Lebanon national rugby union team

Lebanon
Full name	Lebanese National Rugby Team
Unions	Lebanese Rugby Union Federation (LRUF)
Nickname(s)	The Phoenix
Emblem(s)	Phoenix Emblem
Founded	2002
Location	Lebanon
Region	Beirut
Ground(s)	Fouad Chehab Stadium (Capacity: 4000)
Chairman	Ghassan Hajjar
CEO	Sol Mokdad
Director of Rugby	Steve Wrigglesworth
Coach(es)	Steve Penberthy, Rony Bhachour
Captain(s)	Karim Jammal (9)
Most caps	14
	Fly-Half
Team kit	Change kit
First international
	Lebanon 104 – 0 Morocco ; (2 november 2002)
Largest win
	Lebanon 104 – 0 Morocco ; (17 november 1999)
Largest defeat
	Lebanon 0 – 80 Russia ; (28 september 2008)
Official website
	www.lebanonrugby.com

The Lebanese National Rugby Union team have yet to make their debut at the Rugby World Cup. Lebanon played their first test match against Jordan on 14 May 2010 in Dubai^[1] The Phoenix currently mpetes in the Asian Rugby Football Union's, Asian Rugby Championship in Division Three West. In November 2018 Lebanon Rugby attained World Rugby Associate Membersh

In March 2017, Lebanon competed in the Asian Rugby Championship, hosted by Uzbekistan in Tashkent. Lebanon defeated Iran 25 to 24 in the semi-final and drawing with hosts Uzbekistan 24 all in the final of the tournament to run out narrow ARC Div III West Champions.^{[citation needed]}

On 24 April, Lebanon hosted the 2018 Asian Rugby Championship Division 3 West tournament in Jounieh, Lebanon. They defeated Jordan in the first round 62 – 3 and won against Iran 27 – 17 who had defeated Qatar in the semi-final to secure their fifth Asian title in six years.^{[citation needed]}

Current squad

Backs
Player	Position	Club
Karim Jammal	Scrum-half	San Diego
Hassan Al Jammal	Wing/Centre/Fullback	Beirut Phoenicians RUFC
Georges Cassab	Scrum-half	Jamhour Lions RFC
Omar Hamaoui	Scrum-half	Beirut Phoenicians RUFC
Ben Abood	Fly-half	South Sydney Rams
Lawrence Abood	Fly-half	Saint Patricks
Jad Hashem	Fly-half	Beaver Nomads Rugby Team
Raymond Asfour	Centre	Catford RUFC
Steve Pere	Wing	Jounieh Dragons RFC
Robin Hachache	Centre	Beirut Phoenicians RFC
Anthony Manassa	Wing	Eastwood
Fadi Saad	Wing	Sydney University Rugby Club.
Martin Wahbe	Fullback	Eastwood
Thomas Alexander Saliba	Fullback	Finchley RFC

Forwards
Player	Position	Club
Tariq Khaldi	Prop	Barnes RFC
Rony Bachour	Prop	Staines RFC
Salem ElDessouki	Prop	Calgary Canadian Irish Athletic
Feda ElDessouki	Hooker	Calgary Canadian Irish Athletic
Fadi Barakat Diab	Prop	Kuwait Scorpions
Joshua Taweel	Hooker	West Harbour Rugby Club
Mohammed Turk	Hooker	RC Compiègnois
Raymond Finan	Lock	Beirut Phoenicians RFC
Mounir Finan	Lock	Beirut Phoenicians RFC
Joe Bakhache	Hooker	French Froggies RFC
Cyril Irani	Prop	Jamhour Blacklions RFC
Firas El Chami	Lock	TSV Handschuhsheim
Bilal Elbatoury	Prop	Sydney University Football Club
Kamil Abdallah	Flanker	Balmain Rugby Football Club
Jason Khoury	Flanker	West Harbour Rugby Football Club
Ibrahim Ballout	Flanker	Beirut Phoenicians RFC
François Zgheib Fournier	Flanker	San Diego
Camil Abou Farhat	Flanker	Jamhour Blacklions RFC
Rudy Hachache	Number 8	Beirut Phoenicians RFC
Frederick Makhlouf	Flanker	Jebel Ali Dragons
Kahil Bejjani	Flanker	Beirut Phoenicians RFC
Sol Mokdad	Lock	Beirut Phoenicians RFC
Joseph Touma	Number eight	Barking Rugby Football Club

A full list of all capped Lebanese players: https://web.archive.org/web/20180428120026/http://www.lruf.org/player-profiles/

Record

Overall

Source

Against	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	% Won	Highest scoring Game total
Australia	1	0	1	0	0%	Australia (34-0) Lebanon
England	1	0	1	0	0%	England (29-10) Lebanon
Fiji	3	1	2	0	33.33%	Fiji (58-14) Lebanon
France	4	3	0	1	75%
Iran	4	4	0	0	100%
Italy	8	4	3	1	50%	Lebanon (86-0) Italy
Jordan	5	5	0	0	100%
Kazakhstan	1	0	1	0	0%
Malaysia	1	0	1	0	0%
Malta	3	3	0	0	100%	Lebanon (38-16) Malta
Morocco	3	3	0	0	100%	Morocco (0-78) Lebanon
Niue	1	1	0	0	100%
Pakistan	2	2	0	0	100%
Qatar	4	0	4	0	0%
Samoa	1	0	1	0	0%	Lebanon (16-38) Samoa
Serbia	7	4	2	1	57.14%
Tonga	1	0	1	0	0%
Uzbekistan	5	4	0	1	80%
Total	22	15	6	1	68.18%