Final Table: 1.Al-Ansar 22 14 6 2 35-13 48 Champions 2.Safa 22 11 5 6 36-23 38 3.Al-Tadamon Tyre 22 11 3 8 39-27 36 4.Shabab Al-Sahel 22 8 6 8 25-22 30 5.Homenmen 22 7 9 6 28-32 30 6.Al-Akha'a-Ahly 22 7 7 8 31-30 28 7.Al-Nejmeh 22 6 9 7 22-15 27 8.Salam Zghorta 22 5 11 6 14-13 26 9.Al-Ahed 22 6 8 8 30-36 26 10.Homenetmen 22 7 5 10 21-33 26 -------------------------------------------- 11.Al-Ahly Sidon 22 5 6 10 25-38 22 Relegated 12.Borj 22 4 6 12 15-39 12 [*] Relegated [*] Borj 6 points deducted for violent conduct of players in round 21. Round 1 [Oct 10] Borj 1-2 Akha'a-Ahly [Ghassan Showaikh 68; Mohamed Moussa 8, Rami Kfouri 15] [Oct 11] Safa 2-1 Shabab [Walid Dahrouj 60, Wali Othman 77; Bilal Hashem 3og] Tadamon 6-1 Ahly Sidon [Haytham Zein 11, 23, 44, 55, Ibrahim Manasri 64, Haydar Najm 81; Hassan Sabbagh 30] Nejmeh 1-1 Ahed [Fadi Natour 88; Mahmoud Tahhan 9] Homenmen 3-1 Homenetmen [Vatché Bagdsarian 12, Samir Bakri 35, Abdullatif al-Hélou 49; Ara Nikoyan 61pen] [Oct 14] Ansar 2-1 Salam [Peter Prospar 12, Malek Hassoun 74; Haidar Jabbar 55] Round 2 [Oct 31] Ahed 1-3 Safa [Moussa Bedyan 33; Nabih Al-Jurdi 14, Andrew Lawrence 23, Othman Saleh 80] [Nov 1] Salam 0-1 Shabab [Toufiq Haidar 71] Borj 0-3 Ahly Sidon [Mohamed Nasser 36, 86, Boubacar Bah 43] Tadamon 3-0 Homenetmen [Haidar Najm 26, Haytham Zein 54, 90] Nejmeh 1-2 Homenmen [Moussa Hjeij 79pen; Sarkis Abajian 61, 69] Ansar 3-2 Akha'a-Ahly [Peter Prospar 15, 18, 49; Salman Abdulkhaleq 45, 72] Round 3 [Nov 7] Ahed 1-0 Salam [Ahmad Itani 24] Borj 0-1 Homenetmen [Agop Freij 80] [Nov 8] Safa 0-0 Homenmen Tadamon 2-1 Nejmeh [Ibrahim Manasri 8, Haytham Zein 70pen; Arthur Adimola 33)] Akha'a-Ahly 2-4 Ahly Sidon [Salman Abdulkhaleq 2, Jamal Yahya 61; Boubacar Bah 47, 87, Salim Jabalawi 80, 84pen] Ansar 2-0 Shabab [Laith Hussein 44, Ahmad Saqsouq 68] Round 4 [Nov 14] Borj 0-6 Safa [Nazih Tay 10og, Walid Dahrouj 32, 54, Abdullah Homsi 77, 90, Issam Qaddah 84] Shabab 4-1 Homenmen [Adnan Mohamed 37, Mohamed Majid 61, 73, Hassan Nashabé 77; Vatché Bagdsarian 19] [Nov 15] Ahed 0-1 Ansar [Peter Prospar 26] Ahly Sidon 0-0 Homenetmen Tadamon 1-1 Salam [Khaled Afara 93pen; Tony Bou Francis 55] Nejmeh 3-0 Akha'a-Ahly [Moussa Hjeij 55, Saheb Abbas 64, Sunday 84] Round 5 [Nov 21] Akha'a-Ahly 1-1 Safa [Salman Abdulkhaleq 87; Hamza Hadi 63pen] [Nov 22] Homenmen 3-2 Ahed [Abdullatif al-Helou 18, 40, 41; Ali Darwish 55, Oday Attar 86] Ansar 2-0 Homenetmen [Peter Prospar 73, Mohamed Jawad 84] Ahly Sidon 0-0 Nejmeh Shabab 2-0 Tadamon [Mahmoud Majid 64, Hassan Nashabeh 90] Borj 1-0 Salam [Abdulrahman Shawmar 13] Round 6 [Dec 18] Ahly Sidon 3-2 Safa [Boubacar Bah 43, 87, Dmondi 76; Walid Dahrouj 48, 70] [Dec 19] Akha'a-Ahly 0-2 Salam [Fadi al-Omari 49, Mohannad Louis 75] Nejmeh 1-2 Homenetmen [Wael Nazha 60; Tero Kehyeyan 47, Wartan Ghazarian 50] [Dec 20] Shabab 0-1 Borj [Hassan al-Sek 2] Ansar 0-0 Homenmen Tadamon 2-0 Ahed [Ibrahim Manasri 49, Adnan Najjar 84og] Round 7 [Dec 26] Shabab 1-1 Akha'a-Ahly [Yasser Mansour 59; Zaher al-Andari 88] Borj 3-3 Ahed [Ghassan Showaikh 13, 16, Abdulrahman Shoumari 74; Mamoun Dioub 4, Moussa Bedian 33, Wissam al-Hakim 38] Homenmen 2-0 Tadamon [Abdullatif al-Helou 16, Samir Bakri 33] [Dec 27] Homenetmen 2-1 Safa [Wartan Ghazarian 50, Tero Kehyeyan 89; Walid Dahrouj 75] Salam 1-0 Ahly Sidon [Salah Dallal 67] Nejmeh 1-1 Ansar [Wael Nazha 21; Peter Prospar 90] Round 8 [Jan 2] Borj 0-0 Nejmeh Shabab 4-2 Ahed [Mahmoud Majid 2, Adnan Abou Sa'adiyyah 12, Mohamed Khaireddine 52, Toufiq Haidar 75; Wissam Al-Hakim 25, Ali Qobaissi 40] Salam 0-0 Homenmen [Jan 3] Ansar 2-1 Ahly Sidon [Peter Prospar 77, Jamal Taha 81; Moussa Diop 22] Homenetmen 2-1 Akha'a-Ahly [Wartan Ghazarian 6, Tero Kehyeyan 90; Ali Hassoun 42] Safa 3-1 Tadamon [Othman Saleh 33, Walid Dahrouj 75, Abdullah Homsi 90; Ali Hawila 78] Round 9 [Jan 27] Ahly Sidon 0-2 Shabab [Mahmoud Majid 36, Ali Ghanoum 45] Homenetmen 0-0 Salam Ansar 3-1 Tadamon [Leith Hussein 32, Fadi Hallaq 39, Henri Ikobo 67; Ibrahim Manasri 58] [Jan 28] Borj 3-3 Homenmen [Tony Amado 21pen, Mustapha Zoayter 79, Ghassan Showaikh 90; Samir Bakri 23, 51, 56] [played later] Akha'a-Ahly 2-1 Ahed [Nasser Adel 23pen, Ahmed Mansour 90; Ahmed Itani 5] Nejmeh 1-1 Safa [Wael Nazha 53; Mohamed al-Noamani 84] Round 10 [Jan 30] Ahed 2-2 Ahly Sidon [Mohamed Mortada 3, 74; Salim Jabalawi 5, Abdulfattah Shéhab 64] Shabab 1-0 Homenetmen [Mahmoud Majid 37] [Jan 31] Salam 1-0 Nejmeh [Mohannad Lewis 39] Homenmen 0-4 Akha'a-Ahly [Zaher al-Andari 51, Ahmed Mansour 64, 74, Salman Abdulkhaleq 75] Tadamon 1-0 Borj [Ali Hawila 89] Safa 1-1 Ansar [Othman Saleh 85; Peter Prospar 75] Round 11 [Feb 6] Nejmeh 0-1 Shabab [Mahmoud Majid 83] Akha'a-Ahly 2-4 Tadamon [Salman Abdulkhaleq 72, Kohdr Fayyadh 89; Haytham Zein 28, 73, Hassan Sabra 77, Ali Hawila 80] [Feb 7] Homenetmen 1-1 Ahed [Didier Tanboura 73; Ma'amoun Diop 87] Ahly Sidon 1-1 Homenmen [Moussa Diop 29; Vatché Bagdasarian 44] Safa 1-0 Salam [Nabih al-Jurdi 49] Borj 0-3 Ansar [Peter Prospar 8, Mohamed Jawad 24, Fadi Ayyad 45] Round 12 [Feb 13] Shabab 1-3 Safa [Hassan Nashabeh 29; Abdullah al-Homsi 27, 44, 90] Tadamon 1-2 Ahly Sidon [Haytham Zein 28; Salim Jabalawi 53, Boubacar Bah 80] Ahed 0-0 Nejmeh [Feb 14] Akha'a-Ahly 0-0 Borj Homenetmen 2-1 Homenmen [Anto Bedoyan 52, Sami Qleit 88og; Samir Bakri 20] Salam 0-0 Ansar Round 13 [Feb 20,21] Homenetmen 2-1 Tadamon [Wartan Ghazarian 70, Krekor Alozian 73; Hassan Jawad 68] Safa 4-1 Ahed [Othman Saleh 48, Walid al-Miri 66, Walid Dahrouj 72, Nabih al-Jurdi 76; Ma'amoun Diop 16] Shabab 2-1 Salam [Mahmoud Majid 65pen, 80; Mohannad Lewis 15] Ahly Sidon 1-2 Borj [Boubacar Bah 20; Mustapha Zoayter 11, Abdulrahman Shawmar 69] Ansar 1-0 Akha'a-Ahly [Laith Hussein 23] Nejmeh 0-1 Homenmen [Abdullatif al-Helou 14] Round 14 [Feb 27,28] Homenetmen 2-0 Borj [Didier Tanboura 38, Garbis Caloian 84] Nejmeh 0-1 Tadamon [Hussein Fara 27] Salam 0-0 Ahed Homenmen 0-0 Safa Ahly Sidon 1-1 Akha'a-Ahly [Salim Jiblawi 1; Nasser Adel 25] Shabab 1-2 Ansar [Mahmoud Majid 68; Ahmed Jradi 35, Fadi Hallaq 90] Round 15 [Mar 3,4] Homenmen 1-1 Shabab [Abdullatif al-Helou 59; Mahmoud Majid 76] Salam 2-2 Tadamon [Ghassan Assa'ad 52, Tony Bou Francis 84; Ali Hawila 37, Khaled Afara 67] Akha'a-Ahly 1-1 Nejmeh [Ahmed Mansour 76; Armen Sanamian 88pen] Safa 2-0 Borj [Walid al-Miri 57, Issam Moussa 73] Homenetmen 0-3 Ahly Sidon [Boubacar Bah 32, 48, 65pen] Ansar 0-1 Ahed [Moussa Diop 89] Round 16 [Mar 27,28] Safa 1-0 Akha'a-Ahly [Walid al-Miri 82] Homenmen 1-2 Ahed [Samir Bakri 30; Ma'amoun Diop 64, Mohamed Mortada 70] Ansar 1-1 Homenetmen [Ahmed Saqsouq 85; Vatché Tarazian 80] Nejmeh 2-0 Ahly Sidon [Fadi Natour 6, Bilal Flayfel 27] Tadamon 2-1 Shabab [Haydar Najm 5, Ibrahim Manasri 29; Mahmoud Majid 66pen] Salam 0-0 Borj Round 17 [Apr 10,11] Homenetmen 0-2 Nejmeh [Mohamed Halawi 40, Saheb Abbas 78] Ahed 0-0 Tadamon Borj 1-0 Shabab [Mazen Jradi 3] Homenmen 0-0 Ansar Safa 1-0 Ahly Sidon [Hamza Hadi 22] Salam 1-1 Akha'a-Ahly [Mohammed Lewis 1; Mohamed Moussa 27] Round 18 [Apr 17,18] Akha'a-Ahly 0-0 Shabab Tadamon 4-0 Homenmen [Haytham Zein 14, 52, 58, Fayez Ftouni 20] Ahed 1-1 Borj [Ma'moun Diop 47; Abdulqader al-Rifayi 80pen] Safa 2-0 Homenetmen [Othman Saleh 40, 83] Ahly Sidon 0-0 Salam Ansar 0-1 Nejmeh [Wael Nazha 76] Round 19 [Apr 23-25] Homenmen 1-1 Salam [Samir Bakri 10; Fouad Fahad 30] Nejmeh 4-0 Borj [Mohamed Halawi 25, Saheb Abbas 72, Mohamed Alaiwa 83, Moussa Hjeij 90] Akha'a-Ahly 4-2 Homenetmen [Ahmed Mansour 21, Mohamed Moussa 37, Zaher al-Indari 59, 60; Vatché Tarazian 41, Didier Tanboura 61] Ahed 2-1 Shabab [Ma'amoun Diop 29, 79; Hassan Nashabe 45] Ahly Sidon 0-4 Ansar [Peter Prospar 10, Jamal Taha 64, Ahmed Saqsouq 70, Mohamed Jawad 90] Tadamon 3-1 Safa [Ridha Antar 27, Haytham Zein 37, Ali Hawila 66; Hamza Hadi 80pen] Round 20 [May 8] Shabab 0-0 Ahly Sidon Safa 0-2 Nejmeh [Moussa Hjeij 9, Saheb Abbas 77] [May 9] Ahed 1-4 Akha'a-Ahly [Moussa Bedian 23; Ahmed Mansour 3, 13, 61, Zaher al-Indari 66] Homenmen 2-1 Borj [Gaghik 13, Samir Bakri 24; Mazen Jradi 9] Salam 1-0 Homenetmen [Youssouf Barakat 25] Tadamon 1-2 Ansar [Ali Hawila 9; Mohamed Jawad 34, 45] Round 21 [May 15] Ahly Sidon 0-3 Ahed [Moussa Bedian 34, 67, Ma'amoun Diop 90] Akha'a-Ahly 2-0 Homenmen [Nasser Adel 41, Zaher al-Indari 45] Borj 1-3 Tadamon [Lamine Bob 22; Ibrahim Manasri 34, Nasrat al-Jamal 68, Haytham Zein 73] Nejmeh 0-0 Salam [May 16] Homenetmen 0-0 Shabab Ansar 3-1 Safa [Peter Prospar 61, 63, Salim Hamzé 76; Idriss Harouna 47] Round 22 [May 22] Salam 2-0 Safa [Fadi al-Omari 72, 79pen] Tadamon 0-1 Akha'a-Ahly [Zaher al-Indari 66] Ahed 5-3 Homenetmen [Ma'amoun Diop 7, 19pen, 30, Moussa Bedian 46, Gholam Ghader 71; Tero Kehyeyan 44, Wartan Ghazarian 77pen, 90] Homenmen 6-3 Ahly Sidon [Samir Bakri 26, 83, Rabih Abou Sha'aya 30, 81, Ja'afar Mursil 84, Abdullatif al-Helou 85; Mohamed Dabondi 18, Boubacar Bah 36pen, 78] [May 23] Shabab 1-1 Nejmeh [Hassan Nashabé 36; Moussa Hjeij 59] Ansar 2-0 Borj [Ahmed Jradi 37, 64] Final Table: 1.Al-Ansar 22 14 6 2 35-13 48 Champions 2.Safa 22 11 5 6 36-23 38 3.Al-Tadamon Tyre 22 11 3 8 39-27 36 4.Shabab Al-Sahel 22 8 6 8 25-22 30 5.Homenmen 22 7 9 6 28-32 30 6.Al-Akha'a-Ahly 22 7 7 8 31-30 28 7.Al-Nejmeh 22 6 9 7 22-15 27 8.Salam Zghorta 22 5 11 6 14-13 26 9.Al-Ahed 22 6 8 8 30-36 26 10.Homenetmen 22 7 5 10 21-33 26 -------------------------------------------- 11.Al-Ahly Sidon 22 5 6 10 25-38 22 Relegated 12.Borj 22 4 6 12 15-39 12 [*] Relegated [*] Borj 6 points deducted for violent conduct of players in round 21. Topscorers: Haytham Zein (Tadamon Tyre) 15 Peter Prospar [Trinidad/Tobago] (Ansar) 13 Mahmoud Majid [Iraq] (Shabab Al-Sahel) 12 Boubacar Bah [Sierra Leone] (Ahly Sidon) 12 Ma'amoun Diop [Senegal] (Ahed) 12 Promoted: La Sagesse (aka Hikma) and Al Majd. Author: Mohamed S. Chbaro (mochbaro@intracom.net.lb) Last updated: 1 Oct 1999 (C) Copyright Mohamed S. Chbaro and RSSSF 1999