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Shabab Baalbeck

Full name	Shabab Baalbeck Sport Club
Founded	1986; 39 years ago (1986) (as Al Nabi Chit Sport Club)
Ground	Baalbek Municipal Stadium Nabi Chit Stadium
Capacity	5,000
Chairman	Rakan Dika
Manager	Hasan Mashhour "Mido"
League	Lebanese Premier League
2023–24	Lebanese Second Division, 2nd of 12 (promoted)
Current season

Shabab Baalbeck Sport Club (Arabic: نادي تجمع شباب بعلبك الرياضي) is a football club based in Baalbek, Lebanon, that competes in the Lebanese Premier League Founded in 1986 as Nabi Chit Sport Club (Arabic: نادي النبي شيت الرياضي), the club was known as Bekaa Sport Club (Arabic: نادي البقاع الرياضي) between 2018 and 2020, and is primarily supported by the Shia Muslim community.

History

Nabi Chit Sport Club first played in the Lebanese Premier League in the 2014–15 season, after winning Group B of the 2013–14 Lebanese Second Division: they became the first team to represent the Beqaa Governorate in the first division. In 2018, the club changed their name to Bekaa SC; they were relegated back to the Second Division in 2019. In 2020, they changed their name back to Nabi Chit SC.

The club changed its name to Shabab Baalbeck SC on 7 June 2022. They were promoted to the first division for the first time, as Shabab Baalbeck, after finishing second in the 2023–24 Lebanese Second Division season.

Current squad

As of 23 September 2024

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 Hajj Hassan 2 DF  LBN Ali Moussa (Hazimeh) 4 DF  SLE Suleiman Abdullah Keita 5 DF  LBN Ismael Fakhreddine 6 MF  LBN Yasser Dimashk 7 FW  LBN Hussein Outa (captain) 8 MF  LBN Hassan Mallah 10 FW  LBN Hussein Ghanem 11 FW  LBN Ibrahim Abou Hamdan 14 DF  LBN Mohammad Kheireddine 15 MF  GUI Ibrahima Sauma

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 FW  NGA Collins Anigbo 21 MF  LBN Mohammad Al Jammal 22 DF  LBN Mohammad Moussa (Hazimeh) 23 DF  LBN Hamza Hassan 31 GK  LBN Youssef Jishi 77 FW  LBN Hikmat Al Zein 80 FW  LBN Ahmad Hamed 90 FW  SLE Ibrahim Camara 99 MF  LBN Mohammad Mohammad "Mouma" —  LBN Mohammad Hamed —  LBN Ali Hasan — GK  LBN Ibrahim Moussa — DF  LBN Ali Akbar Sabra — MF  LBN Mahdi Shokor — MF  LBN Mohammed Moussawi — MF  LBN Hadi Faitarouni

Honours

• Lebanese Second Division
  • Winners (1): 2013–14 (Group B)
  • Runners-up (1): 2023–24
• Lebanese Challenge Cup (defunct)
  • Runners-up (1): 2014

See also

• List of football clubs in Lebanon

Notes

1. ^ As Nabi Chit

References

1. "Lebanon - Al Nabi Sheet Club - Results, fixtures, squad, statistics, photos, videos and news - Soccerway". us.soccerway.com. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
2. Maugendre, Axel (31 August 2018), "Ethnography of the Lebanese Football Clubs" (PDF), Athens Journal of Sports, 5 (3): 213–226, doi:10.30958/AJSPO.5-3-3, archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2019
3. "Nabi Chit announce name change to Bekaa Club ahead of new Lebanese Premier League Season". FaLebanon. 14 July 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
4. "المنافسة محتدمة في الدرجة الثانية.. ومفاجأة في الصدارة". lebanonfg.com. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
5. "قرار رقم 106/1/2022 تاريخ 7 حزيران سنة 2022 يتعلق بتغير اسم جمعية «نادي النبي شيت الرياضي» ليصبح «نادي تجمع شباب بعلبك الرياضي»". pcm.gov.lb (in Arabic). 7 June 2022. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
6. https://elmaestrosport.com/%d8%aa%d8%ac%d9%85%d8%b9-%d8%b4%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%a8-%d8%a8%d8%b9%d9%84%d8%a8%d9%83-%d9%8a%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%82-%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%b6%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b3%d9%8a/

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