Clubname: | Shabab Baalbeck |
Fullname: | Shabab Baalbeck Sport Club |
Founded: | (as Al Nabi Chit Sport Club) |
Ground: | Baalbek Municipal Stadium Nabi Chit Stadium |
Capacity: | 5,000 |
Chairman: | Rakan Dika |
Manager: | Hasan Mashhour "Mido" |
Current: | 2023–24 Lebanese Second Division |
Shabab Baalbeck Sport Club is a football club based in Baalbek, Lebanon, that competes in the [1] Founded in 1986 as Nabi Chit Sport Club, the club was known as Bekaa Sport Club (Arabic: نادي البقاع الرياضي|links=no) between 2018 and 2020, and is primarily supported by the Shia Muslim community.
Nabi Chit Sport Club first played in the Lebanese Premier League in the 2014–15 season, after winning Group B of the 2013–14 Lebanese Second Division: they became the first team to represent the Beqaa Governorate in the first division. In 2018, the club changed their name to Bekaa SC;[2] they were relegated back to the Second Division in 2019. In 2020, they changed their name back to Nabi Chit SC.[3]
The club changed its name to Shabab Baalbeck SC on 7 June 2022.[4] They were promoted to the first division for the first time, as Shabab Baalbeck, after finishing second in the 2023–24 Lebanese Second Division season. [5]