Mira Hoteit
![]() Hoteit with Safa in 2021 | |||||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Mira Hassan Hoteit[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 20 September 2000 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Nabatieh, Lebanon[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Full-back | ||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | London Bees | ||||||||||||||||
Number | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2018–2019 | Zouk Mosbeh | (0) | |||||||||||||||
2019–2022 | Safa | 24 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2022–2024 | London Seaward | ||||||||||||||||
2024– | London Bees | ||||||||||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
2018 | Lebanon U19 | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2018– | Lebanon | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12:17, 3 August 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 June 2025 |
Mira Hassan Hoteit (Arabic: ميرا حسن حطيط; born 20 September 2000) is a Lebanese footballer who plays as a full-back for English club London Bees and the Lebanon national team.
Club career
[edit]Born in Nabatieh, Lebanon,[1] Hoteit began playing organised football at age 15 after enjoying casual games with her older brother.[2] She joined Safa in 2019, where she played 10 games in the 2019–20 season.[3]
Hoteit left Lebanon to pursue her studies at University College London in 2021.[2] She joined London Seaward in the FA Women's National League Division One South East (fourth tier) ahead of the 2022–23 season.[4][5] After two seasons, Hoteit moved to fellow Division One South East side London Bees ahead of the 2024–25 season.[6] She was featured as one of several part-time players taking part in the 2024–25 Women’s FA Cup fourth round.[2]
Personal life
[edit]Hoteit moved to the United Kingdom in 2021 to study bioscience entrepreneurship at University College London.[2] As of 2025, she works for nsave, a fintech company that facilitates digital banking in unstable economies like Lebanon.[2] Hoteit balances full-time work and football: she starts her day at 7 AM and sometimes finishes as late as 11 PM.[2]
Honours
[edit]Zouk Mosbeh
- Lebanese Women's FA Cup runner-up: 2018–19
Safa
Lebanon
- WAFF Women's Championship third place: 2019
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Mira Hoteit". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f Kit, Shepard (10 January 2025). "Inventor, firefighter, defender from war-torn Lebanon. FA Cup heroes next?". The Times. Retrieved 11 June 2025.
- ^ "SAFA WFC – Season 19 20". Scribd. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
- ^ "Mira Hoteit – London Seaward FC". Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- ^ Lebanese Football Association [@thelfawomen]; (3 November 2022). تعرّفوا على لاعبات منتخبنا الوطني للسيدات المحترفات في الخارج [Get to know our women's national team players abroad] – via Instagram.
- ^ "MIRA HOTEIT AGREES TO JOIN THE BEES – London BEES". Retrieved 3 August 2024.
External links
[edit]- Mira Hoteit at FA Lebanon
- Mira Hoteit at Kooora.com (in Arabic) (archived in English at Goalzz.com)
- 2000 births
- Living people
- 21st-century Lebanese sportswomen
- People from Nabatieh
- Sportspeople from Nabatieh Governorate
- Lebanese women's footballers
- Women's association football fullbacks
- Zouk Mosbeh SC footballers
- Safa WFC players
- London Seaward FC players
- London Bees players
- Lebanese Women's Football League players
- FA Women's National League players
- Lebanon women's youth international footballers
- Lebanon women's international footballers
- Lebanese expatriate women's footballers
- Lebanese expatriate sportspeople in England
- Expatriate women's footballers in England
- Lebanese women's football biography stubs