Étoile Sportive du Sahel

The Étoile Sportive du Sahel (النـجـم الرياضي الساحلي, often referred to as Étoile du Sahel, النـجـم الساحلي) is a sports club from Sousse in the Sahel region of Tunisia, known primarily for its football team. The club also has sections for handball, volleyball, basketball, judo and wrestling. In English the name means Sport (or Athletic) Star of the Sahel.

History

The club was founded during a public meeting at the French-Arabic school on Laroussi Zarrouk Street, in Sousse. Chedli Boujemla was elected as the first chairman of the multi-sport club. La Soussienne and La Musulmane ("The Muslim") were rejected as club names in favor of L'Étoile Sportive. Club members eventually settled on L'Étoile Sportive du Sahel to reflect the goal of representing a broader region than Sousse alone. The Protectorate administration officially recognized the club on July 17, 1925. In March 1926, Ali Larbi became chairman of the soccer section of the club, which entered the Fédération Tunisienne de Football.

L'Étoile became the Islamic club in Sousse. Tunisia also had the French Patriote de Sousse club, the Jewish Maccabi club, the Italian La Savoia club and the Maltese Red Star club: Though communitarian football had been banned officially since 1919 in Tunisia, in reality, it still existed.

Etoile's active sections
Football	Handball	Volleyball
Basketball	Wrestling	Judo
	Athletics

Honours & Achievements

Étoile Sportive du Sahel was the first African squad to have won all official club competition recognized by Confederation of African Football .

Performance in national & domestic competitions

• Tunisian League (8)
• Champion: 1950¹, 1958, 1963, 1966, 1972, 1986, 1987, 1997, 2007

• Tunisian President Cup (7)
• Winner: 1959, 1963, 1974, 1975, 1981, 1983, 1996
• Finalist: 1939¹, 1946¹, 1950¹, 1954¹, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1967, 1991, 1994, 2001, 2008

• Tunisian League Cup (1)
• Winner: 2005

Performance in CAF competitions

• African Champions League (1)
• Winner: 2007
• Runner-up: 2004, 2005

• CAF Confederation Cup (1)
• Winner: 2006

• African Cup Winners' Cup (2)
• Winner: 1997, 2003

• CAF Cup (2)
• Winner: 1995, 1999
• Runner-up: 1996, 2001

• African Super Cup (2)
• Winner: 1998, 2008
• Runner-up: 2004, 2007

Performance in UAFA competitions

• Arab Cup Winners Cup
• Finalist: 1995

Performance in other international competitions

• FIFA Club World Cup
• Fourth Place in 2007.

• Maghreb Champions Cup (1)
• Winner: 1972

• Maghreb Cup Winners Cup (1)
• Winner: 1975

¹titles won prior to independence

Individual Honours

Top scorers

• Habib Mougou : (25 goals)
• Habib Mougou : (28 goals)
• Othman Jenayah : (15 goals)
• Abdesselam Adhouma : (17 goals)
• Abdesselam Adhouma : (16 goals)
• Raouf Ben Aziza : (20 goals)
• Raouf Ben Aziza : (22 goals)
• Francileudo dos Santos Silva : (14 goals)

Golden Boot

• Othman Jenayah :
• Raouf Ben Aziza :
• Kamel Azzabi :
• Zoubeïr Beya :

Arab Golden Boot

• Kaïs Ghodhbane : 1999

Players

Current squad

Selected Reserve/Youth Team players

Out on loan

Former Personal

Former Players

Habib Mougou Alaya Douik Rachid Sehili Mahmoud Kanoun Beji Abdou Abdelmajid Chetali Mohsen Habaha Ridha Rouetbi Mohamed Mahfoudh Mohieddine Habacha Raouf Ben Amor Salem Kedadi Othman Jenayah Habib Akid Abdesselem Adhouma Lamine Ben Aziza Raouf Ben Aziza Amri Melki Samir Bakkaou Hamed Kammoun	Houssem Bejaoui Mahmoud Khemiri Kais Ghodhbane Karim Ben Tahar Walid Ben Mansour Hachemi Ouahchi Abderrazzak Chebbi Khaled Ben Sassi José Clayton Imed Mhedhebi Emir Mkademi Radhouane Salhi Lotfi Hsoumi Radhouène Gouider Imed Mizouri Kamel Gabsi Kamel Azzabi Hakim Braham Jamel Garna	Francileudo Santos Ziad Jaziri Karim Haggui Mounir Boukadida Lotfi Baccouche Mohamed Mkacher Samir Raouène Ferid Chouchane Riadh Bouazizi Riadh Jelassi Zoubeir Baya Raouf Bouzaiène Imed Ben Younes Kais Zouaghi Chaker Zouaghi Yassine Chikhaoui	Touré Karamoko Kader Keita Brahima Coné Kandia Traoré Mohamed Mutala Louis Agyemang Charles Asampong Taylor Soumah Momo Wandal Oumar Kalabane Ibrahima N'dayie Youssou Mbengué El Arbi Hababi Tarik El Taib Daniel Wansi Abderrazk Djanit Billel Dziri Samir Amirèche Obiakor Emeka Opara Austin Ejide	Dimitri Gorkov Ivan Pasemov Oleg Khoujlev Dorian Gogu Lopez José Da Silva Ismael Parreira Da lima Rugiero Filho Reinaldo

Presidents

• 1925-1926 : Chédly Boujemla
• 1926-1927 : Ali Laârbi
• 1929-1932 : Ali Laâdhari
• 1932-1935 : M'hammed Maârouf
• 1935-1944 : Hamed Akacha
• 1944-1953 : M'hamed Ghachem
• 1953-1954 : Sadok Mellouli
• 1954-1956 : Abdelhamid Sakka
• 1956-1959 : Ali Driss
• 1959-1960 : Mohamed Atoui
• 1960-1961 : Ali Driss
• 1961-1981 : Hamed Karoui
• 1981-1984 : Adeljelil Bouraoui
• 1984-1988 : Hamadi Mestiri
• 1988-1990 : Adeljelil Bouraoui
• 1990-1993 : Hamadi Mestiri
• 1993-2006 : Othman Jenayah
• 2006-....... : Moez Driss

Selected Former Coaches

Ali Dardour Mohamed Boudhina Roger Chrétin Georges Berry Habib Mougou A. Ibrahimi Bozidar Drenovac Alexeï Paramanov Abdelmajid Chetali Raouf Ben Amor Ammar Ben Ahmed Mohsen Hbacha Dragan Amor Dhib Faouzi Benzarti	Nicolaï Koudiev A. Nikodimov Ivan Chteline Rabah Saadane Ahmed Ajlani José Dos Santos Ivan Buljan Jean Fernandez Lotfi Benzarti Mohieddine Khalaf Ivica Todorov Ammar Souayeh Bernard Casoni Bernard Simondi 2004 Mehmed Baždarević

Notes

External links

• Official Site
• Supporters site
• Ultras supporters site
• In Arabic supporters site
• EssNews
• Etoiliste