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Lebanese Premier League
Season	2024–25
Dates	20 September 2024 – TBD 2025
Matches played	6
Goals scored	21 (3.5 per match)
Top goalscorer	11 players (1 goals)
Biggest win	Ansar 4-0 Shabab Baalbeck (22 September 2024)
	← 2023–24 2025–26 → All statistics correct as of 22 September 2024.

The 2024–25 Lebanese Premier League is the 63rd season of the Lebanese Premier League, the top Lebanese league for football clubs since its establishment in 1934.

It will be the fifth season to feature a "split" format, following its introduction in the 2020–21 season, in which the season will be divided into two phases.

On 26 September 2024, the Lebanese Football Association suspended the season due to the escalation of the conflict in the south with Israel.^[1] Following the ceasefire agreement with Israel on 27 November 2024, the Lebanese Football Association announced that the season would resume on 24 January 2025.^[2]

Summary

Regulations

Each club has to involve one player under the age of 21 for at least 750 minutes, and two players for 1,000 combined minutes.^[3] In case a club is not able to meet the required number of minutes at the end of the season, they would have three points deducted from their total in the league.^[3]

Since the 2023–24 season, each club is able to have four foreign players under contract, an increase from the previous limit of three.^[4] Furthermore, video assistant referee (VAR), was introduced to the Lebanese Premier League in the second half of the 2023–24 season. It uses technology and officials to assist the referee in making decisions on the pitch.^[5]

Format

Following its introduction in the 2020–21 season, the 2024–25 season consists of two phases: in the first phase, each team plays against one another once.^[6] In the second phase, the 12 teams are divided into two groups based on their position in the first phase. As introduced in the 2022–23 season, teams only carry over half of their point tally from the first phase.^[7] After the first phase is completed, clubs can not move out of their own half in the league, even if they achieved more or fewer points than a higher or lower ranked team, respectively.^[8]

The top six teams play against each other three times,^[6] with the champion automatically qualifying to the AFC Challenge League.^[9] The bottom six teams also play against each other three times, with the bottom two teams being relegated to the Lebanese Second Division.^[6]

Teams

Twelve teams compete in the league – the top ten teams from the previous season and the two teams promoted from the Lebanese Second Division. The promoted teams are Riyadi Abbasiyah, who are playing their first season in the Lebanese Premier League, and Shabab Baalbeck, who returned to the top flight after an absence of five years. They replaced Tripoli and Ahly Nabatieh, who were relegated to the Lebanese Second Division after respective spells of 12 and one years in the top flight.

Stadiums and locations

Beirut

Beirut teams:
Ahed
Ansar
Bourj
Nejmeh
Racing Beirut
Safa
Sagesse
Shabab Sahel

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Locations of the 2024–25 Lebanese Premier League teams

3km
2miles

Shabab Sahel

Sagesse

Safa

Racing

Nejmeh

Bourj

Ansar

Ahed

Beirut Lebanese Premier League clubs

Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Ahed	Beirut (Ouzai)	Al Ahed Stadium^{[note 1]}	2,000
Ansar	Beirut (Tariq El Jdideh)	Ansar Stadium^{[note 1]}	—
Bourj	Beirut (Bourj el-Barajneh)	Bourj el-Barajneh Stadium^{[note 1]}	1,500
Chabab Ghazieh	Ghazieh	Kfarjoz Municipal Stadium	2,000
Nejmeh	Beirut (Ras Beirut)	Rafic Hariri Stadium^{[note 1]}	5,000
Racing Beirut	Beirut (Achrafieh)	Fouad Chehab Stadium	5,000
Riyadi Abbasiyah	Aabbassiyeh	Abbass Kazem Nasser Stadium
Safa	Beirut (Wata El Msaytbeh)	Safa Stadium	4,000
Sagesse	Beirut (Achrafieh)	Sin El Fil Stadium^{[note 1]}	—
Shabab Baalbeck	Baalbek	Baalbek Municipal Stadium	8,500
Shabab Sahel	Beirut (Haret Hreik)	Shabab Al Sahel Stadium^{[note 1]}	—
Tadamon Sour	Tyre	Sour Municipal Stadium	6,500

Foreign players

Lebanese clubs are allowed to have four foreign players at their disposal at any time,^[4] as well as unlimited Palestinian players born in Lebanon in a given match sheet (of which only one allowed among the eleven players on the field).^[3] Moreover, each club competing in an AFC competition is allowed to field two extra foreign players, to be only played in continental matches, as the AFC allows six foreign players to play in the starting eleven (one of whom from an AFC country).^[10]

Players in bold were registered during the mid-season transfer window.
Players in italics left the club during the mid-season transfer window.

Team	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Palestinian player(s)	AFC player(s)
Ahed	Andrew Ikefe	Ito	Mamadou Niass	Ibrahim Eid [1]	Samer Zubaida	—
Ansar	Elhadji Malick Tall	Rafik Mednini	Hichem Houssam Eddine	Hamza Hussein	Mohamad Hebous	—
Bourj	Ibrahim Abdulai	Chris Calvin Nawatta	Abdoulaye Fall	Abbas Shahine		—
Chabab Ghazieh					Ayman Abou Sahyoun	—
Nejmeh	Collins Opare	Baba Abdulai Musah	Nyanteh Kwabena Darko			—
Racing Beirut	Carter Ahiro	David Molinga	Julfin Ondongo		Jehad Abou El Aynein	—
Riyadi Abbasiyah	Ezra Amelinsa	Masoabi Synous Nkoto	Issa Ali	Francis Amos Anointed	Zaher Samahi	—
Safa	Benson Omala	Houssem Louati	Jerome Etame	Guy Claude Eke	Islam Batran	—
Sagesse	Papa Sidibe	Hamza Zaak	Papa Laye Dieng	Alioune Faye		—
Shabab Baalbeck	Ibrahima Sauma	Ibrahim Camara	Suleiman Abdullah Keita	Collins Anigbo		—
Shabab Sahel	Samad Kadiri	Reuben Gabriel	Abbey Agbodzie		Hadi Dakwar	—
Tadamon Sour	Guilherme Farias Dos Santos	Baye Daour Badji	Amissah Anfoh Assan	Godfred Yeboah	Mohammad Ismail	—

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation^[a]
1	Ansar	1	1	0	4	0	+4	3	Qualification for the AFC Challenge League group stage
2	Safa	1	1	0	4	1	+3	3
3	Nejmeh	1	1	0	3	0	+3	3
4	Ahed	1	1	0	3	1	+2	3
5	Sagesse	1	1	0	2	0	+2	3
6	Tadamon Sour	1	1	0	2	1	+1	3
7	Riyadi Abbasiyah	1	0	1	1	2	−1	0
8	Bourj	1	0	1	1	3	−2	0
9	Shabab Sahel	1	0	1	0	2	−2	0
10	Racing Beirut	1	0	1	1	4	−3	0
11	Chabab Ghazieh	1	0	1	0	3	−3	0	Relegation to Lebanese Second Division
12	Shabab Baalbeck	1	0	1	0	4	−4	0	Relegation to Lebanese Second Division

Updated to match(es) played on 22 September 2024. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Disciplinary points.
Notes:

^ Teams play each other once (11 matches), before the league is split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six) where they play each other three times (15 matches). Teams carry over half their point tally from the first phase into the second phase.