The Al-Manar Football Festival () was an event organised by the

Al-Manar Al-Manar ( ar, المنار, ''al-Manār'', lit='' The Lighthouse'') is a Lebanese satellite television station owned and operated by the political party Hezbollah,

television station between the 1996–97 and 2018–19 seasons in order to award players, managers, referees and teams who were considered to have performed the best over the previous

Lebanese Premier League The Lebanese First Division ( ar, الدوري اللبناني الدرجة الأولى), commonly known as the Lebanese Premier League (), is the top division of the Lebanese football league system. There are 12 teams competing in the league, ...

season. Between the 2017–18 and 2018–19 seasons, the referendum to decide the winners of the awards was held online. Lebanese forward

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was awarded the Best Player award a record four times. Salih Sadir from Iraq is the foreign player with the most Best Player awards, having won it three times in a row. Lebanese coach

Adnan Al Sharqi Adnan Hussein Mekdache ( ar, عدنان حسين مكداش; 15 November 1941 – 1 June 2021), commonly known as Adnan Al Sharqi ( ar, عدنان الشرقي, lit=Adnan the Oriental, link=no), was a Lebanese football player and manager. After ...

holds the most Best Coach awards, with four.

Awards

Main categories

Other categories

Special awards

The following awards were awarded only in one or a few editions:

Team of the Season

Notes

References

* Information mainly taken from Ali Haroun's archives {{National Footballer of the Year Lebanese Premier League Lebanese football trophies and awards 1997 establishments in Lebanon Awards established in 1997 Annual events in Lebanon