On this day, May 7, 1961, Espérance Sportive de Tunis won a crushing 6-0 victory over Club Bizertin. Chadhli Al-Awaini scored five of the six goals, becoming only the second Esperance player to score five goals in a single match, after Abdelmajid Telmissani in February.
On this day in 2009, Espérance Sportive de Tunis won the Arab Champions League for the second time in its history at the expense of Wydad Casablanca.