2022–23 Espérance Sportive de Tunis season

The 2022–23 Espérance Sportive de Tunis season was the 104th season in existence and the club's 68th consecutive season in the top flight of Tunisian football. In addition to the domestic league, Espérance de Tunis participated in this season's editions of the Tunisian Cup and the CAF Champions League.

Espérance de Tunis was not scheduled to play any matches between 9 November and 10 December as Mohamed Ali Ben Romdhane, Ghailene Chaalali and Yassine Meriah participated with Tunisia at 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

Despite finishing second in the league and advancing to the Champions League semi-finals, Espérance de Tunis went trophyless and lost the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 for the first time since the 2015–16 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:
 * 🇹🇳 Mejdi Traoui (assistant manager) (from 22 May)
 * 🇹🇳 Anis Boussaïdi (assistant manager)
 * 🇹🇳 Amine Ltifi (assistant manager)
 * 🇹🇳 Hamdi Kasraoui (goalkeeper manager)
 * 🇹🇳 Sabri Bouazizi (fitness manager)
 * 🇹🇳 Aymen Mathlouthi (fitness manager)
 * 🇹🇳 Yassine Ben Ahmed (doctor)
 * 🇹🇳 Lassad Lamari (physiotherapist)
 * 🇹🇳 Nabil Ghazouani (physiotherapist)
 * 🇹🇳 Seifeddine Dziri (physiotherapist)
 * 🇹🇳 Nader Daoud (assistant manager) (until 13 May)

Overview
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" !rowspan=2|Competition !colspan=8|Record !rowspan=2|Starting 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:silver;"| Runners-up
 * 26 October 2022
 * 30 June 2023
 * Tunisian Cup
 * Tunisian Cup


 * Round of 32
 * style="background:silver;"| Runners-up
 * 15 February 2023
 * 28 May 2023
 * CAF Champions League
 * CAF Champions League

! Total
 * Second round
 * Semi-finals
 * 9 October 2022
 * 19 May 2023

! 9 October 2022 ! 30 June 2023
 * bgcolor=silver colspan=2|

First round
Group A

Results summary
NB: As Group A winners, Espérance de Tunis were added 4 points in the playoff that were not counted in this summary.

Qualifying rounds
The draw of the qualifying rounds was held on 9 August 2022.

Group stage
The draw of the group stage was held on 12 December 2022.

Group D

Knockout stage
The draw for the knockout stage was held on 5 April 2023.

Playing statistics



 * ‡ Player left the club during the season
 * y Youth team