Ansar Al Mawadda SC

This article is about the Lebanese football club. For other uses, see Ansar.
Ansar Mawadda
Full nameAnsar 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)
LeagueLebanese Fourth Division
2023–24Lebanese Third Division Group 2, 6th of 6 (relegated via play-offs)
Active teams of Ansar Mawadda

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.

  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