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ES Métlaoui

Full name	Étoile Sportive de Métlaoui
Nickname	Lions of mines
Founded	1950
Ground	Métlaoui Municipal Stadium
Capacity	6,000
Chairman	Rabah Dinari
Manager	Imed Ben Younes
League	Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1
2025–26	Ligue 1, 8th of 16
Home colours Away colours

Étoile Sportive de Métlaoui (Arabic: النجم الرياضي بالمتلوي), known as ES Métlaoui or simply ESM for short, is a Tunisian football club based in Métlaoui. The club was founded in 1956 and its colours are red and yellow. Their home stadium, Métlaoui Municipal stadium, has a capacity of 6,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1.

Current squad

As of 9 February 2025

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	TUN	Chamakh Abdelmouhib
3	DF	TUN	Mounir Jelassi
4	DF	TUN	Mohamed Hachem Khelifa
5	DF	TUN	Yosri Arfaoui
7	DF	TUN	Hamdi Helal
9	FW	TUN	Ahmed Bouassida
10	FW	TUN	Bacem Hajji
11	FW	TUN	Sadok Lingazou
12	DF	TUN	Haythem Mhamdi
13	MF	TUN	Mohamed Amine Ammar
14	MF	GUI	Aboubacar Stori
16	MF	TUN	Kossai Tlili
18	MF	TUN	Ahmed Ouled Behi

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
19	MF	SEN	Cherif Bodian
20	FW	GUI	Badara Naby Sylla
23	DF	TUN	Chiheb Aouadi
25	MF	TUN	Ayoub Khlifi
26	MF	TUN	Amine Knaissi
27	GK	TUN	Hamza Ben Chrifia
28	FW	TUN	Mohamed Faleh
29	MF	SEN	Mohamed Diame
30	DF	TUN	Ahmed Mazhoud
31	DF	TUN	Mohamed Dinari
32	MF	TUN	Ahmed Ouled Behi
33	FW	TUN	Nassim Chachia
—	DF	TUN	Omrane Khachnaoui

Honours

• Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 2:
  • Winners (1): 2013

Managers

1960–61 : Ali Soudani 1961–63 : Habib Mestiri 1963–65 : Ali Soudani 1965 : Octave Matteo 1965–67 : Noureddine Ben Mahmoud 1967–71 : Lenko "Gaga" Grčić 1971–73 : Mustapha Jouili 1973–75 : Ali Rached 1975–76 : Ivan Ridanović 1976–78 : Amor Dhib 1978–80 : Tahar Bellamine 1980–81 : Simon Effrimov 1979–82 : Mustapha Jouili 1982–83 : Mohamed Abed 1983–84 : Sava Stefanović 1984–86 : Mahmoud Ouertani 1986–88 : Abdelmajid Boujelal

1988–89 : Tahar Bellamine 1989–90 : Mohamed Fetis 1990–91 : Mounir Senoussi 1991–92 : Mahmoud Ouertani 1992–93 : Abdelmajid Boujelal 1993–94 : Boubaker Lanouar 1994–95 : Mohamed Tombari then Abdelmajid Boujelal 1995–96 : Mohamed Abed then Abdelhafidh Arfa 1996–97 : Abdelhafidh Arfa then Abdelmajid Boujelal then Ahmed Alaya 1997–98 : Ahmed Alaya then Noureddine Gharsalli 1998–99 : Salah Harrathi 1999–02 : Boubaker Lanouar 2002–03 : Ezzedine Khemila then Ali Khamlia

2003–04 : Ezzedine Khemila then Mohamed Abed 2004–05 : Mohamed Abed then Kacem Jabbes 2005–06 : Kacem Jabbes then Ezzedine Khemila 2006–07 : Hassen Oueslati 2007–08 : Moncef Belhassen then Riadh Hadhri then Mohamed Fetis 2008–09 : Abdelkader Belhassen 2009–10 : Abderraouf Marzouki 2010–11 : Ezzedine Khemila then Riadh Hadhri and Sami Alimi 2011–12 : Abdelkrim Gabsi July 1, 2012–1.. : Chokri Khatoui

External links

• Club crest/logo (archived 2 May 2015)