Jouana Hamze
Lebanese footballer and coach (born 1988)
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Jouana Toufic Hamze (Arabic: جوانا توفيق حمزة; born 13 October 1988) is a Lebanese football coach and former player who is the head coach of Lebanese club No Limits. She played as a defender for the Lebanon national team.
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| Full name | Jouana Toufic Hamze[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 13 October 1988[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Beirut, Lebanon[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Defender[3] | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | No Limits (head coach) | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Sadaka | ||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2009 | Ansar | ||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2012 | Sadaka | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2013 | Lebanon | 8+ | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Lebanon U18 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Lebanon U19 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Lebanon U20 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | Lebanon | ||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | Lebanon (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | Lebanon U18 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | Lebanon U20 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2025– | No Limits | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Club career
International career
Hamze made her senior debut for Lebanon on 19 October 2010, in a 5–1 defeat to Egypt.[2] She capped during the 2010 Arabia Women's Cup, the 2011 WAFF Women's Championship and the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification.[2]
Managerial career
Hamze was head coach of the Lebanon women's national under-18 team at the 2022 WAFF U-18 Girls Championship,[8] in which she helped Lebanon lift the title after defeating Syria 5–1 in the final.[9] She also coached the under-20 team at the 2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup qualification, in which Lebanon qualified to the second round.[10]
On 9 July 2023, Hamze was appointed head coach of Lebanon women's national team.[11] On 18 and 21 July, she helped Lebanon beat Palestine 5–0 and 2–1 in her first two games as Lebanon coach.[12][13] In September 2023, Hamze led Lebanon to win the 2023 SAFF Friendly Tournament in Saudi Arabia.[14] She became assistant coach in 2024.[15]
Personal life
Her paternal uncle, Salim Hamze,[16] was also an international footballer for Lebanon during the 1990s.[17]
Honours
Manager
Lebanon U18
