Al Ahly SC Nabatieh

Al Ahly Sporting Club Nabatieh (Arabic: نادي الأهلي الرياضي النبطية), known as Ahly Nabatieh or simply Nabatieh, is a football club based in Nabatieh, Lebanon. It was established in 1968 and competes in the Lebanese Second Division.

Ahly Nabatieh

Full name	Al Ahly Sporting Club Nabatieh
Founded	1968; 57 years ago (1968)
Ground	Kfarjoz Municipal Stadium
Capacity	2,000
Chairman	Vacant
Manager	Malek Hassoun
League	Lebanese Second Division
2023–24	Lebanese Premier League, 11th of 12 (relegated)
Home colours Away colours
Current season

They were first promoted to the Lebanese Premier League in 2023, and finished runners-up in the Lebanese Federation Cup the same year. They however got relegated back to the Second Division at the end of the season.

History

On 3 March 2023, Ahly Nabatieh defeated Sporting 2–1 in the final matchday of the 2022–23 Lebanese Second Division, and were thus promoted to the Lebanese Premier League for the first time.^[1] The team also reached the quarter-finals of the 2022–23 Lebanese FA Cup, losing 3–0 to Shabab Sahel.^[2]

Ahly Nabatieh finished runners-up in the 2023 Lebanese Federation Cup as a newly promoted Premier League club, after losing to league holders Ahed 4–0 in the final on 27 July 2023.^[3] They were relegated back to the Second Division, after finishing the 2023–24 Lebanese Premier League season in 11th place.^[4]

Badge

On 2 August 2023, to commemorate Ahly Nabatieh's first season in the Lebanese Premier League and their 55th anniversary, the club unveiled a new logo featuring Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah, a Nabatieh-born engineer, mathematician and inventor.^[5]

Players

See also: Category:Al Ahly SC Nabatieh players

Current squad

As of 13 February 2024^[6]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  LBN Afif Zreik 2 DF  LBN Raed Sabbah 3 DF  LBN Hussein Fahes 4 DF  LBN Abdallah Fahes 6 FW  LBN Ali Ibrahim 7 MF  LBN Ali Sbeity 8 MF  LBN Mohammad Ghamlouch 9 FW  LBN Haidar Awada 10 MF  LBN Hassan Kadi 11 DF  LBN Ahmad El Lhaf 13 FW  LBN Imad Ghaddar 15 FW  GHA Godfred Yeboah 17 MF  LBN Hussein Jradi 20 FW  LBN Mohammad Halawi 21 GK  LBN Abed Sbeity 22 DF  LBN Hussein Reda

No. Pos. Nation Player 30 FW  NGA Ifeanyi Eze 55 MF  LBN Jawad Reda 66 DF  LBN Mohammad Nehme 70 DF  LBN Ali Reda 71 MF  LBN Hussein Zeineddine 77 FW  LBN Shadi Jouni 88 DF  LBN Shadi Al-Hajj 90 MF  LBN Khaled Sati 96 GK  LBN Ali Daher 99 FW  LBN Haidar Abou Zeid — MF  LBN Haidar Khreis — MF  LBN Talal Dahrouj — GK  LBN Hassan Nahli — MF  TUN Hamza Zaak — FW  SYR Rafat Mohtadi

Honours

• Lebanese Federation Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 2023

See also

• List of football clubs in Lebanon

References

1. يوم تاريخي في ذاكرة النبطية وفريقها الأهلي [A historic day in the memory of Nabatieh and its Al Ahly team]. Al Akhbar (in Arabic). 4 March 2023. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
2. Khaled, Nasser (18 March 2023). بيطار لكووورة: طموحنا البقاء في الدرجة الأولى [Bitar To Kooora: 'Our ambition is to stay in the first class']. Kooora (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 3 June 2023. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
3. "بالصور: العهد بطلًا لكأس الاتحاد اللبناني". كووورة. 23 July 2023. Archived from the original on 23 July 2023. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
4. "طرابلس يودع الدوري اللبناني بتعادل أبيض". كووورة. 23 May 2024. Archived from the original on 30 November 2024. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
5. مدينة بدأت مسيرتها حاضرة العلم ومهبط العلماء ، فكان النابغة حسن كامل الصباح عنوانها ، ونادي الشعب نادي الناس ،نادي الأهلي عصارة نتاج شبابها على مدى أجيالنا... Al Ahly Nabatieh (in Arabic). 2 August 2023. Archived from the original on 5 August 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2023 – via Facebook.
6. "Al Ahli SC Nabaṭīya". Global Sports Archive. Archived from the original on 5 June 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2023.

External links

• Club profile at Goalzz.com