Safa SC

This article is about the men's football club from Beirut, Lebanon. For other uses, see Safa.

Safa
Full nameSafa Sporting Club
Nickname(s)النسور (The Eagles)[1]
Short nameSafa
Founded31 March 1939; 85 years ago (31 March 1939)
GroundSafa Stadium[a]
Capacity4,000
ChairmanRiad Atallah
ManagerBassem Marmar
LeagueLebanese Premier League
2023–24Lebanese Premier League, 4th of 12
Websitehttps://safasc.com/
Current season
Active teams of Safa

Safa Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي الصفاء الرياضي, lit. 'The Purity Sporting Club') is a football club based in Wata El Msaytbeh, a district in Beirut, Lebanon, that competes in the Lebanese Premier League. Founded in 1939, they have won three league titles, three domestic cups, one Super Cup, and two Elite Cups; they also reached the 2008 AFC Cup final.[2]

Safa is primarily supported by the Druze community.[3][4][5] Given their fanbase extends well in Mount Lebanon, including the city of Aley, they play the Mountain derby with Akhaa Ahli Aley.

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  2. ^ "AFC Cup 2017: Match day one - Playoff and group stage preview | Goal.com". www.goal.com. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  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
  4. ^ Montague, James (24 October 2007). "In Lebanon, even soccer is tainted by sectarian strife". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 17 February 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
  5. ^ Alami, Mona (1 September 2009). "Religious about football". Archived from the original on 19 April 2011. Retrieved 15 October 2010.


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