Lebanese national soccer team

Lebanon
لبنان

Nickname (s)	The cedars
Association	Federation of Libanaise de Football Association
confederacy	AFC
Technical sponsor	Capelli Sport
Head coach	Jamal Taha (since 2020)
captain	Hassan Maatouk
Record scorer	Hassan Maatouk (21)
Record player	Abbas Ahmed Atwi and Hassan Maatouk (84 each)
Home stadium	Camille Chamoun Stadium
FIFA code	LBN
FIFA rank	89th (1269 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
326 games, 88 wins, 90 draws, 148 defeats
statistics
First international match Palestine / Eretz Israel 5: 1 Lebanon ( Tel Aviv , Mandate West Palestine ; April 27, 1940)
Biggest win Lebanon 11-0 Afghanistan ( Ulsan , South Korea ; October 5, 2002)
Biggest defeats Iraq 8-0 Lebanon ( Baghdad , Iraq ; November 25, 1959) Qatar 8-0 Lebanon ( Doha , Qatar ; March 27, 1985)
Successes in tournaments
Asian Championship
Participation in the finals	2 ( first : 2000 )
Best results	Preliminary round 2000 , 2019
Soccer West Asian Championship
Participation in the finals	7th
Best results	Preliminary round 2000 , 2002 , 2004 , 2007 , 2012 , 2013/14 , 2019
(As of November 19, 2019)

The Lebanese national football team is the national team of Lebanon and is run by the Fédération Lebanaise de Football Association .

history

The Lebanese played their first game on April 27, 1940 against an Israeli-Palestinian selection representing the State of Palestine / Erez Israel , this game ended with a 5-0 victory for Lebanon. The team was able to record its first participation in an international competition during the qualification for the Olympic Games. But in 1959 they lost to Iraq with 0: 8 and 0: 3.

Lebanon has not yet managed to qualify for a World Cup. The closest you failed to qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil , when you were able to reach the last qualifying round for the first time, but were eliminated from the bottom of the group. The Lebanese team first took part in qualifying for a soccer world championship in 1986 . Back then they lost their games against Qatar (0: 8 and 0: 7) and against Iraq (0: 6 and 0: 6). After these results, the team withdrew their participation after four of a total of six games planned. After declining to participate in 1990, Lebanon took part again in 1994, but failed in the first round to South Korea . In 1998 Lebanon failed against Kuwait, in 2002 against Thailand and in 2006 against South Korea. As part of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup, Lebanon met India in the first round and defeated their opponents 4: 1 at home and reached the third round directly after a 2: 2 away. There you met Saudi Arabia , Uzbekistan and Singapore and lost all six games. As the bottom of the group, Lebanon missed qualifying for the next round.

Lebanon first took part in qualifying for the Asian Cup in 1972 . There the Lebanese reached the semi-finals (qualification), in which they were defeated 1: 2 to Iraq. In 1976 the qualifying tournament was supposed to take place in Beirut, due to the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war , the association decided not to participate. As the host of the 2000 Asian Cup, the team was automatically qualified, but after a 4-0 win against Iran and two draws against Iraq and Thailand, they did not get past the preliminary round. In 2004, the Lebanese team was only able to score against North Korea, with at least a 3-0 away win, but missed qualifying as third in the group.

The Lebanese national team did not take part in qualifying for the 2007 Asian Cup . The Asian Football Association has complied with the request of the Lebanese Association to be able to forego participation in qualification group D due to the "tragic circumstances". Because of the Israel-Lebanon conflict , those responsible did not expect a fine. The Lebanese association LFA had previously stated that due to the destruction it was extremely difficult to reach the national players and set up a team. The journey to the away games is "almost impossible" due to the bombing of the airport in the capital Beirut. Some national players are currently missing. Group D with Kuwait, Australia and Bahrain continued with just three teams. Lebanon's only game to date, a 1-1 draw against Kuwait on February 22nd, was canceled.

Participation in soccer competitions

Participation of Lebanon in the soccer world championship

• 1930 to 1982 - did not participate
• 1986 - canceled during qualification
• 1990 - did not participate
• 1994 to 2018 - not qualified

Participation of Lebanon in the Asian Cup

• 1956 to 1968 - did not participate
• 1972 - did not qualify
• 1976 - no participation due to the civil war
• 1980 - did not qualify
• 1984 to 1992 - did not participate
• 1996 - did not qualify
• 2000 - preliminary round (participation as host)
• 2004 - did not qualify
• 2007 - withdrawn during qualification
• 2011 - did not qualify
• 2015 - did not qualify
• 2019 - preliminary round

Participation of Lebanon in the West Asian Championship

• 2000 - preliminary round
• 2002 - preliminary round
• 2004 - preliminary round
• 2007 - preliminary round
• 2008 - no participation
• 2010 - no participation
• 2012 - preliminary round
• 2013/14 - preliminary round
• 2019 - preliminary round

Trainer

Surname	from	to
Ljubiša Broćić	1956	1956
Joseph Nalbandian	1958	1969
Joseph Abou Murad	1971	1973
Adnan Meckdache	1974	1976
Joseph Abou Murad	1976	1978
Adnan Meckdache	1987	1992
Adnan Al-Shargi	1993	1993
Terry Yorath	1995	1997
Diethelm Ferner	1998	1998
Mahmoud Saad	1998	2000
Josip Skoblar	2000	2000
Theo Bucker	2000	2001
Richard Tardy	2002	2003
Mahmoud Hamoud	2003	2005
Mohammad Kwid	2005	2005
Adnan Al-Shargi	2005	2005
Emile Rustom	2005	2006
Adnan Meckdache	2006	2008
Emile Rustom	2009	2011
Theo Bucker	2011	2013
Giuseppe Giannini	2013	2015
Miodrag Radulović	2015	2019
Liviu Ciobotariu	2019	2020
Jamal Taha	2020

Record against other national teams

As of September 6, 2018

opponent	Games	S.	U	N	T	GT	TD
Afghanistan	1	1	0	0	2	0	+2
Egypt	6th	0	1	5	2	17th	−15
Algeria	2	0	1	1	3	6th	−3
Armenia	1	0	0	1	0	1	−1
Equatorial Guinea	1	0	1	0	1	1	0
Australia	2	0	0	2	0	6th	−6
Bahrain	16	2	6th	8th	17th	27	−10
Bangladesh	2	1	0	1	4th	2	+2
Bulgaria	1	0	0	1	2	3	−1
China	5	0	1	4th	1	13	−12
Chinese Taipei	1	1	0	0	5	2	+3
Ecuador	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1
Estonia	1	1	0	0	2	0	+2
Gabon	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Georgia	2	2	0	0	7th	4th	+3
Honk Kong	4th	3	1	0	7th	3	+4
India	5	3	2	0	11	6th	+5
Iraq	24	2	6th	16	10	50	−40
Iran	10	1	1	8th	2	27	−25
Japan	1	0	0	1	1	3	−2
Yemen	3	2	0	1	7th	5	+2
Jordan	30th	8th	14th	8th	31	28	+3
Cambodia	1	1	0	0	5	1	+4
Kazakhstan	2	2	0	0	5	1	+4
Qatar	11	0	1	10	3	33	−30
Kyrgyzstan	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2
Kuwait	28	6th	9	13	32	45	−13
Laos	2	2	0	0	9	0	+9
Libya	6th	3	0	3	9	12	−3
Malaysia	2	2	0	0	4th	2	+2
Maldives	4th	4th	0	0	14th	3	+11
Malta	2	0	1	1	0	1	−1
Morocco	2	0	0	2	0	4th	−4
Mauritania	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Macedonia	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1
Myanmar	2	1	1	0	3	1	+2
Namibia	1	0	1	0	1	1	0
New Zealand	1	0	1	0	1	1	0
North Korea	9	5	3	1	15th	6th	+9
Norway	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Oman	12	3	5	4th	12	12	± 0
Pakistan	3	3	0	0	17th	2	+15
Palestine	6th	1	3	2	4th	4th	0
Palestine / Eretz Israel	1	0	0	1	1	5	−4
San Marino	1	0	1	0	1	1	0
Saudi Arabia	12	3	4th	5	16	18th	−2
Singapore	5	2	1	2	5	6th	−1
Somalia	1	1	0	0	4th	0	+4
South Yemen	1	1	0	0	4th	3	+1
South Korea	13	1	3	9	4th	24	−20
Sri Lanka	4th	3	0	1	15th	4th	+11
Sudan	4th	0	2	2	1	5	−4
Syria	23	4th	5	14th	25th	45	−20
Thailand	7th	2	2	3	15th	12	+3
Tunisia	5	1	1	3	5	9	−4
Turkmenistan	3	3	0	0	6th	2	+4
Uganda	1	0	0	1	0	2	−2
Hungary	1	0	0	1	1	4th	−3
Uzbekistan	6th	0	2	4th	1	8th	−7
United Arab Emirates	11	1	3	7th	13	23	−10
Vietnam	5	1	3	1	5	5	0
Cyprus	2	1	0	1	1	2	−1
total	326	88	90	148	377	512	−135

See also

• List of national football teams (men)

Web links

• All international matches of Lebanon
• German blog

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ World Football Elo Ratings: Lebanon . Elo ratings. Retrieved April 2, 2018.