Mohamad Safwan
Lebanese footballer (born 2003)
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Mohamad Hussein Safwan (Arabic: محمد حسين صفوان; born 10 March 2003) is a Lebanese footballer who plays as a left-back for Lebanese Premier League club Jwaya and the Lebanon national team.
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| Full name | Mohamad Hussein Safwan[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 10 March 2003 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | El Ain, Lebanon[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Left-back | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Jwaya | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| –2019 | Hoops | ||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2022 | Bourj | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2023 | Bourj | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022 | → Akhaa Ahli Aley (loan) | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023–2026 | Nejmeh | 58 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2026– | Jwaya | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Lebanon U18 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | Lebanon U20 | 3 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Lebanon U23 | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Lebanon | 12 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 10:14, 3 August 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 13 January 2026 | |||||||||||||||||
Club career
Having played for Hoops's youth team,[3] Safwan moved Bourj in August 2019, initially joining their youth team.[4] In March 2022, he was loaned to Akhaa Ahli Aley for the rest of the 2021–22 season.[5] Safwan helped Bourj lift the youth league title in 2021–22, and played a few games with the senior team in the 2022–23 season.[6]
After having been released by Bourj in the summer of 2023,[7] Safwan joined Nejmeh as a free agent in June.[6] He helped Nejmeh lift the 2023–24 Lebanese Premier League title and the 2023 Lebanese Super Cup in his first season.[8] In April 2026, Safwan suffered a foot fracture during a friendly match.[9]
Following five months of contract negotiations with Nejmeh, Safwan decided to depart from the club and joined Jwaya in August 2026.[10][11]
International career
Safwan represented Lebanon at various youth levels. In 2021, he was part of Lebanon's squad for the WAFF U-18 Championship,[12] where the team reached the final before finishing as runners-up to Iraq.[13] Safwan was called up to the Lebanon national under-23 team for the 2026 AFC U-23 Asian Cup, held in Saudi Arabia in January 2026.[14]
Safwan received his first call-up to the Lebanon national team in August 2024 for the Merdeka Tournament.[15] He made his international debut on 19 November 2024, in a 3–2 friendly victory over Myanmar, being substituted at halftime.[16] By 25 March 2025, he had recorded four assists in his first five international appearances, including two during Lebanon's 2027 Asian Cup qualification match against Brunei.[17] On 14 October 2025, he scored his first international goal in a 4–0 win against Bhutan in the 2027 Asian Cup qualifiers.[18]
Style of play
Career statistics
Club
- As of match played 9 March 2025[1]
| Club | Season | League | Lebanon Cup | League cup[a] | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Bourj | 2020–21 | Lebanese Premier League | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | |||
| 2021–22 | Lebanese Premier League | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 2022–23 | Lebanese Premier League | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 3 | 0 | |||
| Total | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Akhaa Ahli Aley (loan) | 2021–22 | Lebanese Premier League | 10 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 10 | 0 | ||||
| Nejmeh | 2023–24 | Lebanese Premier League | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4[b] | 0 | 1[c] | 0 | 28 | 0 |
| 2024–25 | Lebanese Premier League | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3[d] | 0 | 1[c] | 0 | 9 | 0 | ||
| Total | 27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 37 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 38 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 52 | 0 | ||
- Includes Lebanese Elite Cup, Lebanese Federation Cup
- Appearance in Lebanese Super Cup
- Appearances in AFC Challenge League
International
- As of match played 26 November 2025[20]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lebanon | 2024 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | |
| Total | 12 | 1 | |
- Scores and results list Lebanon's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Safwan goal.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 October 2025 | Saoud bin Abdulrahman Stadium, Al Wakrah, Qatar |  Bhutan |
3–0 | 4–0 | 2027 Asian Cup qualification |
