Sahar Dbouk ( ar, سحر دبوق; born 5 October 1985) is a Lebanese

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player and coach. A

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, she is a

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for Lebanese club Super Girls, of whom she is also the chairman, and is head coach of the Lebanon women's national under-16 team. Dbouk represented

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

internationally as a player.

Club career

Dbouk joined

Lebanese Women's Football League The Lebanese Women's Football League ( ar, الدوري اللبناني لكرة القدم للسيدات) is the only league of women's football in Lebanon. It is run by the Lebanese Football Association and began in May 2008, with six teams ...

side Ansar in 2006, remaining at the club until 2009 when she joined Sadaka. She stayed at Sadaka until their dissolution in 2014. Dbouk was nominated Best Player of the

for the

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season.

International career

Dbouk represented

in multiple competitions, namely the 2006 Arab Women's Championship, the

2007 WAFF Women's Championship The 2007 West Asian Football Federation Women's Championship was held in Amman, Jordan. It was the second West Asian Football Federation The West Asian Football Federation (WAFF; ar, اتحاد غرب آسيا لكرة القدم, Ittiḥād ...

, and the

2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification The 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification saw 16 nations attempt to qualify for the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup football competition. The four winners from all groups joined the four automatic qualifiers in the final tournament. This tournamen ...

in 2013, where she played three games and scored one goal against

Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...

Managerial career

Dbouk was head coach of the Lebanon women's national under-16 team (Lebanon B) at the 2022 WAFF U-18 Girls Championship. She helped Lebanon U16 retain their title at the

2022 WAFF U-16 Championship The 2022 WAFF U-16 Championship was the 9th edition of the WAFF U-16 Championship, the annual international youth Association football, football championship organised by the West Asian Football Federation, WAFF for the men's under-16 national team ...

, after defeating Jordan 2–0 in the final.

Career statistics

International

:''Scores and results list Lebanon's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Dbouk goal''.

Honours

Player

Ansar *

Lebanese Women's FA Cup The Lebanon Women's Cup ( ar, كأس لبنان للسيدات, links=no), commonly known as the Lebanese Women's FA Cup, is the top cup competition for women's football clubs in Lebanon – designed as an equivalent to the Lebanese FA Cup. The ...

runner-up: 2007–08, 2008–09 Sadaka *

: 2008–09, 2009–10,

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, 2011–12,

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* Lebanese Women's FA Cup: 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12 Lebanon *

WAFF Women's Championship The West Asian Football Federation Women's Championship (), or simply WAFF Women's Championship, is an international women's association football competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the West Asian Footbal ...

third place:

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Manager

Lebanon U16 * WAFF U-16 Championship:

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* * 1985 births Living people People from Tyre, Lebanon Lebanese women's footballers Women's association football central defenders Lebanon women's international footballers Lebanese Women's Football League players Al Ansar FC (women) players Sadaka SC women's footballers Super Girls FC players Lebanese women's football managers Female association football managers Super Girls FC managers Lebanese Women's Football League managers {{Lebanon-women-footy-bio-stub