Between 1990 and 1999, Al Ansar won all the Lebanese Premier League titles. All in all, from 1988 to the present (including 2007), the team won 13 premier league championships. From 1998 onwards they won: 9 FA cups, 4 Lebanese Super Cups (1996 until 1999), 2 Federation Cups (1999 and 2000), and 2 Elite Cups (1997 and 2000). The team has ‘scored’ many local trophies due to its persistence in training and its ambition to move forward. And one man was at the forefront of all this: Coach Adnan al Sharki.
Al Sharki was a sharp man. He pushed his team to win in the 1990s despite the fact that Lebanon was recovering from a harsh civil war and thus sports needed a revival to start the scene from scratch. Al Sharki got quick results in a short period of time and succeeded in winning the confidence of his players and most importantly of the audience where many Ansar fans shouted his name. He was behind the team’s glory and constituted Lebanon’s hope to have a great coach for the national team in the future. Later on, time proved his worth by appointing him the head of the Lebanese national squad.