Shabab El Bourj SC

Not to be confused with Bourj FC or Al Irshad Club Chehim.

Shabab El Bourj Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي شباب البرج الرياضي, lit. 'Youth of the Tower Sporting Club') is a football club based in Bourj el-Barajneh, Beirut, Lebanon, that competes in the Lebanese Fourth Division. The club was founded in 1967 as Al Irshad SC, and changed their name to Shabab El Bourj SC in 2017.

Shabab Bourj

Full name	Shabab El Bourj Sporting Club
Founded	1967; 58 years ago (1967) (as Al Irshad Sporting Club)
Ground	Bourj el-Barajneh Stadium[a]
Capacity	1,500
Chairman	Anwar Sleem
Manager	Ghaithan El Saimali
League	Lebanese Fourth Division
2023–24	Lebanese Third Division Group C, 6th of 6 (relegated via play-offs)
Home colours Away colours

History

Founded in 1967 as Al Irshad SC, the club changed their name to Shabab El Bourj SC in 2017.^[1] They were promoted to the Lebanese Premier League for the first time under their new name in 2019, after gaining back to back promotions from the Fourth Division.^[2][3] They became the first Lebanese team to achieve this feat.^[3]

Following Shabab Bourj's failure to comply to FIFA's request for them to compensate former player Lorougnon Christ Remi, and rumours of a merger with Safa, the club withdrew from the league.^[4] On 30 May 2022, the LFA announced that Shabab Bourj were fined £L12.5 million, were relegated to the Second Division, and that all of their matches in the championship round were voided.^[5] Shabab Bourj eventually withdrew from the Second Division in 2022–23, and were relegated to the Third Division.^[6]

Club rivalries

Shabab Bourj has rivalries with Bourj and Shabab Sahel, due to the fact that they are all based in the Dahieh area.^[7]

Players

Current squad

As of 1 October 2022^[8]

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 Ali Ousseily 2  LBN Zeinabeddine Seifeddine 3  LBN Sharif Mezher 4  LBN Hassan Daaboul 6  LBN Abdelrahman Sous 8  LBN Ali Ismail 9  LBN Ali Bakri 10  LBN Ali Ibrahim 11  LBN Ali Hamdan 12  LBN Ali Sibai 14  PLE Bassam El Asmar

No. Pos. Nation Player 15  LBN Nasser Hawi 16  LBN Khalil Mansour 20  LBN Mehdi Baydoun 20  LBN Ali Mansour 22  LBN Mehdi Karnabash 30  LBN Rami Hijazi 33  LBN Mohammad Saadeh 70  LBN Mohammad Ali Mortada 70  LBN Noureddine Naboulsi 77  LBN Ali Zbib 88 FW  LBN Ali Chahla (captain)

Honours

• Lebanese Third Division
  • Champions (1): 1996–97^[b]

See also

• List of football clubs in Lebanon

Notes

1. Only used as a training ground
2. As Al Irshad SC

References

1. "رئيس نادي شباب البرج نادر علامة: «النخبة» طموحنا و «البرج» شقيقنا وصعودنا دليل على حيادية اتحاد اللعبة". جريدة البناء | Al-binaa Newspaper (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 6 July 2020. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
2. "شباب البرج يتأهل لأول مرة في تاريخه إلى دوري الأضواء". كووورة. Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
3. "31 آذار يوم صعود شباب البرج إلى الدرجة الأولى". Football Lebanon. 31 March 2020. Archived from the original on 10 April 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
4. "شباب البرج أوّل ضحايا أزمة البلاد". الأخبار (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 17 June 2022. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
5. "شطب كافة نتائج شباب البرج وإسقاطه إلى الدرجة الثانية". Elsport News (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
6. Hijazi, Alloffs (18 November 2022). "تأهل شباب بعلبك وسبورتينغ وبنت جبيل إلى سداسية الأوائل في دوري المظاليم". El Maestro Sport (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 30 May 2023. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
7. FaLebanon
8. "Shabab El Bourj SC". Global Sports Archive. Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2022.

External links

• Shabab El Bourj SC at LebanonFG