Lebanese Premier League

There are 12 teams competing in the league, which operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Lebanese Second Division.

[5] They set a Guinness World Record for most consecutive league titles, which has been since broken by Skonto of Latvia in 2002.

They won their inaugural league title in 2008 and have since been crowned champions a total of nine times.

[5] After having won the league title in 2019, Ahed became the three-time defending champions, a feat accomplished only one other time, by Ansar in 1992.

[8] Due to financial and political issues in the country, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, the LFA decided to cancel the ongoing 2019–20 season.

[11] Prior to the 2020–21 season, each club played the others twice (a double round-robin system), once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents', for 22 games.

Video assistant referee (VAR), was introduced to the Lebanese Premier League in the second half of the 2023–24 season.

[24] At the start of the 2005–06 season, the Lebanese government imposed a ban on spectators due to fears of political and sectarian-inspired violence in the stadiums.

[30][29][31] Prior to the 2023–24 season, Lebanese clubs were permitted three foreign players on the field simultaneously.

[35] Since the 1998–99 season, the Lebanese Football Association has prevented the acquisition of foreign goalkeepers.

[36][37] Due to the economic situation in Lebanon, clubs were barred from fielding foreign players in the league in 2020–21 and the first half of 2021–22.

[39] In case a club were to not meet the required number of minutes at the end of the season, they would have three points deducted from their total in the league.

The Golden Boot is awarded to the top Lebanese Premier League scorer at the end of each season.

[a][1] Seven players were top scorers more than once: Elhadji Malick Tall three times, and Levon Altonian, Fadi Alloush, Mohammad Kassas, Mohammed Ghaddar, Lucas Galán, and Hassan Maatouk twice.