Indeed, the two men are known to hate each other and the first wishes to dissolve the federation to separate from the second. FIFA systematically penalizes cases of interference in the world of football, it therefore warns the Tunisian federation: by means of a letter, it warns that it reserves the right to exclude Tunisia from the competition in case of taking power over the federation by Deguiche.

Allegations of interference in the Men's team squad

Dozens of news websites in Tunisia reported that coach Jalel Kadri was subjected to pressure during the formation of the Tunisian team's squad for the 2022 World Cup, according to the player Saad Bguir, who was excluded from the final list and who was on the initial list. He also announced his international retirement through a phone call on the TV program Stade Plus on Carthage Plus, until the president of the Tunisian Football Federation, Wadie Jary, left his position. It started when Bilel Ifa was excluded from the list a day before the official announcement, and was later brought back after fans outraged on social media. On 14 November 2022, hundreds of fans greeted the team bus in Doha upon their arrival, but the president of the Federation was insulted in the worst terms.

Also, the selection of four goalkeepers was under pressure from the Tunisian Football Federation to meet the wishes of certain teams on the financial level, FIFA, since the 2010 FIFA World Cup, paying a subsidy to each. team, of which at least one player has been called up in each edition of the competition. On 28 November 2022, former national team player Issam Jemâa said on Radio IFM, that TFF officials had sacrificed one of the players to call four goalkeepers into the final list, as the choice was on Bilel Ifa, who returned to the team after the anger of the fans, Taha Yassine Khenissi, who was medically examined for two hours, so they could find him injured or Seifeddine Jaziri, who was called up due of financial transactions between him and the brother of the president of the TFF, Wajih Jary. In the final, Saad Bguir was abandoned.

The legal status of President Wadie Jary

In February 2023, Wadie Jary does not have the right to leave Tunisian territory following a court decision because he is the target of several investigations relating to the organization of match-fixing, cases of money laundering, embezzlement funds and corruption. On 25 October 2023, he was arrested and detained in Mornaguia prison.

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• Carrefour
• Tunisair
• Banque Nationale Agricole
• Matrix
• Kartago
• Sabrine
• Sherrington

• Tunisia national football team
• Tunisia A' national football team
• Tunisia national under-23 football team
• Tunisia national under-20 football team
• Tunisia national under-17 football team
• Tunisia national under-15 football team
• Tunisia women's national football team
• Tunisia women's national under-20 football team
• Tunisia women's national under-17 football team
• Tunisia national futsal team
• Tunisia national beach soccer team