The Tunisia national football team is going through a tough phase in 2024, after losing in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations and stumbling in the qualifiers for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations. The Tunisian team started 2024 with one of the biggest setbacks in their history, after being eliminated from the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in the first round, for the first time since the 2013 edition. The Carthage Eagles, led by coach Jalel Kadri, failed to achieve any wins in the group stage. The team began their campaign with a 1-0 loss to Namibia, before drawing 1-1 with Mali, and then drawing 0-0 with South Africa in the final round, finishing last in the group with two points. The administrative instability that dominates the Tunisian football scene has extended to the team's technical staff. Just as the Tunisian Union is unable to hold elections to choose a new board of directors, the team has not known stability after the dismissal of Jalel Kadri. The Tunisian Union has appointed several names to lead the team over the past months, starting with Montasser Louhichi, who led the Eagles in a friendly tournament in Egypt. Then, veteran coach Fawzi Benzarti took over the team during the qualifiers for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, but he did not complete his term, and the Tunisian Union announced the appointment of Qais Oyeqoubi as interim coach. The Tunisian Union is still seeking to stabilize on a new coach to lead the team during the next phase. The Tunisian team entered the qualifiers for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations amidst great doubts, after the big failure in 2023, despite the appointment of a new technical staff led by Fawzi Benzarti. The team managed to qualify with difficulty, after finishing second behind the Comoros and ahead of Madagascar and Gambia. The Tunisian team started the qualifiers with a difficult 1-0 win over Madagascar, and then beat Gambia 2-1 in Morocco. The team's results declined again after losing to the Comoros in the third round and drawing with the same team in the fourth round, complicating matters in the group. Qais Oyeqoubi completed the qualifiers after Fawzi Benzarti's departure, and returned with a decisive 2-1 win over Madagascar in the fifth round, securing the ticket to the Africa Cup of Nations finals. In the final round, the Tunisian team lost at home to Gambia. The Tunisian team resumed their matches in the African qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup in 2024. The team is part of the eighth group qualified for the World Cup, along with the teams of Liberia, Namibia, Malawi, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome, and Principe. The Carthage Eagles played two matches in the third and fourth rounds of the group stage of the 2024 World Cup qualifiers. The team won the first match 1-0 against Equatorial Guinea, and then drew with Namibia, maintaining their lead in the group standings with 10 points, two points ahead of the Namibian team in second place.