Nickname(s) | منتخب الشباب (The Youth Team) | ||
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Association | Lebanon Football Association (الاتحاد اللبناني لكرة القدم) | ||
Confederation | AFC (Asia) | ||
Sub-confederation | WAFF (West Asia) | ||
Head coach | Bilal Fleifel | ||
Home stadium | Various | ||
FIFA code | LBN | ||
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First international | |||
Lebanon 0–0 India (Tehran, Iran; 16 April 1973) | |||
Biggest win | |||
Lebanon 6–1 Singapore (Dushanbe, Tajikistan; 18 September 2022) | |||
Biggest defeat | |||
Syria 6–0 Lebanon (Fujairah, United Arab Emirates; 2 November 2011) | |||
AFC U-20 Asian Cup | |||
Appearances | 2 (first in 1973 ) | ||
Best result | Quarter-finals (1973) | ||
Arab Cup U-20 | |||
Appearances | 3 (first in 1985 ) | ||
Best result | Group stage (1985, 2021, 2022) | ||
WAFF U-18 Championship | |||
Appearances | 1 (first in 2021 ) | ||
Best result | Runners-up (2021) |
The Lebanon national under-20 football team (Arabic : منتخب لبنان تحت 20 سنة لكرة القدم) is the national under-20 football team of Lebanon and is controlled by the Lebanese Football Association. The team also serves as the national under-19 and national under-18 football teams of Lebanon.
While the team has never qualified for the FIFA U-20 World Cup, they have participated twice in the AFC U-20 Asian Cup, in 1973 and in 2008, with their best result being reaching the quarter-finals in the 1973 edition. [1] [2] In the 2021 WAFF U-18 Championship, the U18 team made history by becoming the first Lebanon men's national team to reach a final, losing to hosts Iraq on penalty-shootouts. [3] They also participate in the Arab Cup U-20 and Jeux de la Francophonie, failing to go past the group stage in both competitions.
Notable former under-20 players include Nour Mansour, Rabih Ataya, and Mohamad Haidar, [4] who all went on to play for the senior side. [5]
FIFA U-20 World Cup record | Qualification record | ||||||||||||||||
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Host nation(s) and year | Round | Pos | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Squad | Outcome | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | |
1977 | Did not enter | Did not enter | |||||||||||||||
1979 | |||||||||||||||||
1981 | |||||||||||||||||
1983 | |||||||||||||||||
1985 | |||||||||||||||||
1987 | |||||||||||||||||
1989 | Did not qualify | The 1988 AFC Youth Championship served as the qualifying tournament | |||||||||||||||
1991 | The 1990 AFC Youth Championship served as the qualifying tournament | ||||||||||||||||
1993 | The 1992 AFC Youth Championship served as the qualifying tournament | ||||||||||||||||
1995 | The 1994 AFC Youth Championship served as the qualifying tournament | ||||||||||||||||
1997 | The 1996 AFC Youth Championship served as the qualifying tournament | ||||||||||||||||
1999 | The 1998 AFC Youth Championship served as the qualifying tournament | ||||||||||||||||
2001 | The 2000 AFC Youth Championship served as the qualifying tournament | ||||||||||||||||
2003 | Withdrew | Withdrew | |||||||||||||||
2005 | Did not qualify | The 2004 AFC Youth Championship served as the qualifying tournament | |||||||||||||||
2007 | The 2006 AFC Youth Championship served as the qualifying tournament | ||||||||||||||||
2009 | The 2008 AFC U-19 Championship served as the qualifying tournament | ||||||||||||||||
2011 | Withdrew | Withdrew | |||||||||||||||
2013 | Did not qualify | The 2012 AFC U-19 Championship served as the qualifying tournament | |||||||||||||||
2015 | The 2014 AFC U-19 Championship served as the qualifying tournament | ||||||||||||||||
2017 | The 2016 AFC U-19 Championship served as the qualifying tournament | ||||||||||||||||
2019 | The 2018 AFC U-19 Championship served as the qualifying tournament | ||||||||||||||||
2023 | The 2023 AFC U-20 Asian Cup served as the qualifying tournament | ||||||||||||||||
2025 | To be decided | The 2025 AFC U-20 Asian Cup will serve as the qualifying tournament | |||||||||||||||
Total | — | 0/24 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Total | — | — | — | — | — | — |
AFC U-20 Asian Cup record | Qualification record | ||||||||||||||||
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Host nation(s) and year | Round | Pos | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Squad | Outcome | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | |
1959 | Did not enter | Did not enter | |||||||||||||||
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1973 | Quarter-finals | 5th of 14 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | — | Qualified as invitees | |||||||
1974 | Did not enter | Did not enter | |||||||||||||||
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1986 | |||||||||||||||||
1988 | Did not qualify | 3rd of 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not enter | Did not enter | |||||||||||||||
1992 | Did not qualify | ||||||||||||||||
1994 | |||||||||||||||||
1996 | 4th of 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||||
1998 | |||||||||||||||||
2000 | 4th of 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | ||||||||||
2002 | Withdrew | Withdrew | |||||||||||||||
2004 | Did not qualify | 3rd of 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
2006 | 3rd of 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
2008 | Round 1 | 15th of 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 12 | Squad | 2nd of 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | |
2010 | Withdrew | Withdrew | |||||||||||||||
2012 | Did not qualify | 3rd of 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |||||||||
2014 | 3rd of 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | ||||||||||
2016 | 3rd of 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||||
2018 | 3rd of 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||
2nd of 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||
2023 | 2nd of 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | ||||||||||
Total | Best: quarter-finals | 2/41 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | — | Total | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Arab Cup U-20 record | |||||||||
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Host nation(s) and year | Round | Pos | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Squad |
1983 | Did not participate | ||||||||
1985 | Group stage | 9th of 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
1989 | Did not participate | ||||||||
2011 | Did not participate | ||||||||
2012 | |||||||||
2014 | Cancelled | ||||||||
2020 | Did not participate | ||||||||
2021 | Group stage | 15th of 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 | — |
2022 | Group stage | 14th of 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | Squad |
Total | Best: group stage | 1/5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 14 | — |
WAFF U-18 Championship record | |||||||||
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Host nation(s) and year | Round | Pos | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Squad |
2019 | Did not participate | ||||||||
2021 | Runners-up | 2nd of 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | — |
Total | Best: N/A | 1/2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | — |
Mediterranean Games record | |||||||||
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Host nation, city and year | Round | Pos | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Squad |
1951–1987 | See Lebanon national football team | ||||||||
Athens 1991 | See Lebanon national under-23 football team | ||||||||
Languedoc-Roussillon 1993 | |||||||||
Bari 1997 | |||||||||
Tunis 2001 | See Lebanon national under-21 football team | ||||||||
Almería 2005 | See Lebanon national under-23 football team | ||||||||
Pescara 2009 | Did not participate | ||||||||
Mersin 2013 | |||||||||
Tarragona 2018 | |||||||||
Oran 2022 | |||||||||
Taranto 2026 | To be determined | ||||||||
Total | — | 0/4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Jeux de la Francophonie record | |||||||||
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Host nation, city and year | Round | Pos | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Squad |
Casablanca 1989 | Did not participate | ||||||||
Paris 1994 | |||||||||
Antananarivo 1997 | |||||||||
Ottawa 2001 | |||||||||
Niamey 2005 | |||||||||
Beirut 2009 | Group stage | 9th of 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | Squad |
Nice 2013 | Group stage | 14 of 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 10 | Squad |
Abidjan 2017 | Group stage | 13 of 16 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Squad |
Kinshasa 2023 | Group stage | 8th of 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | Squad |
Total | Best: group stage | 4/9 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 26 | — |
29 July 2023 2023 Jeux de la Francophonie GS | Cameroon | 1–1 | Lebanon | Kinshasa, DR Congo |
18:00 UTC+1 |
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| Stadium: Stade Tata Raphaël |
2 August 2023 2023 Jeux de la Francophonie GS | Lebanon | 0–5 | Niger | Kinshasa, DR Congo |
15:00 UTC+1 | Stadium: Stade Tata Raphaël |
2024 Friendly | Lebanon | 2–2 | United Arab Emirates | |
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2024 Friendly | Lebanon | 0–1 | United Arab Emirates | |
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The following players were called up for the 2023 Jeux de la Francophonie. [6]
No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Club | ||
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1 | GK | Joseph Bitar | Salam Zgharta | |||
22 | GK | William Sinan | Ansar | |||
2 | DF | Joe Khawaja | Salam Zgharta | |||
3 | DF | Rawad Al Jaitani | 2 April 2005 | Salam Zgharta | ||
4 | DF | Mahmoud Saif Eddin | Ansar | |||
5 | DF | Ahmed Metayrek | Nejmeh | |||
6 | DF | Kassem Watfa | Tadamon Sour | |||
12 | DF | Ryan El Khoury | Salam Zgharta | |||
14 | DF | Mahdi Asseily | Nejmeh | |||
8 | MF | Hassan Jaafar | Shabab Sahel | |||
11 | MF | Ibrahim Mhanna | Nejmeh | |||
13 | MF | Adam Kobeisy | Ahed | |||
15 | MF | Miguel Karim Karam | Racing Beirut | |||
16 | MF | Hassan Salami | Nejmeh | |||
18 | MF | Hassan Nasser | Ansar | |||
7 | FW | Uday Al Shamuri | Bourj | |||
9 | FW | Muhammad Kassas | Nejmeh | |||
10 | FW | Ali Fakih | Shabab Sahel | |||
19 | FW | Karim Kassem | Tadamon Sour | |||
20 | FW | Ali Melhem | Nejmeh |
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