Lebanon Football Thread 2008 [R]

The new season (2007/08) will start today with the match between Nejmeh and Shabab Al Sahel in Beirut. The other games are scheduled for tomorrow.

Teams in the first division:

• Al-Ansar (Champions/Cup Winners)
• Nejmeh
• Al-Safa
• Al-Mabarrah
• Al-Ahli (Saida)
• Al-Hikma
• Al-Ahed
• Shabab Al-Sahel
• Tripoli SC
• Al-Tadamoon (Tyre)
• Racing Beirut (Promoted)
• Al-Arshad (Promoted)

There will be only a limited amount of fans who are allowed to enter the stadium: 1,500 for Al-Ansar - 1,000 for Nejmeh - 750 for Al-Ahed - 500 for Al-Ahly, Al-Hikma, Al-Arshad - 400 for Tripoli - 300 for Racing and 200 for the other teams.

Al-Ansar and Al-Safa will represent Lebanon at the 2008 AFC Cup.

Lebanese National Team:

National Team played the first World Cup Qualification Match against India in Saida. The returning game will be played next week in Chennai, India.

Lebanon 4 - 1 India
0-1 Sunil Chetri (31')
1-1 Roda Antar (35')
2-1 Mohammed Ghaddar (62')
3-1 Mahmoud Al-Ali (63')
4-1 Mohammed Ghaddar (77')

Lebanese Olympic Team:

The Olympic Team qualifed for the final Round of the Asian Qualificaions, results after Matchday 4:

Matchday 1 (August 22/23, 2007):

Iraq 0-0 Australia
DPR Korea 0-1 Lebanon (Ali Yaqoub 12'/pen)

Matchday 2 (September 8, 20007):

Australia 1-0 DPR Korea
Lebanon 0-5 Iraq
(Samer Saeed, Alaa Abdulzahra, Ali Abbas, Karrar Jassim)

Matchday 3 (September 12, 2007):

Australia 3-0 Lebanon
(Nick Ward, Mark Bridge, David Williams)
Iraq 2-0 DPR Korea

Matchday 4 (October 17, 2007):

DPR Korea 0-0 Iraq
Lebanon 0-0 Australia

Standings:

Code:

Team        P  W D L  GF:GA  Pts.
Iraq        4  2 2 0   7:0   8
Australia   4  2 2 0   4:0   8
Lebanon     4  1 1 2   1:8   4
DPR Korea   4  0 1 3   0:4   1

wat the ******** is that man , they are putting limits for the number of fans , i dont ********in get it at all , how is the game gonna improve if there are no fans???????? i was reading an article at www.kooora.com about the lebanese league, how the ******** the army can not hold fans , i think its a dumb excuse , to be honest its because of religion , i hav proof , my friend tried out for the national team after 1 month they knew he s christian he got kicked off , its the government that does not want people playin together !!!!!!!

The kooora article explains it all.

Really the best way to destroy this sport completly.

Shabab Al-Sahel 0-5 Nejmeh
48' Ahmad Al-Nu'mani
51' Mohammed Ghaddar
66' Ali Nasserdin
71' Abbas Attwi
74' Ali Nasserdin

Congrats FCMB and Nejmeh Fans

btw, could some one explain this to me please
This is The Lebanese Cup

And this team Called… AL-Zamalek Birut

As I know Al-Zamalek is a place in Egypt.

I have no idea why they call themselves Zamalek, there's no city or district in Beirut called so. Maybe they're fans of Zamalek.

League - Matchday 1 (October 20-21, 2007):

Shabab Al Sahel 0 x 5 Nejmeh
Arshad 1 x 1 Tripoli
Tadamoon 0 x 2 Ansar
Hikma 0 x 2 Racing
Mabarrah 2 x 0 Safa
Ahed 0 x 0 Ahly

Code:

[B]Team        P  W D L  GF:GA  Pts.[/B]
Nejmeh      1  1 0 0   5:0   3
Racing      1  1 0 0   2:0   3
Mabarrah    1  1 0 0   2:0   3
Ansar       1  1 0 0   2:0   3
Arshad      1  0 1 0   1:1   1
Tripoli     1  0 1 0   1:1   1
Ahed        1  0 1 0   0:0   1
Ahly        1  0 1 0   0:0   1
Tadamoon    1  0 0 1   0:2   0
Hikma       1  0 0 1   0:2   0
Safa        1  0 0 1   0:2   0
Shabab      1  0 0 1   0:5   0

i m just prayin that in the near future the football in lebanon would get better, FCMB do u hav an idea wat are the salaries in the lebanese league????

No idea about the salaries since none of the clubs publish it. But I'd guess something like 1,000 $.

i heard its pretty cheap, is vartan ghazarian the highest paid ??? also lets say every fan is allowed in the stadiums do u think we would hav at least 10 000 spectators

we need to promote more teams form the lower league so we can hav at least 18 teams in the topflight, it will be more interesting, the teams that should go up are homenmen homentmen racing jounieh and a few more

Even more, Nejmeh x Ansar matches can get something like 15-20,000. NT matches even more.

damn now thats wat i am talkin about , wat do we need to make the football better other than the fans

When Lebanon played Korea in 2004 we had absolutley full house their it was crazy, but now...I went to LebanonxIndia in Saida and there were only 120 peple, 20 out of them were Indians and LebanonxAustralia Olympics had also a damn low attendance.

but thats because they r not letting anybody in

Not really, its just people starting to lose the interest. Also the games are not advertised.

damn also we need the younger teams to start playin , i think lebanon needs me!!!! hahahahaha

wat LBC or future ???

LBC showed the Olympic Match, but they were not interested in showing the NT match at all.

I want to see if Nejmeh will put only 1500 if we advance to AFC Cup final.

ur form sao paulo lebanese now thats hot!!!!!!

Can some one tell me where I can see the standings for the Lebanese 2nd Division. I report on Salam Zgharta and would like to show where they stand each week. Thanks. Graham, English Site Editor, zgharta.com

Acutally there's on site in arabic about the second division, its not updated though. I'll look for it and post the link.

Currently they are second in their Group after winning the first game 2-0 away in Tripoli. They are behind Al Nahda, who won their game 3-1.

FIFA 2010 World Cup - Qualification (Asian Round 1):

Lebanon was drawn to play against India, home and away.

1st Leg - October 8, 2007 in Saida

Lebanon 4 - 1 India
(Roda Antar 35', Mohammed Ghaddar 61', 75', Mahmoud Al-Ali 63' - Sunil Chetri 30')

2nd Leg - October 30, 2007 in Margao (Goa)

India 2 - 2 Lebanon
(Sunil Chetri 29', Steven Dias 90+2' - Mohammed Ghaddar 76'/pen, 88')

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Lebanon wins 6-3 on aggregate and qualifes for the Third Asian Round. The Draw will be taken on November 25. 2007 in Durban (South Africa). Lebanon will be placed in the third pot.