MATCH STATS: Tanzania vs Tunisia – TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 Group C

The Stade Prince Moulay Abdellah Olympique Annexe in Rabat will host Tanzania and Tunisia as both sides chase a crucial Group C victory that would secure a place in the knockout stages of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025. Kick-off is at 17h00 local time (16h00 GMT).

This will be the first meeting between Tanzania and Tunisia at the AFCON finals.

Their only previous encounters came during qualifying for the 2021 AFCON. Tunisia won the first meeting 1-0 in Radès on 13 November 2020, with Youssef Msakni scoring the decisive goal.

The return fixture, played in Dar es Salaam on 17 November 2020, ended in a 1-1 draw. Saïf-Eddine Khaoui gave Tunisia an early lead in the 11th minute before Feisal Salum equalised for Tanzania in the 48th minute.

Tunisia went on to qualify for the 2021 AFCON, while Tanzania failed to progress.

 

PAST MEETINGS

OVERALL
Tanzania: P2 W0 D1 L1 GF1 GA2 GD-1
Tunisia: P2 W1 D1 L0 GF2 GA1 GD+1

 

Tanzania – Key Statistics

·       Drew their most recent match 1-1 against Uganda after opening the tournament with a 2-1 defeat to Nigeria.

·       Tanzania are yet to record a win at the AFCON, across 11 matches (D4 L7).

·       Failure to win would see Tanzania become the fourth nation, after Mozambique (16), Benin (15) and Guinea-Bissau (12), to fail to win any of their first 12 AFCON matches.

·       Have lost only one of their last four AFCON matches (D3), their opening game against Nigeria.

·       Have scored in both matches at the current edition; previously only achieved this in their first two matches at the 1980 tournament.

·       Have only once previously scored in all three group matches, also in 1980.

·       Their record in final group matches reads: P3 W0 D2 L1.

·       Have avoided defeat in their final group match on two occasions: a 1-1 draw with Côte d’Ivoire in 1980 and a 0-0 draw with DR Congo at the 2023 edition.

·       Their only defeat in a final group match came in 2019, a 3-0 loss to Algeria.

·       This will be Tanzania’s fourth match against North African opposition at AFCON; they lost all three previous meetings, against Egypt (2-1) in 1986, Algeria (3-0) in 2019 and Morocco in 2023.

·       The draw against Uganda saw Tanzania avoid defeat in their second group match for a second successive finals, having also drawn 1-1 with Zambia in 2023.

·       Have conceded in both matches at the current tournament; they conceded in all three matches at the 1980 and 2019 editions, with their only AFCON clean sheet coming in a 0-0 draw against DR Congo on matchday three in 2023.

·       Simon Msuva scored in the draw with Uganda, taking his tally to three AFCON goals across three different tournament editions.

·       Msuva is the first Tanzanian player to score at three separate AFCON tournaments.

·       All three of Msuva’s AFCON goals have put Tanzania ahead in matches, yet they have failed to win any of them (D2 L1).

·       He previously opened the scoring in a 3-2 defeat to Kenya in 2019, a 1-1 draw with Zambia in 2021, and again against Uganda at the current edition.

·       Msuva is now Tanzania’s all-time leading scorer at AFCON, overtaking Thuwein Waziri.

·       Should Msuva score again, he would become only the second Tanzanian player to score more than once at a single AFCON edition and the second to score in successive AFCON matches, after Waziri in 1980.

·       Msuva’s converted penalty against Uganda was Tanzania’s first-ever goal from the penalty spot at AFCON.

·       Progression to the knockout stage would mark Tanzania’s first advancement beyond the group stage, having failed to do so in 1980, 2019 and 2023.

 

Tunisia – Key Statistics

·       Opened the tournament with a 3-1 victory over Uganda before losing 3-2 to Nigeria in their second match.

·       Lost an AFCON match after scoring at least two goals for the first time since their 3-2 quarter-final defeat to Cameroon in 2008.

·       Prior to the loss against Nigeria, Tunisia were unbeaten in nine AFCON matches when scoring at least two goals (W8 D1).

·       Had won eight consecutive matches in which they scored at least twice before the defeat to Nigeria.

·       Lost their second group match after winning their opener for the first time since 2013.

·       Have failed to win their final group match at each of the last three AFCON tournaments, drawing 0-0 with Mauritania in 2019, losing 1-0 to Gambia, and drawing 0-0 with South Africa in 2023.

·       Their last victory in a final group match came in 2017, a 4-2 win over Zimbabwe.

·       Have scored at least two goals in each of their first two matches for the first time since 2012, when they opened with 2-1 wins over Morocco and Niger before losing their final group match 1-0 to Gabon.

·       Progression would see Tunisia reach the knockout stages for the 15th time.

·       They last failed to advance beyond the group stage after winning their opening match in 2013, when a 1-0 win over Algeria was followed by a 3-0 loss to Côte d’Ivoire and a 1-1 draw with Togo.

·       Tunisia exited at the group stage at the 2023 edition; the last time they suffered consecutive group-stage eliminations was in 1982 and 1994.

·       Across their previous five AFCON participations, they have exited at the group stage only once, in 2023.

·       The first goal conceded against Nigeria was the 100th Tunisia have allowed at AFCON.

·       Tunisia are one of only two nations, alongside Côte d’Ivoire, to have conceded 100 or more goals at AFCON.

·       Hazem Mastouri, scorer of Tunisia’s first goal against Nigeria, netted his maiden AFCON goal.

·       Hannibal Mejbri has recorded an assist in both of Tunisia’s matches, becoming the first Tunisian player since at least 2010 to assist in each of the opening two games of an AFCON tournament.

·       Mejbri has created six chances across the two matches, the most by any Tunisian player at the 2025 AFCON.

·       Ali Abdi scored Tunisia’s second goal against Nigeria, his first at the current AFCON and his first in the competition overall.

·       Abdi has recorded three goal involvements in five AFCON matches, scoring once and providing two assists.

·       Tunisia scored with both of their shots on target against Nigeria.

·       Across their two matches, they have registered eight shots on target and scored five goals.

·       Heading into this match, Tunisia have a shot conversion rate of 26%, the highest of any team at the tournament.