While the national team has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup, they have participated in the 2000 AFC Asian Cup, as hosts, and in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, their first participation through regular qualification. In the 2019 edition, they narrowly missed out on the knock-out stages by the fair-play rule. They are also regular participants at the WAFF Championship, a football tournament for countries that are part of the West Asian Football Federation. Lebanon has finished third once in the Arab Nations Cup, twice in the Pan Arab Games, and once in the Mediterranean Games, in all four instances as hosts.