Beirut Stars SC explained

Clubname:	Beirut Stars
Fullname:	Beirut Stars Sporting Club
Founded:	, as Bank of Beirut Sporting Club , as Beirut Stars Sporting Club
Chairman:	Jad Deaibes
Chrtitle:	President
Manager:	Hassan Hammoud
Mgrtitle:	Head coach

Beirut Stars Sporting Club, formerly Bank of Beirut Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي بنك بيروت الرياضي) is a futsal club based in Beirut, Lebanon. Founded in 2020, it is the successor to the futsal club founded in 2013 as Bank of Beirut.^[1] The club has won five Lebanese Futsal League titles, four Lebanese Futsal Cups, and three Lebanese Futsal Super Cup, and have came in third place in the 2018 edition of the AFC Futsal Club Championship.

History

Founded in 2013, Bank of Beirut SC was sponsored by Bank of Beirut and have won the Lebanese Futsal League five times. They became the first Lebanese futsal team to achieve a treble, winning the League, Cup, and super cup in the 2014–15 season.^[2] On 9 July 2020, due to the economic crisis in Lebanon, Bank of Beirut stopped their futsal activities.^[3]

On 8 October 2020, Beirut Stars SC bought the license of the dissolved club.^[4] Beirut Stars' president, Jad Deaibes, was the General Secretary of Bank of Beirut, and Hassan Hammoud, the club's coach, was the coach of Bank of Beirut.

Honours

• Lebanese Futsal League
  • Winners (5): 2013–14, 2014–15,^[5] 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19
• Lebanese Futsal Cup
  • Winners (4): 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19
• Lebanese Futsal Super Cup
  • Winners (3): 2014, 2017, 2018

Asian record

• AFC Futsal Club Championship

5 appearances

2014

Group stage

2015

Quarter-finals

2017

Quarter-finals

2018

Third place

2019

Quarter-finals

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lebanon's New Champs !!!!. Bankofbeirut.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025326/http://www.bankofbeirut.com/Corporate/en/Bank-of-Beirut-Lebanon-Futsal-Champions-2014. 2016-03-04. 2015-05-22.
2. Web site: A Historical Triplet for Bank of Beirut Sporting Club. Futsal Planet. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160822151610/http://futsalplanet.com/news/news-01.asp?id=18937. 22 August 2016. 25 October 2019.
3. Web site: Maulana. Rissalah. Krisis Ekonomi Buat Klub Lebanon Ini Bubar. 2020-07-09. Bolalob - Situsnya Anak Futsal!. id.
4. Web site: Abou Diab. Rami. 2020-10-08. Beirut Stars, the successor of Bank of Beirut?. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201009183540/https://www.falebanon.com/beirut-stars-the-successor-of-bank-of-beirut/ . 9 October 2020 . 2020-10-08. FA Lebanon. en-GB.
5. Web site: Futsal Planet. Futsalplanet.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150518092513/http://futsalplanet.com/news/news-01.asp?id=18937. 2015-05-18. 2015-05-22.