The Most Famous
COACHES from Tunisia
This page contains a list of the greatest Tunisian Coaches. The pantheon dataset contains 328 Coaches, 1 of which were born in Tunisia. This makes Tunisia the birth place of the 49th most number of Coaches behind Australia and Montenegro.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Tunisian Coaches of all time. This list of famous Tunisian Coaches is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Faouzi Benzarti (1950 - )
With an HPI of 46.50, Faouzi Benzarti is the most famous Tunisian Coach. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Faouzi Benzarti (Arabic: فوزي البنزرتي; born 3 January 1950) is a Tunisian professional football manager and former player and the current head coach of the Casablanca-based Wydad AC. He spent his entire career as a player at his home club US Monastir without any achievements. His coaching career began and was only 29 years old, making it the youngest Tunisian coach at the time. He is considered one of the most successful coaches in Tunisia. He usually uses offensive play and a high-pressure plan as he is known for his toughness in training and his excessive anger towards his players and referees. During his managerial career, he was in charge of two national teams: the Tunisian and Libyan national football teams, he was also close to signing with the Moroccan team in 2016 before appointing Hervé Renard. Benzarti managed clubs in Tunisia, Morocco, Oman and United Arab Emirates. The most Tunisian clubs have won titles with him are Étoile du Sahel and Espérance de Tunis. Otherwise, His experiences in the Persian Gulf region were not successful. He achieved good results in Morocco, whether with Raja CA and Wydad Casablanca. Benzarti was chosen as the ninth best African coach of all time. His most important achievement was reaching the final of the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup with Raja CA.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as coaches born between 1950 and 1950. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living coaches include Faouzi Benzarti. As of April 2022, 1 new coaches have been added to Pantheon including Faouzi Benzarti.
