Fatima Al Zahraa Khachab ( ar, فاطمة الزهراء خشاب; born 22 July 1999) is a Lebanese former footballer who played as a midfielder.

Club career

Khachab was first interested in

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during a school PE session. She joined Ansar's FAME youth academy aged 12; despite being only for boys, she was allowed to participate. Two years later, she joined

Stars Association for Sports Stars Association for Sports ( ar, جمعية نجوم الرياضة), or simply SAS, is a women's football club section of the similarly-named sports academy, based in Aley, Lebanon. Founded in 2011 as Stars Academy for Sports, they have comp ...

(SAS). After three seasons at SAS, she played one year each at Girls Football Academy (GFA) and

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, before moving to Beirut Football Academy (BFA) in 2019.

International career

Khachab first began training with Lebanon U19 aged 14. She was later called up to the U17 team at the

2015 Arab U-17 Women's Cup The 2015 Arab Under 17 Women's Cup ( ar, كأس العرب للفتيات تحت 17 سنة 2015) is the 1st edition of the Arab U-17 Women's Cup for national women's football teams for under 17 affiliated with the Union of Arab Football Associat ...

, helping Lebanon win gold. Khachab was called up to the senior team for the

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, finishing in third place.

Personal life

Khachab has a degree in physical education.

Honours

Lebanon U17 *

Arab U-17 Women's Cup The Arab Under 17 Women's Cup (Arabic: كأس العرب للفتيات تحت 17 سنة) is an international football competition organised by the Union of Arab Football Associations, contested by the national women's teams under 17 in the Arab ...

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Lebanon * WAFF Women's Championship third place:

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