Sara Abbas Bakri (; born 1 November 1989) is a Lebanese former

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and

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player who played as a

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. She represented Lebanon internationally in both

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. With seven goals in 22 appearances between 2006 and 2017, Bakri was the Lebanon national football team's all-time top goalscorer and most-capped player, before both records were broken in 2023.

Early life

Born on 1 November 1989, in

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, Lebanon, Bakri has two sisters and a brother. She began playing football at the age of seven.

Club career

Bakri played for Arz, before moving to Sadaka in the

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. She helped them win several domestic titles. Bakri joined SAS in 2014, with whom she also won multiple titles. She joined BFA on 30 September 2019. After suffering an

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in 2022, Bakri retired in 2023.

International career

Bakri has been capped for Lebanon at senior level in both

and

. In football, she represented

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in multiple competitions, namely the 2010 Arabia Women's Cup and the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification in 2013, where she played three games and scored a goal against Kuwait women's national football team, Kuwait. Bakri scored seven goals in 22 games between 2006 and 2017; she was her national team's all-time top goalscorer before being surpassed by Christy Maalouf in 2023, and the joint-most capped player – alongside Taghrid Hamadeh – before being surpassed by Rana Al Mokdad in 2023. In futsal, Bakri played for Lebanon women's national futsal team, Lebanon at the WAFF Women's Futsal Championship in 2008 WAFF Women's Futsal Championship, 2008 and 2012 WAFF Women's Futsal Championship, 2012, and the AFC Women's Futsal Championship in 2018 AFC Women's Futsal Championship, 2018.

Career statistics

International

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

Honours

Sadaka *

: 2007–08 Lebanese Women's Football League, 2007–08, 2008–09 Lebanese Women's Football League, 2008–09, 2009–10 Lebanese Women's Football League, 2009–10, 2010–11 Lebanese Women's Football League, 2010–11, 2011–12 Lebanese Women's Football League, 2011–12, 2012–13 Lebanese Women's Football League, 2012–13, 2013–14 Lebanese Women's Football League, 2013–14 * Lebanese Women's FA Cup: 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12 SAS * Lebanese Women's Football League: 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2018–19 * Lebanese Women's FA Cup: 2014–15, 2018–19 * Lebanese Women's Super Cup: 2016–17 Lebanon * WAFF Women's Championship third place: 2007 WAFF Women's Championship, 2007 Individual *

top goalscorer: 2014–15 Lebanese Women's Football League, 2014–15

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bakri, Sara 1989 births Living people Footballers from Beirut Lebanese women's footballers 21st-century Lebanese sportswomen Lebanese women's futsal players Women's association football midfielders Lebanon women's international footballers Lebanese Women's Football League players Sadaka SC women's footballers Stars Association for Sports players Beirut Football Academy players