CO Transports

CO Transports

Full name	Club Olympique des Transports
Nickname(s)	En'nakel / Inter El Tunsi
Founded	1945
Ground	Ali Belhouane Stadium Mellassine, Tunis, Tunisia
Capacity	3000
Chairman	Mohamed Trabelsi
Manager	Lotfi Chihi
League	Honor division, LA4
2007/08	8th
Home colours Away colours

The Club Olympique des Transports (Arabic: النادي الأولمبي للنقل‎), often referred to as COT or Ennakel is a Tunisian football club based in the city of Tunis. The club was founded in 1945, the team plays in blue and black colors. Their ground is currently the Ali Belhouane Stadium, which has a capacity of 3,000.

We can not discuss this club without recalling its group of the first half of the '70s that coach Hmid Dhib had patiently built around Mohieddine Habita – nicknamed the "Arabic Pele" by the Libyans, on the occasion of the Arab nation's Cup (called Palestine Cup) disputed in Tripoli in August 1973, where Habita scored six goals and was named the "Tunisian Pelé" by President Habib Bourguiba while receiving the victorious Tunisian team. Also Ali Kaabi, Farouk Ben Sliman and Houcine Ayari or the team shaped by Bernard Blaut, who won the Cup in Tunisia in 1988 and lost the championship in special conditions. In all COT spends 27 seasons in the first division (professional level).

But, like all districts clubs, the club installed in Mellassine, a popular district of Tunis, was unable to resist the deman and has plummeted in three years to end up in the fourth division in 2007–2008 before rising again to CLP-3, and reaching the quarter-finals of the President Cup this year.

It's hard for COT to keep their fans because the crisis and especially because the Club is located in the Capital Tunis,where also the most popular Tunisian team Club Africain and the most successful Tunisian team Espérance Tunis are located there.

History

It was in July 1945 that the ancestor of the COT, En-Najah Sports was created through a group formed around Mustapha Achour and include the cyclist Jilani Ben Othman and sports director Belhassen Chaar. The club merged with El Hilal Sports du Den-Den (EHSDD) to form the "Club Olympique Tunisien" (Tunisian Olympic Club) in 1960. The latter merges with the "Association sportive des traminots" (Sports Association of traminots) to form on 29 June 1966, the Club Olympique des Transports.

Colours & badges

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Honors & Achievements

Performance in national & domestic competitions

• Tunisian League

Runner-up : 1987–88^[1]

Third : 1970–71, 1971–72

• Tunisian President Cup

Winner: 1987–88

• Tunisian Leagues Cup

Best performance: 1999–2000 Lost in 1/2 final against Club sportive Sfaxien 3–0

Performance in CAF Competitions

• CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 1 appearances

1988-89: first round (1/16 final) against Stade Malien.

3-0 in Bamako

0-0 in Tunis

Former personal

Former players

Mohieddine Habita Abdelkader Belhassen Ali Guizani Mohamed Ali Ben Mansour Faouzi Henchiri Mohsen Yahmadi Mondher Msakni Abdesselem Chaatani Ali Kaabi Maher Guizani Borhan Ghanam Mohamed Hadi Jdidi Riadh Ayari Issam Majri Mohamed Zouabi Khaled Maghzaoui Mahrez Hosni

Boubaker Zitouni Mohamed Tlili Jihad Daoud Tarak Abdelli Diane Bateriki Gomez Adnan Ayari Arbi Yacoubi Mohamed Melliti Ahmed Kilani Ridha Hammami Hicham Yahiaoui Imed Jouini Sami el Elmi Issam Jandoubi Mahrez Askri Walid Ben Amor Mohamed Ali Ben Yacoub Anis Azek

Ayman Marrouki Belhassen Belhadj Faycal Ben Ahmed Antar Litaimi Hamza Oueslati Jilani Boussif Khaled Ben Fattoum Mohamed Hamrouni Mohamed Talbi Mondher Romdhane Mourad Chouchane Mourad Soudani Nizar Jmaia Ramzi Aloui

Best goalscorer (Ligue I)

• Mohieddine Habita : 75 goals
• Abdelkader Belhassen : 44 goals
• Faouzi Henchiri : 33 goals
• Mohsen Yahmadi : 30 goals
• Mondher Msakni : 27 goals
• Abdesselem Chaatani : 26 goals

Players & games (Ligue I)

• Mondher Msakni : 213
• Ali Kaabi : 208
• Mohieddine Habita : 181
• Ali Guizani : 172
• Mohamed Ali Ben Mansour : 162

Presidents

En-Najah Sports

• Mustapha Achour
• Mongi Allal
• Raouf Ben Ali (1956–1957)
• Mustapha Khaled (1957–1958)

Club Olympique des Transports

Mustapha Khaled (1958–1973) Sadok Ben Jomaa (1973–1976) Abderrahman Ben Messaoud (1976–1977) Khelifa Karoui (1977–1980) Abbes Ben Hmidan (1980–1982) Mustapha Lakhoua (1982–1986) Aboulhassan Fekih (1986–1988)

Mustapha Lakhoua (1988–1989) Ferid Mehrezi (1989–1990) Bouzaiane Yahiaoui (1990–1991) Taoufik Anane (1991–1992) Bouzaiane Yahiaoui (1992–1993) Aboulhassan Fekih (1993–2002) Mohamed Bari alias Kassidy (2002)

Aboulhassan Fekih (2002–2004) Naceur Chouayakh (2004–2005) Lotfi Cherif (2005–2006) Hedi Ben Ali (2006–2008) Mohamed Trabelsi (2008–present)

Coaches

Mahmoud Kouki (1955–1956) Hmid Dhib (1956–1960) Hédi Feddou (1960) Hmid Dhib (1963–1965) Salah Beji (1965) Rachid Turki (1966–1967) Ahmed Belfoul (1967–1968) Hmid Dhib (1968–1973) Mustapha Jouili (1973–1974) Ammar Nahali (1974–1975) Amor Dhib (1975–1976) Jamaleddine Bouabsa (1976) Béchir Ben Mime (1976–1978) Ali Chabbouh (1979–1981)

Bernard Blaut (1981–1982) Hmid Dhib (1982–1985) Ahmed Belfoul (1985–1986) Bernard Blaut (1986–1988) Raouf Ben Amor than Ridha Akacha (1988–1989) Kazbeck than Ali Kaabi (1989–1990) Mahmoud Bacha (1990–1992) Mohieddine Habita than Faouzi Henchiri (1992–1993) Taoufik Ben Othman (1993) Ali Kaabi (1994–1995) Bialas (1995–1996) Ali Kaabi than Kostek than Khaled Hosny (1996–1997) Ridha Akacha than Khaled Hosny than Bialas (1997–1998) Bernard Blaut (1998–1999)

Slobodan Milo than Bialas than Bernard Blaut (1999–2000) Amor Dhib (2000–2001) Bernard Blaut than Tarek Ben Ali than Ridha Akacha (2001–2002) Ali Kaabi (2002–2003) Edmund Stöhr puis Lassaad Chabbi than Bernard Blaut (2003–2004) Ali Kaabi than Belhassen Meriah than Accorsey (2004–2005) Abid Mchala than Lotfi Hannachi than Lotfi Kaabi (2005–2006) Lotfi Kaabi than Mabrouk Fehmi than Ridha Boushih (2006–2007) Lotfi Chihi (2007–2008)

References

1. Lost by goal differences to Espérance Sportive de Tunis after ending the season with the same total of points. RSSSF Table