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Stars Association for Sports ( ar, جمعية نجوم الرياضة), or simply SAS, is a
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club section of the similarly-named sports academy, based in
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, Lebanon. Founded in 2011 as Stars Academy for Sports, they have competed in the
Lebanese Women's Football League The Lebanese Women's Football League ( ar, الدوري اللبناني لكرة القدم للسيدات) is the only league of women's football in Lebanon. It is run by the Lebanese Football Association and began in May 2008, with six teams ...
since 2014. SAS have won six league titles, three
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titles, and one
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title, and were runners-up in the inaugural edition of the
WAFF Women's Clubs Championship The WAFF Women's Clubs Championship ( ar, بطولة غرب آسيا لأندية السيدات) is an international women's association football competition. It involves club teams from countries affiliated with the West Asian governing body ...
in 2019.


History

Established in 2011 as "Stars Academy for Sports" (SAS), the senior team debuted in the
Lebanese Women's Football League The Lebanese Women's Football League ( ar, الدوري اللبناني لكرة القدم للسيدات) is the only league of women's football in Lebanon. It is run by the Lebanese Football Association and began in May 2008, with six teams ...
in 2013–14. They won the 2014–15 league title after beating
Girls Football Academy Girls Football Academy, or simply GFA, is a women's football academy based in Beirut, Lebanon. They were founded in 2011 as the first exclusively female football academy in the Middle East. GFA's senior team were runners up three times in a ro ...
(GFA) in the final matchday of the season, on 23 July 2015, and won the
FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competit ...
by beating
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3–0 in the final, on 28 August 2015. SAS won three consecutive league titles, between the 2014–15 and 2016–17 season. Ahead of the 2017–18 season, SAS changed their name to "Stars Association for Sports". They achieved their second
domestic double The Double, in association football, is the achievement of winning a country's top tier division and its primary cup competition in the same season. The lists in this article examine this definition of a double, while derivative sections examin ...
in 2018–19 by winning both the league (their fourth in total) and the cup (their second). In 2019 SAS took part in the inaugural edition of the
WAFF Women's Clubs Championship The WAFF Women's Clubs Championship ( ar, بطولة غرب آسيا لأندية السيدات) is an international women's association football competition. It involves club teams from countries affiliated with the West Asian governing body ...
, an international club competition for West Asian ( WAFF) clubs, along with four other clubs. After winning their opening two matches, against Arab Orthodox (7–0) and Abu Dhabi (2–1), SAS lost against eventual champions Shabab Ordon (3–0), before drawing the last game of the tournament against
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(3–3) to finish as runners-up. On 1 March 2020, SAS won 4–2 against newly-founded
Eleven Football Pro Eleven Football Pro ( ar, نادي أيليفين فوتبول برو), or simply EFP, is a women's football club based in Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon, section of the homonymous sports academy. Founded in 2019, they compete in the Lebanese Women's Fo ...
(EFP) in the effective final of the 2019–20 season, becoming five-time champions of the league. They won their sixth league title in the 2021–22 season, after defeating defending champions
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2–1 in the final matchday.


Players


Current squad


Managerial history

Below is a list of SAS managers from 2014 until the present day.


Honours


Domestic

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Lebanese Women's Football League The Lebanese Women's Football League ( ar, الدوري اللبناني لكرة القدم للسيدات) is the only league of women's football in Lebanon. It is run by the Lebanese Football Association and began in May 2008, with six teams ...
**Winners (6): 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22 *
Lebanese Women's FA Cup The Lebanon Women's Cup ( ar, كأس لبنان للسيدات, links=no), commonly known as the Lebanese Women's FA Cup, is the top cup competition for women's football clubs in Lebanon – designed as an equivalent to the Lebanese FA Cup. The ...
**Winners (3): 2013–14, 2014–15, 2018–19 **''Runners-up (2):'' 2016–17, 2017–18 *
Lebanese Women's Super Cup The Lebanese Women's Super Cup () is an annual match contested between the champions of the previous Lebanese Women's Football League season and the holders of the Lebanese Women's FA Cup – designed as an equivalent to the Lebanese Super Cup. ...
**Winners (1): 2016–17 **''Runners-up (3):'' 2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19


Continental

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WAFF Women's Clubs Championship The WAFF Women's Clubs Championship ( ar, بطولة غرب آسيا لأندية السيدات) is an international women's association football competition. It involves club teams from countries affiliated with the West Asian governing body ...
** ''Runners-up (1):''
2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...


Continental record

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WAFF Women's Clubs Championship The WAFF Women's Clubs Championship ( ar, بطولة غرب آسيا لأندية السيدات) is an international women's association football competition. It involves club teams from countries affiliated with the West Asian governing body ...
: 1 appearance ::
2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...
: Runners-up


See also

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Lebanese Women's Football League The Lebanese Women's Football League ( ar, الدوري اللبناني لكرة القدم للسيدات) is the only league of women's football in Lebanon. It is run by the Lebanese Football Association and began in May 2008, with six teams ...
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Women's football in Lebanon Women's football in Lebanon officially began in 2005, with the creation of the Lebanese Women's Football (LWF). Despite the prejudice women have faced for playing football, the sport's popularity has risen since the late 2010s. Indeed, Lebanon ha ...
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List of women's association football clubs in Lebanon In Lebanon, there is only one women's football league: the Lebanese Women's Football League. Thus, there are no promotions or relegation to date. Lebanese Women's Football League Current The following clubs are in the Lebanese Women's Footb ...


References


External links


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