The Lebanon national football team has represented Lebanon in international association football since 1940. The Lebanese Football Association (LFA) was founded in 1933 and became a member of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) three years later.[1] However, the team did not play its first official international match until 27 April 1940,[2] suffering a 5–1 defeat to Mandatory Palestine in a friendly game.[3] In 1964, Lebanon joined the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and continues to compete as a member of the organisation.[1]

Players

Key
Named to the national team in the past year
Bold Still playing competitive football
As of match played 7 December 2021[4]
Lebanon national team footballers with at least 30 appearances
No. Name Caps Goals Date of debut Debut against Date of
last match 		Last match against Ref.
1 Hassan Maatouk 94 21 27 January 2006  Saudi Arabia 12 October 2021  Syria [5]
2 Abbas Ahmed Atwi 84 7 1 September 2002  Jordan 29 March 2016  Myanmar [6]
3 Mohamad Haidar 78 4 17 August 2011  Syria 7 December 2021  Sudan [7]
4 Youssef Mohamad 76 3 22 June 1997  Kuwait 29 March 2016  Myanmar [8]
5 Roda Antar 65 20 23 September 1998  Algeria 29 March 2016  Myanmar [9]
Walid Ismail 65 1 3 March 2010  Syria 17 January 2019  North Korea [10]
7 Hassan "Moni" Chaito 60 6 15 November 2011  South Korea 7 September 2021  South Korea [11]
Nour Mansour 60 2 3 March 2010  Syria 4 December 2021  Algeria [12]
9 Haytham Faour 58 0 17 August 2011  Syria 12 January 2019  Saudi Arabia [13]
10 Abbas Ali Atwi 53 4 3 September 2002  Iran 24 March 2016  South Korea [14]
11 Ali Hamam 52 3 14 January 2009  Vietnam 12 January 2019  Saudi Arabia [15]
12 Mootaz Jounaidi 49 0 20 January 2008  China 10 November 2019  Oman [16]
Nader Matar 49 2 22 January 2012  Iraq 7 December 2021  Sudan [17]
14 Bilal Najjarine 48 1 23 March 2004  Syria 8 September 2015  South Korea [18]
15 Rabih Ataya 47 5 11 May 2012  Egypt 7 December 2021  Sudan [19]
16 Mahmoud El Ali 46 12 16 June 2007  Syria 14 December 2012  Kuwait [20]
Mehdi Khalil 46 0 17 March 2013  Bahrain 23 June 2021  Djibouti [21]
Ali Al Saadi 46 6 27 January 2006  Saudi Arabia 31 January 2013  Qatar [22]
19 Mohamad Ghaddar 44 19 27 January 2006  Saudi Arabia 28 March 2017  Hong Kong [23]
20 Jamal Taha 43 11 7 May 1993  India 18 October 2000  Thailand [24]
21 Ziad Al Samad 40 0 1 September 2002  Jordan 24 June 2012  Iraq [25]
22 Vardan Ghazaryan 39 19 6 December 1995  Slovakia 30 May 2001  Thailand [26]
Hilal El-Helwe 39 9 8 October 2015  Myanmar 7 December 2021  Sudan [27]
24 Faisal Antar 38 4 27 September 1998  Saudi Arabia 30 October 2007  India [28]
25 Adnan Haidar 36 1 16 October 2012  Yemen 19 November 2019  North Korea [29]
Mouhamad Chamass 36 0 22 January 2009  China 29 December 2013  Kuwait [30]
Mohamed Zein Tahan 36 1 29 May 2013  Oman 7 December 2021  Sudan [31]
28 Ali Fakih 35 0 7 May 1993  India 30 May 2001  Thailand [32]
29 Lary Mehanna 34 0 24 December 2006  Somalia 6 November 2014  United Arab Emirates [33]
30 Moussa Hojeij 33 6 8 December 1996  Georgia 26 December 2002  Bahrain [34]
Haitham Zein 33 16 18 August 1998  Armenia 19 June 2004  Syria [35]
32 Joan Oumari 31 4 7 September 2013  Syria 12 October 2021  Syria [36]
33 Ahmad Sakr 30 0 26 March 1993  Jordan 23 August 2003  Syria [37]

See also

References

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  36. ^ "Joan Oumari". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  37. ^ "Ahmad Sakr". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
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