Lebanon 2004/05

Final Table:

 1.Al-Nijmeh            20 13  5  2 56-18 44  Champions
 2.Al-Ansar             20 13  5  2 35-17 44
 3.Al-Ahed              20 11  3  6 37-22 36
 4.Olympic Beirut       20  9  6  5 33-22 33
 5.Safa                 20  7  7  6 26-23 28
 6.Al-Tadamon Tyre      20  6  6  8 17-26 24
 7.Al-Mabarra           20  6  6  8 18-28 24
 8.Al-Rayyan            20  5  6  9 19-28 21
--------------------------------------------
 9.La Sagesse           20  6  3 11 12-32 21  Relegated  [aka Al-Hikmeh]
10.Shabab Al-Sahel      20  3  7 10 23-31 16  Relegated
11.Akha-Ahly            20  1  6 13 16-45  3  [-6]  Relegated

NB: Akha-Ahly have 6 points deducted for failing to have their 
    junior side compete in domestic competitions

NB: league to be reduced to 10 clubs for 2005/06 (3 down, 2 up)

Round 1 
[Nov 21]
Akha-Ahly       1–1 Olympic Beirut
  [Newton De Oliveira 19; Abbas Atwi 53]
Al-Tadamon Tyre 1–1 Safa
  [Hussein Hassoun 83; Mustapha Zoayter 30]
Al-Mabarra      1–0 Shabab Al-Sahel
  [Jerome Randolph 61]
Al-Ansar        5–0 Sagesse
  [Mohamed Jawad 17, Mahmoud Shahoud 25, 26, 71, Hassan Hassan 56]
[Nov 24]
Al-Rayyan       0–1 Al-Ahed
  [Jamal Khalifa 86]
Al-Nijmeh       bye

Round 2
[Nov 27]
Olympic Beirut  3–0 Al-Tadamon Tyre
  [Wagner Dos Santos 10, Abbas Atwi 48, Faysal Antar 59]
[Nov 28]
Safa            4–2 Shabab Al-Sahel
  [Walid Al-Miri 41, Ramez Dioub 45, Ghassan Showaikh 78, 88;
   Bassem Azar 4, Hassanein Daaboul 90]
Al-Ahed         4–0 Akha-Ahly
  [Ali Al-Attar 34, 53, Oussama Haydar 45, Bassem Marmar 46] 
Sagesse         1–2 Al-Mabarra
  [Marcelio 27; Ali Ahmed 26, Rani Assaad 90]
Al-Rayyan       0–6 Al-Nijmeh
  [Mohamed Qassas 43, 52, Moussa Hojeij 47, Ali Wassef Mohamed 53,
   Osman Safani 54, Mohamed Halawi 90]
Al-Ansar        bye

Round 3
[Dec 4]
Al-Rayyan       1–2 Al-Ansar
  [Mohamed Qabbout 27; Mahmoud Shahoud 65, Wassim Abdulhadi 82]
[Dec 5]
Akha-Ahly       1–4 Al-Nijmeh
  [Peter Prospar 45; Mohamed Qassas 10, 48, 55, 75pen]
Al-Tadamon Tyre 0–3 Al-Ahed
  [Youssouf Hijazi 38og, Armen Shahgeldian 43, Issam Ayyoub 64]
Shabab Al-Sahel 2–3 Olympic Beirut
  [Bassem Azar 35, Ahmed Al-Safah 70; Jose Carlos 65, 73, Rabih Othman 63]
Safa            1–0 Sagesse
  [Salomao Salha 10]
Al-Mabarra      bye

Round 4
[Dec 11]
Al-Ansar        1–0 Akha-Ahly
  [Ahmed Al-Shoum 5]
[Dec 12]
Al-Nijmeh       3–0 Al-Tadamon Tyre
  [Mohamed Qassas 25, Emmanuel Duah 48, Moussa Hojeij 90]
Al-Mabarra      0–1 Al-Rayyan
  [Mohamed Qabbout 90]
Sagesse         1–0 Olympic Beirut
  [Paul Rustom 2pen]
Al-Ahed         1–0 Shabab Al-Sahel
  [Ahmed Itani 47]
Safa            bye

Round 5
[Dec 18]
Al-Rayyan       0–2 Safa
  [Ghassan Showaikh 33, Salomaro Salha 57]
[Dec 19]
Shabab Al-Sahel 0–2 Al-Nijmeh
  [Mohamed Qassas 42, Moussa Hojeij 90pen]
Akha-Ahly       0–0 Al-Mabarra
Al-Tadamon Tyre 0–1 Al-Ansar
  [Mahmoud Shahoud 55]
Al-Ahed         4–0 Sagesse
  [Ahmed Itani 34, Ousama Haydar 58, Riyadh Qobaissi 81, Ali Al-Attar 85]
Olympic Beirut  bye

Round 6
[Dec 25]
Shabab Al-Sahel 0-3 Al-Ansar
  [Mahmoud Shahoud 45, Wassim Abdulhadi 82, Felix Kennedy 87pen]
Safa            3-4 Akha-Ahly
  [Amer Khan 69, Ghassan Showaikh 86, Ahmed Al-Na’amani 88;
   Nazih Tayy 24og, Leonardo Bou-Harb 41, Ali Hwila 50,
   Zein Al-Abedin Saad 64]
[Dec 26]
Al-Mabarra      0-1 Al-Tadamon Tyre
  [Hamid Basma 44]
Olympic Beirut  3-1 Al-Rayyan
  [Krekor Alozian 26, Faysal Antar 58, 59; Ahmed Krayyem 33]
Al-Nijmeh       2-0 Sagesse
  [Mohamed Qassas 60, Emmanuel Duah 73]
Al-Ahed         bye

Round 7
[Dec 31]
Al-Ahed         2-0 Al-Mabarra
  [Armen Shahgeldian 13, Jamal Khalifa 86]
[Jan 2]
Olympic Beirut  2-1 Safa
  [Jose Carlos 31, Faysal Antar 40; wAlid Al-Miri 57]
Shabab Al-Sahel 1-0 Al-Rayyan
  [Adnan Mohamed 6pen]
Sagesse         1-1 Akha-Ahly
  [Paul Rustom 90; Ricardo Rocha 23]
Al-Nijmeh       2-2 Al-Ansar
  [Mohamed Halawi 90, Ali Nassereddine 90; Felix Kennedy 43pen,
   Malek Hassoun 87]
Al-Tadamon Tyre bye

Round 8
[Jan 8]
Al-Ansar        1-0 Olympic Beirut
  [Nasrat Al-Jamal 57]
Al-Rayyan       3-0 Sagesse
  [Ahmed Krayyem 7, Mohamed Qabbout 40, Mahmoud Al-Ali 58]
[Jan 9]
Al-Mabarra      0-7 Al-Nijmeh
  [Ali Wasser Mohamed 36, Abbas Atwi 51, Mohamed Qassas 68pen,
   Emmanuel Duah 71, Ali Nassereddine 74, 83, 86]
Al-Tadamon Tyre 0-0 Akha-Ahly
Al-Ahed         1-1 Safa
  [Ali Al-Attar 45; Gassan Showaikh 62]
Shabab Al-Sahel bye

Round 9
[Jan 15]
Olympic Beirut  1-1 Al-Ahed
  [Jose Carlos 16; Armen Shahgeldian 78]
Al-Mabarra      0-2 Al-Ansar
  [Mohamed Shahrour 38, Wassim Abdulhadi 67]
[Jan 16]
Safa            1-2 Al-Nijmeh
  [Walid Al-Miri 19; Mohamed Qassas 59, Moussa Hojeij 90]
Akha-Ahly       2-3 Al-Rayyan
  [Leonardo Bou-Harb 17, Zainulabidin Saad 42; Ali Assa’ad 2,
   Mahmoud Al-Ali 57, Samer Hawi 76]
Shabab Al-Sahel 0-2 Al-Tadamon Tyre
  [Ali Layla 63, Hamid Basma 86]
Sagesse         bye

Round 10
[Jan 22]
Al-Ansar        1-0 Al-Ahed
  [Nasrat Al-Jamal 37]
[Jan 23]
Sagesse         1-2 Shabab Al-Sahel
  [Paul Rustom 2pen; Abdulrahman Bella 32, 90]
Al-Tadamon Tyre 1-0 Al-Rayyan
  [Ali Bitar 44]
[Jan 25]
Al-Nijmeh       4-1 Olympic Beirut
  [Mohamed Halawi 2, Mohamed Qassas 59pen, 86, Moussa Hojeij 72;
   Faysal Antar 90]
Safa            2-3 Al-Mabarra
  [Mahmoud Al-Zoghbi 82, Walid Al-Miri 89; Youssouf Al-Jawhari 4,
   Jerome Randolph 82, 90]
Akha-Ahly       bye

Round 11
[Jan 29]
Olympic Beirut  0-1 Al-Mabarra
  [Ali Ahmed 25]
[Jan 30]
Al-Ansar        0-1 Safa
  [Ahmed Al-Na’amani 51]
Sagesse         0-1 Al-Tadamon Tyre
  [Hamid Basma 65]
Akha-Ahly       2-2 Shabab Al-Sahel
  [Newton De Oliveira 24, Peter Prospar 86; Hassan Daher 33, 72]
Al-Nijmeh       2-0 Al-Ahed
  [Emmanuel Duah 33, Mohamed Ghaddar 86]
Al-Rayyan       bye

Round 12
[Mar 4]
Shabab Al-Sahel 2–2 Al-Ahed
  [Bassem Ghaddar 2, 78; Youssouf Salman 57, 65]
[Mar 5]
Sagesse         0–2 Ansar 
  [Hussein Amin 62, Fabio Santos Da Silva 76] 
Al-Rayyan       2–2 Olympic Beirut
  [Ali Assaad 12, Issam Qosaybani 82; Faysal Antar 29, Jose Carlos 52pen]
[Mar 6]
Al-Tadamon Tyre awd Al-Mabarra     [awarded 2-0; originally 0-1, Mabarra
  [Ali Al-Atat 82]                  fielded ineligible player (Kenneth 
Akha-Ahly       1–1 Safa            Akubagwu)]
  [Ricardo Rocha 52pen; Mustapha Zoayter 17]
Al-Nijmeh       bye

Round 13
[Mar 12]
Safa            0-0 Al-Rayyan
Sagesse         0-4 Al-Nijmeh
  [Bilal Sheikh Al-Najjarine 45, Mohamed Qassas 71, 89,
   Ali Nassereddine 85]
[Mar 13]
Al-Mabarra      1-2 Olympic Beirut
  [Randolph Jerome 70; Abbas Atwi 87pen, Faysal Antar 89]
Al-Ansar        2-1 Shabab Al-Sahel
  [Claudio Junior 7, Hamza Al-Jamal 64; Abdulrahman Bella 37]
[Mar 31]
Akha-Ahly       0-4 Al-Ahed
  [Issam Ayyoub 16, 88, Silva Rocha 28og, Boubacar Bah 34]
Al-Tadamon Tyre bye

Round 14
[Mar 19]
Al-Tadamon Tyre 0-1 Sagesse
  [Artur Kotcherian 18]
Akha-Ahly       0-1 Al-Ansar
  [Fabio Santos Da Silva 81pen]
[Mar 20]
Al-Nijmeh       1-1 Shabab Al-Sahel
  [Moussa Hojeij 5; Abdulrahman Bella 54]
Al-Mabarra      0-0 Safa
Al-Ahed         2-1 Al-Rayyan
  [Ahmed Trad 38, Hassan Ma’atouq 75; Mohamed Qabbout 66]
Olympic Beirut  bye

Round 15
[Mar 26]
Olympic Beirut  0–0 Sagesse
Mabarra         2–1 Al-Ahed
  [Hassan Baydoun 41, Jerome Randolph 90; Youssouf Salman 71]
[Mar 27]
Al-Nijmeh       5–1 Akha-Ahly
  [Emmanuel Duah 22, Moussa Hojeij 48pen, Mohamed Qassas 56, 72,
   Ali Nassereddine 75; Leonardo Bou-Harb 51]
Al-Tadamon Tyre 1–1 Shabab Al-Sahel 
  [Ibrahim Manasri 42; Ahmed Al-Safah 90]
Al-Ansar        2–2 Al-Rayyan
  [Claudio Junior 47, Fabio Santos Da Silva 75pen; Mahmoud Al-Ali 37,
   Issam Qossaybani 90]
Safa            bye

Round 16
[Apr 9]
Sagesse         0-0 Safa
Akha-Ahly       0-1 Al-Tadamon Tyre
  [Bassem Daher 82]
[Apr 10]
Olympic Beirut  1-1 Shabab Al-Sahel
  [Faysal Antar 72; Hassan Daher 90]
Al-Ansar        1-1 Mabarra
  [Claudio Junior 59pen; Ali Ahmed 15]
[Apr 12]
Al-Nijmeh       0-1 Al-Rayyan
  [Mahmoud Al-Ali 16]
Al-Ahed         bye

Round 17
[Apr 16]
Al-Nijmeh       2-2 Mabarra
  [Moussa Hojeij 23, 36; Youssouf Al-Jawhari 9, Nabih Al-Jurdi 60]
Olympic Beirut  3-1 Akha-Ahly
  [Jose Carlos 6, 16, Hussein Ollaiq 73; Peter Prospar 25]
[Apr 17]
Shabab Al-Sahel 0-1 Safa
  [Ghassan Showaikh 32]
Sagesse         0-2 Al-Ahed
  [Abbas Kana’ane 26, Armen Shahgeldian 66]
Al-Rayyan       2-2 Al-Tadamon Tyre
  [Mahmoud Al-Ali 5, Mohamed Qabbout 49; Ibrahim Manasri 2,
   Qassem Daher 37pen]
Al-Ansar        bye

Round 18
[Apr 30]
Olympic Beirut  3-0 Al-Ansar
  [Jose Carlos 15, Abbas Atwi 45, Hussein Ollaiq 80]
[May 1]
Sagesse         1-0 Al-Rayyan
  [Paul Rustom 5]
Al-Tadamon Tyre 2-2 Al-Nijmeh
  [Hamid Basma 21, Qassem Daher 85pen; Moussa Hojeij 77,
   Ali Nassereddine 83]
Shabab Al-Sahel 1-1 Mabarra
  [Ahmed Al-Safah 49; Wissam Nassar 14]
Safa            1-3 Al-Ahed
  [Ghassan Showaikh 88; Issam Ayyoub 26, 30, Bassem Marmar 48]
Akha-Ahly       bye

Round 19
[May 14]
Safa            1-1 Al-Ansar
  [Hussein Tahhan 90; Mahmoud Shahoud 67]
Shabab Al-Sahel 6–1 Akha-Ahly
  [Abdulrahman Bella 15, 36, Hassan Daher 48, Bassem Attar 59, 67, 76;
   Fadi Al-Kakhi 34]
[May 15]
Al-Mabarra      1–2 Sagesse
  [Ali Ahmed 52; Artur Kotcherian 12, Paul Rustom 56]
Olympic Beirut  1–0 Al-Nijmeh
  [Mohamed Atwi 77]
[May 17]
Al-Ahed         2–0 Al-Tadamon Tyre
  [Hassan Maatouq 72, 79]
Al-Rayyan       bye

Round 20
[May 19]
Al-Nijmeh       2–1 Safa
  [Ali Wassef Mohamed 76, Mohamed Halawi 80; Zaher Al-Indari 25]
[May 21]
Al-Ahed         1–2 Al-Ansar
  [Ousama Haydar 85pen; Felix Kennedy 7pen, Claudio Junior 90]
[May 22]
Shabab Al-Sahel 1–2 Sagesse
  [Abdulrhman Bella 43; Paul Rustom 41, Artur Kotcherian 89]
Al-Tadamon Tyre 1–1 Olympic Beirut
  [Haytham Zein 53; Faysal Antar 64]
Al-Rayyan       1–0 Akha-Ahly
  [Samer Hawi 60]
Al-Mabarra      bye

Round 21 
[May 27]
Safa            2-1 Olympic Beirut
  [Zaher Al-Indari 6, 35; Ali Mtayrek 59]
Akha-Ahly       1-2 Sagesse
  [? 52; Karim Kanafani 26, Artut Kotchenrian 76]
Al-Rayyan       1-1 Al-Mabarra
  [Ali Al-Zahri 90; Bilal Hajo 73]
[May 31]
Al-Ahed         2-4 Al-Nijmeh
  [Issam Ayyoub 7, Boubacar Bah 62; Abbas Atwi 19, 55, 
   Mohamed Qassas 70, Moussa Hojeij 73]
Al-Ansar        4-2 Al-Tadamon Tyre
  [Fabio Santos Da Silva 9pen, Claudio Junior 40, 65,
   Mohamed Jawad 45; Haytham Zein 35, Hamid Basma 87]
Shabab Al-Sahel bye

Round 22
[Jun 8]
Al-Rayyan       0-0 Shabab Al-Sahel
Al-Ahed         1-5 Olympic Beirut
  [Ahmed Itani 30; Abbas Atwi 47, Samer Yahya 72,
   Ali Safwan 75, 81, Mustapha Al-Touski 83]
Safa            2-0 Al-Tadamon Tyre
  [Mustapha Zoayter 28, Ahmed Al-Naamani 85pen]
Al-Mabarra      2-0 Akha-Ahly
  [Bilal Hajo 30pen, Ali Ahmed 72]
[Jun 16]
Al-Ansar        2-2 Al-Nijmeh
  [Felix Kennedy 80, Mahmoud Shahoud 82; Abbas Awi 55, Mohamed Qassas 81]
Sagesse         bye

Final Table:

 1.Al-Nijmeh            20 13  5  2 56-18 44  Champions
 2.Al-Ansar             20 13  5  2 35-17 44
 3.Al-Ahed              20 11  3  6 37-22 36
 4.Olympic Beirut       20  9  6  5 33-22 33
 5.Safa                 20  7  7  6 26-23 28
 6.Al-Tadamon Tyre      20  6  6  8 17-26 24
 7.Al-Mabarra           20  6  6  8 18-28 24
 8.Al-Rayyan            20  5  6  9 19-28 21
--------------------------------------------
 9.La Sagesse           20  6  3 11 12-32 21  Relegated  [aka Al-Hikmeh]
10.Shabab Al-Sahel      20  3  7 10 23-31 16  Relegated
11.Akha-Ahly            20  1  6 13 16-45  3  [-6]  Relegated

NB: Akha-Ahly have 6 points deducted for failing to have their 
    junior side compete in domestic competitions


NB: league to be reduced to 10 clubs for 2005/06 (3 down, 2 up)


Cups 2004/05


FA Cup

1/16 Finals
[Mar 9]
Al-Tadamon Tyre           0-0 Riyada wal Adab    [2-3 pen]
Akha-Ahly                 1-0 Nahda Bir Elias 
Al-Nijmeh Sahra           1-0 Al-Asla B.H.
Al-Mabarra                6-2 Al-Ahly Bourj Rehal
Al-Ansar                  6-0 Homenetmen
Al-Taqdom Anqoon          1-2 Racing Beirut
Al-Rayyan                 4-2 Ijitimaee Tripoli  
Al-Fajr Arabsalom         2-4 Tadamon Nabatiye 
[Mar 10]
Al-Zamalek Beirut         0-5 Bourj
Olympic Beirut            5-0 Al-Sharq
[Mar 16]
Shabab Al-Sahel           1-0 Homenmen
Sagesse                   0-0 Mahba Tripoli      [5-6 pen]
Shabab Al-Ghazieh         6-0 Ittihad Harra al-Namma 
[Mar 17]
Safa                      2-0 Salam Zghorta
[Mar 23]
Al-Ahed                   6-0 Al-Amal Maaraka
Al-Nijmeh                 2-1 Al-Ahly Sidon

1/8 Finals
[Mar 31]
Racing Beirut             2-3 Al-Nijmeh
[Apr 1]
Al-Mabarra                1-1 Al-Ansar           [10-9 pen]
[Apr 2]
Al-Rayyan                 1-1 Shabab Al-Sahel    [3-4 pen]
[Apr 3]
Safa                      1-1 Olympic Beirut     [3-5 pen]
[Apr 5]
Riyada wal-Adab           5-2 Shabab Al-Ghazieh
[Apr 6]
Al-Nijmeh Sahra           0-1 Al-Ahed
Tadamon Nabatiye          0-1 Bourj
[Apr 13]
Akha-Ahly                 4-1 Mahba Tripoli

Quarterfinals

First Legs
[Apr 20]
Bourj                     3-3 Olympic Beirut
Riyada wal-Adab           1-2 Akha-Ahly
[Apr 23]
Shabab Al-Sahel           0-2 Al-Ahed
[Apr 24]
Al-Mabarra                4-0 Al-Nijmeh

Seond Legs
[May 4]
Olympic Beirut            2-0 Bourj
Akha-Ahly                 3-1 Riyada wal-Adab    
[May 5]
Al-Ahed                   1-0 Shabab Al-Sahel
[May 8]
Al-Nijmeh                 2-1 Al-Mabarra

Semifinals

First Legs [Jun 3]
Al-Mabarra                0-2 Olympic Beirut
Al-Ahed                   5-1 Akha-Ahly

Second Legs [Jun 14]
Akha-Ahly                 0-2 Al-Ahed
Olympic Beirut            1-1 Al-Mabarra

Final [Jun 25]
Olympic Beirut            1-2 Al-Ahed


Elite Cup 2004

NB: all matches at the Municipality stadium in Sidon.

Group Stage
[Sep 23]
Safa                      0-2 Al-Nijmeh
[Sep 25]
Al-Mabarra                1-1 Al-Nijmeh
[Sep 27?]
Safa                      bt  Al-Mabarra

NB: Al-Ahed and Al-Ansar qualified from the other group, presumably
    eliminating Olympic Beirut

Semifinals [Sep 30]
Al-Nijmeh                 6-2 Al-Ansar
Al-Ahed                   2-1 Safa

Final [Oct 2, Sidon, Municipality stadium]
Al-Nijmeh                 1-1 Al-Ahed                 [aet, 6-5 pen]
  [Mohammed Qassas 42; Yousef Salman 13]



2003/04

2005/06

list of champions

list of cup winners
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Prepared and maintained by Mohamed S. Chbaro for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Author: Mohamed S. Chbaro (sp_editor@terra.net.lb)
Last updated: 17 Nov 2005