{{short description|Tunisian footballer (born 1991)|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{family name hatnote|Ben Youssef|Youssef}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Fakhreddine Ben Youssef | image = PAN-TUN (3) (cropped).jpg | caption = Ben Youssef lining up with [[Tunisia national football team|Tunisia]] at the [[2018 FIFA World Cup]] | full_name = Fakhreddine Ben Youssef<ref name="FIFA">{{cite web |url=https://tournament.fifadata.com/documents/FWC/2018/pdf/FWC_2018_SQUADLISTS.PDF |title=2018 FIFA World Cup Russia – List of Players |website=FIFA.com |publisher=Fédération Internationale de Football Association |date=4 June 2018 |access-date=10 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619164139/https://tournament.fifadata.com/documents/FWC/2018/pdf/FWC_2018_SQUADLISTS.PDF |archive-date=19 June 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1991|6|23}}<ref name="FIFA"/> | birth_place = [[Tunis]], Tunisia | height = 1.89 m<ref name="FIFA Arab 2021">{{cite web |url=https://fdp.fifa.org/assetspublic/ce14/pdf/SquadLists-English.pdf |title=FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2021: List of players: Tunisia |publisher=[[FIFA]] |page=15 |date=4 December 2021 |access-date=13 December 2022}}</ref> | position = [[Striker (association football)|Striker]] | currentclub = [[US Monastir (football)|US Monastir]] | clubnumber = 28 | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = | years1 = 2011–2015 | clubs1 = [[CS Sfaxien]] | caps1 = 73 | goals1 = 13 | years2 = 2015 | clubs2 = → [[FC Metz|Metz]] (loan) | caps2 = 6 | goals2 = 0 | years3 = 2015 | clubs3 = → [[FC Metz|Metz B]] (loan) | caps3 = 2 | goals3 = 0 | years4 = 2015–2018 | clubs4 = [[Espérance Sportive de Tunis|ES Tunis]] | caps4 = 41 | goals4 = 17 | years5 = 2018–2020 | clubs5 = [[Ettifaq FC|Al-Ettifaq]] | caps5 = 27 | goals5 = 5 |years6 = 2020–2021 | clubs6 = [[Ismaily SC|Al-Ismaily]] | caps6 = 34 | goals6 = 13 | years7 = 2021–2023 | clubs7 = [[Pyramids FC|Pyramids]] | caps7 = 45 | goals7 = 7 | years8 = 2023–2025 | clubs8 = [[Al-Masry]] | caps8 = 43 | goals8 = 8 | years9 = 2025– | clubs9 = [[US Monastir (football)|US Monastir]] | caps9 = 1 | goals9 = 0 | nationalyears1 = 2012–2019 | nationalteam1 = [[Tunisia national football team|Tunisia]] | nationalcaps1 = 47 | nationalgoals1 = 6 | club-update = 3 March 2025 | nationalteam-update = | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{fb|TUN}}}} {{MedalSport|Men's [[association football|football]]}} {{MedalComp|[[FIFA Arab Cup]]}} {{Medal|RU|[[2021 FIFA Arab Cup|2021 Qatar]]|}} }} '''Fakhreddine Ben Youssef''' ({{langx|ar|فَخْر الدِّين بْن يُوسُف}}; born 23 June 1991) is a Tunisian [[Association football|footballer]] who plays as a [[striker (association football)|striker]] for [[US Monastir (football)|US Monastir]].
==Club career== Ben Youssef started his career playing for [[CS Sfaxien]], in which he was loaned out to [[FC Metz|Metz]]. He then played for [[Espérance Sportive de Tunis|ES Tunis]], before joining Saudi club [[Al-Ettifaq]]. He later had chosen to terminate his contract with his team Al-Ettifaq. In January 2020, he joined Egyptian club [[Ismaily SC|Al-Ismaily]], then he rejoined them in November after being a free agent since summer, before moving to the newly founded [[Pyramids FC]] in 2021.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kingfut.com/2020/11/15/fakhreddine-ben-youssef-rejoins-ismaily/ |title=OFFICIAL: Fakhreddine Ben Youssef rejoins Ismaily |website=kingfut.com |date=15 November 2020 }}</ref>
==International career== Ben Youssef was a member of the Tunisian squad at the [[2013 Africa Cup of Nations]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://asia.eurosport.com/football/african-cup-of-nations/2013/soccer-two-cut-as-tunisia-settle-on-final-squad_sto3563995/story.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304082909/http://asia.eurosport.com/football/african-cup-of-nations/2013/soccer-two-cut-as-tunisia-settle-on-final-squad_sto3563995/story.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 March 2016|title= Two cut as Tunisia settle on final squad|date=10 January 2013|work=Eurosport|access-date=23 January 2013 }}</ref>
In June 2018, he was named in Tunisia's 23-man squad for the [[2018 FIFA World Cup]] in Russia.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Crawford |first1=Stephen |title=Revealed: Every World Cup 2018 squad - Final 23-man lists |url=https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/revealed-every-world-cup-2018-squad-23-man-preliminary-lists/oa0atsduflsv1nsf6oqk576rb |website=Goal |access-date=16 July 2019 |date=4 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Okeleji |first1=Oluwashina |title=Tunisia World Cup squad: Leicester City's Benalouane in 23-man squad |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44342860 |access-date=17 July 2019 |work=BBC Sport |date=2 June 2018}}</ref> He scored an equalizer in Tunisia's last group stage match against [[Panama national football team|Panama]]. This goal was the 2,500th goal in [[FIFA World Cup]] history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sportingnews.com/soccer/news/tunisia-striker-fakhreddine-ben-youssef-hails-historic-panama-win/1022memcumwnu1016mlmugqlh6|title=Tunisia striker Ben Youssef on redemption and their historic day|access-date=30 June 2018|archive-date=30 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630081248/http://www.sportingnews.com/soccer/news/tunisia-striker-fakhreddine-ben-youssef-hails-historic-panama-win/1022memcumwnu1016mlmugqlh6|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Career statistics== ===Club=== {{Updated|match played on 17 July 2019}}<ref>{{Soccerway|232475|accessdate=2 April 2018}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" |+Appearances and goals by club, season and competition |- !rowspan="2"|Club!!rowspan="2"|Season!!colspan="3"|League!!colspan="2"|Cup!!colspan="2"|League Cup!!colspan="2"|Other!!colspan="2"|Total |- !Division!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals |- |rowspan="5"|[[CS Sfaxien]]||[[2011–12 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1|2011–12]]||rowspan="4"|[[Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1]] |14||3||0||0||colspan="4"|—||14||3 |- |[[2012–13 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1|2012–13]] |20||1||1||1||colspan="4"|—||21||2 |- |[[2013–14 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1|2013–14]] |26||4||0||0||colspan="2"|—||4||4||30||8 |- |[[2014–15 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1|2014–15]] |13||5||0||0||colspan="2"|—||8||5||21||10 |- !colspan="2"|Total !73!!13!!1!!1!!0!!0!!12!!9!!86!!23 |- |[[FC Metz|Metz]]||[[2014–15 Ligue 1|2014–15]]||[[Ligue 1]] |6||0||0||0||colspan="4"|—||6||0 |- |[[FC Metz|Metz B]]||[[2014–15 Championnat de France Amateur|2014–15]]||[[Championnat de France Amateur|CFA]] |2||0||colspan=6|—||2||0 |- |rowspan="4"|[[Espérance Sportive de Tunis|ES Tunis]]||[[2015–16 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1|2015–16]]||rowspan="3"|Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 |19||8||1||1||colspan="2"|—||1||1||21||10 |- |[[2016–17 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1|2016–17]] |10||5||0||0||colspan="4"|—||10||5 |- |[[2017–18 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1|2017–18]] |12||4||0||0||colspan="2"|—||12||1||24||5 |- !colspan="2"|Total !41!!17!!1!!1!!0!!0!!13!!2!!55!!20 |- |rowspan="3"|[[Ettifaq FC|Al-Ettifaq]]||[[2017–18 Ettifaq FC season|2017–18]]||rowspan="2"|[[Saudi Professional League]] |8||4||0||0||colspan="4"|—||8||4 |- |[[2018–19 Saudi Professional League|2018–19]] |19||1||1||2||colspan="4"|—||20||3 |- !colspan="2"|Total !27!!5!!1!!2!!0!!0!!0!!0!!28!!7 |- !colspan="3"|Career totals !149!!35!!3!!4!!0!!0!!25!!11!!177!!50 |}
===International=== {{updated|17 July 2019|<ref name="NFT">{{NFT player|49122|Fakhreddine Ben Youssef|accessdate=14 July 2018}}</ref>}}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |+ Appearances and goals by national team and year |- !National team!!Year!!Apps!!Goals |- |rowspan="8"|[[Tunisia national football team|Tunisia]] |2012||3||1 |- |2013||10||1 |- |2014||8||1 |- |2015||6||1 |- |2016||0||0 |- |2017||7||0 |- |2018||12||2 |- |2019||1||0 |- !colspan="2"|Total!!47!!6 |}
:''Scores and results list Tunisia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Ben Youssef goal.''
{| class="wikitable sortable" |+ List of international goals scored by Fakhreddine Ben Youssef<ref name="NFT"/> |- !scope="col"|No. !scope="col"|Date !scope="col"|Venue !scope="col"|Opponent !scope="col"|Score !scope="col"|Result !scope="col"|Competition |- | style="text-align:center"|1 || 30 December 2012 || [[Sharjah Stadium (football)|Sharjah Stadium]], [[Sharjah (city)|Sharjah]], United Arab Emirates || {{fb|IRQ}} || style="text-align:center"|2–0 || style="text-align:center"|2–1 || [[Friendly (association football)|Friendly]] |- | style="text-align:center"|2 || 8 June 2013 || [[National Stadium (Sierra Leone)|National Stadium]], [[Freetown]], Sierra Leone || {{fb|SLE}} || style="text-align:center"|2–2 || style="text-align:center"|2–2 || [[2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF second round|2014 FIFA World Cup qualification]] |- | style="text-align:center"|3 || 10 September 2014 || [[30 June Stadium]], [[Cairo]], Egypt || {{fb|EGY}} || style="text-align:center"|1–0 || style="text-align:center"|1–0 || [[2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualification]] |- | style="text-align:center"|4 || 12 June 2015 || [[Stade Olympique de Radès]], [[Radès]], Tunisia || {{fb|DJI}} || style="text-align:center"|6–1 || style="text-align:center"|8–1 || [[2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification Group A|2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification]] |- | style="text-align:center"|5 || 28 May 2018 || [[Estádio Municipal de Braga|Estádio Municipal]], [[Braga]], Portugal || {{fb|POR}} || style="text-align:center"|2–2 || style="text-align:center"|2–2 || Friendly |- | style="text-align:center"|6 || 28 June 2018 || [[Mordovia Arena]], [[Saransk]], Russia || {{fb|PAN}} || style="text-align:center"|1–1 || style="text-align:center"|2–1 || [[2018 FIFA World Cup Group G|2018 FIFA World Cup]] |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category}} *{{Soccerway|fakhereedine-ben-youssef/232475}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20140928091026/http://www.css.org.tn/ CSS.org.tn] *[http://www.fcmetz.com/ fcmetz.com] *[http://www.e-s-tunis.com/ e-s-tunis.com ]
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