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2021–22 Lebanese Second Division
The Lebanese Second Division () is the second division of Football in Lebanon, Lebanese football. It is controlled by the Lebanese Football Association. The top two teams qualify for the Lebanese Premier League and replace the relegated teams, while the bottom two are relegated to the Lebanese Third Division. It was the second season to feature a "split" format, following its introduction in 2020–21 Lebanese Second Division, 2020–21, where the season was divided into two phases. The league was played between 21 August 2021 and 23 January 2022; Chabab Ghazieh SC, Chabab Ghazieh and Salam Zgharta FC, Salam Zgharta, who finished first and second respectively, were promoted to the Premier League, while Sporting Club Qlaileh, Sporting Qlaileh and Shabab Majdal Anjar Club, Shabab Majdal Anjar were relegated to the Third Division. Teams League table Season statistics Top scorers Hat-tricks Top assists Clean sheets References {{DEFAULTSORT:2021-22 Lebanes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lebanese Second Division
The Lebanese Second Division () is the second division of Lebanese football. Established in 1933, it is controlled by the Lebanese Football Association. The 12 teams that participate in the league play each other twice, once at home and once away, with the champions and the second placed team qualifying to the Lebanese Premier League to replace the bottom two teams. History Salam Achrafieh won the inaugural edition of the Second Division, in 1933–34, after beating Ararad 2–0 in the final. There was no promotion or relegation system at the time, so Salam Achrafieh remained in the Second Division. In April 1935, Second Division clubs requested a promotion system to be implemented. It was proposed that, at the end of the season, every Second Division team that wanted to be promoted to the First Division had to play against three teams from the First Division, one match each, winning all three. The teams from the First Division had to have at least seven players from their p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football In Lebanon
Football is the most popular sport in Lebanon. It was introduced to Lebanon in the late-19th century, becoming particularly popular among teachers and students Christian schools. The Lebanese Football Association (LFA) was formed in 1933 as one of the earliest administrative bodies for association football in the Middle East. The Lebanon national team made its unofficial debut in 1935 against Romanian club CA Timișoara (T.A.C.), while their first official FIFA game was in 1940 against Mandatory Palestine. Armenian clubs, namely Homenetmen and Homenmen, led the early football scene between the 1940s and the 1960s; the civil war between 1975 and 1990 made it impossible to practice football in Lebanon. Ansar became the dominating force in the country between the 1990s and the early-2000s, winning 11 consecutive league titles. In the 21st century, Ansar, Nejmeh, and Ahed (the latter in particular starting from the 2010s) formed a Lebanese "Big Three", winning the majority o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beirut
Beirut ( ; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, just under half of Lebanon's population, which makes it the List of largest cities in the Levant region by population, fourth-largest city in the Levant region and the List of largest cities in the Arab world, sixteenth-largest in the Arab world. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast. Beirut has been inhabited for more than 5,000 years, making it one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world. Beirut is Lebanon's seat of government and plays a central role in the Economy of Lebanon, Lebanese economy, with many banks and corporations based in the city. Beirut is an important Port of Beirut, seaport for the country and region, and rated a Global City, Beta- World City by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Beirut was severely damaged by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyre, Lebanon
Tyre (; ; ; ; ) is a city in Lebanon, and one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It was one of the earliest Phoenician metropolises and the legendary birthplace of Europa (consort of Zeus), Europa, her brothers Cadmus and Phoenix (son of Agenor), Phoenix, and Carthage's founder Dido (Elissa). The city has many ancient sites, including the Tyre Hippodrome, and was added as a whole to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1984. The historian Ernest Renan noted that "One can call Tyre a city of ruins, built out of ruins". Tyre is the fifth-largest city in Lebanon after Beirut, Tripoli, Lebanon, Tripoli, Sidon, and Baalbek. It is the capital of the Tyre District in the South Governorate. There were approximately 200,000 inhabitants in the Tyre urban area in 2016, including many refugees, as the city hosts three of the twelve Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon: Burj el-Shamali, Burj El Shimali, El-Buss refugee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tripoli, Lebanon
Tripoli ( ; , , ; , ; see #Names, below) is the largest and most important city in North Lebanon, northern Lebanon and the second-largest city in the country. Situated north of the capital Beirut, it is the capital of the North Governorate and the Tripoli District, Lebanon, Tripoli District. Tripoli overlooks the eastern Mediterranean Sea, and it is the northernmost seaport in Lebanon. The city is predominantly inhabited by Lebanese Sunni Muslims, Sunni Muslims, with smaller populations of Alawites in Lebanon, Alawites and Christianity in Lebanon, Christians, including Lebanese Maronite Christians, Maronites and Armenians in Lebanon, Armenians among others. The history of Tripoli dates back at least to the 14th century BC. It was called Athar by the Phoenicians, and later ''Tripolis'' by the Greeks, Greek settlers, whence the modern Arabic name ''Ṭarābulus'' derives. In the Arab world, Tripoli has been historically known as (), to distinguish it from Tripoli, Libya, its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020–21 Lebanese Premier League
The 2020–21 Lebanese Premier League was the 59th season of the Lebanese Premier League, the top Lebanese professional league for association football clubs since its establishment in 1934. The league was initially scheduled to start on 18 September, before being postponed to 3 October as part of preventive measures by the state towards the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the first season to feature a "split" format, in which the season was divided into two phases. In the first phase, each club played against each other once, for a total of 11 matchdays. In the second phase, the league was split into two halves – the "top six" and the "bottom six". Points were carried over from the first phase, and each club played five games within its own half. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all games in the season were played Behind closed doors (sport), behind closed doors. Since the 2019–20 Lebanese Premier League, 2019–20 season was cancelled, Al Ahed FC, Ahed were the three-time defending ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghazieh
Al-Ghaziyah or Ghazieh () is a municipality in South Lebanon, 4 kilometres south of Saida, (Sidon). It has an area of about 15sq km. Al-Ghaziyah is one of the largest businesses hubs in South Lebanon and it houses a large fuel refinery (TapLine). Al-Ghaziyah is bordered by a number of villages in the southern and western side such as Qinnarit, Magdouche, Darb es Sim, Zaita, Aaqtanit, Maamriye, Zahrani. Major streets include: Bashroun, Regy, Zambil, El Ain, El Baidar, El Rabta, El Mokhtar, Zehriye, Al Bahar Al-Ghaziyah has its own football team in Chabab Ghazieh SC, which compete in the . Also Al-Ghaziyah is a relatively big tourist attraction one of it being the cournesh History Al-Ghaziyah suffered from the 1837 earthquake, with 14 houses collapsing and 7 people killed. Modern era During 2006 Lebanon War, on the 7 August, Israeli warplanes bombed and killed a total of 16 civilians in Ghazieh. On the 8 August, Israeli airplanes killed another 10 civilians, in three di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidon
Sidon ( ) or better known as Saida ( ; ) is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast in the South Governorate, Lebanon, South Governorate, of which it is the capital. Tyre, Lebanon, Tyre, to the south, and the Lebanese capital of Beirut, to the north, are both about away. Sidon has a population of about 80,000 within the city limits, while its metropolitan area has more than a quarter-million inhabitants. Etymology The Phoenician language, Phoenician name (, ) probably meant "fishery" or "fishing town". It is mentioned in Papyrus Anastasi I as ''ḏjdwnꜣ''. It appears in Biblical Hebrew as () and in Classical Syriac, Syriac as (). This was hellenization, Hellenised as (), which was latinization of names, Latinised as and entered English in this form. The name appears in Classical Arabic as () and in Modern Standard Arabic, Modern Arabic as (). As a Colonia (Roman), Roman colony, it was notionally refounded and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nabatieh
Nabatieh (, ', Syriac-Aramaic: ܐܠܢܒܛܝܥ), or Nabatîyé (), is a city of the Nabatieh Governorate, in southern Lebanon. History Nabateans The most accepted theory is related to the Nabateans (spelled النبطي), an ancient Arab civilization that inhabited northern Arabia and the southern Levant. The name of the city colloquially is, النبطية meaning in a broader linguistic sense "the Nabatean" in a feminine form, a form which would have been used to name cities (e.g. Alexandria, Egypt). Alternatively, this form of the word may have been in the genitive case as well due to the presence of a definite article. In addition, the feminization may have been used for noun agreement, therefore the city may have been referred to in some variation by its early inhabitants as القرية النبطية, "the village of the Nabateans” or possibly some other toponym using the feminine form. Due to the city’s possible origins as a trading outpost (explained below ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islah Borj Al Shmali Club
Islah Borj Al Shmali Club (), or simply Islah, is a football club based in Tyre, Lebanon, that competes in the , and is primarily supported by the Shia Muslim community. Established in 1956, the club were promoted to the 2017–18 Lebanese Premier League, before being relegated back to the Lebanese Second Division. Honours * Lebanese Third Division ** Champions (1): 2013–14 See also * List of football clubs in Lebanon This is a list of Association football, football clubs that compete within the leagues and divisions of the Lebanese football league system as far down as the Lebanese Third Division. By league and division * 2023–24 Lebanese Premier League, Leb ... References Islah Borj Al Shmali Club 1956 establishments in Lebanon Football clubs in Lebanon Shia Islam in Lebanon {{Lebanon-footyclub-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Ahli Saida SC
Al Ahli Sporting Club Saida () is a football club based in Sidon, Lebanon, that competes in the . Ahli Saida last competed in the Lebanese Premier League in the 2011–12 season, where they were relegated after finishing in 12th position. Stadium Home matches are normally played in the Saida Municipal Stadium, which can hold up to 22,000 supporters. Honours * Lebanese Second Division ** Winners (2): 1996–97, 2008–09 See also * List of football clubs in Lebanon This is a list of Association football, football clubs that compete within the leagues and divisions of the Lebanese football league system as far down as the Lebanese Third Division. By league and division * 2023–24 Lebanese Premier League, Leb ... References Al Ahli SC Saida Football clubs in Lebanon {{Lebanon-footyclub-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Ahli Club Nabatieh
Al Ahly Sporting Club Nabatieh (), known as Ahly Nabatieh or simply Nabatieh, is a football club based in Nabatieh, Lebanon. It was established in 1968 and competes in the . They were first promoted to the Lebanese Premier League in 2023, and finished runners-up in the Lebanese Federation Cup the same year. They however got relegated back to the Second Division at the end of the season. History On 3 March 2023, Ahly Nabatieh defeated Sporting 2–1 in the final matchday of the 2022–23 Lebanese Second Division, and were thus promoted to the Lebanese Premier League for the first time. The team also reached the quarter-finals of the 2022–23 Lebanese FA Cup, losing 3–0 to Shabab Sahel. Ahly Nabatieh finished runners-up in the 2023 Lebanese Federation Cup as a newly promoted Premier League club, after losing to league holders Ahed 4–0 in the final on 27 July 2023. They were relegated back to the Second Division, after finishing the 2023–24 Lebanese Premier League se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
