Category: Beach Soccer

Lebanon’s history in continental tournaments

Yesterday, Lebanon failed to qualify for it’s first ever FIFA World Cup when its futsal national team was knocked out due to the “away goal” rule after drawing 0-0 and 1-1 respectively vs Vietnam.

As hard as it can be, this defeat left a soury taste in the mouth of the Lebanese fans as they felt this time it was closer than ever. In it’s history, Lebanon has failed to qualify to a FIFA or AFC tournament 30 times while participating in those tournaments 19 times (Hosting the tournament do not count).

The men’s football national team has tried to qualify to a FIFA world cup 8 times, withdrawing once (1986) and failing 7 times (from 1994 until 2018). the same team also tried to qualify 10 times to the AFC Asian Cup, withdrawing 3 times (1976, 1984 and 2007), failing in 6 campaigns (1972, 1980, 1996, 2004, 2011, 2015) and suceeding once in 2019.

On the other hand, the women’s football team had less tries but all went badly. Our women’s have failed to qualify to the 2015 and 2019 (withdrew) FIFA World Cup. The team also failed to qualify to 2 Asian Cup editions in 2014 and 2018 (withdrew).

The futsal men’s national team is a regular team in the AFC Asian Cup, participating in every edition since 2003 (11 in total). The top 5 finishers in the Asian Cup qualify to the World Cup but we never finished in the top 5 (7 times in the top 8). 2020 Asian Cup was cancelled that’s why there was the play-off tie.

The women’s futsal national team has participated in one Asian Cup (2018) as there was no qualifications. This national team never tried to qualify to a tournament.

The final sport under FIFA’s juridiction is beach soccer. Our men’s national team failed to qualify to the World Cup 4 times (From 2013 until 2019) while qualifying to the 5 last edition of the Asian Cup.

New friendlies for the Lebanese beach soccer national team

The Cedars will travel to the Kingdom of Morocco in order to play two friendly games on 21 and 22 January.

In Beach Soccer, Lebanon is ranked 37th in the world ranking (top 5 in Asia). Morocco is ranked 18th in the world ranking (top 3 in Africa)

The AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup 2021 is scheduled to be staged in Thailand from April 28 to May 8, which also serves as the qualifiers for the Continent’s top three sides to represent Asia in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Russia 2021 in August. The draw didn’t take place yet.

New dates for the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers in Futsal and Beach Soccer

The AFC revealed new dates for the Asian Cup in Beach Soccer and Futsal. The aim of a qualification next year for a FIFA World Cup competition – and for the first time in Lebanon’s history – is realistic.

In Beach Soccer, Lebanon is ranked 37th in the world ranking. The Cedars are in the top 5 in Asia.

The AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup 2021 is scheduled to be staged in Thailand from April 28 to May 8 to allow Asia’s top 16 teams more time to prepare for the tournament, which also serves as the qualifiers for the Continent’s top three sides to represent Asia in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Russia 2021 in August. The draw didn’t take place yet.

In Futsal, Lebanon is ranked 40th in the world ranking. The Cedars are ranked 6th in Asia.

The AFC Futsal Championship 2021 is now scheduled to be staged in Kuwait from March 23 to April 3, 2021.

The top five teams of the tournament will qualify for the FIFA Futsal World Cup Lithuania 2021.

Lebanon has been drawn in a tough group with Japan (ranked 2nd in Asia), Kyrzyg Republic (ranked 7th in Asia), Kuwait (ranked 8th in Asia).

All the dates for the new Futsal and Beach soccer 2020-2021 season

The Lebanese Football Association (LFA) has announced the start dates for each tournament in the Futsal and Beach Football for the 2020-2021 season.

The beach football championship will start on 19 September 2020 while in futsal, many championships will take place in the remaining quarter of 2020. They will start on the following dates

Lebanese Futsal FA Cup: 15 October 2020

Lebanese Futsal Premier League: 20 December 2020

Lebanese Futsal Second Division: 14 November 2020

Lebanese Futsal Championship U-19: 14 November 2020

Lebanese Futsal Championship U-17: 15 December 2020

LFA cancels all on-going tournaments and postpone the Premier League

In an official circular, the Lebanese Football Association (LFA) has announced the cancellation of the “Elite and Challenge Cup” and the U-17 men’s and U-19 women’s leagues of the 2019-2020 season.

This decision comes after the government decided to close the football stadiums, among other measures, in the hope to fight the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

In this circular, the LFA has also decided to postpone the start of the 2020-2021 premier league, which was supposed to start on the 18th of September, and the beach football league to a date that would be determined in a later time.

The AFC and FIFA have already cancelled both International football windows of 2020 that were meant to occur in October and November. This would give the LFA an extra of 2 weeks in its local football calendar.

The new dates for the return of football… Again.

The Lebanese Football Association has decided in its executive session, which was held earlier today at the union’s headquarters in Verdun, to resume football activity on Saturday, August 22, 2020.

Consequently, the Elite and Challenge Cups will return after it was postponeddue to the covid-19 lockdown procedure.

Moreover, the Men’s U-17 championship will resume on the 22nd of August with their 3rd gameweek, while the Women’s U-19 championship will be resumed on the 23rd with the second gameweek of their season, and the Beach Soccer Championship begins on the 28th.

The Lebanese Football Association reverses its decision regarding the Regie team

In its latest circular, the Lebanese Football Association (LFA) decided to write-off the Regie beach soccer team after they announced their withdrawal from all sporting activities for this season.

The LFA followed up their decision by sending a letter to the club explaining that the financial situation in the country will freeze their association membership for a year, and therefore they can return to action starting next year.

Regie Club won the Lebanese beach soccer league 6 times, with the latest one being in 2018.

The 2019-20 Beach Soccer Championship starts July 30

The beach soccer championship draw for the 2019-2020 season took place today. The tournament will start on July 30.

Clubs were divided in two groups:

Group A: Chabab al Janah, Hasser el Tabagh, Municipality of Boksota, Hourriyeh Saida, Homentmen Antelias and Kefrmelki.

Group B: Beirut, Shoot Production, Royals, Aqua Marina 2, Blues and Shabab Al Sahel.

تبدأ بطولة لبنان لكرة القدم الشاطئية 2019-20 في 30 يوليو

سحبت اليوم قرعة بطولة الدوري العام لكرة القدم الشاطئية للموسم 2019-2020 والتي تنطلق في 30 تموز الحالي وذلك في مقر الإتحاد اللبناني لكرة القدم بحضور ممثلي الأندية.

وأسفرت القرعة عن مجموعتين حيث ضمّت الأولى: شباب الجناح، حصر التبغ، بلدية بقسطا، الحرية صيدا، الجيش، هومنتمن انطلياس وكفرملكي.

فيما ضمّت المجموعة الثانية كلاً من: بيروت، شوت برودكشن، رويالز، أكوا مارينا 2، البلوز وشباب الساحل.

ويفتتح منافسات المجموعة الأولى في أسبوعها الأول كل من شباب الجناح وكفرملكي، ويلتقي بلدية بقسطا مع هومنتمن انطلياس والحرية صيدا مع الجيش.

أما المجموعة الثانية تفتتح بلقاء شوت برودكشن مع شباب الساحل، بيروت مع البلوز ورويالز مع أكوا مارينا 2.