Beirut Stars Sporting Club (), formerly Bank of Beirut Sporting Club ( ar, نادي بنك بيروت الرياضي) is a
futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and indoor football.
Futsal is played between two teams of five players each, one of whom is ...
club based in
Beirut
Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...
, Lebanon. Founded in 2020, it is the successor to the futsal club founded in 2013 as Bank of Beirut.
The club has won five
Lebanese Futsal League titles, four
Lebanese Futsal Cups, and three
Lebanese Futsal Super Cup, and have came in third place in the
2018 edition of the
AFC Futsal Club Championship.
History
Founded in 2013, Bank of Beirut SC was sponsored by
Bank of Beirut
Bank of Beirut (Arabic: بنك بيروت, not to be confused with Bank of Beirut and the Arab Countries) is a commercial bank in Beirut, Lebanon. Bank of Beirut was founded in 1963 as Realty Business Bank S.A.L. and in 1970, changed its name to ...
and have won the
Lebanese Futsal League five times. They became the first Lebanese futsal team to achieve a treble, winning the League, Cup, and super cup in the 2014–15 season. On 9 July 2020, due to the
economic crisis in Lebanon, Bank of Beirut stopped their futsal activities.
On 8 October 2020, Beirut Stars SC bought the license of the dissolved club.
Beirut Stars' president, Jad Deaibes, was the General Secretary of Bank of Beirut, and Hassan Hammoud, the club's coach, was the coach of Bank of Beirut.
Chronicle
Honours
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Lebanese Futsal League
**Winners (5): 2013–14,
2014–15,
2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19
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Lebanese Futsal Cup
**Winners (4): 2014–15,
2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19
*
Lebanese Futsal Super Cup
**Winners (3): 2014,
2017, 2018
Asian record
*
AFC Futsal Club Championship: 5 appearances
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2014
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: Group stage
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2015: Quarter-finals
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2017
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: Quarter-finals
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2018
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: Third place
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2019
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: Quarter-finals
References
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Futsal clubs in Lebanon
Defunct futsal clubs
Sport in Beirut
Futsal clubs established in 2013
2013 establishments in Lebanon
2019 disestablishments in Lebanon
Organisations based in Beirut