2021 Lebanese Challenge Cup

{{short description|2021 edition of the Lebanese Challenge Cup}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}}

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|title = Lebanese Challenge Cup

|year = 2021

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|champions = Bourj

|count =

|runner-up = Tripoli

|matches = 9

|goals = 24

|attendance =

|top goal scorer = Abou Bakr Al-Mel
Mohamad Korhani
(3 goals each)

|country = Lebanon

|dates = 13 July – 1 August

|num_teams = 6

|updated =

|prevseason = 2020

|nextseason = 2022

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The 2021 Lebanese Challenge Cup was the 8th edition of the Lebanese Challenge Cup. The competition included the teams placed between 7th and 10th in the 2020–21 Lebanese Premier League, and the two newly promoted teams from the 2020–21 Lebanese Second Division. The first matchday was played on 13 July, one day to the start of the 2021 Lebanese Elite Cup.{{Cite web|title=كأس التحدي: انتصاران للبرج وسبورتينغ امام طرابلس والتضامن صور|url=https://www.elsport.com/news/show/607298/كأس-التحدي-انتصاران-للبرج-وسبورتينغ-امام-طرابلس-وا|access-date=2021-07-22|website=Elsport News|language=ar}} Bourj, the defending champions, won their second title after beating Tripoli in the final.

Group stage

=Group A=

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|status_text_Q=Qualified

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|name_SHB=Shabab Bourj

|name_TRI=Tripoli

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|source=[https://globalsportsarchive.com/competition/soccer/lebanese-challenge-cup-2021/group-stage/55813/ Global Sports Archive]

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=Group B=

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|status_text_Q=Qualified

|name_SAG=Sagesse

|name_SPO=AC Sporting

|name_TAD=Tadamon Sour

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|stadium = Kfarjoz Municipal Stadium

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Final stage

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25 July 2021

|RD2=Final
1 August 2021

||Sagesse|1|Tripoli|2

||Bourj|2|AC Sporting|1

||Tripoli|2|Bourj|4

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=Semi-finals=

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=Final=

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|team1 = Tripoli

|score = 4–2

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|team2 = Bourj

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Top scorers

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!Rank

!Player{{Cite web|url=https://www.falebanon.com/tournament/2021-22-challenge-cup/|title=2021–22 Challenge Cup|website=FA Lebanon|access-date=28 July 2021}}

!Club

!Goals

rowspan="2" |1

| align="left" |{{flagicon|LBN}} Abou Bakr Al-Mel

| align="left" |Bourj

| rowspan="2" |3

align="left" |{{flagicon|LBN}} Mohamad Korhani

| align="left" |Tripoli

rowspan="4" |1

| align="left" |{{flagicon|LBN}} Fouad Eid

| align="left" |Tripoli

| rowspan="4" |2

align="left" |{{flagicon|PLE}} Ghassan Sarriyeh

| align="left" |Tadamon Sour

align="left" |{{flagicon|LBN}} Hussein El Outa

| align="left" |Bourj

align="left" |{{flagicon|LBN}} Youssef Atriss

| align="left" |Bourj

References

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