In 1951, the Al-Ansar Club officially applied to the Ministry of Education and Sports to play football. The license was issued under number 175 on May 13, 1954 in the Mount Lebanon district. 

On November, 20, 1954 Al-Ansar was awarded license number 5462 for boxing and on October 12, 1954 the Club became a member of the Lebanese Football Association, playing in the second division. 

Since its foundation in 1954 at Tarik El Jadideh, the Al-Ansar Club consists of motivated young players with high ambitions. The earlier matches were mainly challenge matches in the suburbs of Beirut or matches between Armenian teams and northern teams at the most. 

It was always a dream to change the quarters of the club from Mount Lebanon to Beirut. The dream came true on November 6, 1965 and the name of the Club became Al-Ansar Sporting Club of Beirut under decision license number 531. 

Al-Ansar was promoted from second division to first division when they beat Homentmen 1-0, winning the second division championship on December 12, 1967. With this accomplishment, the Club rented a big apartment at the Center Square of the Municipality of Beirut Football Stadium. 

Now being in the first division, the challenge has become more serious and Al-Ansar now again has to prove that it can reach the top in the first division. From Al-Ansar was able to reach second place in the championship. The ride then stopped in 1975 because of the civil war and all athletic activities came to a halt. 

In November 1977, during the mast of the Lebanese civil war, Mr. Salim Diab volunteered to take full responsibility of the Al-Ansar Club. A new era began at Al-Ansar with a vision to the future of athleticism in Lebanon. Under the leadership of Mr. Diab, Al-Ansar's teams never stopped training in Lebanon if admissible or outside Lebanon when the situation in Lebanon was not safe. The results of these efforts were shown during the return of the Club Championship in 1987 when Al-Ansar was able to win the Club Championship and the Cup Championship for the first time in history. 

Al-Ansar is not just football; Al-Ansar is an athletic institution that believes in education, social welfare, and the good of the youth of Lebanon 

At the moment, Al-Ansar's headquarters are at the same square but in a new building owned by the Club. The old office is being used as an infirmary. 

Al-Ansar's Former Presidents

Al-Ansar's former presidents include; Mosbah Doughan (1938), Mustapha El-Shami (1948),

Amin Itani (1949), Riyad Daouk (1950), Fouad Rustom, Abdel Jallil Sabra, Abdel Waddoud Ramadan, Jamil Darwish, Khaled Kabbani, Samir Nahas (1977), Said Lawand, and Salim Diab.

The rise to the Championship would not have been possible without the support of our technical crew and most importantly Coach Adnan Mikdashi who has been Al-Ansar's coach for over 30 years and has proved to have no equal in Lebanon or in the Arab world. 

Management Structure

The present structure of the management is based on a Board of Trustees elected by the general assembly. The board of trustees then elects its president, general secretary, treasurer, and public relations officers. The board of trustees assigns members of the executive committee that run the daily operations of the club. The executive committee will be a sum of sub committees each assigned a responsibility. The general assembly meets every three years to elect the Board of Trustees. 
 

Board of Trustees
Salim Diab	President
Ghazi Kraytem	First Vice-president
Abed El-Rahman El-Zaatari	Second Vice-president
Adnan Mikdashi	General Secretary
Hadi Hammoud	Treasurer
Zouhier Farshoukh	Public Relations
Rafik Zantout	Member
Ahmad Kabbara	Member
Malek El-Kaaki	Member
Ghassan Itani	Member
Yehya El-Kaaki	Member
Nour El-Dine El-Koush	Member
Jihad Tannir	Member
Wassim Tabbara	Member
Saleh Faroukh	Member
Mahmoud Badawi	Member
Nabil Sinno	Member
Khalil Hamiye	Member
Majed El-Zien	Member
Kamal Bakhazi	Member
Nadim Lababidi	Member
Karim Hamadeh	Member
Jirar Tfoukonjian	Member
Habib Ateye	Member

Track Story

The history of the Club with the training pitches is a mystery in itself. The teams used to train at Safa, then at Beirut Trees Park, and then at the Jalloul pitch which was very hard training ground. Since their move to the new premises, the Al-Ansar Club started training at the Beirut Municipality Stadium and took good care of the stadium during all the years of war both in maintenance means and financially, so much that people thought the stadium was called the Al-Ansar Stadium. Al-Ansar has asked the Municipality of Beirut to rent the stadium but unfortunately, the request is always denied.

Due to the works at the Stadium since 1995, Al-Ansar has had to train on the Habibi Abou Shahla pitch and at the Beirut Arab University. 

It is of great importance to the Al-Ansar Club to have his own All Sports stadium; therefore, President Salim Diab turned the dream of Al-Ansar into a true reality by acquiring 40,000 square meters of land just outside Beirut where drafts for Al-Ansar's new projects are presently under study.