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Lebanon national under-17 football team

national association football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ3590695 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Lebanon national under-17 football team (Arabic: منتخب لبنان تحت 17 سنة لكرة القدم) is the national under-17 football team of Lebanon and is controlled by the Lebanese Football Association. The team also serves as the national under-16 and national under-15 football teams of Lebanon.

While the team is yet to qualify for both the FIFA U-17 World Cup and the AFC U-17 Asian Cup, they participate in the Arab Cup U-17 and WAFF U-17 Championship. Lebanon reached the final of the WAFF U-17 Championship twice: in 2022, losing 1–0 to hosts Jordan, and in 2025, losing on penalties to Saudi Arabia.

The team has produced several senior nationals, such as Hussein El Dor, Omar El Kurdi, Jad Noureddine, and Mohamad Kdouh.

Competitive record

FIFA U-17 World Cup

AFC U-17 Asian Cup

Arab Cup U-17

WAFF U-17 Championship

Results and fixtures

The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

Win

Draw

Loss

Fixture

2025

2026

Players

The following 23 players were called up for the 2026 WAFF U-17 Championship, held in Aqaba, Jordan between 26 September and 5 October 2026.

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“Lebanon national under-17 football team” enters the record as national association football team. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lebanon, national and under-17 can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lebanon national under-17 football team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.