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Tripoli Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي طرابلس الرياضي), also known as AC Tripoli or simply Tripoli, is a football club based in Tripoli, Lebanon, that competes in the Lebanese Premier League.[2]

Tripoli

Full name	Tripoli Sporting Club
Nickname(s)	سفير الشمال (Ambassador of the North)[1]
Founded	Unknown, as Al Majd Sports Association 4 April 2001; 21 years ago (2001-04-04), as Olympic Beirut Sporting Club 24 November 2005; 16 years ago (2005-11-24), as Tripoli Sporting Club
Ground	Tripoli Municipal Stadium
Capacity	22,000
Chairman	Ghassan Yaken
Manager	Morsi Katata
League	Lebanese Premier League
2021–22	Lebanese Premier League, 8th of 12
Home colours
Current season

Founded as Al Majd Sports Association (Arabic: جمعية المجد الرياضي), the club was renamed Olympic Beirut Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي اولمبيك بيروت الرياضي) in 2001, winning the domestic double in the 2002–03 season. In 2005 they were re-established as AC Tripoli, and won a Lebanese FA Cup in 2014–15.

History

Olympic Beirut

Founded as Al Majd Sports Association (Arabic: جمعية المجد الرياضي), the club was renamed Olympic Beirut Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي اولمبيك بيروت الرياضي) on 4 April 2001,[3] by Taha Koleilat.[4] In 2001–02 the club won the Lebanese Second Division, and were promoted to the Lebanese Premier League.[4] Koleilat allocated a budget of USD$7 million, with the goal of winning the league and building a competitive team for the AFC Cup.[4] Having strengthened the team with the signings of Pierre Issa, Edílson, Faisal Antar, Youssef Mohamad, and Abbas Ali Atwi, among others, Olympic Beirut won the domestic double in 2002–03, winning both the league and FA Cup.[4]

On 14 February 2003, the Al Medina Bank [ar], which funded the club's activities, declared bankruptcy.[4] The decline was felt the following season, in 2003–04, with Olympic Beirut being knocked out of the 2004 AFC Cup in the quarter-finals against Singaporean club Home United, and finishing the league in third place.[4] In 2004–05 Olympic Beirut finished in fourth place.[4]

AC Tripoli

Prior to the 2005–06 season, Koleilat sold the club's license to former national team player Walid Kamareddine for $400,000, with the club being relocated to Tripoli.[4] The club was first renamed Olympic, then Olympic Tripoli, and finally AC Tripoli (Arabic: نادي طرابلس الرياضي).[4] The Lebanese Football Association (LFA) approved of the move on 24 November 2005.[5]

In 2014–15 Tripoli won the Lebanese FA Cup, their first trophy under their new name.[6] They participated in the 2016 AFC Cup where, after beating Kyrgyz club Alay Osh in the qualifying play-offs on penalty shoot-outs, they qualified to the group stage.[7][8] Drawn in group B, Tripoli finished in third place out of four with two wins, a draw, and three defeats.[9]

Starting from the 2016–17 season, Tripoli found themselves in financial issues due to Najib Mikati, the club's main funder, deciding to cut the club's salary year by year, leaving the club to rely on social donations and TV sponsorship payments.[10]

Club rivalries

Tripoli plays the Tripoli derby with Egtmaaey, as they are both located in the same city.[11] The club also contests the North derby with Salam Zgharta, also on the basis of location.[12]

Players

Current squad

As of 8 October 2022[13]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  LBN Ahmad Korhani 4 DF  LBN Obaida El Halabi 7 MF  LBN Mohamad Maksoud 8 MF  LBN Ghazi El Hussein (captain) 9 FW  LBN Abdallah Ali 10 FW  LBN Fouad Eid 11 DF  LBN Abdelrahman Abdelkhalek 12 DF  PLE Omar Kayed 15  LBN Taha El Ahmad 17 DF  PLE Ahmad Yassine 17 MF  LBN Bilal Matar 19 DF  LBN Abdul Razzak Dakramanji 20 MF  LBN Bassam Zakaria 20 FW  LBN Jamal Itawi

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 MF  LBN Adnan Kheir 22 DF  LBN Alex Rattel 22 MF  LBN Said Al Ali 23 DF  LBN Khaled Al Jasem 26 MF  LBN Mohammad Arja 27 FW  SYR Hael Al Badri 70 MF  LBN Mohamad Daher 77 MF  LBN Mohamad Korhani 80 DF  LBN Mohammad El Samrout 90 GK  LBN Bassam Sleiman 90 GK  LBN Bahaa Mohammad El Abdallah 90 GK  LBN Ahmad Chammo 99 FW  EGY Ahmad Sayed Attieh El Ajjaj 99  PLE Yehya Ghafour

Honours

• Lebanese Premier League
  • Winners (1): 2002–03[lower-alpha 1]
• Lebanese FA Cup
  • Winners (2): 2002–03,[lower-alpha 1] 2014–15
  • Runners-up (2): 2004–05,[lower-alpha 1] 2013–14
• Lebanese Second Division
  • Winners (2): 2001–02,[lower-alpha 1] 2010–11
• Lebanese Challenge Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 2021
• Lebanese Super Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 2015

Performance in AFC competitions

• AFC Cup: 2 appearances

2004: Quarter-finals

2016: Group stage

Managerial history

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2019)

• Ihsan Sayeed (1999–2002)
• Estevam Soares (2002)
• Mohammed Sahel (2002–2004)
• Vardan Ghazaryan (2017)
• Fadi Ayad (2018–2019)
• Ismael Kortam (2019)
• Ahmad Hafez (2019–2020)
• Ismael Kortam (2020)
• Salim Mikati (2018–2021)
• Saad Jameel (2021–present)

See also

• List of football clubs in Lebanon

Notes

References

External links

• AC Tripoli at the AFC
• AC Tripoli at LebanonFG

На других языках

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[de] Tripoli SC

Tripoli SC ist ein libanesischer Fußballverein, der im Jahr 2003 unter dem Namen Olympic Beirut libanesischer Meister und Pokalsieger wurde. Gegründet wurde der Verein im Jahre 2000 in Beirut. Im November 2005 zog der Verein nach Tripoli um und firmiert seither unter dem Namen Tripoli SC in der Libanesischen Premier League.[1] Einer der bekannten Spieler, die dort gespielt haben, ist Youssef Mohamad der 2004 den Klub verlassen hat und zum SC Freiburg ging, wo auch sein Landsmann Roda Antar spielte.

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- [en] AC Tripoli

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