Ghailene Chaalali (Arabic: غيلان الشعلالي; born 28 February 1994) is a Tunisian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 club Espérance de Tunis and the Tunisia national team.
Chaalali playing for Tunisia at the 2018 FIFA World Cup
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| Full name | Ghailene Chaalali[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1994-02-28) 28 February 1994 (age 30) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Manouba, Tunisia | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Espérance de Tunis | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 25 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Espérance de Tunis | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2019 | Espérance de Tunis | 89 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | Yeni Malatyaspor | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020– | Espérance de Tunis | 44 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2017– | Tunisia | 32 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2 June 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 December 2022 | |||||||||||||||||
Chaalali participated in 2015 CAF Champions League with the club team Espérance de Tunis. During this competition, he scored a goal against Cosmos de BafiaofCameroon.[3]
In 2017, Chaalali was summoned to a training course of the Tunisian team before a match against Egypt counting for the qualification at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.[4]
In June 2018 he was named in Tunisia's 23-man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.[5][6]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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| Tunisia | 2017 | 5 | 1 |
| 2018 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2019 | 8 | 0 | |
| Total | 17 | 1 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | 1 September 2017 | Stade Olympique de Radès, Tunis, Tunisia |  DR Congo |
2–1 | 2–1 | 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification |
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