Tunisian Footballer of the Year

Tunisian Footballer of the Year
Country	Tunisia
Hosted by	Tunis Afrique Presse
First award	Youssef Msakni (2012)
Final award	Ali Abdi (2024)
Website	tap.info.tn

The competition for the Tunisian Footballer of the Year of the year was established by the agency Tunis Afrique Presse in 2012, via a referendum open to sports journalists, coaches and technicians, but also on its website to designate the best Tunisian footballer of the year. ^[1]

Winners

Youssef Msakni most player awarded in 2012 and 2017.

Aymen Abdennour won the award in 2015.

Fakhreddine Ben Youssef (Right) won the award in 2013, Anice Badri (left) is the current holder 2019.

Wahbi Khazri won the award in 2018.

Ellyes Skhiri won the award in 2021.

Aïssa Laïdouni won the award in 2022.

Montassar Talbi won the award in 2023.

By year

Year	Player	Club	Points
2012	Youssef Msakni	Espérance Sportive de Tunis	542
2013	Fakhreddine Ben Youssef	CS Sfaxien	643
2014	Yassine Chikhaoui	FC Zürich	599
2015	Aymen Abdennour	Valencia CF	945
2016	Taha Yassine Khenissi	Espérance Sportive de Tunis	629
2017	Youssef Msakni (2)	Al-Duhail SC	731
2018	Wahbi Khazri	AS Saint-Étienne	422
2019	Anice Badri	Espérance Sportive de Tunis	399
2020	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Ellyes Skhiri	1. FC Köln	687
2022	Aïssa Laïdouni	Ferencvárosi TC	434
2023	Montassar Talbi	FC Lorient	570
2024	Ali Abdi	Nice	543

Overall table

Year	Rank	Player	Club	Points
2012 [2] [3] [4]	1st	Youssef Msakni	Espérance Sportive de Tunis	542
	2nd	Aymen Abdennour	Toulouse FC	537
	3rd	Saber Khalifa	Thonon Évian F.C.	382
	4th	Chadi Hammami	CS Sfaxien	280
2013 [5] [6]	1st	Fakhreddine Ben Youssef	CS Sfaxien	643
	2nd	Ahmed Akaïchi	Espérance Sportive de Tunis	?
	3rd	Edem Rjaïbi	CA Bizertin	?
	4th	Ferjani sassi	CS Sfaxien	?
	5th	Alaya Brigui	Étoile Sportive du Sahel	?
2014 [7]	1st	Yassine Chikhaoui	FC Zürich	599
	2nd	Fakhreddine Ben Youssef	CS Sfaxien	590
	3rd	Ferjani sassi	CS Sfaxien	583
	4th	Wahbi Khazri	FC Girondins de Bordeaux	553
	5th	Hocine Ragued	Espérance Sportive de Tunis	339
2015 [8] [9] [10]	1st	Aymen Abdennour	Valencia CF	945
	2nd	Aymen Mathlouthi	Étoile Sportive du Sahel	791
	3rd	Saber Khalifa	Club Africain	636
	4th	Ali Maâloul	CS Sfaxien	553
	5th	Saad Bguir	Espérance Sportive de Tunis	519
2016 [11] [12] [13]	1st	Taha Yassine Khenissi	Espérance Sportive de Tunis	629
	2nd	Hamza Lahmar	Étoile Sportive du Sahel	622
	3rd	Mohamed Amine Ben Amor	Étoile Sportive du Sahel	594
	4th	Saber Khalifa	Club Africain	360
	5th	Ali Maâloul	Al Ahly SC	277
2017 [14] [15] [16]	1st	Youssef Msakni	Al-Duhail SC	731
	2nd	Ali Maâloul	Al Ahly SC	646
	3rd	Taha Yassine Khenissi	Espérance Sportive de Tunis	452
	4th	Mohamed Amine Ben Amor	Étoile Sportive du Sahel	423
	5th	Yassine Meriah	CS Sfaxien	343
2018 [17] [18] [19]	1st	Wahbi Khazri	AS Saint-Étienne	422
	2nd	Anice Badri	Espérance Sportive de Tunis	407
	3rd	Naïm Sliti	Dijon FCO	392
	4th	Firas Chaouat	CS Sfaxien	270
	5th	Mohamed Amine Ben Amor	Al-Ahli Saudi FC	260
2019 [20] [21] [22]	1st	Anice Badri	Espérance Sportive de Tunis	399
	2nd	Wahbi Khazri	AS Saint-Étienne	355
	3rd	Yassine Chamakhi	Club Africain	280
	4th	Ellyes Skhiri	Montpellier HSC	238
	5th	Wajdi Kechrida	Étoile Sportive du Sahel	197
2020	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	1st	Ellyes Skhiri	1. FC Köln	687
	2nd	Wahbi Khazri	AS Saint-Étienne	483
	3rd	Ali Maâloul	Al Ahly SC	441
	4th	Aïssa Laïdouni	Ferencvárosi TC	331
	5th	Mohamed Ali Ben Romdhane	Espérance Sportive de Tunis	325
2022	1st	Aïssa Laïdouni	Ferencvárosi TC	434
	2nd	Ellyes Skhiri	1. FC Köln	379
	3rd	Mohamed Ali Ben Romdhane	Espérance Sportive de Tunis	290
2023	1st	Montassar Talbi	FC Lorient	570
	2nd	Aïssa Laïdouni	1. FC Union Berlin	522
	3rd	Ellyes Skhiri	Eintracht Frankfurt	503
2024	1st	Ali Abdi	Nice	543
	2nd	Amenallah Memmiche	Espérance Sportive de Tunis	332
	3rd	Hamza Mathlouthi	Zamalek	319

Breakdown of winners

Winners by league

Rank	League	Number of wins	Winning years
1	Ligue 1 Pro	4	2012, 2013, 2016, 2019
2	Ligue 1	3	2018, 2023, 2024
3	La Liga	1	2015
4	Swiss Super League		2014
5	Qatar Stars League		2017
6	Bundesliga		2021
7	Nemzeti Bajnokság I		2022

Winners by club

Rank	club	Number of wins	Winning years
1	Espérance Sportive de Tunis	3	2012, 2016, 2019
2	CS Sfaxien	1	2013
3	FC Zürich		2014
4	Valencia CF		2015
5	Étoile Sportive du Sahel		2016
6	Al-Duhail SC		2017
7	AS Saint-Étienne		2018
8	1. FC Köln		2021
9	Ferencvárosi TC		2022
10	FC Lorient		2023
11	Nice		2024

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External links

• TAP Website