The date is now fixed: Club Africain play Espérance de Tunis on Sunday 22 November at 14:30 local time at the Stade Hamadi Agrebi in Radès, matchday eight of the Ligue Professionnelle 1. The fixture had been reported for the 21st in some outlets before the league confirmed the Sunday slot. Espérance arrive second with 16 points; Club Africain are fourth with 13. In a league this tight, a derby inside the top four decides more of the table than a derby usually does.

What The Last Two Meetings Suggest

The two most recent derbies went in opposite directions and both were decided by the smallest possible margin: a goalless draw in November 2025 and a 1-0 win for Club Africain in the return on 10 May 2026, settled by Ghaith Zaalouni in added time. Espérance will be without Mohamed El Haj Mahmoud, who picked up a third yellow card of the season. The derby is the largest single sporting event of the Tunisian autumn by attendance and by what it generates commercially.

Where To Watch

The Tunisian league is carried by the national broadcaster and by regional sports networks, with commentary available in Arabic and French — and the French-language audience is large enough that league tables and fixtures are searched in both languages, sometimes under different names for the same match. Continental ties run on the confederation’s regional partners. Operator streaming is listed per country in the table at the end of this page.

Three Clubs, Two Competitions, One December Week

Tunisian clubs are unusually well represented in Africa this season, with entries across both continental competitions falling in the same December window. That concentrates the calendar: a single week carries ties that in most years would be spread across a month, and for a domestic audience it means league fixtures get rescheduled around them. The precise December dates for Espérance have been reported from one source only and are worth confirming before planning around them.

Two Names In The News This Week

Youcef Belaili. The Algerian forward remains among the most searched sporting names in Tunisia, a consequence of his spells in the league and the continued interest in where he plays next. Club Africain’s own form has kept the attention on the squad rather than on the fixture list.

Hossam Hassan. The former Egypt coach was dismissed on 7 November, and the story travelled across North Africa rather than stopping at the Egyptian border — he appears in Tunisian search data alongside domestic names. Regional coaching changes are followed closely here because the same names circulate between Tunisian, Egyptian and Gulf clubs.

Looking Past December

Tunisia open the men’s Handball World Championship against the hosts Germany on 13 January 2027, which makes the quiet final ten days of December a natural window for build-up rather than a gap. Handball is the second sport in the country by national-team following, and an opening match against the host nation is the kind of draw that gets attention well before the tournament starts.

What To Expect

November has one fixture that matters more than the rest of the month combined. December spreads itself across continental football with the league fitting around it. And the last stretch of the year is quiet domestically, which in Tunisia usually means the conversation moves to handball earlier than the calendar strictly requires.