Beginnings of Volleyball in Lebanon

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By Wissam Kerkor
December 17, 2007

Volleyball is today one of the most practiced sports in the mountains and villages of Lebanon. This team sport was introduced to Lebanon through foreign schools after the First World War in 1918. In the 1920s it spreads widely in some schools, namely the Sacré Coeur, Al Makassed and La Sagesse and in some universities such as the Saint Joseph University and the American University of Beirut (AUB).

The practice of this sport was made official with its integration in the Lebanese Federation of Sports Games in 1946. The first volleyball clubs were founded in the years 1947-1948 with the establishment of Maani and Fidaa (Sidon), Fetyan, Enfant Neptune Beirut (ENB), Taadod (Beirut) and Rawda (Dekwaneh) clubs. Today, not less than 365 clubs are listed at the Lebanese Federation of Volleyball.

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The Lebanese Federation of Volleyball

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