Hanin Maher Tamim (; born 5 April 2000) is a Lebanese former

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who played as a forward. She played 21 games for the Lebanon national team between 2018 and 2024, scoring eight goals.

Early life

Born and raised in

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, Lebanon, Tamim started playing football aged eight with her older brother and his friends. Aged 10, she started playing for FC Beirut's boys academy, stating that she "did not know that a girls team existed back then". Three years later, aged 13, she was scouted by Girls Football Academy (GFA) while playing football in her school, and joined the team.

Club career

Coming through the youth system, Tamim spent three seasons at GFA playing in the

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. She moved to Stars Association for Sports (SAS) – the league reigning champions – in 2018. Tamim helped SAS to a second-place finish at the inaugural 2019 WAFF Women's Clubs Championship; she described it as her favourite international experience. On 27 May 2022, Tamim signed for the Lander Bearcats, the football team of

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in the United States.

International career

Tamin had represented Lebanon internationally at under-17 and under-19 level, before making her

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debut on 8 November 2018, in a 8–0 defeat to

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in the 2020 Summer Olympics qualifiers. She scored her first goal on 7 January 2019, with Lebanon losing to

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3–2 in the

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. Tamim scored three goals, and helped Lebanon finish in third place. On 24 October 2021, Tamim scored a brace in a 2022 AFC Asian Cup qualification game against

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, which ended in a 3–0 win. She was called up to the 2024 WAFF Women's Championship.

Personal life

Tamim studied three years at the

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, with a focus in nutrition and dietetics. Shortly after a 10-month internship at a hospital in Lebanon, Tamim became a licensed

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. While playing for the Lander Bearcats in 2022, Tamim majored in

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and worked part-time as a graduate assistant at

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Career statistics

International

:''Scores and results list Lebanon's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Tamim goal''.

Honours

SAS *

: 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22, 2022–23 * Lebanese Women's FA Cup: 2018–19 * Lebanese Women's Super Cup:

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* WAFF Women's Clubs Championship runner-up:

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Lebanon U18 * WAFF U-18 Women's Championship runner-up:

Lebanon U17 * Arab U-17 Women's Cup:

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Lebanon *

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third place:

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tamim, Hanin 2000 births Living people Footballers from Beirut Lebanese women's footballers 21st-century Lebanese sportswomen Women's association football forwards Girls Football Academy players Stars Association for Sports players Lander Bearcats women's soccer players Lebanese Women's Football League players Lebanon women's youth international footballers Lebanon women's international footballers Lebanese expatriate women's footballers Lebanese expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States American University of Beirut alumni FC Beirut players