Al Nahda SC
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This article is about the defunct Lebanese football club. For other uses, see al-Nahda.
Al Nahda Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي النهضة الرياضي), or Renaissance in French,[2] was a football club based in the Mar Elias district of Beirut, Lebanon. Supported by the Orthodox community,[3] they were founded in 1926 as Lebanon's first football club.
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Full name | Al Nahda Sporting Club | |
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Nickname(s) | Les Diables Noirs (The Black Devils)[1] | |
Founded | 3 February 1926; 98 years ago (1926-02-03) | |
Dissolved | 1990s | |
League | Lebanese Premier League | |
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Nahda have won the inaugural Lebanese Premier League in 1933–34, as well as of the first edition of the Lebanese FA Cup in 1937–38. They are also the first team to have won a domestic double (1946–47), and have won a total of five league titles and four FA Cups. In the 1990s the club faced bankruptcy, and were forced to fold.