[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":321},["ShallowReactive",2],{"country-sv-lebanon":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"country_code":307,"description":308,"extension":309,"federation":310,"flag":312,"lastUpdated":313,"meta":314,"navigation":315,"path":316,"region":317,"seo":318,"stem":319,"__hash__":320},"countries\u002Fcountries\u002Fen\u002Flebanon.md","Pétanque in Lebanon",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":295},"minimark",[9,13,22,27,37,48,52,78,101,105,132,136,152,157,167,217,235,239,292],[10,11,5],"h1",{"id":12},"pétanque-in-lebanon",[14,15,16,17,21],"p",{},"Pétanque in Lebanon is organized under the ",[18,19,20],"strong",{},"Fédération Libanaise de Pétanque (FLP)",", a national governing body whose formation in the mid-2010s brought Lebanese pétanque onto the international stage for the first time. Branding itself with the slogan \"C'est Facile La Pétanque\" (\"Pétanque is Easy\"), the federation has grown a domestic club network centered on the hills above Beirut and hosted Lebanon's first-ever FIPJP-supervised international tournament.",[23,24,26],"h2",{"id":25},"history","History",[14,28,29,30,32,33,36],{},"Organized efforts to formalize pétanque in Lebanon date to at least April 2016, when a tournament in Zrarieh was reported in the local press as part of a push toward establishing a national federation. That effort led to the founding of the ",[18,31,20],{},", which brought Lebanon into international pétanque competition for the first time, according to Lebanese press coverage. ",[18,34,35],{},"Update (2026-10-02):"," the federation's own \"Présentation\" page now states a precise founding date that was not previously displayed - a registered association under Lebanese Law 56\u002F1\u002F2016, founded 7 March 2016 - though a separate page on the same site captions its own founding-decree images \"7 Mars 2017,\" a one-year discrepancy neither page resolves. Separately, FIPJP's own nation record for Lebanon (filed under the generic name \"Fédération Libanaise de Sports Boules,\" with Georges Gebrael already listed as president) states FIPJP membership dates to 2012, four years before the 2016 registration above. Both figures are reported here as given by their respective primary sources rather than reconciled.",[14,38,39,40,43,44,47],{},"The federation's breakthrough moment came in ",[18,41,42],{},"October 2019",", when it staged Lebanon's first-ever international pétanque tournament at the Sin El Fil stadiums outside Beirut, held under the supervision of the ",[18,45,46],{},"FIPJP"," itself. Held 4-6 October 2019, the tournament drew 13 national delegations - France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Morocco, Tunisia, Corsica, Italy, Monaco, Switzerland, Spain, the Czech Republic, Belgium, and Germany - alongside Lebanese clubs, with an expected 350 players competing across triples (capped at 128 teams), doubles (96 teams), and precision shooting on 3,500 square meters of playing area. The event carried the patronage of Lebanon's Minister of Youth and Sports, Mohamed Fneish, and was attended by FIPJP figures including then-president Claude Azéma and International Arbitration Committee president Patrick Grignon; live coverage of the semifinals and finals aired on MTV Lebanon.",[23,49,51],{"id":50},"federation","Federation",[14,53,54,55,58,59,62,63,65,66,69,70,73,74,77],{},"The FLP is led by president ",[18,56,57],{},"George Gebrael",", with ",[18,60,61],{},"Dory Camille Chamoun"," (his full name, per the federation's own 2019 international-tournament announcement) serving as honorary president. ",[18,64,35],{}," the federation's current \"Comité Directeur\" page lists ",[18,67,68],{},"Serge Tabet"," as vice president and director of support committees, ",[18,71,72],{},"Hamid Haddad"," as general secretary, and ",[18,75,76],{},"Khodor Atwi"," as treasurer, alongside board members Ouday Hijazi, Chaaya Atallah, Fadi Azar, Taleb Kaek, Hala Tahme, George Fares, and Roger Safi. This is a partial turnover from what this article previously listed: three board members named here before - Zakhia Farhat, Fawzi Merhi, and Samir Kaafarani - no longer appear on the federation's board page. The federation's stated priorities include expanding pétanque into Lebanese schools and universities, building a national league, and establishing new clubs across Lebanese villages and towns.",[14,79,80,81,84,85,88,89,92,93,96,97,100],{},"The federation also runs five dedicated support committees, per its \"Comités de Support\" page (new to this article as of 2026-10-02): an ",[18,82,83],{},"Arbitration and Discipline Committee"," chaired by George Gebrael, an ",[18,86,87],{},"Education Committee"," chaired by Serge Tabet, a ",[18,90,91],{},"Coaching Committee"," chaired by Elias Gebrael (tasked with standardizing training methods across clubs, scouting talent in club visits, building a player-statistics system, and fielding men's, women's, and junior\u002Fcadet national teams), a ",[18,94,95],{},"Media, Public Relations and Marketing Committee"," chaired by Ghazi Meouchy, and a ",[18,98,99],{},"Liga (league) Committee"," chaired by Khodor Atwi, responsible for organizing a season-long domestic pétanque league.",[23,102,104],{"id":103},"federation-contact","Federation Contact",[14,106,107,108,111,112,115,116,123,124,127,128,131],{},"The FLP's stated operational headquarters is in ",[18,109,110],{},"Beit Chabab",", roughly 20 kilometers (about a 45-minute drive) from Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport - the address given in the contact footer of every page on the federation's site. Other federation records give different addresses for the same organization: the federation's own \"Présentation\" page describes its \"siège social\" (registered seat) as Sin El Fil, Beirut, while FIPJP's nation record instead lists a Tyre postal address (BP 172); none of the three primary sources reconciles the discrepancy. The federation can be reached by phone\u002Fmobile at ",[18,113,114],{},"+961 70 004966"," or by email at ",[18,117,118],{},[119,120,122],"a",{"href":121},"mailto:info@lfldp.com","info@lfldp.com",". ",[18,125,126],{},"Correction (2026-10-02):"," ",[18,129,130],{},"009611-286453",", previously listed here as the federation's phone number, is labeled a fax number on the federation's current site.",[23,133,135],{"id":134},"major-tournaments","Major Tournaments",[137,138,139,146],"ul",{},[140,141,142,145],"li",{},[18,143,144],{},"International Tournament of Lebanon:"," Lebanon's first FIPJP-supervised international event, held 4-6 October 2019 at Sin El Fil, drawing 13 national teams and roughly 350 players - the country's breakthrough moment on the world pétanque stage.",[140,147,148,151],{},[18,149,150],{},"Federation Circuit (\"Concours\") Tournaments:"," Beyond the national championship below, the FLP runs additional club-hosted tournaments through its season. Two documented 2022 examples: Abbassieh (29 May 2022, won by hosts Club Sportif Abbassieh; the federation's own report called it the country's largest tournament since the federation's founding at 60 participating teams, held after what it described as a two-year pandemic-driven pause) and Harouf (12 June 2022, dedicated to the memory of a deceased local child and won by a Qana team). A 2023 \"Calendrier Officiel\" lists six such club-hosted dates: Harouf (18 June), Qana (9 July), Cornet Chahwan (30 July), Satellity 1-2 (16 August), Beit Chabab (12-13 August), and Deir El Qamar (3 September) - no comparable calendar was found published for 2024, 2025, or 2026.",[153,154,156],"h3",{"id":155},"coupe-du-liban-national-championship","Coupe du Liban (National Championship)",[14,158,159,162,163,166],{},[18,160,161],{},"Added 2026-10-02:"," the FLP's flagship domestic championship, branded the ",[18,164,165],{},"Coupe du Liban",", is contested annually (no editions were found for 2019-2020, consistent with the federation's effort going into its October 2019 international tournament and a likely COVID-19-era pause - see the Abbassieh \"Concours\" note above). The federation published a \"Répertoire de la Coupe du Liban, 2017-2026\" results archive on its site in September 2026, expanding from a single triplette event in its early years into triplette, doublette, mixed doublette, and men's\u002Fwomen's tête-à-tête and precision-shooting categories from 2024 onward. Medal winners (club names, standardized to this article's existing spellings) by year:",[137,168,169,175,181,187,193,199,205,211],{},[140,170,171,174],{},[18,172,173],{},"2017:"," Triplette - gold Satellity 1, silver Boules de Beyrouth",[140,176,177,180],{},[18,178,179],{},"2018:"," Triplette - gold Boules de Beyrouth, silver Abbassieh",[140,182,183,186],{},[18,184,185],{},"2021:"," Triplette - gold Nejmet El Sahra (Sin El Fil), silver Qana, bronze Satellity 1; Precision Shooting - gold Qana, silver Boules de Beyrouth",[140,188,189,192],{},[18,190,191],{},"2022:"," Triplette - gold Nejmet El Sahra, silver Satellity 1, bronze Harouf; Doublette - gold Harouf, silver Nejmet El Sahra, bronze Abbassieh; Tête-à-tête - gold Boules de Beyrouth, silver Qana, bronze Harouf; Precision Shooting - gold Nejmet El Sahra, silver Harouf (no bronze recorded) - this is the same two-phase edition (Qana 25 June, Dbayeh 24 July, 12 participating clubs) already documented via the federation's 2022 blog post, which additionally recorded a Tête-à-tête result this archive omits: 2nd place Club Sportif de Qana, 3rd Harouf",[140,194,195,198],{},[18,196,197],{},"2023:"," Triplette - gold Boules de Beyrouth, silver Abbassieh, bronze Satellity 1; Doublette - gold Qana, silver JORACH, bronze Renaissance Beit Chabab; Tête-à-tête - gold Boules de Beyrouth, silver Deir El Qamar, bronze Qana; Precision Shooting - gold Boules de Beyrouth, silver Qana, bronze Renaissance Beit Chabab",[140,200,201,204],{},[18,202,203],{},"2024:"," Triplette - gold Deir El Qamar, silver Nejmet El Sahra; Doublette - gold Harouf, silver Renaissance Beit Chabab; Mixed Doublette - gold Harouf, silver Abbassieh; Men's Tête-à-tête - gold Boules de Beyrouth, silver Satellity 1; Women's Tête-à-tête - gold Satellity 2, silver Abbassieh; Men's Precision Shooting - gold Qana, silver JORACH; Women's Precision Shooting - gold \"Elite,\" silver Renaissance Beit Chabab",[140,206,207,210],{},[18,208,209],{},"2025:"," Triplette - gold Harouf, silver Abbassieh, bronze Qana\u002FHanaway-Toura (tie); Doublette - gold Harouf, silver Nejmet El Sahra; Mixed Doublette - gold Harouf, silver Abbassieh; Men's Tête-à-tête - gold Deir El Qamar, silver Satellity 1; Women's Tête-à-tête - gold Boules de Beyrouth, silver Satellity 1; Men's Precision Shooting - gold Abbassieh, silver Qana; no Women's Precision Shooting result is recorded for this edition",[140,212,213,216],{},[18,214,215],{},"2026 (current season):"," Triplette - gold Satellity 1, silver Abbassieh; Doublette - gold Deir El Qamar, silver Abbassieh; Mixed Doublette - gold Harouf, silver Satellity 1; Men's Tête-à-tête - gold Boules de Beyrouth, silver Deir El Qamar; Women's Tête-à-tête - gold Deir El Qamar, silver JORACH; Men's Precision Shooting - gold Boules de Beyrouth, silver Harouf; Women's Precision Shooting - gold Satellity 2, silver Deir El Qamar",[14,218,219,220,223,224,223,227,230,231,234],{},"Across this archive, ",[18,221,222],{},"Harouf Pétanque Gathering",", ",[18,225,226],{},"Boules de Beyrouth",[18,228,229],{},"Nejmet El Sahra",", and ",[18,232,233],{},"Deir El Qamar"," stand out as the championship's most consistently successful clubs, each taking multiple golds across different formats and years. One name in the 2024 results, \"Elite,\" does not match any of the federation's 12 affiliated clubs listed below; it may represent a composite or representative squad rather than a village club, but the federation's own materials do not explain it. As with several of this site's smaller-federation profiles, none of this championship's results - nor the Concours circuit tournaments above - were found corroborated by any source beyond the federation's own site.",[23,236,238],{"id":237},"clubs","Clubs",[14,240,241,242,244,245,248,249,252,253,256,257,260,261,264,265,268,269,272,273,276,277,280,281,284,285,287,288,291],{},"The FLP counts 12 affiliated clubs as of its own current roster. ",[18,243,35],{}," the federation's \"Clubs Affiliés\" page now also lists each club's contact person, and two club names have been corrected below to match both that contact list and the club names used in the federation's 2025\u002F2026 Coupe du Liban results (see above) - ",[18,246,247],{},"Club Hanaway-Toura"," (Toura; contact Ali Tajeldine, previously listed here as \"Club Sportif Aintoura,\" a name that still appears in a separate, less-detailed list elsewhere on the same federation page) and ",[18,250,251],{},"Club Renaissance Beit Chabab"," (Beit Chabab; contact Chaaya Atallah, previously listed here as \"Club Boules de Beit Chabeb\" for the same reason). The full roster: Club Hanaway-Toura (Toura), ",[18,254,255],{},"Club Qana El Jalil"," (Tyre; contact Jamal Hijazi), ",[18,258,259],{},"Club Sportif Abbassieh"," (Tyre; contact Taleb Kaek), ",[18,262,263],{},"Club Satellity 2"," (Feytroun; contact Dory Franji), ",[18,266,267],{},"Club Nejmet Al Sahra"," (Sin El Fil; contact Fadi Azar), ",[18,270,271],{},"Club Deir El Qamar"," (Chouf; contact Serge Tabet), ",[18,274,275],{},"Club Sportif Satellity"," (Feytroun; contact Roger Safi), ",[18,278,279],{},"Club JORACH"," (Dbayeh; contact Hala Tohme), ",[18,282,283],{},"Club Les Boules de Beyrouth"," (Sin El Fil; contact Nicolas Rebeiz), ",[18,286,222],{}," (Harouf; contact Dr. Hussein Nasr), Club Renaissance Beit Chabab (Beit Chabab), and ",[18,289,290],{},"Club RSC Cornet Chahwan"," (Cornet Chahwan; contact Fares Gebara).",[14,293,294],{},"The federation's \"Présentation\" page separately states it had roughly 525 licensed players across 13 affiliated clubs in 2019 (one more club than today's 12), with women making up about 5% of membership - the only membership figures the federation publishes, so no more current count could be verified.",{"title":296,"searchDepth":297,"depth":297,"links":298},"",2,[299,300,301,302,306],{"id":25,"depth":297,"text":26},{"id":50,"depth":297,"text":51},{"id":103,"depth":297,"text":104},{"id":134,"depth":297,"text":135,"children":303},[304],{"id":155,"depth":305,"text":156},3,{"id":237,"depth":297,"text":238},"LB","Explore pétanque in Lebanon - the Fédération Libanaise de Pétanque (FLP), founded 2016, its Beit Chabab headquarters, and the 2019 tournament that put it on the map.","md",{"name":20,"url":311},"https:\u002F\u002Flfldp.com\u002F","🇱🇧","2026-10-02",{},true,"\u002Fcountries\u002Fen\u002Flebanon",null,{"title":5,"description":308},"countries\u002Fen\u002Flebanon","x-MQmhpnyUPOP5o49Jxq95nP6QpuqRecc6IyJRyff60",1793395523764]