Lebanese women's national soccer team

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Lebanon
لبنان
Nickname (s) The Lady Cedars
Association Federation of Libanaise de Football Association
confederacy AFC
Head coach Wael Gharzeddine
captain Tatiana Khalil
FIFA code LBN
FIFA rank 137 (December 13, 2019)
First jersey
Second jersey
Balance sheet
27 games
7 wins
0 draws
20 losses
statistics
First international match Algeria 12-0 Lebanon Alexandria, Egypt; April 19, 2006
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Greatest Victory Lebanon 12: 1 Kuwait Amman, Jordan; June 9, 2013
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Biggest defeat Greece 14-0 Lebanon Pegeia, Cyprus; March 12, 2015
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(As of January 17, 2019)
Lebanese National Team (2019)

The Lebanese national football team for women is the selection team of the Lebanese Football Association (LFA), which was founded in 2005. Her greatest successes so far have been two third places in the women's soccer West Asian Cup in 2007 and 2019.

General

The Lebanese women's national team is also called "The Lady Cedars" ( Arabic صبايا الأرز, DMG ṣabāyā l-arz  'the girls of the cedars'). Her home jersey is red and her away jersey is white - as is the Lebanese flag . As of 2006, Lebanon's FIFA rankings have remained relatively constant. They achieved their best ranking in December 2009, where they held 92nd place. In September 2018, however, they were ranked 148th in their worst position to date.

history

In addition to the teams from Jordan , Iran , Palestine and Syria, they were one of the first national women's teams of the West Asian Football Association (WAFF).

The Lebanese team's first game was lost in 2006 against Algeria 0:12 in the Arab women's championship in Egypt. They finished last after three games without having scored a single goal. The first qualifying round for the Lebanese women for the WAFF Women's Championship took place in 2007. After two 3-0 defeats against Jordan and Iran , they won the game against Syria 7-0 in the third game of the tournament.

In 2011, the Lebanese women's national team took part in the WAFF women's championship for the second time . The Iran , Syria and the host, the United Arab Emirates were drawn against their group. After losing their first game to Iran 8-1 on October 4th, they won the next game against Syria in which Ghinwa Saleh scored the only goal of the game. In their final game, the Lebanese team lost 5-0 to the team from the United Arab Emirates and was therefore eliminated from the competition.

The manager of the Lebanese women's national team was first Vatche Sarkissian and then Farid Nujaim , under whom they also competed in their first official qualification for the 2014 Asian Cup in 2013 . Jordan, Uzbekistan and Kuwait were drawn to their group . After the Lebanese lost 5-0 to the Jordanian team, they were then also defeated 4-0 to the team from Uzbekistan. Already almost eliminated from the competition, the Lebanese national team got three points against Kuwait with a 12-1 win.

Trained by Wael Ghazeddine , the Lebanese women's national team competed in the 2019 WAFF women's championship . They kicked off the tournament on January 7th with a narrow 2: 3 defeat against the Bahraini team ; initially the Lebanese took the lead through Hanin Tamim in the 57th minute, but the opposing team scored three goals in 12 minutes. Dima Alkatsi's late consolation goal wasn't enough to turn the game around.

In their second game, played two days later, Rana Mokdad scored in the first half and Samira Awad in the second half, leading the Lebanese to a 2-0 win over the United Arab Emirates. On January 11, the Lebanese women's national team suffered a 3-1 defeat by Jordan; after the opposing team scored two goals in the 8th and 12th minute and another in the 56th minute, Hanin Tamim scored her second tournament goal for her Lebanese team. After a four-day break, the Lebanese played in the small final against Palestine for third place. Three goals in the first half, scored by Hanin Tamim, who scored her third goal in the tournament, and Aya Jurdi and Samira Awad, put Lebanon in third place overall.

Team records

On January 15, 2019, the full, official match report for the Lebanese women's national team includes 27 games: 7 wins and 20 losses. During these games, the team scored 43 goals and received 110 goals against. The Lebanese team's highest win was in the game against Kuwait with a score of 2: 1 in 2013.

FIFA rankings

The diagram below shows Lebanon's position in the FIFA rankings from 2006 to date. After rising from 52 positions (from 144 in 2007 to 92 in 2009, the best ranking ever), the country saw a steady decline (from 92 in 2009 to 134 in 2018, with the lowest ranking at 148 in September 2018 lag). In September 2019 you were on the 139th place.

FIFA ranking of the Lebanese national women's football team from 2006 to 2018.

Web links

Commons : Lebanon women's national association football team  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b FIFA.com: The FIFA Women's World Ranking - World Ranking - FIFA.com. Accessed November 4, 2019 (German).
  2. ^ Arab Women's Championship. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
  3. ^ West Asia Women's Championship. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ West Asian Championship (Women) 2011 (United Arab Emirates). Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ FIFA.com: FIFA Women's World Cup 2015 ™ - News - Lebanon's women breaking new ground - FIFA.com. Retrieved November 4, 2019 (UK English).
  6. ↑ a b Summary - Women's Asian Cup Qualification - Asia - Results, fixtures, tables and news - Soccerway. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b KUNA: Lebanon beats Kuwait 12: 1 in woman's soccer qualifiers. In: KUNA - Sports. June 9, 2013, accessed June 9, 2013 .
  8. ^ Winning starts for Jordan, Bahrain in WAFF Women's Championship. Retrieved November 4, 2019 (UK English).
  9. ↑ Rampant Bahrain continue winning ways. Retrieved November 4, 2019 (UK English).
  10. ↑ Jordan stay perfect, Palestine, UAE remain winless. Retrieved November 4, 2019 (UK English).
  11. ^ Perfect Jordan retain West Asian title. Retrieved November 4, 2019 (UK English).
  12. ↑ FIFA.com: Live Scores - Lebanon - Women's - Matches. Accessed November 4, 2019 .
  13. ↑ FIFA.com: The FIFA Women's World Ranking - World Ranking - FIFA.com. Retrieved on November 19, 2019 (German).
  14. ^ Arab Women's Championship. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .