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2016–17 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1

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Season
  
2016–17

Biggest home win
  
ESS 5–1 CAB

Highest scoring
  
ASG 5–2 CSHL

Location
  
Tunisia

Matches played
  
112

Relegated
  
OB EOSB TBD

Biggest away win
  
CSHL 1–4 CA

Longest winning run
  
5 games (ESS)

Goals scored
  
235

2016–17 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1

Similar
  
2015–16 Algerian Ligue Pro, 2014–15 South African Pr, 2015 Girabola, 2015–16 Botola, 2015 Africa U‑23 Cup of Nations

The 2016–17 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 (Tunisian Professional League) season is the 91st season of top-tier football in Tunisia. The competition started on 8 September 2016. The defending champions from the previous season are Étoile du Sahel.

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Teams

A total of 16 teams will contest the league, including 13 sides from the 2015–16 season and three promoted from the 2015–16 Ligue 2. AS Gabès was the first to obtain promotion, followed by Olympique Béja and finally US Tataouine. The three teams replaced EGS Gafsa, AS Kasserine and Stade Tunisien who were relegated to 2016–17 Tunisian Ligue 2.
The teams are drawn in two groups of 8 each. At the end of the first part of the season, the first 3 will qualify to the Championship Group, the 4th to 7th will contest the Relegation Group and the 8th of each group will be relegated to the Ligue 2. Étoile du Sahel are the defending champions from the 2015–16 season.

Group A table

Updated to games played on 15 February 2017.
Source: Ligue 1
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Group A result table

Updated to games played on 15 February 2017.
Source: Ligue 1
^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Group B table

Updated to games played on 15 February 2017.
Source: Ligue 1
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Group B result table

Updated to games played on 15 February 2017.
Source: Ligue 1
^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

League table

Updated to games played on 26 February 2017.
Source: Ligue 1
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Result table

Updated to games played on 26 February 2017.
Source: Ligue 1
^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation Group table

Source: Ligue 1
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Relegation Group result table

Source: Ligue 1
^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation Playoff

This game will be played between the 6th of the Relegation Group and the 3rd of Ligue 2.

References

2016–17 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 Wikipedia