Nabil Maâloul

Nabil Maâloul
Maâloul as Tunisia coach at the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Personal information
Date of birth (1962-07-25) 25 July 1962
Place of birth Tunis, Tunisia
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Al-Duhail (manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1981–1989 ES Tunis
1989–1991 Hannover 96[1] 28 (2)
1991–1994 ES Tunis
1994 Al-Ahli Club
1994–1995 CA Bizertin
1995–1996 Club Africain
National team
1985–1995 Tunisia 74 (11)
Teams managed
1997–1998 Olympique du Kef
2002–2004 Tunisia (Assistant)
2003–2004 Tunisia (Olympic)
2004–2005 Club Africain
2005–2006 CA Bizertin
2006–2008 Tunisia (Assistant)
2010–2012 ES Tunis[2]
2012–2013 ES Tunis
2013 Tunisia
2014 El Jaish
2014–2017 Kuwait
2017–2018 Tunisia
2018– Al-Duhail
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Nabil Maâloul (Arabic: نبيل معلول‎; born 25 July 1962), is a Tunisian football coach and former footballer who was capped 74 times for his country, and participated in 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. He is currently the coach of Al-Duhail SC. He spent most of his playing career with his home club, ES Tunis and won it a historic treble as a coach in 2011 (League, Cup and CAF Champions League). During his managerial career, he was in charge of two national teams: the Tunisian and Kuwaiti national football teams, but he also managed clubs in Tunisia and Qatar.

Club career

Maâloul began playing football at the age of 6 or 7, following the example of his father. He began his professional career at the ES Tunis at the age of 18 and then dropped his studies.

He then wore the colors of CA Bizertin during the return phase of the 1994-1995 season and then of Club Africain between 1995 and 1996, marking the end of his career, due to a disagreement with the president of the club Slim Chiboub, who does not want to sign a contract with him again after a short period in Saudi Arabia.

International career

With the National team he started in 1985, collecting 74 appearances in 10 years and scored 11 goals. He participated in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

Coaching career

He finished his playing career and became coach of Olympique du Kef in 1997. In 2002, he became assistant coach of Roger Lemerre when Tunisia won 2004 African Cup of Nations. He decided to leave his post as assistant for coaching Club Africain and in September 2006 he returned to the staff of the team. Meanwhile, he made a brief pass as coach of CA Bizertin at the start of the 2005-2006 season with unconvincing results.

The real start was in December 2010, he took command of Espérance de Tunis, following the dismissal of Maher Kanzari, and won with it a historic treble in 2011 (League, Cup and CAF Champions League) before being replaced by Michel Decastel in January 2012; He replaced it a few months later. On 14 February 2013, he officially became the coach of the Tunisia. On 23 March, he coached his first match with Sierra Leone and Tunisia wins by the score of (2-1). On 7 September, after a home defeat (0-2) with Cape Verde that eliminates Tunisia from qualifying for the 2014 World Cup, Maâloul announces his resignation.

On 29 November 2013, he agreed with Raja de Casablanca to become coach of the team in 2013 FIFA Club World Cup, replacing Mohamed Fakhir, before refusing.

On 20 January 2014, he became the coach of the Qatari team El Jaish SC, and won 2014 Qatar Crown Prince Cup on 26 April 2014, he agreed with them to leave in favor of the Kuwait Football Association.

On 20 December 2014, he became the coach of Kuwait, and coached them in 2015 AFC Asian Cup and the Second Round of 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification before that FIFA suspend Kuwait Football Association on 16 October 2015.

On 27 April 2017, Maâloul became the coach of Tunisia again and succeeded in bringing his team back to the 2018 FIFA World Cup for the first time since 2006 and becoming the second Tunisian coach to qualify for the World Cup after Abdelmajid Chetali in 1978. After the team's elimination from the group stage and its poor performance, he resigned to coach Al-Duhail SC.[3]

Kuwait results

#DateVenueOpponentResultGoalscorersCompetition
2014
1December 22, 2014United Arab Emirates Dubai, United Arab Emirates Iraq1–1Friendly
2015
2January 9, 2015Australia Melbourne, Australia Australia1–4Hussain Fadhel2015 AFC Asian Cup
3January 13, 2015Australia Canberra, Australia South Korea0–12015 AFC Asian Cup
4January 17, 2015Australia Newcastle, Australia Oman0–12015 AFC Asian Cup

Managerial statistics

Team From To Record
GWDLWin %Ref
Tunisia Espérance de Tunis 29 December 2010 4 January 2012 35 22 8 5 062.86 [4]
Tunisia Espérance de Tunis 1 June 2012 29 January 2013 27 19 3 5 070.37 [5]
 Tunisia 14 February 2013 7 September 2013 7 2 3 2 028.57 [6]
Qatar El Jaish 20 January 2014 19 December 2014 37 20 8 9 054.05 [7]
 Kuwait 20 December 2014 20 March 2017 11 3 1 7 027.27 [8]
Tunisia 27 April 2017 12 July 2018 13 6 4 3 046.15 [9][10]
Al-Duhail 12 July 2018 present 8 5 2 1 062.50
Total 132 71 29 32 053.79 —

Honours

As Player

Espérance de Tunis
Club Africain

As Manager

ES Tunis
El Jaish

References

  1. ↑ "Maaloul, Nabil" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
  2. ↑ "ES Tunis: Nabil Maâloul nouvel entraîneur" (in French). emarrakech.info. 28 December 2010. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
  3. ↑ "Tunisia coach Nabil Maaloul quits to join Qatari club". BBC Sport. 13 July 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  4. ↑ "ES Tunis matches (1)". Soccer Way. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  5. ↑ "ES Tunis matches (2)". Soccer Way. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  6. ↑ "Tunisia matches". Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  7. ↑ "El Jaish SC matches". Soccer Way. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  8. ↑ "Kuwait matches". Soccer Way. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
  9. ↑ "Tunisia matches". Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  10. ↑ "Tunisia". Soccer Way. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
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