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CA Bizertin

Tunisian association football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ1102961
Source-derived summary

Club Athlétique Bizertin (Arabic: النادي الرياضي البنزرتي), known as CA Bizertin or simply CAB for short, is a Tunisian professional football club based in Bizerte. The club was founded 1928 and its colours are yellow and black. Their home stadium, 15 October Stadium, has a capacity of 20,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1.

CA Bizertin is one of the biggest teams in Tunisia. They have won the Tunisian League four times, the Tunisian Cup three times, the Tunisian League Cup once and became the first Tunisian club to win an African trophy the African Cup Winners' Cup in 1988.

Honours

Appearances in CAF Competitions

CAF Champions League: 2 appearances

1985 – Second Round

2013 – Second Round

CAF Cup: 2 appearances

1992 – Semi-finals

2000 – Second Round

CAF Confederation Cup: 2 appearances

2013 – Semi-finals

2014 – Second Round

African Cup Winners' Cup: 1 appearances

1989 – Second Round

Current squad

As of 13 January 2025

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “CA Bizertin” as tunisian association football club. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928, 1988, 1985, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1928-07-12. The account is most persuasive where Bizertin, Tunisian and association can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as tunisian association football club. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1102961. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1928, 1988, 1985 and 2013.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from CA Bizertin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.