2021–22 Espérance Sportive de Tunis season

In the 2021–22 season, Espérance Sportive de Tunis competed in the Ligue 1 for the 67th season, as well as the Tunisian Cup. It was their 67th consecutive season in the top flight of Tunisian football. They competed in Ligue 1, the Champions League, the Tunisian Cup, 2019–20 Tunisian Super Cup and the 2020–21 Tunisian Super Cup.

On the domestic front, Espérance de Tunis delivered two trophies out of possible four, winning the Ligue 1, in the last round after a late 2–1 win against US Ben Guerdane, and the 2020–21 Tunisian Super Cup, but they left the Tunisian Cup against CS M'saken after a 1–1 draw after 120 minutes and a 6–5 loss on penalties.

On the continental front, Espérance de Tunis left the Champions League from the quarter-finals after a surprise loss to ES Sétif with a score of 1–0 on aggregate.

This season was the last for the two team legends, Khalil Chemmam and Sameh Derbali, who announced their retirement at the end of the season.

Squad list
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Staff:
 * 🇹🇳 Anis Boussaïdi (assistant coach)
 * 🇹🇳 Hamdi Kasraoui (goalkeeper coach)
 * 🇹🇳 Sabri Bouazizi (fitness coach)
 * 🇹🇳 Aymen Mathlouthi (fitness coach)
 * 🇹🇳 Yassine Ben Ahmed (doctor)
 * 🇹🇳 Lassad Lamari (physiotherapist)
 * 🇹🇳 Nabil Ghazouani (physiotherapist)
 * 🇹🇳 Seifeddine Dziri (physiotherapist)

Overview
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" !rowspan=2|Competition !colspan=8|Record !rowspan=2|Started round !rowspan=2|Final position / round !rowspan=2|First match !rowspan=2|Last match !G !W !D !L !GF !GA !GD !Win %
 * Ligue 1
 * Ligue 1


 * First round
 * style="background:gold;"| Winners
 * 27 October 2021
 * 26 June 2022
 * Tunisian Cup
 * Tunisian Cup


 * Round of 32
 * Round of 16
 * 3 June 2022
 * 8 June 2022
 * 2019–20 Super Cup
 * 2019–20 Super Cup


 * Final
 * style="background:silver;"| Runners–up
 * colspan=2| 18 September 2021
 * 2020–21 Super Cup
 * 2020–21 Super Cup


 * Final
 * style="background:gold;"| Winners
 * colspan=2| 25 September 2021
 * Champions League
 * Champions League

! Total
 * Second round
 * Quarter-finals
 * 17 October 2021
 * 22 April 2022

! 18 September 2021 ! 26 June 2022
 * bgcolor=silver colspan=2|

First round
Group A

Results summary
NB: As Group A winners, Espérance were added 3 points that are not counted in this summary.

Playing statistics



 * ‡ Player left the club mid-season