Ansar Al Mawadda SC

This article is about the Lebanese football club. For other uses, see Ansar.

Ansar Mawadda

Full name	Ansar Al Mawadda Sporting Club
Founded	1968; 56 years ago (1968) (as Racing Hazmieh) 2005; 19 years ago (2005) (as Al Shabab Al Arabi Club Beirut) 2019; 5 years ago (2019) (as Ansar Al Mawadda SC)
League	Lebanese Fourth Division
2023–24	Lebanese Third Division Group 2, 6th of 6 (relegated via play-offs)

Ansar Al Mawadda Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي انصار المودة الرياضي) is a football club based in Tabbaneh, a district in Tripoli, Lebanon, that competes in the Lebanese Fourth Division and is primarily supported by the Druze community.^[1]

Established in 1968 as Racing Hazmieh (Arabic: راسينغ حازمية), the club's licence was bought by Al Shabab Al Arabi Club Beirut (Arabic: نادي الشباب العربي بيروت) in 2005, before changing their name to Ansar Al Mawadda in 2019. Their first and only participation in the Lebanese Premier League was in the 2017–18 season, having won the 2016–17 Lebanese Second Division.

History

Founded in 1968 as Racing Hazmieh (Arabic: راسينغ حازمية), in 2005 Al Shabab Al Arabi Club Beirut (Arabic: نادي الشباب العربي بيروت) bought the licence of the former club.^[2] In 2010 they won the Lebanese Fourth Division title, moving to the Third Division. In 2016, they moved to the Second Division and the following year they promoted to the Lebanese Premier League for the first time in their history. Their stay didn't last long, as in 2018 they were relegated back to the Second Division,^[3][4] before being relegated the following year to the Third Division.

In 2019, the club was purchased by Al Ansar FC president Nabil Badr, who transferred the team from Beirut to Tripoli and renamed it Ansar Al Mawadda Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي انصار المودة الرياضي).^[5]

Honours

• Lebanese Second Division
  • Winners (1): 2016–17

See also

• List of football clubs in Lebanon
• List of association football clubs with multiple consecutive promotions or relegations

References

1. 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
2. "الشباب العربي: بدايةٌ جميلة ونهاية مجهولة". الأخبار (in Arabic). Retrieved 19 May 2019.
3. "نادي الشباب العربي – الدوري اللبناني – الدرجة الأولى". alshababalarabi.com (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 27 June 2018. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
4. "AlShabab AlArabi Players and Stats". lebanonfg.com. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
5. نادي انصار المودة طرابلس (الشباب العربي) [Ansar Al Mawaddah Tripoli Club (Al Shabab Al Arabi)]. Facebook. LFC Sports. 5 October 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2020.