Stade Hammadi Agrebi
Stadium Snapshot
- Address Rue de l'Olympisme, Radès
- Capacity ~60,000 (some sources 65,000)
- Surface Natural grass
- Built 1998–2001
- Record attendance 65,000 (2004 AFCON final)
- Architect Rob Schuurman
- National team Tunisia (Eagles of Carthage)
Radès, Tunisia
Rue de l'Olympisme, 2040 Radès, Tunisia
Stade Hammadi Agrebi Capacity and Complex
Stade Hammadi Agrebi holds about 60,000 spectators in Radès, south-east of Tunis, which makes it Tunisia's largest football ground, built for the 2001 Mediterranean Games.
Capacity figures differ: StadiumDB and Wikipedia put it at 65,000, while several stadium guides give 60,000. The complex around the main bowl includes three sub-stadiums, two warm-up halls, two electronic scoreboards and an IAAF-certified 400-metre athletics track. It sits about 11 km from central Tunis, reachable by the southern suburbs train to Rades Meliane, by bus, or in roughly 20 minutes by car on the A1.
Espérance and Club Africain: The Tunis Derby at Radès
Espérance de Tunis and Club Africain both use Stade Hammadi Agrebi for their biggest league and continental matches, moving the Tunis derby here from the older Stade El Menzah for its larger capacity.
Espérance de Tunis is the most successful Tunisian club and a multiple CAF Champions League winner, and the ground is effectively its big-match home. Club Africain, its city rival and a CAF Confederation Cup winner, shares the stadium for league and continental fixtures. The Tunisia national team, the Eagles of Carthage, plays World Cup and AFCON qualifiers here.
The 2004 AFCON Triumph and Landmark Events
Stade Hammadi Agrebi crowned Tunisia as 2004 Africa Cup of Nations champions, when the Eagles of Carthage beat Morocco 2–1 in the final on 14 February 2004 before a crowd of 65,000.
Its landmark occasions since opening:
| Date | Event | Match / detail | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Jul 2001 | Inauguration | Tunisian Cup final: CS Hammam-Lif vs Étoile du Sahel | 1–0 |
| 2001 | Mediterranean Games final | Tunisia vs Italy | 1–0 (gold) |
| 14 Feb 2004 | AFCON final | Tunisia vs Morocco | 2–1 (att. 65,000) |
| 28 Jul 2010 | Trophée des Champions | Marseille vs Paris Saint-Germain | 0–0 (att. 57,000) |
| 12 Mar 2017 | CAF Confederation Cup | Club Africain vs RSLAF | 9–1 |
The 2004 title remains Tunisia's only Africa Cup of Nations win, and the 2010 French Super Cup was the first domestic French trophy played on Tunisian soil.
Construction and the Three-Name History
Built between 1998 and 2001 by the architect Rob Schuurman for 170 million dinars, the stadium has carried three names, each marking a turn in Tunisian politics.
It opened as Stade 7 Novembre, after 7 November 1987, the date Zine El Abidine Ben Ali took power. After Ben Ali's fall in the 2011 revolution it became Stade Olympique de Radès. In 2020 the prime minister renamed it after Hammadi Agrebi, one of Tunisia's greatest footballers, following his death. That move was contentious, since a 2019 decree barred naming public monuments after people within three years of their death, and the Radès municipality was overruled by the sports ministry.
Historical Significance
Stade Hammadi Agrebi in Radès opened on 6 July 2001, built for the 2001 Mediterranean Games by the architect Rob Schuurman at a cost of 170 million Tunisian dinars. Tunisia's largest football ground, it is the big-match home of Espérance de Tunis and Club Africain and a venue for the national team. It hosted six matches of the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations, including the final in which Tunisia beat Morocco 2–1 for the country's only continental title. The stadium has been renamed twice, from Stade 7 Novembre to Stade Olympique de Radès after the 2011 revolution, and to its current name in 2020 in tribute to the late footballer Hammadi Agrebi.
Built
2001
Surface
Natural grass
Record
65,000
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Last updated 2026-06-21.