Akhaa Ahli Aley FC

Akhaa Ahli Aley
Full nameAkhaa Ahli Aley Football Club
Short nameAkhaa
Founded1962; 62 years ago (1962), as Akhaa Club
1990; 34 years ago (1990), as Akhaa Ahli Aley Football Club
GroundAmin AbdelNour Stadium
Capacity3,500
ChairmanSamer Khalaf[1]
ManagerAhmad Atwi
LeagueLebanese Second Division
2023–24Lebanese Second Division, 6th of 12
Current season

Akhaa Ahli Aley Football Club (Arabic: نادي الإخاء الأهلي الرياضي عاليه, lit.'National Brotherhood of Aley Sporting Club'), commonly referred to as Akhaa Ahli Aley, Akhaa Ahli or simply Akhaa, is a football club based in Aley, Lebanon, that competes in the Lebanese Second Division, and is primarily supported by the Druze community.[2]

Akhaa have played in the Lebanese Premier League since 2010–11 season, after gaining promotion from the Lebanese Second Division. They won the Lebanese Challenge Cup in 2022. The club is supported by the Lebanese MP Arkram Chehayeb, who was the key person to ratify the merging of the two clubs Ahli and Akhaa in the city of Aley.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Haroun, Ali (26 December 2020). "بيان صادر عن رئيس نادي الاخاء الاهلي عاليه سامر خلف". El Maestro Sport (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 10 September 2021. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
  2. ^ 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