Club Africain

Club Africain is a club from Tunisia founded on October 4, 1920. Champion of the African Champions Cup in 1991, it has won 14 Tunisian Championship titles and 13 Tunisian Cup titles.

History

Club Africain was founded on October 4, 1920, in the Bab Jedid neighborhood in Tunis. The club plays in red and white and is known by the nicknames El Ghalia, which means The Beloved, and Al-Afriqi, The African. The first national titles came in the 1946-47 and 1947-48 seasons. The 1960s opened a phase of dominance in the Tunisian Cup, with four consecutive wins between 1966-67 and 1969-70. International peak came in 1991, when the team led by Romanian Ilie Balaci won the African Champions Cup. In the final, it defeated Nakivubo Villa, from Uganda, 6-2 in Tunis and drew 1-1 in the return match. The following year, it won the Afro-Asian Club Championship. The club also won the Arab Recopa in 1995 and the Arab Champions League in 1997. Since 2001, it has played its main matches at Hammadi Agrebi Stadium in Rades. In the 2025-26 season, it won its 14th Tunisian Championship title.