List of Lebanon national football team managers

The following table provides a summary of the complete record of each Lebanon national football team manager, including their progress in the World Cup and the Asian Cup.

Managers

Manager	Nationality	First match	Last match	Pld	W	D	L	W%	PPG [a]	Competitions
Unknown	—	27 April 1940	27 April 1940	1	0	0	1	0.00	0.00
Abed Traboulsi	Lebanon	26 April 1942	4 April 1947	2	0	0	2	0.00	0.00
Jean Arab	Lebanon	18 May 1947	18 May 1947	1	0	0	1	0.00	0.00
Vinzenz Dittrich	Austria	3 August 1953	23 January 1955	4	1	1	2	25.00	1.00
Ljubiša Broćić	Yugoslavia	29 February 1956	29 February 1956	1	0	0	1	0.00	0.00
Unknown	—	18 October 1957	24 October 1957	4	1	2	1	25.00	1.25
Harry Wright	England	15 November 1959	25 November 1959	2	0	0	2	0.00	0.00
Joseph Nalbandian (1)	Lebanon	27 August 1961	5 September 1961	5	2	0	3	40.00	1.20
Mitri Adem (1)	Lebanon	26 January 1962	29 January 1962	2	2	0	0	100.00	3.00
Joseph Nalbandian (2)	Lebanon	31 March 1963	25 September 1963	7	3	1	3	42.86	1.43
Unknown	—	8 March 1964	8 March 1964	1	1	0	0	100.00	3.00
Mitri Adem (2)	Lebanon	13 November 1964	20 November 1964	4	1	1	2	25.00	1.00
Joseph Nalbandian (3)	Lebanon	20 March 1965	9 October 1967	16	6	3	7	37.50	1.31
Mitri Adem (3)	Lebanon	6 July 1970	8 July 1970	2	1	0	1	50.00	1.50
Joseph Abou Mrad (1)	Lebanon	20 June 1971	24 December 1971	8	3	0	5	37.50	1.13	1972 Asian Cup – Did not qualify
Adnan Al Sharqi (1)	Lebanon	29 September 1974	5 October 1974	4	1	1	2	25.00	1.00
Unknown	—	16 May 1975	27 May 1975	3	2	0	1	66.67	2.00
Joseph Abou Mrad (2)	Lebanon	16 November 1979	22 November 1979	2	0	1	1	0.00	0.50	1980 Asian Cup – Did not qualify
Todor Simeonovski	Bulgaria	15 March 1985	27 March 1985	5	0	0	5	0.00	0.00	1986 World Cup – Did not qualify
Samir El Adou	Lebanon	16 September 1987	20 September 1987	2	0	1	1	0.00	0.50
Zein Hachem	Lebanon	11 April 1988	2 November 1989	10	1	3	6	10.00	0.60
Adnan Al Sharqi (2)	Lebanon	20 January 1993	11 June 1993	13	3	4	6	23.08	1.00	1994 World Cup – Did not qualify
Terry Yorath	Wales	6 December 1995 [1]	21 August 1997 [2]	31	15	8	8	48.39	1.71	1996 Asian Cup – Did not qualify 1998 World Cup – Did not qualify
Diethelm Ferner	Germany	20 July 1998 [3]	26 July 1998 [4]	3	1	0	2	33.33	1.00
Mahmoud Saad	Egypt	18 August 1998 [4]	27 August 1999 [5]	18	4	5	9	22.22	0.94
Bram Braam	Netherlands	24 November 1999 [6]	15 December 1999 [6]	2	0	1	1	0.00	0.50
Josip Skoblar	Croatia	16 February 2000 [7]	18 October 2000 [8]	16	4	8	4	25.00	1.25	2000 Asian Cup – Group stage
Theo Bücker (1)	Germany	31 January 2001 [9]	30 May 2001 [10]	10	5	4	1	50.00	1.90	2002 World Cup – Did not qualify
Richard Tardy	France	1 September 2002 [11]	12 November 2003 [12]	13	3	3	7	23.08	0.92
Mohammad Kwid (1)	Syria	19 November 2003 [12]	28 November 2003 [12]	2	0	0	2	0.00	0.00	2004 Asian Cup – Did not qualify
Mahmoud Hammoud	Lebanon	16 December 2003 [12]	3 July 2003 [12]	11	3	2	6	27.27	1.00
Mohammad Kwid (2)	Lebanon	31 August 2004 [13] [14]	2 May 2005 [15]	8	1	4	3	12.50	0.88	2006 World Cup – Did not qualify
Adnan Al Sharqi (3)	Lebanon	27 January 2006 [16]	22 June 2008 [17]	22	5	6	11	22.73	0.95	2007 Asian Cup – Did not qualify 2010 World Cup – Did not qualify
Emile Rustom	Lebanon	14 January 2009 [17]	28 July 2011 [18] [19]	18	3	3	12	16.67	0.67	2011 Asian Cup – Did not qualify
Theo Bücker (2)	Germany	17 August 2011 [19]	11 June 2013 [20]	34	8	8	18	23.53	0.94	2014 World Cup – Did not qualify
Giuseppe Giannini	Italy	6 September 2013 [21]	6 November 2014 [22]	14	3	6	5	21.43	1.07	2015 Asian Cup – Did not qualify
Miodrag Radulović (1)	Montenegro	24 May 2015 [23]	17 January 2019 [24]	37	13	13	11	35.14	1.41	2018 World Cup – Did not qualify 2019 Asian Cup – Group stage
Liviu Ciobotariu	Romania	30 July 2019 [25]	19 November 2019 [26]	10	3	3	4	30.00	1.20
Jamal Taha	Lebanon	12 November 2020 [26]	23 June 2021	7	2	1	4	28.57	1.00
Ivan Hašek	Czech Republic	21 September 2021 [27]	29 March 2022 [28]	13	2	3	8	15.38	0.69	2022 World Cup – Did not qualify
Aleksandar Ilić	Serbia	19 November 2022 [29]	10 September 2023	13	5	3	5	38.46	1.38
Nikola Jurčević	Croatia	12 October 2023	21 November 2023	4	0	2	2	0.00	0.50
Miodrag Radulović (2)	Montenegro	28 December 2023	present	17	8	3	6	47.06	1.56	2023 Asian Cup – Group stage 2026 World Cup – Did not qualify 2027 Asian Cup – Ongoing qualification
Totals				402	116	104	182	28.86	1.12	—

Last updated: Lebanon vs Brunei, 25 March 2025. ^{[30] [31]}

Notes

1. According to the "three points for a win" standard

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