Lebanon National Team Coaches


Years	Name (Nationality)		GP	W	L	D	GS	GA	GD	CS
1942-47	Abed Traboulsi			2	0	2	0	2	6	-4	0
1947	Jean Arab			1	0	1	0	0	1	-1	0
1953-55	Vinzenz Dittrich (Austria)	4	1	2	1	12	8	4	1
1956	Ljubiša Brocić (Yugoslavia)	1	0	1	0	1	4	-3	0
1959	Harry Wright (England)		2	0	2	0	0	11	-11	0
1961	Joseph Nalbandian		5	2	3	0	13	10	3	0
1962	Mitri Adem			2	2	0	0	8	0	8	2
1963	Joseph Nalbandian		7	3	3	1	17	8	9	3
1964	Mitri Adem			4	1	2	1	4	5	-1	1
1965-66	Joseph Nalbandian		11	4	5	2	14	18	-4	2
1967	Joszef Albert (Hungary)*	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967	Joseph Nalbandian		5	2	2	1	18	9	9	0
1970	Mitri Adem			2	1	1	0	3	4	-1	0
1971	Joseph Abou Mrad		8	3	5	0	8	13	-5	2
1974	Adnan Mekdach			4	1	2	1	2	6	-4	1
1979	Joseph Abou Mrad		2	0	1	1	0	1	-1	0
1984-85	Todor Simeonovski (Bulgaria)	5	0	5	0	0	33	-33	0
1987	Samir El Adou			2	0	1	1	1	6	-5	1
1988-89	Zein Hachem			10	1	6	3	3	15	-12	4
1993	Adnan Mekdach			13	3	6	4	10	19	-9	3
1994	Ary Marques (Brazil)*		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1995-97	Terry Yorath (Wales)		31	15	8	8	47	39	8	11
1998	Diethelm Ferner (Germany)	3	1	2	0	3	4	-1	1
1998-99	Mahmoud Saad (Egypt)		18	4	9	5	20	28	-8	4
1999-00	Bram Braam (Netherlands)	2	0	1	1	0	1	-1	2
2000	Josip Skoblar (Croatia)		16	4	4	8	19	19	0	9
2001	Theo Bucker (Germany)		10	5	1	4	32	8	24	5
2002-03	Richard Tardy (France)		13	3	7	3	12	19	-7	5
2003	Mohammad Kwid (Syria)		2	0	2	0	0	4	-4	0
2003	Mahmoud Hammoud			2	0	1	1	0	2	-2	0
2004	Adnan Hamad (Iraq)*		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2004	Mahmoud Hammoud			9	3	5	1	10	19	-9	2
2004-05	Mohammad Kwid (Syria)		8	1	3	4	11	13	-2	1
2006-08	Adnan Mekdach			22	5	11	6	27	34	-7	5
2009-11	Emile Restoum			18	3	12	3	16	37	-21	3
2011-13	Theo Bucker (Germany)		34	8	18	8	33	58	-15	6	
2013-14	Guiseppe Giannini (Italy)	14	3	5	6	17	22	-5	3
2015-19	Miodrag Radulovic (Montenegro)	37	13	11	13	42	32	11	17
2019-20	Liviu Ciobotariu (Romania)	10	3	4	3	8	8	0	4
2020-21	Jamal Taha			7	2	4	1	9	12	-3	1
2021-22	Ivan Hasek (Czech Republic)	13	2	8	3	6	16	-10	4
2022-23	Aleksandr Ilic (Serbia)		13	5	5	3	12	10	2	6
2023	Nikola Jurčević (Croatia)	4	0	2	2	3	6	-3	1
2023-	Miodrag Radulovic (Montenegro)	17	8	6	3	24	18	6	8

*Coaches appointed and never coached an official game


Total coaches with multiple stints

Name (Nationality)		GP	W	L	D	GS	GA	GD	CS
Joseph Nalbandian		28	11	13	4	62	45	17	6
Mitri Adem			8	4	3	1	15	9	6	3
Adnan Mekdach			39	9	19	11	39	59	-20	10
Theo Bucker (Germany)		44	13	19	12	62	65	-3	11
Mohammad Kwid (Syria)		10	1	5	4	12	19	-7	1
Mahmoud Hammoud			11	3	6	2	10	21	-11	3
Miodrag Radulovic (Montenegro)	54	21	17	16	66	50	16	25

Coaches with most wins

Coaches				Wins
Miodrag Radulovic (Montenegro)	21
Terry Yorath (Wales)		15
Theo Bucker (Germany)		13
Joseph Nalbandian		11
Adnan Mekdach			9	
Aleksandr Ilic (Serbia)		5
Mitri Adem			4
Mahmoud Saad (Egypt)		4
Josip Skoblar (Croatia)		4
Joseph Abou Mrad		3
Richard Tardy (France)		3
Mahmoud Hammoud			3
Emile Restoum			3
Guiseppe Giannini (Italy)	3
Liviu Ciobotariu (Romania)	3
Jamal Taha			2
Ivan Hasek (Czech Republic)	2
Vinzenz Dittrich (Austria)	1
Zein Hachem			1
Diethelm Ferner (Germany)	1
Mohammad Kwid (Syria)		1
Abed Traboulsi			0
Jean Arab			0
Ljubiša Brocić (Serbia)		0
Harry Wright (England)		0
Teodor Shomovski (Bulgaria)	0
Samir El Adou			0
Bram Braam (Netherlands)	0
Nikola Jurčević (Croatia)	0

Coaches with most goals scored

Coaches				Goals For
Miodrag Radulovic (Montenegro)	66
Theo Bucker (Germany)		62
Joseph Nalbandian		62
Terry Yorath (Wales)		47
Adnan Mekdach			39
Mahmoud Saad (Egypt)		20
Josip Skoblar (Croatia)		19
Guiseppe Giannini (Italy)	17
Emile Restoum			16
Mitri Adem			15
Aleksandr Ilic (Serbia)		12
Richard Tardy (France)		12
Vinzenz Dittrich (Austria)	12
Mohammad Kwid (Syria)		12
Mahmoud Hammoud			10
Jamal Taha			9
Joseph Abou Mrad		8
Liviu Ciobotariu (Romania)	8
Ivan Hasek (Czech Republic)	6
Zein Hachem			3
Diethelm Ferner (Germany)	3
Nikola Jurčević (Croatia)	3
Abed Traboulsi			2
Ljubiša Brocić (Serbia)		1
Samir El Adou			1
Jean Arab			0
Harry Wright (England)		0
Teodor Shomovski (Bulgaria)	0
Bram Braam (Netherlands)	0

Coaches with most cleansheets

Coaches				# of CS	% of CS
Miodrag Radulovic (Montenegro)	25	0.46
Adnan Mekdach			11	0.28
Terry Yorath (Wales)		11	0.35
Theo Bucker (Germany)		11	0.25
Josip Skoblar (Croatia)		9	0.56
Joseph Nalbandian		6	0.21
Aleksandr Ilic (Serbia)		6	0.46
Richard Tardy (France)		5	0.38
Joseph Abou Mrad		4	0.40
Zein Hachem			4	0.40
Mahmoud Saad (Egypt)		4	0.22
Liviu Ciobotariu (Romania)	4	0.40
Ivan Hasek (Czech Republic)	4	0.31
Mitri Adem			3	0.38
Mahmoud Hammoud			3	0.27
Emile Restoum			3	0.17
Guiseppe Giannini (Italy)	3	0.21
Bram Braam (Netherlands)	2	1.00
Vinzenz Dittrich (Austria)	1	0.25
Samir El Adou			1	0.50
Diethelm Ferner (Germany)	1	0.33
Mohammad Kwid (Syria)		1	0.10
Jamal Taha			1	0.14
Nikola Jurčević (Croatia)	1	0.25
Abed Traboulsi			0	0.00
Jean Arab			0	0.00
Ljubiša Brocić (Serbia)		0	0.00
Harry Wright (England)		0	0.00
Teodor Shomovski (Bulgaria)	0	0.00


Games without a confirmed coach

Date		Stadium				Location		Opponent		LEB	OPP	Tournament		Note
27-Apr-1940	Maccabiah Stadium		Yaffa, Palestine	Mandatory Palestine	1	5	Friendly		Likely to be Jean Arab
18-Oct-1957	Camille Chamoun Stadium		Beirut, Lebanon		Saudi Arabia		1	1	Pan-Arab
20-Oct-1957	Camille Chamoun Stadium		Beirut, Lebanon		Syria			1	1	Pan-Arab
22-Oct-1957	Camille Chamoun Stadium		Beirut, Lebanon		Jordan			6	3	Pan-Arab
24-Oct-1957	Camille Chamoun Stadium		Beirut, Lebanon		Tunisia			2	4	Pan-Arab
08-Mar-1964					Tripoli, Libya		Libya			1	0	Tripoli Fair Tournament	Either Joseph Nalbandian or Mitri Adem
16-May-1975	Dongdaemun Stadium		Seoul, South Korea	South Korea		0	1	President's Cup		Not Joseph Abou Mrad
25-May-1975					x, Taiwan		Taiwan			2	0	Friendly		Not Joseph Abou Mrad
27-May-1975	Thailand National Stadium	Bangkok, Thailand	Thailand		2	1	Friendly		Not Joseph Abou Mrad


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