AC Tripoli

Tripoli
Full nameTripoli Sporting Club
Nickname(s)سفير الشمال (Ambassador of the North)[1]
FoundedUnknown, as Al Majd Sports Association
4 April 2001; 23 years ago (2001-04-04), as Olympic Beirut Sporting Club
24 November 2005; 18 years ago (2005-11-24), as Tripoli Sporting Club
GroundTripoli Municipal Stadium
Capacity22,000
ChairmanRaed Saddik
ManagerWissam Abdallah
LeagueLebanese Second Division
2023–24Lebanese Premier League, 12th of 12 (relegated)
Current season

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 Second Division,[2] and is primarily supported by the Sunni Muslim community.[3]

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.

  1. ^ "قمرالدين التقى نادي طرابلس الرياضي وتفقد محيط مركز عائشة في القبة | بلدية طرابلس". www.tripoli.gov.lb. Archived from the original on 10 May 2021. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
  2. ^ Groll, Daniel. "AC Tripoli SC - Lebanon - نادي طرابلس الرياضي - Club Profile, Club History, Club Badge, Results, Fixtures, Historical Logos, Statistics". www.weltfussballarchiv.com. Archived from the original on 22 June 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  3. ^ 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