Lebanon national football team

Lebanon
Nickname(s)	Cedars
Association	Federation Libanaise de; Football Association
Confederation	AFC (Asia)
Head coach	Emile Rustom
Top scorer	Roda Antar (23 goals)
Home stadium	Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium
FIFA code	LIB
FIFA ranking	151
Highest FIFA ranking	85 (December 1998)
Lowest FIFA ranking	159 (May 2009)
Elo ranking	131
Home colours	Away colours
First international
	Palestine 5 - 1 Lebanon ; (Palestine; April 27, 1940)
Biggest win
	Lebanon 11 - 1 Philippines ; (Japan; September 28, 1967)
Biggest defeat
	Iraq 8 - 0 Lebanon ; (Iraq; November 25, 1959); Qatar 8 - 0 Lebanon ; (Qatar; March 27, 1985)
AFC Asian Cup
Appearances	1 (First in 2000)
Best result	Round 1, 2000

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The Lebanon national football team is the national team of the Republic of Lebanon and is controlled by the Federation Libanaise de Football Association. It is affiliated with the Asian Football Confederation. It has never qualified for the World Cup finals. The closest they have come was the qualifying for the 2006 tournament, where a win against Vietnam in their last group match would have seen them progress to the group stage ahead of the much favoured Korea Republic.

Lebanon also hosted the 2000 AFC Asian Cup, but didn't make it past the group stages as the team lost 4-0 to Iran and tied Iraq (2-2) and Thailand (1-1).

[edit] World Cup record

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
1930	Did Not Enter (part of France)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1934	Did Not Enter (part of France)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1938	Did Not Enter (part of France)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1950	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1954	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1958	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1962	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1966	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1970	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1974	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1978	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1982	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1986	Withdrew	-	-	-	-	-	-
1990	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1994	Did not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1998	Did not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2002	Did not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2006	Did not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2010	Did not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	0/18	No Appearance (so far)	-	-	-	-	-	-

[edit] Asian Cup record

1956 to 1968 - Did not enter
1972 - Did not qualify
1976 - Withdrew
1980 - Did not qualify
1984 to 1992 - Did not enter
1996 - Did not qualify
2000 - Round 1
2004 - Did not qualify
2007 - Withdrew during qualifying

[edit] West Asian Football Federation Championship record

Year	Final Position	Played	Goals Scored	Goals Conceded	Wins	Draws	Losses
Jordan 2000	Group B (3rd)	3	3	2	1	1	1
Syria 2002	Group 1 (3rd)	2	0	3	0	0	2
Iran 2004	Group 2 (3rd)	2	1	7	0	0	2
Jordan 2007	Group 1 (3rd)	2	0	4	0	0	2
Iran 2008	Withdrew
Total	Best: Group B (3rd)	9	4	21	1	1	7

[edit] 2010 World Cup

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Uzbekistan	6	5	1	17	7	+10	15
Saudi Arabia	6	5	1	15	5	+10	15
Singapore	6	2	4	7	16	−9	6
Lebanon	6	0	6	3	14	−11	0


Lebanon	–	1 – 2	1 – 2	0 – 1
Saudi Arabia	4 – 1	–	2 – 0	4 – 0
Singapore	2 – 0	0 – 3*	–	3 – 7
Uzbekistan	3 – 0	3 – 0	3 – 0*	–

[edit] Current Squad

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB (Age)	Caps	Goals	Club
Coach
0		Emile Rustom				National Team
Goalkeepers
	GK	Elie Freyjeh	{{{age}}}	??	0	Al Nejmeh
1	GK	Larry Mehanna	28 October, 1982 (age 26)	??	0	Al-Ansar
12	GK	Hassan Moghnieh	7 February, 1986 (age 22)	??	0	Al-Ansar
Defense
3	DF	Youssef Mohamad	1 July, 1980 (age 28)	33	0	1. FC Köln
13	DF	Ali El Atat	9 October 1984 (age 24)	3	0	Al-Mabarrah
6	DF	Faisal Antar	20 December, 1978 (age 30)	15	3	Al-Mabarrah
2	DF	Ali Al Saadi	20 April, 1986 (age 22)	??	??	Safa Beirut
30	DF	Ahmad El Choum	3 August, 1983 (age 25)	??	??	Al-Ansar
4	DF	Hussein Amine	15 March, 1985 (age 23)	??	??	Al-Ansar
5	DF	Bilal Najarin	8 February, 1981(age 27)	??	??	Al Nejmeh
21	DF	Khaled Hamieh	7 June, 1981 (age 27)	??	??	Al Nejmeh
15	DF	Ali Yaacoub	26 January, 1985 (age 23)	??	??	Nejmeh
16	DF	Ramez Dayoub	8 September, 1984 (age 24)	??	??	Safa Beirut
Midfield
8	MF	Roda Antar	12 September, 1980 (age 28)	48	23	Shandong Luneng
30	MF	Hassan Maatouk		??	??	Al-Ahed
29	MF	Mohammed Baqir Younis	7 July, 1984 (age 24)	??	??	Ansar
10	MF	Abbas Ahmed Atwi	12 September, 1979 (age 29)	??	??	Al Nejmeh
14	MF	Amer Khan	4 June, 1983 (age 25)	6	0	Safa Beirut
Forward
11	FW	Mohammed Ghaddar	1 January, 1984 (age 24)	??	11	Al Nejmeh
7	FW	Abbas Ali Atwi	15 December, 1984 (age 24)	??	??	Al Ahed
9	FW	Ali Nasseredine	24 January, 1984 (age 24)	31	21	Nejmeh
23	FW	Mahmoud El Ali	4 March, 1984 (age 24)	8	5	Al-Ahed
25	FW	Ahmmed Choker	30 March, 1993 (age 16)	17	55	IFK Karlshamn

[edit] Coaches

Terry Yorath, former Tottenham Hotspur and Wales national football team player took over the Lebanese team during December 1995 and was sacked on June 1997. He was replaced by Egyptian manager Mahmoud Saad. Samir Sa'ad took over from Adnan Al-Shargi after being assistant manager. Rustom was then sacked after 3 years at the helm for failing to guide the National team into the 4th stage of World Cup Qualifiers for the South Africa 2010 World Cup.

Name	Arrival	Exit
Adnan Al-Shargi	January 1993	November 1995
Terry Yorath	December 1995	June 1997
Mahmoud Saad	June 1997	December 1998
Theo Bucker	2000	2003
Mahmoud Hamoud	2003	2004
Mohamad Qwayed	2004	2005
Adnan Al-Shargi	2005	2005
Samir Sa'ad	2005	June 2008
Emile Rustom	October 2008