The 2023–24 Lebanese Premier League was the 62nd season of the

Lebanese Premier League The Lebanese First Division (), commonly known as the Lebanese Premier League (), is the top division of the Lebanese football league system. Established in 1934 and organized by the Lebanese Football Association (LFA), the Lebanese Premier Leagu ...

, the top Lebanese league for

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clubs since its establishment in 1934. The league started on 4 August 2023, and ended on 30 June 2024. It was the fourth season to feature a "split" format, following its introduction in the 2020–21 season, in which the season is divided into two phases. Nejmeh won their ninth title after defeating Ansar in the last matchday. Tripoli and Ahly Nabatieh were relegated to the Lebanese Second Division.

Summary

Regulations

Each club had to involve one player under the age of 21 for at least 750 minutes, and two players for 1,000 combined minutes. In case a club were not able to meet the required number of minutes at the end of the season, they would have had three points deducted from their total in the league. Starting from this season, each club was able to have four foreign players under contract, an increase from the previous limit of three. Furthermore,

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(VAR) was introduced to the Lebanese Premier League in the second half of the 2023–24 season. It used technology and officials to assist the

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in making decisions on the pitch. The match between Ahed and Racing Beirut in the first matchday, on 6 August 2023, was the first to test the use of VAR.

Format

Following its introduction in the 2020–21 season, the 2023–24 season consisted of two phases: in the first phase, each team played against one another once. In the second phase, the 12 teams were divided into two groups based on their position in the first phase. As introduced in the 2022–23 season, teams only carried over half of their point tally from the first phase. After the first phase was completed, clubs could not move out of their own half in the league, even if they achieved more or fewer points than a higher or lower ranked team, respectively. The top six teams played against each other three times, contrary to the previous two seasons where they played each other twice. Due to a restructuring of the

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(AFC) competitions, the champion automatically qualified to the newly introduced third-tier competition: the AFC Challenge League. The bottom six teams also played against each other three times, with the bottom two teams being relegated to the Lebanese Second Division.

Teams

Twelve teams competed in the league – the top ten teams from the previous season and the two teams promoted from the Lebanese Second Division. The promoted teams were Racing Beirut, who returned to the top flight after an absence of four years, and Ahly Nabatieh, who were playing their first season in the Lebanese Premier League. They replaced Akhaa Ahli Aley and Salam Zgharta, who were relegated to the Lebanese Second Division after respective spells of seven and one years in the top flight.

Stadiums and locations

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Foreign players

Lebanese clubs were allowed to have four foreign players at their disposal at any time, as well as unlimited Palestinian players born in Lebanon in a given match sheet (of which only one allowed among the eleven players on the field). Moreover, each club competing in an AFC competition was allowed to field two extra foreign players, to be only played in continental matches, as the AFC allowed six foreign players to play in the starting eleven (one of whom from an AFC country). * Players in bold were registered during the mid-season transfer window. * Players in ''italics'' left the club during the mid-season transfer window.

League table

Season statistics

Goalscorers

Hat-tricks

Notes

References

External links

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