This article lists various team and individual football records in relation to the Lebanon national football team. The page shows the records as of 11 June 2024.
A thrilling win over DPR Korea
—Fox Sports Asia subheading after the national team won 4–1 against North Korea in 2019 [1]
The Lebanese army intervened to break up a quarrel between the Kuwait and Lebanon national team players.
—Al-Watan newspaper comment after Lebanon's 6–0 home defeat to Kuwait in 2011 [2]
Lebanon went 16 games unbeaten before losing in Kuwait last month. During that run, they conceded just eight goals.
—Fox Sports Australia on Lebanon's 16-game unbeaten streak between 2016 and 2018 [3]
Source: FIFA.com [5]
Lebanon reaches highest ever position in FIFA World Ranking
—FA Lebanon heading announcing Lebanon's highest ever FIFA World Ranking in September 2018 [6]
Below is a chart of Lebanon's FIFA ranking from 1992 to the present.
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
Source: Eloratings.net [7]
The following are the top ten most capped players; players with an equal number of caps are ranked in chronological order of reaching the milestone:
Rank | Player | Caps | Goals | Period |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hassan Maatouk | 123 | 26 | 2006–2024 |
2 | Mohamad Haidar | 95 | 5 | 2011–present |
3 | Abbas Ahmad Atwi | 88 | 8 | 2002–2016 |
4 | Roda Antar | 83 | 20 | 1998–2016 |
5 | Youssef Mohamad | 81 | 3 | 1999–2016 |
6 | Jamal Taha | 71 | 12 | 1993–2000 |
Nader Matar | 71 | 4 | 2012–present | |
8 | Walid Ismail | 69 | 1 | 2010–2019 |
9 | Nour Mansour | 67 | 3 | 2010–present |
10 | Vardan Ghazaryan | 66 | 21 | 1995–2001 |
As of 11 June 2024 [update] . [8] Players in bold are still active with Lebanon.
Lebanon scored their lone goal in the 7th minute. Kamil [ sic ] netting on a smart pass from Yaroudi [ sic ].
—The Palestine Post newspaper comment on Lebanon's first-ever international goal against Mandatory Palestine in 1940. [10]
Rank | Player | Goals | Caps | Average | Period |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hassan Maatouk (list) | 26 | 123 | 0.21 | 2006–2024 |
2 | Vardan Ghazaryan | 21 | 66 | 0.32 | 1995–2001 |
3 | Roda Antar | 20 | 83 | 0.24 | 1998–2016 |
4 | Mohamad Ghaddar | 19 | 46 | 0.41 | 2006–2017 |
5 | Levon Altounian | 18 | 18 | 1 | 1956–1967 |
6 | Haitham Zein | 17 | 50 | 0.34 | 1997–2004 |
7 | Mahmoud El Ali | 12 | 46 | 0.26 | 2007–2012 |
Jamal Taha | 12 | 71 | 0.17 | 1993–2000 | |
9 | Mardik Tchaparian | 10 | 10 | 1 | 1956–1963 |
Joseph Abou Mrad | 10 | 21 | 0.48 | 1953–1967 |
As of 11 June 2024 [update] . [11] Players in bold are still active with Lebanon.
As of 11 June 2024 [update] [12]
Player | Competition | Against | Home/Away | Result | Goals | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Elias Georges | 1961 Arab Games | Saudi Arabia | Neutral | 7–1 | 4 | 4 September 1961 |
Mardik Tchaparian [13] | 1963 Arab Cup | Kuwait | Home | 6–0 | 3 | 31 March 1963 |
Haitham Zein | 1999 Arab Games | Jordan | Away | 3–1 | 3 | 23 August 1999 |
Gilberto | Friendly | Oman | Home | 3–1 | 3 | 5 August 2000 |
Haitham Zein | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification | Pakistan | Home | 6–0 | 3 | 13 May 2001 |
Roda Antar | 2002 Arab Cup | Yemen | Home | 4–2 | 3 | 24 December 2002 |
Hassan Maatouk | 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification | Bangladesh | Home | 4–0 | 3 | 11 June 2024 |
Hilal El-Helwe hammered home his second.
—Goal.com on Hilal El-Helwe's brace against North Korea at the 2019 Asian Cup [14]
Player | Year(s) | Source |
---|---|---|
Unknown | 1940 | |
Labib Majdalani | 1942 | |
Emile Nassar | 1947 | |
Unknown | 1953–1956 | |
Youssef Yammout | 1957–1963 | [15] |
Levon Altonian | 1963 | [16] |
Elias Georges | 1965 | |
Joseph Abou Murad | 1966 | [17] |
Unknown | 1967 | |
Toni Jreij | 1970 | [18] |
Adnan Mekdache | 1971 | |
Souheil Rahal | 1971 | [19] |
Unknown | 1974–1975 | |
Abdelrahman Chebaro | 1979 | [20] |
Ahmad Saleh | 1985 | |
Unknown | 1987 | |
Hassan Abboud | 1988 | [21] |
Ghassan Abou Diab | 1988–1993 | [22] |
Hassan Ayoub [lower-alpha 1] | 1993–1996 | [21] |
Jamal Taha | 1995–2000 | [23] |
Ali Fakih | 2001 | [21] |
Moussa Hojeij | 2002 | [24] |
Youssef Mohamad [lower-alpha 2] | 2003–2004 | [21] [25] |
Roda Antar [lower-alpha 3] | 2004–2016 | [26] |
Hassan Maatouk | 2016–2024 | [27] |
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