Libya host Tunisia in the Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers. Both sides have had a stop-start year, with spells of decent form mixed in among some rough results.
The group itself is only two games old for each team, so there isn't much separating them yet on paper. Libya's recent matches have tended to be tight, low-scoring affairs, while Tunisia's results have swung between heavy wins and heavy defeats across a mix of competitions.
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Recent Form
Libya's last nine matches span friendlies and qualifiers from 2024 through to early 2026. Two wins, five draws and two losses, with six scored and six conceded, points to a side settling for tight games rather than blowing teams away.
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Libya: 9 completed matches; Tunisia: 20 completed matches.
Libya
- Win
- 22.2% 2 / 9
- Draw
- 55.6% 5 / 9
- Loss
- 22.2% 2 / 9
- Scored
- 6
- Conceded
- 6
- Difference
- 0
Tunisia
- Win
- 20% 4 / 20
- Draw
- 30% 6 / 20
- Loss
- 50% 10 / 20
- Scored
- 20
- Conceded
- 37
- Difference
- -17
| League | Home | Away | Date | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friendlies | Liberia | Libya | 31.03.2026 | 2-2 |
| Friendlies | Libya | Niger | 27.03.2026 | 0-0 |
| Arab Cup | Palestine | Libya | 25.11.2025 | 0-0 |
| Friendlies | Libya | Mauritania | 15.11.2025 | 1-0 |
| Africa Cup of Nations - Qualification | Libya | Benin | 18.11.2024 | 0-0 |
| Africa Cup of Nations - Qualification | Rwanda | Libya | 14.11.2024 | 0-1 |
| Africa Cup of Nations - Qualification | Nigeria | Libya | 11.10.2024 | 1-0 |
| Africa Cup of Nations - Qualification | Benin | Libya | 10.09.2024 | 2-1 |
| Africa Cup of Nations - Qualification | Libya | Rwanda | 04.09.2024 | 1-1 |
| League | Home | Away | Date | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Cup | Tunisia | Netherlands | 26.06.2026 | 1-3 |
| World Cup | Tunisia | Japan | 21.06.2026 | 0-4 |
| World Cup | Sweden | Tunisia | 15.06.2026 | 5-1 |
| Friendlies | Belgium | Tunisia | 06.06.2026 | 5-0 |
| Friendlies | Austria | Tunisia | 01.06.2026 | 1-0 |
| Friendlies | Canada | Tunisia | 01.04.2026 | 0-0 |
| Friendlies | Haiti | Tunisia | 29.03.2026 | 0-1 |
| Africa Cup of Nations | Mali | Tunisia | 03.01.2026 | 1-1 |
| Africa Cup of Nations | Tanzania | Tunisia | 30.12.2025 | 1-1 |
| Africa Cup of Nations | Nigeria | Tunisia | 27.12.2025 | 3-2 |
Tunisia's sample is much bigger and covers a wider range of competitions, including World Cup, AFCON, and Arab Cup fixtures. Across 20 games they've won four, drawn six and lost ten, with 20 goals scored against 37 conceded. That includes heavy defeats to the likes of Belgium and Sweden, so it's not a fair like-for-like read against Libya specifically.
Mixing competition levels like this makes it tricky to judge either team's true current level heading into this specific qualifier.
Comparative Team Statistics: Libya vs Tunisia

Head-to-Head History
The ten recorded meetings between these two go back to 2015, and Tunisia have generally had the upper hand, including wins by 4-1 and 3-0. Libya's only two wins on this list both came in 2015, so there's nothing recent here to lean on.
| League | Home | Away | Date | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa Cup of Nations - Qualification | Libya | Tunisia | 28.03.2023 | 0-1 |
| Africa Cup of Nations - Qualification | Tunisia | Libya | 24.03.2023 | 3-0 |
| Africa Cup of Nations - Qualification | Libya | Tunisia | 25.03.2021 | 2-5 |
| Africa Cup of Nations - Qualification | Tunisia | Libya | 15.11.2019 | 4-1 |
| African Nations Championship | Libya | Tunisia | 20.10.2019 | 1-2 |
| African Nations Championship | Tunisia | Libya | 21.09.2019 | 1-0 |
| World Cup - Qualification Africa | Tunisia | Libya | 11.11.2017 | 0-0 |
| World Cup - Qualification Africa | Libya | Tunisia | 11.11.2016 | 0-1 |
| African Nations Championship | Tunisia | Libya | 19.06.2015 | 0-1 |
| African Nations Championship | Libya | Tunisia | 18.06.2015 | 1-0 |
Given the gap since these teams last met in 2023, this history says more about the past than about either side's current form.
Group Standings So Far
Tunisia currently sit third with two points from two games, one place and one point above Libya who are fourth with a single point. It's an early snapshot from a small group table rather than the full picture of where everyone else stands.
| № | Team | Played | Win | Draw | Loss | GF/GA | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group H | |||||||
| 1 | Uganda | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2/1 | 4 |
| 2 | Botswana | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4/4 | 2 |
| 3 | Tunisia | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3/3 | 2 |
| 4 | Libya | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2/3 | 1 |
Team News
There's just one player note available here, Tunisia's K. Ayari picking up an assist in his most recent appearance. That's far too thin a list to draw conclusions about either squad's shape or who's likely to start.

What To Expect
With both teams level on games played and separated by just a point, this looks like a tight group fixture rather than one side cruising. Libya's matches have mostly been low-scoring, while Tunisia's wider sample has included some big margins both ways, so it's genuinely hard to say how open this one will be.
Match odds and squad lists
Squad and player details
| Name | Country | Age | Position | Height | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Musrati | Libya | 30 | Midfielder | 189 | 80 |
| Name | Country | Age | Position | Height | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Maâloul | Tunisia | 36 | Defender | 175 | 72 |
| F. Sassi | Tunisia | 34 | Midfielder | 186 | 77 |
| Y. Valery | Tunisia | 27 | Defender | 185 | 85 |
| E. Achouri | Tunisia | 27 | Midfielder | 177 | 68 |
| A. Laïdouni | Tunisia | 29 | Midfielder | 184 | 80 |
| M. Ben Romdhane | Tunisia | 27 | Midfielder | 180 | 75 |
| A. Dahmen | Tunisia | 29 | Goalkeeper | 188 | 83 |
| M. Talbi | Tunisia | 28 | Defender | 190 | 81 |
| S. Tounekti | Tunisia | 24 | Midfielder | 183 | 68 |
| A. Ben Hmida | Tunisia | 30 | Defender | 181 | n/a |
| H. Rafia | Tunisia | 27 | Midfielder | 180 | 75 |
| A. Cherni | Tunisia | 25 | Defender | 181 | 77 |
| A. Ben Slimane | Tunisia | 25 | Midfielder | 188 | 86 |
| Samy Olivier Chouchane | Tunisia | 23 | Midfielder | 180 | n/a |
| S. Ltaief | Tunisia | 26 | Attacker | 178 | 77 |
| Ismaël Gharbi | Spain | 22 | Midfielder | 173 | 67 |
| M. Nasraoui | Tunisia | 24 | Defender | n/a | n/a |
| H. Mastouri | Tunisia | 29 | Attacker | 191 | 84 |
| M. Neffati | Sweden | 22 | Defender | 175 | 67 |
| A. Arous | Tunisia | 22 | Defender | n/a | n/a |
| K. Ayari | n/a | n/a | Midfielder | n/a | n/a |
| C. Abdelmouhib | n/a | n/a | Goalkeeper | n/a | n/a |
| R. Elloumi | Canada | 19 | Attacker | n/a | n/a |
Both teams arrive with patchy and hard-to-compare form, and the group positions are too fresh to mean much yet. Add in a thin team news picture and no market to measure against, and there's simply not enough here to back a confident view.
We'll pass on this one rather than force a selection where the evidence doesn't support it.
