The Ligue Nationale de Football Professionnel (, ), commonly known as the LNFP, is a Tunisian

governing body A governing body is a group of people that has the authority to exercise governance over an organization or political entity. The most formal is a government, a body whose sole responsibility and authority is to make binding decisions in a taken ...

that runs the major

professional A professional is a member of a profession or any person who work (human activity), works in a specified professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the partic ...

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leagues in Tunisia. It was founded in 1994 and serves under the authority of the

Tunisian Football Federation The Tunisian Football Federation (, ) is the governing body of association football, football in Tunisia. It established on 29 March 1957. It became a member in the FIFA in 1960, and in the same year it also became a member of Confederation of Af ...

. The president of the league is Mohamed Atallah. The league is responsible for overseeing, organizing, and managing the top two leagues in Tunisia, Ligue 1 and is also responsible for the 32 professional football clubs that contest football in Tunisia (14 in Ligue Pro 1, 12 in Ligue Pro 2).

Presidents

* 1994–1998: Abdellatif Dahmani * 1998–2000: Khaled Sanchou * 2000–2002: Mohamed Riahi * 2002–2003: Fethi Ben Youssef * 2003–2004: Taoufik Anane * 2004–2010: Ali Hafsi Jeddi * 2010–2012: Mohamed Sellami * 2012: Ahmed Ouerfelli (interim) * 2012–2016: Mohamed Sellami * 2016–2020: Hafidh Chembah * 2020–2024: Mohamed Arbi * 2024–present: Mohamed Atallah

Competitions

Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 The Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1, formerly known as the Tunisian National Championship between 1956 and 1994, is the highest-level association football, football tournament in Tunisia and is organized by the Tunisian Football Federation and t ...

Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 2 The Ligue Professionelle 2 is the second football level in Tunisia, under Ligue Professionelle 1 which is the top level of Tunisian football. Contested by 24 clubs, divided in two groups, playing each other twice during the season, the top two te ...

Tunisian Cup The Tunisian Cup (), formerly known as Tunisian President Cup (1956–2011), is the premier Single-elimination tournament, knockout football competition in Football in Tunisia, Tunisian football, organized annually by the Tunisian Football Federati ...

Tunisian Super Cup The Tunisian Super Cup () or the Tunisia Premier Cup () previously called the Tunisian Cup Winners' Cup, is a Tunisian football competition organized by the Tunisian Football Federation. Established in 1960, it combines the champions of the first ...

Tunisian League Cup The Coupe de la Ligue Professionelle was the top knockout tournament for the Tunisian league football clubs. It was created in 1999 with the intention of being played among the two top Tunisian football divisionsLigue Professionnelle 2 with some in ...

(''defunct'')

References

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