The2020–21 season was the 88th season of competitive football in Lebanon. The season officially began on 3 October 2020 with theLebanese Premier League.[1]
^North Korea withdrew due to safety concerns related to theCOVID-19 pandemic, therefore the results of their matches were excluded from the group standings.[2][3]
^Teams played each other once (11 matches), before the league was split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six) where they played each team in their group once (5 matches).
The 2020 Lebanese Elite and Challenge Cup was intended to be the first, and only, edition of the tournament.[4] Due to the2019–20 Lebanese Premier League being canceled, the tournament was supposed to feature a joint-qualifying tournament for theLebanese Elite Cup andLebanese Challenge Cup between the 12Lebanese Premier League teams, to decide which six teams would have played in the Elite Cup, and which six in the Challenge Cup.[4] The 12Lebanese Premier League teams were divided in three groups of four: the top two teams of each group would qualify to theElite Cup, whereas the bottom two would qualify to theChallenge Cup.[5]
The Lebanese Elite and Challenge Cup was supposed to kick off on 22 August 2020 with the preparatory tournament. Initially scheduled to begin on 29 July,[6] the tournament was first postponed to 1 August,[7] then to 10 August in order to raise preventive measures towards theCOVID-19 pandemic.[8] The starting date was finally postponed to 22 August following the2020 Beirut explosions.[9] On 19 August, theLebanese Football Association (LFA) cancelled the tournament altogether as part of preventive measures to combat the COVID-19 outbreak.[10]
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Markaz Balata
