2008–09 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1

Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1
Season 2008-09
Champions Espérance Sportive de Tunis (22nd title)
Promoted AS Kasserine
ES H.Sousse
Relegated Avenir Sportif de La Marsa
Jendouba Sport
2010 CAF Champions League Espérance ST
Club Africain
2010 CAF Confederation Cup Étoile Sahel
CS Sfaxien

The 2008–09 season of the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 began on 8 August 2008 and concluded on 13 May 2009. The competition saw the return of two previous participants, Avenir Sportif de Kasserine and Espoir Sportif de Hammam-Sousse from Ligue Professionnelle 2. Espérance Sportive de Tunis won the championship while previous year's winnersClub Africain finished in second place.

Contents

Clubs and venues

Locations of teams in the 2008-09 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1
Clubs Venue Capacity
Avenir Sportif de Kasserine Kassernie stadium 8.000
Avenir Sportif de La Marsa Abdelaziz Chtioui's stadium 6.000
Club Africain El-Menzah stadium 45.000
Club Athletique Bizertin October 15th stadium 20.000
Club Sportif de Hammam-Lif Bou Kornine stadium 8.000
Club Sportif Sfaxien Taïeb Mhiri's stadium 22.000
El-Gawafel Sportives de Gafsa Gafsa's 7th of November stadium 12.000
Espoir Sportif de Hammam-Sousse BouAli Lahouar stadium 6.000
Étoile Sportive du Sahel Sousse's Olympic stadium 28.000
Espérance Sportive de Tunis Stade 7 November 60.000
Jendouba Sport Jendouba's municipal stadium 8.000
Olympique de Béja Boujemaa El-Kemiti stadium 8.000
Stade Tunisien Chedli Zouiten's stadium 20.000
Union Sportive Monastir Mustapha Ben Jannet stadium 20.000

Final standings

Pos
 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Espérance ST (C) 26 18 6 2 50 21 +29 60 2010 CAF Champions League
2 Club Africain 26 16 9 1 39 14 +25 57
3 ES Sahel 26 15 8 3 48 17 +31 53 2010 CAF Confederation Cup
4 CS Sfaxien 26 11 10 5 33 24 +9 43
5 US Monastir 26 9 8 9 23 24 −1 35
6 Stade Tunisien 26 9 7 10 30 31 −1 34
7 CS Hammam-Lif 26 8 6 12 29 43 −14 30
8 ES Hammam-Sousse 26 4 14 8 20 26 −6 26
9 CA Bizertin 26 5 11 10 15 25 −10 26
10 Olympique Béja 26 6 7 13 13 24 −11 25
11 EGS Gafsa 26 4 13 9 18 33 −15 25
12 AS Kasserine 26 5 9 12 16 26 −10 24
13 AS Marsa (R) 26 4 10 12 14 24 −10 22 Relegation to the 2009–10 CLP-2
14 Jendouba Sport (R) 26 3 12 11 11 26 −15 21

Updated to games played on May 14, 2009 - Competition concluded.
Source: Kawarji.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Relegation

The 13th and 14th placed teams will be relegated to the Ligue Professionnelle 2 (CLP-2)

Results

Home \ Away1 ASK ASM CA CAB CSHL CSS EGSG ESHS ESS EST JS OB ST USMo
AS Kasserine 0–0 0–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 1–1 2–1 0–1 0–1 1–0 1–1 1–1 1–0
AS Marsa 1–0 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–0 0–0 4–2 1–1 0–2 0–0 1–0 0–1 1–2
Club Africain 1–0 2–0 1–0 4–0 1–0 3–0 1–0 1–1 3–0 4–0 1–1 3–2 1–0
CA Bizertin 1–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 0–0 0–5 0–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 0–1
CS Hammam-Lif 2–1 1–2 3–1 2–2 1–2 1–1 2–2 0–3 1–4 2–0 2–0 0–2 0–1
CS Sfaxien 2–0 1–0 0–0 4–1 2–3 1–0 0–0 2–1 0–0 3–1 2–0 1–1 1–1
EGS Gafsa 2–2 0–0 0–1 1–3 1–1 1–2 2–2 1–4 0–1 0–0 1–0 1–0 0–0
ES Hammam-Sousse 0–0 0–0 1–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 1–1 0–1 2–1 0–0 0–0 1–0 2–2
ES Sahel 3–1 2–0 1–1 2–1 7–0 0–0 1–1 1–0 0–1 3–1 3–0 3–0 0–0
Espérance ST 2–0 2–1 2–2 1–0 2–2 3–1 6–0 4–2 1–1 3–0 1–0 2–1 3–2
Jendouba Sport 2–0 0–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 1–2 0–0 1–0 0–1 0–0 1–0 0–1 0–0
Olympique Béja 1–1 1–0 0–1 2–1 0–1 1–0 0–0 2–1 0–0 1–1 2–1 0–1 0–1
Stade Tunisien 0–2 2–1 0–0 2–0 3–2 2–3 2–2 0–1 1–1 2–3 1–1 1–0 3–0
US Monastir 1–0 1–1 1–2 2–1 0–1 4–2 1–0 0–0 1–2 0–1 1–0 0–1 1–1

Updated to games played on May 14, 2009
Source: Kawarji.com
1The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Television rights

The Communication bureau of the FTF attributed the broadcasting rights of the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 to ERTT (Tunisian Radio and Television Establishment with its two channels Tunis7 and Tunisie 21).

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